| June 11, 2009 | -
New York City planned to gas geese near airports.
| Source:
WCBS
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| May 8, 2009 | - A New York City
cow named Molly broke free of her handlers on the way to the slaughterhouse and ran free through the streets of Queens. Molly's owners, responding to public outcry, agreed to spare her and move her to Long Island, where she will live with a steer named Wexley. “He's been neutered,” said Wexley's owner, “so they are just going to have to be good friends.”
| Source:
New York Post
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| February 27, 2009 | - Many Americans were impressed by the supple firmness of Michelle Obama's upper arms. “This woman is redecorating the White House, trying to raise two children, and backseat-driving the nation,” said a 25-year-old woman who watched the first lady on television, then went to an Adidas store in New York City and bought two five-pound dumbbells. “She seems to have time to keep her arms toned, so why can't I?”
| Source:
CNN
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| January 16, 2009 | - In New York City, a plane collided with a flock of “big, dark-brown” birds and crashed into the Hudson River. All 155 people on board were successfully rescued. One passenger cried with relief as he imagined reuniting with his daughter. “When I get home, I am going to take my nose and put it by her ear, her little warm body and give her a nice kiss from Daddy. I'm alive.”
| Source 1:
All 155 safe after pilot ditches jet in NYC river
Source 2:
Bird strike confirmed in US crash
Source 3:
U.S. Airways crash: survivor accounts in their own words
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| August 21, 2008 | - Someone was torturing feral cats in the Bronx.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| July 25, 2008 | - Two employees at a deli in Brooklyn used machetes to defeat three armed thieves attempting to steal $2,000 worth of cigarettes. One of the attackers, said clerk Sammy Othman, “had a knife on him and he said, 'I will stab you,' and I told him, 'Don't even think about it. My knife is more bigger than yours.'”
| Source:
WCBS
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| July 21, 2008 | - Hot rubber safety mats on New York City playgrounds were burning children's feet.
| Source:
FOX News
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| July 10, 2008 | - Abu Dhabi bought New York City's
Chrysler building for $800 million.
| Source:
GuardianUK
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| July 4, 2008 | - The United Nations brought female excrement carriers from India to New York City to appear on the catwalk alongside top models at a fashion show, crowning one woman the princess of sanitation workers. “This is the dream coming true of Indian independence hero Gandhi-ji,” said an organizer.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| June 14, 2008 | - Investors from Abu Dhabi were seeking to purchase Manhattan's Chrysler Building.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| June 9, 2008 | - One in four adults in New York City were infected with the virus that causes genital herpes.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| May 13, 2008 | - Curators at the Museum of Modern Art pulled the incubator plug on a tiny coat made of living mouse stem cells after it grew too fast.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 18, 2008 | -
Playgirl invited former New York governor Eliot Spitzer to pose nude in its pages; Spitzer's replacement, David Paterson, became the first black governor of New York and promptly admitted that he had in the past frequented a New York City Days Inn hotel to have sex with “a woman other than my wife.”
| Source 1:
Playgirl
Source 2:
New York Daily News
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| January 16, 2008 | - A New York City construction worker was suing a hospital for treating his head injury by knocking him out and giving him an unwanted rectal exam.
| Source:
AP via SFGate.com
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| September 23, 2007 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the United Nations in New York City and gave a speech at Columbia University. “There is,” he said in an interview, “no war in the offing.”
| Source:
Herald Sun
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| September 23, 2007 | - Both Iran and mercenary firm Blackwater USA were accused of smuggling weapons into Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking from a Manhattan hotel, criticized the United States for the recent deaths of civilians at the hands of Blackwater. “Success is shared,” he said. “God forbid, failure is also shared.”
| Source:
AP
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| August 29, 2007 | - A federal judge upheld New York City's prohibition on metal baseball bats.
| Source:
NY Times
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| August 21, 2007 | - Thirty years after murdering six people, David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, sent a letter to amNew York in which he apologized for his misdeeds.
| Source:
AM New York
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| August 19, 2007 | - Two Manhattan firefighters died fighting a blaze in an abandoned skyscraper next to Ground Zero.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo
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| August 10, 2007 | - In the midst of a brief thunderstorm that transfixed the New York City subway system and killed one motorist, a tornado formed over the Atlantic Ocean, grazed the north coast of Staten Island, and blew into Brooklyn, felling 292 trees, ripping roofs off dozens of buildings, and displacing 200 people from their homes.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
NY1
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| July 19, 2007 | - A steam pipe exploded near Grand Central Station and rained debris on midtown Manhattan.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 10, 2007 | - An interdenominational congregation in New York City was suing to prevent a large ad for bidets, depicting naked derrieres with smiley faces on them, from being erected on their Times Square church.
| Source:
NYT
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| June 12, 2007 | - Judge Robert Bork, an advocate for tort reform, was suing the Yale Club of New York City for $1 million after he slipped and fell while mounting a dais, injuring his leg and head.
| Source:
ACSBlog
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| June 4, 2007 | - A group of men in New York City were accused of using GoogleEarth to plot a terrorist attack on underground jet-fuel lines.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| May 9, 2007 | -
Reverend Al Sharpton promised that Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be defeated by “those that really believe in God,” and it was revealed that Romney's wife, Ann, donated $150 to Planned Parenthood in 1994.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
ABC
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| May 9, 2007 | - At Sotheby's in New York, a late Cezanne watercolor of a green melon sold for $25 million.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 8, 2007 | - Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was spotted wearing a World Series ring that may have been an illegal gift from the Yankees.
| Source:
Village Voice
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| April 20, 2007 | - Doctors in New York City
removed a woman's gallbladder through her vagina.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 19, 2007 | - A 12-foot-long minke whale spent two days frolicking near the polluted waters of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, then died. “These are days for tears,” said an onlooker.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 15, 2007 | - In New York City, delivery workers continued to picket several Asian restaurants, accusing owners of making them work 70-hour weeks while paying them only $1.40 an hour.
| Source:
NYT
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| April 14, 2007 | - A Staten Island food pantry turned people away after a thief robbed their storeroom of a month's worth of provisions.
| Source:
NYT
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| April 14, 2007 | - A lawyer jumped to his death from the 69th floor of the Empire State Building.
| Source:
AP via Pittsburg Post-Gazette
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| April 6, 2007 | - A 13-year-old girl in Brooklyn, New York, was brought up on criminal mischief charges after being caught writing the word “okay” on her school desk.
| Source:
WCBS-tv
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| April 6, 2007 | - Herding dogs were being used to control the spiraling goose population in New York's Central Park.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 24, 2007 | - Families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks filed an affidavit that accused New York City of using the remains of the dead to pave roads and fill potholes.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| March 1, 2007 | - The New York City Council banned the word “nigger.”
| Source:
BBC
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| February 23, 2007 | - José, the first native beaver seen in the city in 200 years, was spotted swimming up the Bronx River.
| Source:
Yahoo News
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| February 22, 2007 | -
Catholic leaders criticized New York City for distributing 26 million subway-themed condoms.
| Source:
News-Medical.net
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| February 6, 2007 | -
Rudy Giuliani officially declared his candidacy for the presidency of the United States.
| Source:
CNN
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| January 16, 2007 | - In New York City, a Madison Avenue antiques dealer was suing, for one million dollars, a group of homeless people who had taken up residence outside his business.
| Source:
NY Times
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| January 10, 2007 | - Shahwar Matin Siraj, a 24-year-old clerk at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for discussing phony plans to bomb a subway station with a police informant; Siraj’s father, mother, and sister, all asylum-seekers, were arrested for deportation to their native Pakistan.
| Source:
WNBC
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| January 5, 2007 | - In New York City, a veteran saved a teenager from an oncoming subway train by throwing himself over the boy's body and keeping still as two cars passed inches above their heads. Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented the vet with a medal for civic achievement and one year of free bus and subway rides.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| January 2, 2007 | - Grandmothers gathered in Times Square to hold a vigil for the 3,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq,.
| Source:
AP via International Herald Tribune
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| December 6, 2006 | - In New York City, the World War II aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid was finally pulled out of the mud.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 28, 2006 | - A lawyer representing five policemen who shot and killed an unarmed black man in Queens, New York, said he was “confident” his clients would go unpunished.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 27, 2006 | - Barry Diller, at one time the highest paid CEO in the world, said corporate compensation consultants should be “flushed into the East River.”
| Source:
Reuters via Gawker
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| November 22, 2006 | - In Ramsey, New Jersey, a flock of turkeys was spotted waiting for a New York-bound train.
| Source:
AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| November 20, 2006 | - A professional dominatrix testified that an officer in the Greenburgh, New York, police department had extracted sexual favors from her. “He wanted to go to a motel in the Bronx where I would defecate on him,” she said, “but I told him I was uncomfortable going to the Bronx.”
| Source:
Journal News
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| November 11, 2006 | - Despite the objections of the Vatican, a gay rights rally was held in Jerusalem under the guard of nearly 3,000 police. Rabbi Yehuda Levin flew from Brooklyn to denounce the rally. “They are not,” said Levin, “being tolerant of our feelings.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| October 16, 2006 | - In New York City, CBGB closed, but the Russian Tea Room will reopen.
| Source 1:
AP via USA Today
Source 2:
New York Times
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| September 21, 2006 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the United Nations in New York, proclaimed his love for all the world's peoples, and suggested that the United States halt domestic fuel production and buy its energy from him “at a fifty percent discount.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 6, 2006 | - A poll found that New Yorkers were more concerned about terrorist attacks than are people living elsewhere.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 12, 2006 | - In Queens, New York, a cat named Fred Wheezy, a recipient of the New York City Police Department's Law Enforcement Achievement Award, was struck and killed by a car.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| August 11, 2006 | - For the first time in over 60 years, a corpse flower bloomed in New York City.
| Source:
Chron.com
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| July 7, 2006 | - The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security claimed to have foiled a plot by foreign terrorists, in Lebanon, to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 5, 2006 | - InIn New York City a 13-year-old girl (who may be an exotic dancer) abducted a 3-year-old boy.
| Source:
7Online.com
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| May 8, 2006 | - A man in Brooklyn, angry because someone asked him to stop drinking, shot and killed a 3-year-old girl.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| May 5, 2006 | - The cost of the memorial for the victims of the World Trade Center attacks was estimated at around $972 million, or about 26 percent of the original cost of the World Trade Center.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| May 4, 2006 | - In New York City, an Italian tourist was attacked and suffered a broken arm after he sat down on a motorcycle that was parked outside the local Hells Angels clubhouse.
| Source:
The New York Post
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| April 30, 2006 | - In New York City tens of thousands of people marched against the war in Iraq.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| April 27, 2006 | - New construction began at Ground Zero.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 18, 2006 | - The New York
Stock Exchange was considering a merger with the London Stock Exchange.
| Source:
Reuters UK
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| April 16, 2006 | - Roger Toussaint, the head of the Transport Workers Union in New York City, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for leading a transit strike in December 2005.
| Source:
Newsday
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| February 24, 2006 | - Four New York City-area residents were indicted for removing body parts from corpses (including Alistair Cooke's corpse, which was partially deboned) and reselling the body parts to hospitals.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| February 23, 2006 | - A hospital in Queens, New York, was investigating how a baby that died soon after birth was sent to a laundry service.
| Source:
Newsday.com
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| February 5, 2006 | - Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Newsday
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| February 3, 2006 | -
New York City police officers were suing the New York Police Department for videotaping them during a rally. "That's Big Brother watching you," said an officer.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 26, 2005 | - A woman in New York City was under investigation for putting her dead husband in a suitcase and leaving him there until neighbors complained of the smell. “She wanted to take him to Arizona to be buried,” explained a detective.
| Source:
Newsday
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| December 23, 2005 | - Workers for the New York City
Mass Transit Authority went on strike for three days.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 22, 2005 | - It was revealed that undercover police in New York City had infiltrated anti-war protests, street vigils, and pro-bicycling rallies. At one march, police provoked protesters--some of whom they later arrested--by staging a fake arrest.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 22, 2005 | - Investigators in New York City were trying to find out who stole Alistair Cooke's bones.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 2, 2005 | - A U.S. federal judge determined that it is constitutional for the New York City
Police to randomly search passengers' bags on the subway.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 29, 2005 | - In New York City, a defense contractor named David H. Brooks rented out two floors of the Rainbow Room for his daughter Elizabeth's bat mitzvah. Tom Petty, Kenny G, and members of Aerosmith performed, as did 50 Cent. The total cost of the party was reported as $10 million. “Go shorty,” rapped 50 Cent, “it's your bat mitzvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah.”
| Source:
New York Daily News
|
| November 24, 2005 | - At the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade, the M&M's Chocolate Candies balloon knocked parts of a street lamp onto a woman and child. Both were briefly hospitalized. “We should be thankful,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “none were more seriously hurt.”
| Source:
AP
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| November 9, 2005 | - Michael Bloomberg was re-elected mayor of New York City for around $68 million, and Jon Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey for around $40 million. When sworn in, Corzine will be America's only bearded governor.
| Source:
USA Today
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| November 4, 2005 | - Construction began on the new World Trade Center building in downtown Manhattan.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| October 28, 2005 | - Neither the local police and fire departments nor the Coast Guard nor the City Department of Environmental Protection were able to identify the source of a pleasant, maple-syrup-like smell that wafted over much of New York City.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| October 14, 2005 | - In Brooklyn, New York, a man was getting an image entitled "Last Rites" tattooed on his right arm when he passed out and fell onto a counter; glass shards cut his throat and killed him.
| Source:
The New York Daily News
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| October 7, 2005 | -
New York City was bracing for a terrorist attack on its subways, possibly by terrorists wielding bomb-filled strollers.
| Source:
Sign On San Diego
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| October 6, 2005 | -
Al Gore gave a speech in New York City. “Something,” he said, “has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America's fabled ‘marketplace of ideas’ now functions.”
| Source:
The Mercury News
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| September 22, 2005 | -
New York City announced that it would install up to twenty public pay toilets, one for every 405,203 people.
| Source:
1010 WINS
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| September 19, 2005 | - A summit of world leaders met at the United Nations in New York City.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| September 2, 2005 | -
Condoleezza Rice attended a musical in New York City, where she was booed. She also went shoe shopping. A fellow shopper was thrown out of the store after yelling “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying or homeless?”
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| August 26, 2005 | - In Brooklyn, New York, a recurring hip-hop party night called "Kill Whitie," marketed to white people, was under criticism as racist. Fans of the party, which offers free admission to anyone with a bucket of fried chicken, defended the event as "funny."
| Source:
MSNBC
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| July 26, 2005 | - In New York City, subway crime dropped 23 percent in the wake of random bag searches.
| Source:
WNBC.com
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| July 22, 2005 | - In New York City, police began random bag checks of subway passengers.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| July 12, 2005 | - A Brooklyn woman was acquitted of manslaughter due to lack of evidence; she was accused of killing her husband after he mocked her for her lack of callipygian rondure.
| Source:
The New York Daily News
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| July 4, 2005 | - Two Brooklyn, New York, teenagers were arrested for killing a fifteen-year-old boy for his iPod.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| June 26, 2005 | -
Bill Clinton appeared at a Billy Graham rally in New York City. “God bless you, friend,” said Clinton.
| Source:
AP
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| June 7, 2005 | - Body parts, including a leg and part of a spine, fell from a plane approaching JFK International Airport in New York City. The parts came from a stowaway who had hidden himself in the plane's wheel well. "[I] heard pounding," said the plane's pilot, "but nothing appeared wrong."
| Source:
Reuters
|
| May 31, 2005 | - In New York City, a nine-year-old girl
stabbed an eleven-year-old girl named Queen Washington to death. The girls were fighting over a pink rubber ball.
| Source:
New York Daily News
|
| May 22, 2005 | -
Ariel Sharon visited New York City, where he was also heckled by Jews.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 19, 2005 | -
Donald Trump called on New York City to rebuild the Twin Towers, only taller, and described the city's planned “Freedom Tower” as “the worst pile of crap architecture I have ever seen in my life.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| May 9, 2005 | - Two swans were stabbed to death in the Bronx.
| Source:
NY1.com
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| May 5, 2005 | - Two grenades went off outside the British consulate in New York City, damaging a flower planter,
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| April 11, 2005 | - The New York Public Library planned to auction off rare artworks to raise money.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 24, 2005 | -
New Yorkers were bothered by the delays in their subway service, which are often announced via old, half-broken loudspeakers making pronouncements like: "Ladies and gentlemen, because of a brflig fraptail at 116th Street, the uptown 6 train will frip deet brak croob.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 12, 2005 | - A New York City man died of a new drug-resistant and extremely virulent strain of HIV that causes AIDS in only twenty months.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| January 28, 2005 | - and Joseph Massino, the "Last Don" of New York, snitched on the mob.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 11, 2004 | - The fate of Pale Male, a virile red-tailed hawk residing on the cornice of a New York City building for 11 years, was uncertain after the family nest was removed by the co-op building's board; the next day Pale Male was seen carrying twigs from Central Park in a futile attempt to rebuild. Those supporting the eviction took exception to the occasional bloody carcass of a prey pigeon or rat falling to the sidewalk, but protestors bearing signs that read "Honk 4 Hawks" began a daily vigil.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 10, 2004 | - The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art paid more than $45 million for Duccio di Buoninsegna's 8"x11" “Madonna and Child.”
| Source:
Charlotte Observer
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| September 3, 2004 | - About half a million people protested the Republican National Convention in New York City; the protests were said to be the largest ever at a U.S. political convention.
| Source:
USA Today
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| August 29, 2004 | - Hundreds of thousands of people marched in New York City to denounce George W. Bush and his policies, particularly the war in Iraq.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 21, 2004 | - A New York jeweler was shot in the head as he walked down Sixth Avenue in Manhattan; Candace Bergen was at the scene and said, "This is the first time I've seen brain matter."
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 9, 2004 | -
Brooklyn police arrested a forty-three-year-old armless man for raping and beating one of his fellow nursing-home inmates.
| Source:
NY1
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| April 20, 2004 | - There was a train wreck under New York City near Penn Station.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - Richard Butler said that when he was chief U.N.
weapons inspector he had to meet contacts in Central Park because he knew that his telephone conversations were routinely intercepted.
| Source:
CNN
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| February 7, 2004 | - It was revealed that two male chinstrap penguins in New York's Central Park zoo have been homosexual lovers for years. They once tried to hatch a rock, and when their keeper gave them a fertile egg to hatch "they did a great job" raising the chick. Scientists, it was noted, have observed homosexuality in more than 450 species.
| Source:
Guardian
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| January 7, 2004 | - A political scientist in New York City perfected the science of cutting cakes.
| Source:
Nature.com
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| December 14, 2003 | - Other tapes revealed that Nixon was planning to use the Justice Department and the FBI to take revenge on his enemies once the Watergate scandal blew over. Nixon also thought that New York City "should go through a cycle of destruction."
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2003 | - The U.S. Air Guitar Championships were held at the Pussycat Lounge in New York City.
| Source:
Time Out New York
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| October 15, 2002 | -
Manhattan's district attorney said that the five teenage boys who were convicted in the 1989 Central Park jogger case were probably not involved in the attack.
| |
| February 5, 2002 | -
The World Economic Forum was held in New York instead of
Davos, Switzerland, and many
celebrities were feeling left out when they weren't invited to
swanky parties populated with economists, businessmen, and
sundry apologists of globalization. Panelists included Bono,
the pop star, who told the press that “the great thing about
hanging out with Republicans is that it's very unhip for both of
us. There's a parity of pain here.” About 1,000 people
demonstrated in front of a Gap store in Manhattan to protest the
company's use of overseas sweatshops. Media hopes for
Seattle-style violence were disappointed.
“Starbucks can rest easy for
another day,” one policeman
told a reporter.
| |
| November 13, 2001 | - Another passenger jet crashed in New York City; Congress was still haggling over whether to nationalize airport security.
| |
| October 16, 2001 | - The F.B.I. was notified on September 28 about the suspicious envelope at NBC but didn't get around to testing it until a private doctor treating the victim called the New York City health department.
| |
| October 16, 2001 | -
New York City began dumping 60 million gallons of sewage a day into Brooklyn's Jamaica Bay while a treatment plant is temporarily closed for repairs. Officials claimed that environmental damage would be “minimal.
| |
| October 2, 2001 | - Jeffrey Immelt, the new chairman of General Electric, told analysts in New York City that things were looking good for the company: “I was chairman for two days, and then I had jets with my engines hit a building I insured, which was covered by a network I owned, and we are still growing 2001 earnings by 11 percent.”
| |
| September 25, 2001 | - Somebody walked into Manhattan's Richard Gray Gallery and, before anyone noticed, walked out with a Picasso drawing that had been hanging on the wall.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | -
Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the Pentagon using hijacked commercial airliners.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - In Manhattan, five thousand people were feared dead, including 350 firefighters.
| |
| September 11, 2001 | - Thousands of volunteers rushed to lower Manhattan. Well-meaning citizens created a small disaster by overwhelming rescue workers with truckloads of socks, T-shirts, food. Much was simply thrown away.
| |
| August 28, 2001 | - The first of 400 defunct New York City
subway cars were dumped off the Delaware coast, where they will serve as artificial reefs.
| |
| August 14, 2001 | - A homeless man in Brooklyn fell to his death while defecating into a manhole he habitually used as a toilet.
| |
| July 31, 2001 | - A nanny was fined $50 by a New York City
police officer after her three-year-old ward peed on a tree.
| |
| July 24, 2001 | - A New York City artist, distraught after her boyfriend ended their relationship by email, broadcast her suicide attempt over the Internet; she was rescued when a witness called 911.
| |
| July 17, 2001 | - Abner Louima won $8.75 million to compensate him for being tortured by New York City policemen, who shoved a broken plunger up his rectum.
| |
| June 19, 2001 | - A group of Holocaust survivors sued the French railroad in a Brooklyn court because its trains were used to carry Jews and others to the death camps.
| |
| June 19, 2001 | -
President Bush proposed ending the bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico, by 2003, satisfying no one, not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, the professional agitator, who was arrested last month during a protest on Vieques; Sharpton continued his hunger strike, with no end in sight, in a New York City jail.
| |
| May 29, 2001 | - A Manhattan judge ordered Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to keep his mistress out of Gracie Mansion and away from his children; the judge also criticized the mayor for harming his children by allowing his lawyer to use language such as “uncaring mother” and “howling like a stuck pig” to describe his wife, Donna Hanover.
| |
| May 8, 2001 | - Dolphins at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn were able to recognize themselves in a mirror.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | -
New York City
police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik decided not to punish the police officers who killed Amadou Diallo two years ago.
The officers, who fired 41 shots at the unarmed black man but only hit him 19 times, will undergo retraining.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | -
New York's supreme court ruled that gun makers could not be held responsible for shootings with guns that were bought and sold illegally; a Brooklyn jury had previously awarded $522,000 to a teenager, who was shot in the head, on the theory that the manufacturer was guilty of “negligent marketing.”
| |
| April 10, 2001 | - A man was arrested in New York for using a spray bottle to contaminate Manhattan salad bars with a cocktail of his own urine and feces; he was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, criminal tampering, possession of a forged instrument, and public urination.
| |
| March 13, 2001 | - A dead infant was found in the jaws of a dog in Brooklyn.
| |
| March 6, 2001 | -
New York City's
Boy Scouts said they would try to convince the national organization to repeal its ban on homosexuals.
| |
| February 27, 2001 | - An unknown quantity of a radioactive substance was dumped into the New York City sewer system.
| |
| February 20, 2001 | -
New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was upset about a picture in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and was threatening to set up a decency panel to police the city's museums.
| |
| January 23, 2001 | - A small earthquake was detected in New York City.
| |
| 0, 2000 | - Recalling September 11, New Yorkers panicked as a spare
Air Force One 747, accompanied by a fighter jet, flew low near the World Trade Center site in Manhattan for a White House photo op. President Barack Obama, who is reading the novel Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, ordered a review of the $328,835 flight.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The New York Times
Source 3:
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| November 14, 2000 | - The European Commission filed suit in Brooklyn against the Philip Morris Company and the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for allegedly engaging in money laundering, wire fraud, and other illegal activities connected with “a massive ongoing smuggling scheme.”
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| September 26, 2000 | - The New York City Board of Education unveiled a plan to distribute 750,000 laptops to every child in the system above grade 3; the plan, which would cost $900 million dollars, would be underwritten by technology companies wishing to expand their markets and by selling advertising on a special Web portal for students.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The New York City
Police Department said it was returning to a more traditional straight nightstick because officers were unable to remember how to wield the side-handled baton currently in use.
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| September 19, 2000 | - A TWA pilot at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City aborted a takeoff after he realized that a cockpit window was open.
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| September 12, 2000 | - One hundred and forty-nine world leaders disrupted traffic in New York City; United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan warned that disease, poverty, war, hunger, and pollution were difficult problems that required cooperation among nations.
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| September 12, 2000 | - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was served with a lawsuit while standing outside a church in Harlem; the lawsuit, which was filed in a Manhattan federal district court, seeks damages for the death of the plaintiff's husband, who was killed by members of Mugabe's party.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Prosecutors in Manhattan revealed that Dr. Michael J.
Swango, a doctor who has admitted to being a serial killer, kept a commonplace book in which he copied passages from thrillers that expressed his joy of killing: “I love it. Sweet, husky, close smell of an indoor homicide.”
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| August 29, 2000 | - A man was arrested for starting a Brooklyn stable fire that killed twenty-one horses; police said he had been smoking marijuana.
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| August 22, 2000 | - The Motion Picture Association of America succeeded in convincing a federal judge in Manhattan that publishing or linking to a free computer program that allows people to play DVDs on their Linux computers will lead to widespread copying of DVDs; the judge rejected arguments that computer source code, or links pointing to such code, is expressive speech and is thus protected under the First Amendment.
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| August 1, 2000 | - A sixteen-year-old supermarket worker in New York City died when he was crushed by a cardboard-box compactor.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Roman and Inna Flikshtein, a Russian couple living in Brooklyn, said they would not give up Cookie, their pet diana monkey, an endangered species, which the New York state attorney general says should be in a zoo.
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| August 0, 2000 | - The big counter in New York City that tracks the national debt ran out of digits.
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| July 25, 2000 | - A twenty-five pound stucco ornament measuring four by six feet fell fourteen stories and cracked the skull of a tourist walking with his family in midtown Manhattan; the tourist, who was expected to live, was attending a six-day religious conference called “Changing Your World.”
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