Tag: new york

• Updated: Inmates and C.O.'s at Rikers Island Won't Be Evacuated Ahead of Irene

  9 months ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  Jean Casella and James Ridgeway report in Mother Jones that New York City has no plans to evacuate an estimated 12,000 inmates and their correctional officers on low-lying Rikers Island ahead of Hurricane Irene: "We are not evacuating Rikers Island," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news ... Read More

• New York Owl Felled By Herpes

  10 months ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes. The virus is not transmissible to humans. [Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki's Nature, Creative Commons.] Read More

• New York Gay Rights Disco Rock Mash-Up

  11 months ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  Last night, an equal marriage bill passed the New York State Senate and was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York has become the sixth, and largest, state to achieve equal marriage. This is the first time in U.S. history that equal marriage has been ratified by a Republican ... Read More

• Manhattan Housekeepers Get Panic Buttons

  12 months ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  Housekeepers at the Pierre Hotel will get panic buttons in the wake of two highly publicized attacks on Manhattan hotel cleaners. The buttons are part of a deal hashed out between the management and the union. The Sofitel Hotel, where form IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked a ... Read More

• Buddy, Can You Spare a Mongoose?

  about 1 year ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  A deadly Egyptian cobra is AWOL from the Bronx Zoo. Anybody got a spare mongoose? [Photo credit: Pandiyan, Creative Commons.] Read More

• Commodities Trader Arrested for Threatening to Kill Federal Regulators

  over 1 year ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other agencies. McCrudden ... Read More