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CAN TUNA-EATING IF PREGNANT: STUDY
Scientists yesterday warned pregnant women to cut their consumption of canned tuna fish, and recommended that the FDA issue stricter warnings about the mercury-tainted product. An estimated 60,000...
View ArticleGRANNY DRUG-RAP DUO ‘ILL’
Two Brighton Beach grannies charged with peddling prescription drugs to neighborhood kids were too ill to appear yesterday at their arraignments, their lawyers said. Roza Shusterman, 80, who has breast...
View ArticleSTRAPHANGERS: NEW CAR COOL
It’s been a long time coming, but a welcome relief yesterday for city subway riders who got a cool, roomy ride on a new subway car, the first of 1,700 expected to be operating by the end of the decade....
View ArticleSTATE SNIPS SUSPECTS IN ID-THEFT RING
Four people were indicted in a massive identity-theft ring that stole personal information from WNYC, the New York State Insurance Fund and other organizations, authorities announced yesterday. State...
View ArticleCAR CRUSHES MEDIC’S LEG
A young EMS worker who was helping an elderly woman onto an ambulance had his leg “snapped like a twig” when he was hit by an allegedly drunk driver early yesterday morning. Wolfd Louissaint, 25, was...
View Article‘DWI’ HORROR DRIVER IGNORED OUR PLEAS: BROTHER
The allegedly DWI driver who crippled a young emergency medical technician had been warned repeatedly about his drinking, his brother said yesterday. “I told him over and over again not to drive when...
View ArticleTENANTS’ TERROR – TELL COURT OF ‘HELLISH’ LANDLORD’S OUTRAGES
They call him “the landlord from hell.” Tenants who claim they were terrorized for years by Queens apartment owner George Subraj faced off against their alleged tormentor yesterday. During an angry...
View ArticleLOVE IN THE BRONX – BOOGIE DOWN COURTHOUSE HAS BECOME A MECCA FOR...
FORGET the glitzy fanfare and spectacle of a Trump wedding. In the minimally decorated basement of the Bronx Courthouse, hundreds of New York couples are saying “I do” – making it the Big Apple’s new...
View ArticleSOME TOUGH MOTHERS – THE WISDOM OF WANDA SALAMAN – MOTIVATING MOMS TO SAVE...
A BRONX neighborhood survivalist, Wanda Salaman learned early to empower herself and use her anger to help the weak and the poor. Salaman, 38, has been saving working-class neighborhoods in The Bronx...
View ArticleACTING ON PRINCIPLE – MIRIAM COL”N HELPS KEEP LATINO THEATER ALIVE WITH...
INSIDE an aging firehouse on 47th Street that serves as a small theater, actress Miriam Colón gestures to the worn seats with regret, but holds out her arms to the balcony and smiles that the theater...
View ArticleSTAND-‘OUTS’– THREE YOUNG STARS DAZZLE IN NEW INDIE FILM ABOUT TEENAGE GIRLS...
AGGRESSIVE, disturbing and brutally honest, “On the Outs,” the new indie film that opens today at the New York Film Forum, makes audiences cringe with revulsion and sadness. “I’m glad that’s the...
View ArticleSTAMP AND DELIVER – NEW POSTAL ARTWORK CELEBRATES THE MAGIC OF LATIN DANCE
SALSA’S explosive, swirling moves are caught in a dreamy freeze-frame by artist José Ortega, designer of a U.S. postal stamp that celebrates Latin dance. “I wanted to get that angle – that point of...
View ArticleDESIGN OF THE TIMES – QUEENS WHIZ STARTS GRAPHIC BIZ
Danny Gonzalez is a Queens boy through-and-through – never taking no for answer and never flinching at a job, whether it’s a small affair or a colossal undertaking. Gonzalez is a conqueror. At 34,...
View ArticlePEDAL-PUSH PEDDLERS ‘AD’ MORE TRAFFIC
Look out! Michael Dudich is about to add yet another wrinkle to New York’s ever-changing and crowded streetscape: bicycle-drawn billboard advertising. The 48-year-old businessman feels the city, which...
View ArticleMAGICAL MARILYN – PUERTO RICAN ACTRESS SPARKES ON STAGE AND SCREEN
HARLEM born-and-raised actress Marilyn Torres isn ‘t stressing about her role as a maid in the new film “Bernard and Doris ” – the story of tobacco heiress Doris Duke starring Susan Sarandon. “Being a...
View ArticleBROOM WITH A VIEW – FORMER PORTER ‘CLEANS UP’ AS CEO OF HIS OWN COMPANY
BECOMING CEO of the company where you used to work scrubbing toilets may seem like an impossible feat to most people – but not to 36-year-old Brooklynite Michael Rodriguez, who, in ten years, made that...
View ArticleHEY, JUDY – ACTRESS NAVIGATES HOLLYWOOD MINEFIELD OF LATINA STEREOTYPES
SOFT-SPOKEN and sweet, Judy Marte is the antithesis of the gritty character she plays in the upcoming indie film, “On the Outs.” The moving drama tells the story of three New Jersey teenage girls....
View ArticlePOINTE PLEASANT – QUEENS WATERFRONT GETS FENG SHUI TOWNHOUSES
WE’VE heard of feng shui – a Chinese practice of arranging space and objects to create a more harmonious environment – working in small apartments and office buildings, but on an 8-acre, 86-townhouse...
View ArticleSCHOLAR DOLLARS – PROGRAM HELPS KIDS PAY TUITION
SCHOLARSHIP winner and Puerto Rican Day parade shining star Angel Ayala of The Bronx is on his way to Yale this fall to study astronomy and physics. At five, he rode parade floats and later helped...
View ArticleSTILL MUY BONITA – CRI$IS ROCKS LA ISLA – BUT TOURISM IS BOOMING
WHEN a government lockdown put thousands of civil servants out of work in May, travel to Puerto Rico spiked. However, According to tourism officials, the economic nightmare that saw 100,000 people get...
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