So, Tropical Storm Hanna is on her way, and the NYC metro area is making sure it's ready. NYC has activated a "flash flood emergency plan." WNBC reports that workers have been "cleaning catch basins and other areas prone to flooding" and the Office of Emergency Management will be open tomorrow "with more than a dozen city, state and federal agencies starting at 8 a.m." Wind gusts between 45 and 55 mph and 3 to......

Bring on the baked Big Apple references, because the "heat advisory" for Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond Counties remains in effect until 6 p.m. tonight. Another one will go into effect tomorrow between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. The heat wave is expected to last a few days, and Con Ed claims it can meet the extra electricity demand, but a spokesman adds, "Nevertheless, power problems can occur...We'll work very quickly to get them......

Just a days before the Florida primary, someone gave the New York Times a 1998 NYPD memorandum advising Mayor Giuliani that the department felt locating the city's emergency command center in 7 World Trade Center was not a very good idea. The eight page memo was written by a panel of police experts with help from the Secret Service. Its conclusions were overruled by Giuliani and the command center was destroyed on September 11 as......