The Apocalypse: It's Nothing New
Doomsday worrywarts have a long history of predicting the end of the world. From biblical times to the present day, there have been many scenarios of our ultimate demise.
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Doomsday worrywarts have a long history of predicting the end of the world. From biblical times to the present day, there have been many scenarios of our ultimate demise.
Windmills on Staten Island? It's a proposal New York City officials are exploring.
It looks like Brooklyn has the biggest share of fire house closings due to New York City budget cuts and the outspoken borough president isn't happy about the news.
Two days and counting — The end of the world is near, according to a Staten Island man who says that around 6pm Saturday, all Hell will be breaking loose.
Police said 48-year-old Ilya Iglanov believed he was being cheated of his savings invested in a patented design for a military grade flashlight by business associate Semyon Levin.
TLC Commissioner David Yassky said the new plan would add 1,500 standard taxis and up to 6,000 cabs that would exclusively serve areas outside Midtown and Downtown, where it's hard to get anything but a livery cab.
It's a heartbreaking battle involving a 4-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and her right to a wheelchair lift. A Staten Island condo board isn't allowing a front-door lift. The homeowner is calling it discrimination.
He's had a good career with the NYPD, and now Blaze is retiring after eight years with New York's finest. The German shepherd has had three operations, to relieve the pain from a pinched nerve, remove an infected toe, and to treat stomach bloat.
Fire Lieutenant Robert Hess was assigned to the firehouse for Ladder 76 at 7219 Amboy Road. He died one year ago Monday from 9/11-related injuries.
The plan calls for moving operations at the Manor Road Processing Center on Staten Island to Manhattan and Brooklyn. The process is likely to delay the time it takes for residents to get their mail.
An Easter backup approaching the Outerbridge Crossing has lead to a new policy from the Port Authority.
Lawmakers from Staten Island were still outraged at the decision to have just one cash lane open at two toll bridges to New Jersey, which created massive traffic backups on Easter.
Oddo called the decision to keep only one cash lane open at the bridge on busy Easter Sunday "galactically stupid."
Richie Rienel is developmentally disabled. A few years ago, his mom and sister realized a dog may do him some good. They bought Pookie, a yorkiepoo, and the connection was instant, but robbers stole the pooch right from the Rienels' home in Mariners Harbor.
The trash-talking and luxury flaunting women of VH1's "Mob Wives" are making a lot Staten Island residents cringe.
Margiotta was off duty on 9/11 when he raced to the World Trade Center, where he was killed at age 44.
A Staten Island woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had to give the payments up after her ex-husband spotted photos of her belly dancing on the Internet.
Eva Rubin, 63, was found dead in the bedroom of her Willowbrook home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The $10-million-a-year farm was hidden inside a garage.
There was a gruesome discovery inside a Staten Island home on Tuesday that touched off a manhunt. The husband of the victim eventually surrendered to police.
The suspect is described as white male with a medium build, who was last seen wearing a light-colored T-shirt, a light-colored knit hat and prescription glasses.
Replacement work on the bridge will occur from 2012 until 2016. Motorists will not be affected by the work until 2014.
For fifteen years, Elissa Montanti has, in relative obscurity, run the Global Medical Relief Fund from a makeshift office in her walk-in closet.
Ayala said she was so busy working on her taxes she didn't notice when her 20-month-old son slipped out the front door, police allege.
When the Twin Towers fell, it was personal for a lot of people. This was their skyline and their city.
