Sylvia Harvey
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CUNY GIVES TOP BRASS $55K RAISE
October 30, 2008 | 7:56amDespite multiple budget cuts and talks of tuition hikes, top officials at the City University of New York were awarded hefty raises last month - including a $55,000 two-year pay...
A BOFFO REVIVAL
October 17, 2008 | 8:39amIt used to be that that the only things standing still in Times Square were lost or awestruck tourists, but yesterday, the Crossroads of the World became a nice place...
TASER MOM: I COULD HAVE SAVED SON
October 1, 2008 | 7:38amThe grieving mother of a disturbed Brooklyn man who fell to his death after being Tasered by police said yesterday the tragedy might have been prevented if cops had let...
A NEW 'NEW WORLD' AT ELLIS IS. MUSEUM
September 25, 2008 | 8:08amBetween 1892 and 1954, the years Ellis Island was open, 12 million immigrants passed through its portals. But what of those who came before and after? For example, Native Americans...
PUBLIC ART BRANCHES OUT
September 24, 2008 | 7:51amFirst came "The Gates," then "Waterfalls." Now comes the city's latest public art installation: "Tree Huts." The project features a dozen pinewood tree houses perched 30 feet up in the...
TRAFFIC MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
September 16, 2008 | 8:17amThe city yesterday opened a red bus lane across 34th Street - with an eye toward unclogging weekday traffic. Any other vehicle using the lane from First to 11th avenues...
BUS BOY'S ORDEAL
September 10, 2008 | 7:39amTen-year-old Evan Bongirne lives in the East Village and goes to school on the Upper West Side - but it takes him nearly two hours to get home. That's because...
GUARDIAN ANGEL MURDERED
September 5, 2008 | 8:28amA crazed homeless criminal lurking outside a Queens woman's house beat and stomped to death a protective neighbor who had come to her aid, police said yesterday. Nicholas Nowillo, 66,...
TRAFFIC JAMMIN' SESSION
September 4, 2008 | 8:10amTens of thousands of football and music fans will rock Columbus Circle this afternoon in a free concert that will slow traffic from the Upper West Side to Midtown. Usher,...
FREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN
August 27, 2008 | 9:54amTalk about liquid assets! This New Yorker got all wet for chump change. The water fountain in front of City Hall was one man's personal change purse as he went...
TOT TORTURE 'EVIL': REV
June 19, 2008 | 7:08amThe priest who led mourners in saying a tearful goodbye to little Kyle Smith yesterday ripped into the guardians accused of beating, torturing and killing the 3-year-old boy, calling them...
PET HEROES ARE A BUNCHA ANIMALS
April 28, 2008 | 8:12amThey look like your worst nightmare, tattooed hell-raisers prowling the streets just looking for trouble - but that's OK, because they're actually tender-hearted animal detectives and ruffling a few feathers...