Brian Hamacher
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HORSEMEN SAY: STOP THE MUSIC
September 17, 2007 | 9:00amThe city's hansom cabbies yesterday demanded safer conditions for their horses after one carriage-toting mare became frightened by street music and died crashing into a tree. The Horse and Carriage...
SCHUMER SLAPS AT 'C'-CURITY
September 10, 2007 | 9:00amNearly six years after 9/11, Sen. Charles Schumer says the nation's security is still barely average - and cautioned that the country is "dangerously vulnerable to attack." In his annual...
MARATHON $WIMMER
August 20, 2007 | 9:00amA swimmer from the Dominican Republic looped twice around Manhattan in an exhausting fund-raiser for young cancer victims back home. Marcos Diaz, 32, began his swim at the Dyckman Marina...
GIRL HURT BY STRAY BULLET
July 9, 2007 | 9:00amA 13-year-old girl bending down to tie her shoes was grazed by a stray bullet on the Lower East Side early yesterday, police said. The unidentified girl was hit just...
WALL COLLAPSE TRAPS SIBS
July 2, 2007 | 9:00amA Bronx boy's foot was severed after a decrepit storefront parapet came crashing down on him and his stepbrother yesterday, trapping the critically injured pair under hundreds of pounds of...
GRIEF FOR FIRE HERO
June 25, 2007 | 9:00amHundreds of grim-faced firefighters, sobbing relatives and grieving friends filled a Brooklyn funeral home and the surrounding streets to mourn a young firefighter who fell to his death while battling...
DEAD-CELEB BILL
June 11, 2007 | 9:00amA loophole that allows "unscrupulous quick-buck artists" to cash in on the names and images of dead celebrities should be closed immediately, state lawmakers said yesterday. A bill introduced last...
STAR'S SLAY STILL HAUNTS HUSBAND
April 30, 2007 | 9:00amThe husband of New York indie-film actress Adrienne Shelly says he's still plagued by the horrific memories of her murder. "I don't sleep anymore," hubby Andrew Ostroy told Newsweek. "I...
MANHUNT ON AMID RAPE'S SICKENING DETAILS
April 16, 2007 | 9:00amCops yesterday were hunting for a sadistic rapist who slit the eyelids of his victim and left her for dead in her burning Upper Manhattan apartment. The battered and bleeding...
BOY-BAND BOSS SUED BY FAMILY
February 26, 2007 | 10:00amA Manhattan dentist said yesterday that he, his parents and his brother got drilled for more than $1 million by boy-band impresario and alleged Ponzi schemer Lou Pearlman, saying he...
A REALLY 'PIG' SHOW
February 19, 2007 | 10:00amThousands filled the streets of Chinatown yesterday to bring in the Chinese New Year. The all-day festival honoring the Year of the Pig, included giant puppets , confetti and a...
AL PLEDGES 'FRISK' SUIT
February 5, 2007 | 10:00amA furious Rev. Al Sharpton vowed to file a class-action lawsuit against the NYPD, charging cops overwhelmingly targeted blacks in "stop and frisk" incidents last year. "This is a matter...
CON ED POWER-LINE ROUTE IS A SHOCKER: FOES
January 29, 2007 | 10:00amElected officials and community residents who oppose the route chosen by Con Ed for a new power line from Westchester gathered in Upper Manhattan yesterday to propose an alternate plan...
YOU HAVE JUST SURVIVED YOUR WORST DAY OF THE YEAR
January 23, 2007 | 10:00amIt was more than just than another manic Monday. Miserable weather, the end of holiday cheer and mounting debt contributed yesterday to what experts tagged the most depressing day of...
SON VOWS TO SHINE
January 8, 2007 | 10:00amVowing "to clean up Albany," Andrew Cuomo was sworn in as state attorney general yesterday by his father, Mario, the former New York governor. On hand for the ceremony at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 31, 2006 | 5:00amA North Carolina woman attacked a man's genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said. Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with...
SHOPPERS DECK THE MALLS AT 11TH HOUR
December 25, 2006 | 5:00amDesperate shoppers flocked to stores and malls on Christmas Eve for last-minute gifts for loved ones. With the holiday falling on a Monday, giving people a full weekend to shop,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 24, 2006 | 5:00amSanta had better think twice before downing his cookies and milk in Oregon. Workers sampling holiday cookies at a wood plant in Stayton complained of feeling lightheaded and dizzy, and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 17, 2006 | 5:00amA South Carolina man who parked illegally in a space reserved for handicapped drivers was sentenced to stand outside the store with a sign telling everyone of his crime. Ragheem...
MIKE & ELIOT LIGHT UP EMANU-EL
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amThe first candle was lit for Hanukkah last night as crowds flocked to the restored Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side for its rededication. Holding a candle together, Mayor...