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NEW YORK CITY — As left-wing Mayor Bill de Blasio designates millions of dollars of taxpayer money to pay the lawyer fees of illegal immigrants, New York’s failing subway system is falling into greater disrepair — with a state of emergency being declared by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and one straphanger spotting that her subway train was being held together with a zip tie. De Blasio earmarked $16 million in his budget proposal in April to pay the legal fees of people in the Big Apple illegally — part of a broader push from de Blasio to remove any...

NEW YORK — The World Trade Center transit hub in Manhattan was closed Sunday afternoon as police investigated a suspicious package. The PATH train station issued an alert on their website: “Due to a police activity, service in to and out of WTC is suspended. Please use MTA for service uptown for PATH service in to New Jersey.”

With a limited permit from New York State to practice medicine as an international medical graduate, Dr. Bello was essentially an extra pair of hands for the department of family medicine at the 17-story hospital, one of the biggest and busiest in New York City. Dr. Sridhar Chilimuri, the hospital’s physician in chief, said Dr. Bello could treat patients and prescribe medication, as long as other doctors were looking over his shoulder, and only at Bronx-Lebanon. “Not over there — not in a clinic,” he said for emphasis, pointing out the hospital’s doors. But Dr. Bello’s slow journey to the...

To his dying breath, Dr. Henry Bello saw himself as the one true victim …

Henry Bello, 45 — who resigned amid a sexual-harassment scandal — fatally shot a physician and wounded six other people with an assault rifle before killing himself, officials said. “When he left he promised to come back and shoot one of the residents,” Dr. Maureen Kwankam told The Post about Bello.“He said the resident will never graduate and become a doctor because he will kill him before he has the opportunity.”Before he was canned, the deranged doc had threatened to harm at least four other people working at the hospital, Kwankam said.He also called the resident once on the phone...

Gunman Clad All in Black Under a Lab Coat Shooting reported inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York https://t.co/FyExeP6cCd pic.twitter.com/1XcGikBFUG via @HSajwanization — Liveuamap World (@lumworld) June 30, 2017 Bello was dressed all in black under the lab coat. snip According to Pix11, Dr. Bello had three prior arrests, including one for sexual abuse. #Breaking on @PIX11News: Dr. Henry Bello, alleged #BronxLebanon shooter, had 3 previous arrests, one for sexual abuse. — Mary Murphy (@MurphyPIX) June 30, 2017 According to The New York Daily News, police followed a trail of blood at the scene.

Copy editors say they were compared to dogs urinating on fire hydrants in an internal newsroom report __ Editors and reporters in the New York Times Co. newsroom have broken their silence concerning growing frustrations regarding the direction of the paper. Staffers at the New York Times staged a newsroom walk out on Thursday as a demonstration of solidarity as management threatens job cuts. The protest followed a pair of letters sent earlier in the week to Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn by Times reporters and copy editors In the copy editors’ letter to Baquet and...

WASHINGTON -- A CNN journalist who resigned this week, after the network retracted a story about Russia and President Donald Trump's transition team, is a Syracuse native with strong ties to the region. Eric Lichtblau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is a graduate of Jamesville-DeWitt High School and Cornell University. He began his journalism career at The Post-Standard, where he covered the Ithaca region for the newspaper. Lichtblau was thrust into the national spotlight after he and two other CNN journalists resigned, prompting Trump to blast the journalists and the network on Tuesday for reporting "fake news." The story was posted...

Editors and reporters in the New York Times Co. newsroom can no longer keep quiet about their growing frustrations regarding the direction of the paper. After a pair of letters sent to Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn by Times reporters and copy editors, the News Guild of New York said the New York Times editorial staff will leave the newsroom on Thursday as a demonstration of solidarity as management threatens jobs. In the copy editors’ letter to Baquet and Kahn, they say they feel betrayed and disrespected in the newsroom, and ask that management reconsider staffing...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Just days after a subway derailment in Harlem, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will be signing an executive order declaring a state of emergency for the MTA. The governor made the announcement Thursday at the Genius Transit Challenge Conference, an international competition with a $1 million prize to come up with solutions to improve the transit system’s reliability. Cuomo said the state of emergency will “allow us to expedite many of the normal government processes.” “One of the processes we’re going to expedite is the MTA procurement process. I’ll ask the comptroller and the attorney general...

NBC News reportedly hired Megyn Kelly to take Matt Lauer’s spot on the Today show, but after Kelly’s disastrous first month at the network, Lauer is no longer on the hot seat, according to a report. The puffy profile overlooks Kelly’s numerous professional and personality flaws and shortcomings, makes a litany of excuses for Kelly’s failures. In it, Vanity Fair’s Sarah Ellison notes that the “silver lining” in Kelly’s disastrously wretched ratings may be that there are no longer rumors about Lauer’s job security. “Upon Kelly’s arrival, one TV industry insider told me that her hire ‘was all about replacing...

As has become routine on The View, the liberal hosts again ganged up on libertarian leaning host Jedediah Bila Wednesday after she pointed out the mainstream media’s liberal bias. After Playboy's White House Correspondent threw a temper tantrum in yesterday’s press briefing, the panel criticized Trump's treatment of the media. Host Sunny Hostin gushed that the reporter was only there to be a “watchdog” for the White House and to protect us against a “dictatorship.” Hostin ranted that how the White House was acting with reporters was “scary,” suggesting Trump was trying to lead a “dictatorship:” SUNNY HOSTIN: They have...

Yesterday, Ed Morrissey looked at the “controversial” (not really) figures coming out of Seattle showing the downward pressure on employment and wages experienced there since the minimum wage suddenly spiked upward. This is unwelcome news in the Fight For 15 community and they’re pushing back on it as hard as possible. But the figures don’t lie and this result was entirely predictable in a free market economy. Seattle, however, isn’t the only place this effect is being seen. The minimum wage has been jumping upward in New York City also and similar effects are being felt. Nowhere is this...

<p>A graduation ceremony at a Long Island high school ended in bloody chaos when a vicious brawl erupted over the weekend, dramatic video shows.</p> <p>The nearly three-minute online video of the Sunday mayhem outside William Floyd High School in Brookhaven begins with at least four people on the lawn fighting each other amid shouts and screams.</p>

A group of teens viciously beat a young woman at a Long Island High School graduation Sunday, according to witnesses and a shocking video posted on social media. Cellphone video of the horrifying attack was taken at the graduation for the 2017 class of William Floyd High School in Brookhaven, L.I. by a student. In the video, at least three people were seen repeatedly punching and kicking a young woman while she was prone on the ground, covering her face. At one point, another young woman ran up and punched her.

Westhampton, NY - U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D, NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY), Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced today that a $150,000 federal grant has been awarded to Francis Gabreski Airport in Westhampton, home of the 106th Rescue Wing of the Air National Guard. The grant, secured through the U.S. Department of Transportation, is being provided to Suffolk County to begin an anti-obstruction project at Gabreski, which is a four-phase effort to improve the safety of aircraft taking off and landing at the airport. This grant will be used to implement the...

ront page of the New York Times, top of the app screen “Wednesday Briefing” under the rubric of “Here’s what you need to know to start your day”: New York Today: Advice for Fasting Ramadan advice. Of course. Do you suppose next spring the Times will do Christians a solid by running an article about what to give up for Lent? Ha ha. Rhetorical question. Anyway, Muslims comprise only 3% of the New York City population. But what better way to begin preparing for European-style dhimmitude than to begin to voluntarily and proactively reorient ourselves culturally towards the strictures of...

Just as NYC Pride festivities got underway, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had some timely news on Sunday: The artist Anthony Goicolea had been chosen to design the first official monument to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people commissioned by the State of New York. On June 26, 2016, after the attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., that left 49 people dead, Governor Cuomo formed the LGBT Memorial Commission to honor the fight for equal rights and remember victims of hate, intolerance and violence. A request for designs for the new memorial went out in October. It is to...

Disgusted with the subway? Well, chew on this: Since 2014, the city has forked over more to its pension funds than it has for building and repairing schools, parks, bridges and, yes, subways — combined. In fact, the city’s current predicament is the result of benefit increases that state lawmakers have showered on retired city workers. The pension sweeteners added just in 2000 alone cost the city $13 billion over the next 10 years. These two factors (over-optimistic assumptions and ever-greater benefits) are why the city’s yearly contribution to the funds has had to mushroom nearly sevenfold, from $1.4 billion...

Political deals don’t get any dirtier than this. Members of the all-Democratic City Council in suburban White Plains rewarded their party’s well-connected chairwoman with a plum six-figure judicial seat — even though she was too sickly to work, critics charge. City Judge Elizabeth Shollenberger — who suffers from a digestive disorder and morbid obesity, among other ailments — was unable to climb the three steps to her courtroom bench, even with the help of a specially installed railing, sources said. City Judicial Review Committee member Mark Elliott has publicly accused Mayor Tom Roach of making sure “the fix was in”...