Planned Parenthood says a videotape showing a Bronx “pimp” getting advice from one of its workers was doctored by a group intent on embarrassing the agency.
Archive | February, 2011
Planned parenthood says videotape showing “pimp” getting advice from worker was doctored
Posted on 09 February 2011.
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Man charged in recent Bronx murder
Posted on 08 February 2011.
A Bronx man was arrested and charged with stabbing another man to death Saturday at a Bronx home where a card game was taking place in the early morning, police said.
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Bronx school latest to test positive For PCBs
Posted on 08 February 2011.
A Bronx school has become the latest to test positive for dangerously high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
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Tanker leaks carbon dioxide
Posted on 08 February 2011.
A tanker truck carrying carbon dioxide was involved in an accident early Tuesday morning in The Bronx that leaked a cloud of gas, according to the FDNY.
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Officials investigate two fatal fires
Posted on 08 February 2011.
Fire officials are investigating two fatal Bronx fires that broke out Monday morning less than a mile apart.
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Missing girl returns home, police say
Posted on 08 February 2011.
Nia Jeanty, 14, had not been seen since Friday morning, according to her mother.
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Fueling the Future
Posted on 08 February 2011.
As his arms reach deeper into the canister outside of a pizzeria in Morris Park, Jean Joachim looks away. “Sometimes you see dead rats,” he says. “Not at this restaurant though- they’re pretty good with the oil.” Joachim, a service technician works for Tri-State Biodiesel (TSB), a green energy start-up that collects used cooking oil from restaurants and converts it into biodiesel.
On Wednesday night, Joachim and his manager, Andrew McCloud are harvesting oilcans from Patricia’s. Famous for their brick oven pizza and Tuscan-style fare, the family-owned restaurant also dishes out a healthy serving of grease, 70 gallons a week to be exact. Not to its customers of course, but to TSB, which collects it for free and ships it to a refinery where it gets transformed into biodiesel.
To prevent restaurants from dumping oil into kitchen sinks, New York City requires businesses to install a mechanism to collect grease and provide proof of regular waste disposal through an outside collection service. Restaurants that do not adhere to the rules properly can be fined up to $10,000. [more..]
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In the shadow of stadium, a Yemen-born Yankee vendor waits out winter
Posted on 07 February 2011.
By Alex Eriksen
Most of 161st and River Avenue is hibernating. The streets are deserted and the shops are all shuttered. Well, almost all of them.
On the corner of 162nd St. beneath huge portraits of Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and CC Sabathia, the lights are on in the Yankee Shop.
It’s the only link in a chain of stores on River Avenue to defy winter and remain open.
Abdulla Abdulla, a twenty-one year college sophomore, is behind the counter. “We thought we’d have a lot of customers like last season, it’s not like last season,” he says.
With the season not set to begin until March, and an average of only six customers a day, Abdulla says his father, who runs the store, is tempted to close until the Bronx Bombers return, and with them, the legions of fans and tourists. [more…]
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