Amanda Lozada
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7 more confirmed cases in Legionnaires’ crisis
Seven additional cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been confirmed and five more South Bronx sites — including a high school — have tested positive for the bacteria that cause it,...
Assemblyman arrested while protesting Iran nuke deal
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind and seven other pro-Israel activists were arrested Thursday and charged with blocking the entrance of Sen. Charles Schumer’s Midtown office in a protest against the Iran...
Teen journalist makes it big turning passion into a profession
A New Jersey teen is “Almost Famous.” Eli Zeger, 16, has become a music-journalism phenom, reviewing bands for major outlets such as Vice and The Huffington Post and turning his...
Uber creates late-arriving 'de Blasio' mode
https://twitter.com/codeblue87/status/621730797314183168 Uber launched a campaign on Thursday against Mayor de Blasio Thursday — unveiling a tab named after Hizzoner to show the epic delays that would be created under a...
Subway vagrants busted for trespassing in deluxe room
A small room at the Columbus Circle subway station where six vagrants were busted for trespassing is on Donald Trump’s property — and was outfitted with a flat-panel TV, a...
US soccer cheered by thousands at rocking NYC parade
They cheered “USA!”, slurped Italian ices and took selfie after grinning selfie with the victorious athletes. And that was just the cops. Friday’s ticker-tape parade for the World Cup-winning US...
Hero cop who survived shooting forgives gang banger
This is one forgiving hero cop. As one of the gang bangers involved in a Bronx mugging that left a cop shot was sentenced to prison, the officer — who...
Fans of ex-St. Patrick's Parade leader deny ouster on Facebook
Just because he got the boot doesn’t mean ousted St. Patrick’s Day Parade chairman John Dunleavy is without supporters. A rogue member of the nonprofit behind the iconic Irish procession...
Crews, carpenters leave their jobs in city-wide walk-off
Striking carpenters halted work at more than a dozen construction sites Thursday — including the enormous Hudson Yards job — a move that contractors say is illegal and will cost...
Jury still out on de Blasio's community-policing plan
People who live or work near NYPD precincts where a new community-policing plan was rolled out on a pilot basis gave it mixed reviews, with some seeing no spike in...
Man accused of beating sister to death on her birthday
A man was charged Friday with fatally beating his sister on the day she celebrated her 30th birthday in The Bronx, police said. Jeremy Wilson, 42, allegedly bludgeoned tragic Erica...
Confederate flags adorn this Times Square subway station
Tiny tile mosaics that look like Confederate flags are right under the noses of millions of straphangers passing through the Times Square subway station every day. The tile mosaics honor...
Crazed passenger stabs bus driver in NYC
A deranged, knife-wielding passenger slashed a city bus driver and tried to steal his chain in Manhattan early Thursday, police said. Veteran MTA driver Tim Fox had brought the M72...
Dante de Blasio upstages his dad at high school graduation
He helped propel his father into City Hall, but on Friday it was Dante de Blasio who took center stage as a newly minted graduate of Brooklyn Tech HS. But...
Rikers officer who refused to help dying inmate gets 5 years in prison
The Rikers Island correction officer who refused to get medical help for an inmate who swallowed a toxic packet of detergent was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday morning....
Count Jon Bon Jovi among those who support minimum wage hike
Workers at a Midtown rally waiting to hear Gov. Cuomo promote his proposal to raise the minimum wage got a surprise Thursday when rocker Jon Bon Jovi also showed up....
Cuomo: Killers' escape 'nothing to be embarrassed about'
Gov. Cuomo said Thursday that "there's nothing to be embarrassed about" regarding the two convicted killers who broke out of an upstate slammer and were spending their sixth day on...
Friends obsessed with photos of teen’s bullet-riddled body
Hours after he was brutally executed in The Bronx, graphic images of Christopher Duran’s bullet-riddled body emerged online — due to neighbors and friends linking to grisly photos taken by...
Approval ratings behind de Blasio's outer borough roadshow
Mayor de Blasio ventured to the Rockaways on Friday, continuing his outer-borough charm offensive in the wake of sinking poll numbers and criticism of his progressive wanderlust. A day after...
Recent crime spree has residents avoiding Central Park
Central Park is turning into a leafy snake pit. Major crimes have spiked in the urban oasis — which has been plagued by a rash of muggings — and residents...