A livery cab driver was shot and killed at around 7:40 a.m. this morning near Rockaway Park. Police responded to a 911 call that a man had been shot around 32nd Street and Lewmay Road, and found a 30-year-old man dead inside the driver's seat of a white Ford Crown Vic. Magnificent 7's, a livery cab company, tells NBC that the man was an employee. more ›

A Rockaway Park mom was so furious that her 3-year-old had soiled himself that she held him in scalding water for several minutes, burning the child so badly his skin began falling off his body, Queens DA Richard Brown alleges. Regina Cooper, 30, "got upset" when she came home yesterday and was told that her son, Barkim Owens, had soiled his pull-ups. According to the DA, she "cursed at her son, stripped him of his clothing and placed him in the bathtub without testing the temperature of the water. She allegedly held him submerged in the water for several minutes while the child screamed, cried and pleaded with his mother to take him out." more ›

Some high school reunions spurs thoughts of regret and schadenfreude. The 10 year high school reunion for some Regis High School alums prompted a group of classmates to attempt to ride break the record for fastest ride through the NYC subway system. Stefan Karpinski, Andrew Weir, Bill Amaosa, Jason Laska, Michael Boyle and Brian Brockmeyer teamed up to ride the subways starting yesterday afternoon at Rockaway Park station, and should be ending around 3PM or 4PM at the 241st Street stop in the Bronx, if they're on track (hee!). In order to break the record, they must stop at all 468 stations in under 26 hours, 21 minutes and 8 seconds. more ›

A Metrocard scam. Gang members. A crowded L train station. Yesterday afternoon, a fight broke out between two men, and a bystander ended up dead. Fifty six year old Toolsie Sukhu, an immigrant who was headed home from a security guard job at the Brooklyn Pepsi plant, was shot in the back at the Rockaway Park Station in Canarsie. Apparently, some men were pulling the "give us $1 and we'll swipe you in" Metrocard scam that escalated when four other men came by. A fight broke out and someone pulled out a gun. Shots were fired and people, including many students from Canarsie High School, ran. Sukhu was shot when he entered the station. more ›

Matt is 26. He lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a transportation engineer. He is originally from Ashland, VA. Matt's father grew up in Brooklyn, and he still has some family there. more ›

Well, Gateway National Recreation Area is right in our neck of the woods, extending in three New York City boroughs and into northern New Jersey. It is a good place to start your quest for the perfect patch of sand and cooling waters. more ›

The Daily News has the exclusive: The MTA cannot implement more robot trains, aka the OPTO One Person Traion Operation! It's not technology that's stopping them - it's the fact that the transit workers union would need to approve additional OPTO trains along different lines. And that seems unlikely, since the union wanted at least two workers to be on the trains in case of an emergency. (Which makes sense!) The MTA had been trying to put more robot train service on the L and G, but the union managed to limit that to weekends and late evenings. It also looks like plans for "conductorless trains" on the J, 7, and N won't happen. There is OPTO service on "small shuttles or line segments," but NYC Transit Authority President Larry Reuter says, "The future expansion of OPTO takes negotiations with the union and at this point those negotiations are on hold." Now, it's just a matter having enough trains along those lines. more ›

"I very rarely even see a conductor on this train." - Subway rider to the NY TimesOf course, the NY Post details how a bunch of kids stormed the a conductor's booth and "pressed buttons for several minutes." Luckily, a key is needed for the buttons to work, but still, Gothamist imagines they were 20 minutes away from figuring out how to hotwire it. The Times also notes that the new signaling technology in the L ("radio frequencies and micro processors to communicate train movements") won't be rolled out until the end of this year, because the MTA doesn't want to get to futuristic...and because it's behind schedule, natch. more ›

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