Custodian Details His Unique Path To Earning B.A. At Columbia University
Gac Filipaj will walk at Columbia's commencement ceremonies, capping a nearly 20-year journey from his home in Yugoslavia to a B.A. in Classics.
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Gac Filipaj will walk at Columbia's commencement ceremonies, capping a nearly 20-year journey from his home in Yugoslavia to a B.A. in Classics.
A slide in the main room of this East 13th Street apartment, garners a priceless reaction from everybody who sees it.
Longtime friend and live-in caretaker Lynn Caponera said she was with Maurice Sendak when he died at about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday at Danbury Hospital.
Quinn has made no secret of her desire to become mayor while Kelly has been adamant that he's not running for elective office despite reported pressure by Republican Party officials.
All hope at the point guard position for the New York Knicks seems to rest on the shoulders of the aging Mike Bibby.
Bhupinder Singh, a 38-year-old from Ridgewood, Queens pleaded guilty to first-degree unlawful imprisonment before Queens Criminal Court.
In a letter sent to the White House and Congress Tuesday, a government watchdog group said that controllers in one of the busiest centers in New York slept on the job, watched movies while on duty and often violated safety rules.
An investigation found that Herve Gilles, who had a record of drunkenness and mental illness, was beating Spring Valley Officer John Roper with Roper's nightstick when the officer fired, hitting Gilles in the neck and then in the head, Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said.
The State Senate passed the education reform package in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday. Now, it's in the hands of the House, which has until tomorrow at midnight to pass it.
Attorney Alberto Ebanks said security guards weren't watching Sunday when 12-year-old Yakim McDaniels was killed.
The efforts to diversify the department comes in response to a lawsuit charging discrimination in the department's testing and hiring practices.
Signs will be going up around the city saying, "Report domestic violence. Don't mind your own business."
The suspects snatched a a 44-year-old man's cellphone from his hand around 11:50 a.m. Sunday as he walked onto the elevator of a building on West 27th Street, police said.
From 2002 to 2007, there were about eight teen drivers were killed each year in crashes. In 2011, there was just one.
MTA chairman Joseph Lhota says there have been problems tunneling underneath a rail yard in Queens. The MTA has brought in experts from Europe to help with developing a plan going forward.
