The Cardinal

The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday brought the structure to its final height of 1,776 feet. Loud applause and cries of joy erupted from construction workers as the spire was gently lowered and secured into place. On Friday May 10, 2013, the spire was installed atop the One World Trade Center [...]

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Trudy Kawami, Rat Hunter, explains how a group of ‘rat hunters’ hit the streets of Manhattan to help tackle the city’s rodent problem with the help of their sharp-nosed dogs. Small Game techniques of Dachshunds and Terrier bred for capture of small game are used to help keep the city streets clean in New York [...]

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A New York City family is selling their house and leaving the city because they refuse to part with their pet pig. Danielle Forgione has started a petition to make pig ownership legal in New York City. New York City health code forbids keeping them as pets, forcing pig owners to operate in secret. One [...]

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VIDEO: Protest in the 67th Precinct of NYPD after Kimani Gray was shot and killed after police reported he pointed a loaded gun a police officers. On Monday night, March 11, 2013, residents in Brooklyn, New York held a candlelight vigil for 16-year-old Kimani Gray, an African American teenager who was shot and killed by [...]

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the results of an undercover operation that broke up a “major gun running operation.” Officials in New York City announced the indictments of sixteen members of two separate gun trafficking networks for allegedly selling more than 100 illegal firearms, including assault weapons and machine guns … Smith & Wesson [...]

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FDNY firefighter Robert Wiedmann escapes fire with the help of Capt. Liam Flaherty. New York firefighters searching an empty brownstone about 9:00 a.m. Monday December 19, 2011 were engulfed in a flashover in the 1100 block of Prospect Place in Brooklyn. Robert Wiedmann, 38, dove out a front window on to ladder from a ladder [...]

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Video Surveillance: Marked NYPD police car and unmarked NYPD squad car crash at intersection of Belmont Avenue and Milford Street in East New York, Brooklyn. Two police cars responding to a robbery crashed about 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 22, 2011 while responding to the same robbery call. Six police officers were injured, but no seriously. [...]

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Federal and local NY authorities disagree on how serious the risk of a threat regarding alleged al-Qaida sympathizer Jose Pimentel, arrested on November 20, 2011 by the New York City Police Department. Jose Pimentel, 27, also known as Muhammad Yusuf, is a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Dominican Republic who was allegedly plotting to bomb [...]

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Police arrested 70 protesters at New York’s Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, including some who chained themselves together, while clearing the park so that sanitation crews could clean it. Protesters will be allowed to return, without sleeping bags, tents and tarps. Businesses have complained the Occupy Streets protesters are disrupting their local, small business operations.

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A helicopter with 5 people aboard crashed into the East River after taking off, killing 1 passenger and injuring 3 others. NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg says the pilot apparently reported problems in the chopper and said he was turning around. FDNY FIRE-RESCUE Boat near 34th Street and the East River (See video on FOXNEWS.COM). Helicopter [...]

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Record-breaking Australian Bikini Parade: More than 350 Bikini-clad women in Australia have set a new Guinness World Record for the largest bikini parade. The previous record was 33, and it was set in the Cayman Islands last year. “We Are the 99% Protest: More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, inequality and other issues, [...]

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Video from LibertyPlazaRev uploaded Saturday, September 24, 2011 does not document the location, the date or the circumstances in the caption, but it is apparently near Unino Square. A woman with a camera, elicits over-dramatic rants at NYPD officers while she videotapes police officers arresting people on a street corner in New York City. She [...]

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