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Former President Donald Trump has warned about the potential of "death and destruction" should he be charged as part of the Stormy Daniels hush money investigation. In a post on Truth Social, Trump denied any wrongdoing while hitting out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid strong indications that a potential historic arrest is forthcoming. Last weekend, Trump called on his supporters to protest his apparently upcoming arrest, which he claimed was due to take place on Tuesday, March 21. The arrest never occurred, but Democrats accused the former president of attempting to rile up his supporters to carry out...

The deadline for New York City firefighters to get vaccinated was yesterday. Enforcement of the vaccine mandate is anticipated to begin Monday. Today, the New York Post is reporting that 26 FDNY firehouses are currently closed due to short staffing directly related to the vaccine mandate. But the vaccine mandate is all about the public health, right? New York – The FDNY shut down 26 firehouses across the Big Apple as of 7:30 a.m. Saturday because of staff shortages caused by the vaccination mandate, The Post has learned. […] “Twenty six companies out of service is an unconscionable number,” said...

New York and New Jersey now have the highest rates of COVID-19 infection in the country.The Empire State has averaged 548 cases for every 100,000 residents over the past 14 days — only surpassed by the Garden State with 647 cases.Despite vaccination efforts, New York has not seen a dramatic reduction in infections. Daily cases have averaged about 50,000 people per week since mid-February.And across the Hudson River in New Jersey, the number of new infections has climbed by 37 percent in a little more than a month, to about 23,600 every seven days.In New York, Orange and Rockland counties...

Andy Cuomo made a mistake Friday.He shared the numbers.The contact tracing numbers. The ones that show where people are catching covid.Specifically, he put up a PowerPoint slide that listed the results of the contact tracing of all cases of New York covid between the first of September and the last of November.That was an interesting slice of time. It began in the quiet days of late summer, with the virus hiding in the depths of its seasonality, and it ended with the first traces of winter, with the virus emerged and spreading dramatically through the population.It was a period that...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A hammer attack on the A train Thursday is the most recent in a mounting number of incidents involving emotionally-disturbed individuals in New York. A homeless man who had been sleeping and taking up several seats caused panic when he pulled out a hammer, threatened a passenger who has apparently wanted him to move, then spit at him as he rushed off the train.

NEW YORK — Police arrested five people Sunday in connection with a brutal machete attack on a teen outside a Bronx bodega earlier in the week. Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, was pulled out of the Cruz and Chiky grocery Wednesday by members of the Dominican gang Trinitarios, who beat him, hacked him with a machete and left him to die on the sidewalk outside the store in what officials believe was a case of mistaken identity, according to the New York Post. Gang members wrongly believed Guzman-Feliz was in a revenge sex video posted online that featured a relative of one...

The son of a New York mob boss has given Islamic State a stark warning, saying if they are planning any attacks in New York, they will have to contend with the Sicilian mafia. The notorious crime syndicate say they want to do their bit to protect locals. Giovanni Gambino, the son of a key figure in the Gambino mob organization, says the mafia is in a much better position than security bodies, such as the FBI or Homeland Security, to give New Yorkers the protection they need. “They often act too late, or fail to see a complete picture...

According to the New York Post, New York City’s mad cap Sandinista Mayor Bill de Blasio is about to find out a truth that conservatives have known all along, that bashing the rich can only go so far. It seems when he is not throwing little children out of charter schools or banning carriage rides in Central Park, de Blasio is on full class warfare mode and is going after New York’s one percent with a vengeance. It seems that the wealthy elite are starting to have had enough and are getting ready to decamp en masse, to Florida it...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Meg Whitman of the East, will soon be headed west in his private jet to urge Californians to vote for Whitman for governor instead of Democrat Jerry Brown. In a rare sit-down newspaper interview, Bloomberg told The New York Times that he will campaign for his fellow tech billionaire sometime next month. Bloomberg told the newspaper he is trying to push his centrist brand of politics by making endorsements in marquee races and helping moderate candidates fend off the conservative tea party movement. Whitman, the former eBay CEO whose estimated wealth is $1.3...

Aafia Siddique Had a List of Targets in New York & Chem-Bio Weapons Information in her Possession When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island, detailed chemical, biological and radiological weapon information that has been seen only in a handful of terrorist cases, as well as a thumb drive packed with emails, ABC News has learned. That haul of information has led multiple government sources...

Holiday goodies from the Big Apple are here again. New York City firefighters drove the Christmas caravan 1500 miles. This is the third straight year the generous firefighters have collected toys and food and made a special delivery to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. These firefighters who endured 9-11, were among the first responders after Katrina. "This is my fifth time down. The last two times have been toys for the kids. And the first three times were supplies. And as long as they give it, we can get it down here," said fireman Gary Moore. New Yorkers are again more...

Frustrated by a legislative session that left many key issues hanging, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday that he could govern without lawmakers. Downplaying the importance of passing laws, the freshman governor said he favored regulatory changes and executive orders to run the state -- neither of which require prior approval by the legislature. The Democratic governor repeated his criticism of a decision by the Senate's Republican majority to go home June 21, the official end of the six-month session, though many bills remain to be considered.

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EW YORK (Reuters) - New York City must take aggressive action now to meet increased demand for energy, housing and transportation as America's largest city faces population growth of nearly 1 million over the next 25 years, officials said on Tuesday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the "New York 2030" planning campaign as the city expects an additional 200,000 residents by 2010 and as energy demand is seen outstripping the current supply by 2012. The city, whose current record population of 8.2 million is expected to reach 9 million by 2030, driven by economic growth and immigration, is taking a hard...

NEW YORK - The days when Dale Earnhardt Jr. could walk down the street in New York City without being recognized are long gone. And that's just fine with the NASCAR star. "I don't travel to New York to slip under the radar. That's really not why we're here," Earnhardt said Thursday at the ESPN Zone in Times Square. Earnhardt and the other nine drivers in the Chase for the Nextel Cup appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday night and made the rounds on the early morning TV shows Thursday before gathering in Times Square. Matt...

Plotters sought to bomb NY tunnel: paper Jul 7, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plot to bomb New York's Holland Tunnel in an effort to flood the Wall Street financial district has been uncovered by the FBI, with a suspect arrested in Lebanon, New York's Daily News reported on Friday. The newspaper, quoting unidentified counterterrorism sources, said the investigation involved what officials considered a "serious plot" to detonate enough explosives inside the landmark tunnel to destroy it and send devastating floodwaters through lower Manhattan. The 79-year-old tunnel runs under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan and carried...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man was shot twice in the face on a New York City subway platform, the fifth shooting on the city's transit system in just over a month. The 23-year-old victim was in serious but stable condition...

New York, NJ/Ct Freepers: At the protest today, many of the pinko punk red diaper trust fund babies were holding signs promoting an antiwar rally in NYC next Saturday, the 22nd. They're coming your way and you should uphold the grand tradition of FR by meeting them with everything we've got. They're talking about civil disobedience, blocking traffic and the like. (Direct them to the UN Building!) This is all the more reason why they MUST be countered. I look forward to a good, large, patriotic crowd in NY next week.

International Speedway Corp.'s plans for a new racetrack in view of New York City's skyline were made public Thursday, along with five competing bids to develop a coveted piece of property in New Jersey's Meadowlands Sports Complex. That and this report from The Orlando Sentinel's Beth Kassab For ISC, the proposal represents a high-stakes bid by the Daytona Beach company to build a track in the nation's No. 1 media market and to further expand NASCAR's appeal outside its birthplace in the South.But it may be the toughest fight yet for the France family, which controls both ISC and NASCAR,...