The Teamsters and Metro-North are going back to the bargaining table.
Trains are running on schedule for the time being.
The Hayden Planetarium will be demolished to make way for a new
planetarium. Half of the needed 120 million dollars for the
renovation has already been secured.
In Flatbush Brooklyn a group tried to hold-up a bar. The group of 4-6 robbers picked the wrong neighborhood and the wrong bar. The bullets started flying and all the victims have not yet been identified.
The City Council is proposing new legislation for rollerbladers. The
changes would include fines for riding on the sidewalk, riding without
a helmet for under 14-year-olds, disobeying traffic law and other
restrictions.
There was a rape at Queens General Hospital this weekend.
Weekend Report
Golden Eye, the new James Bond movie that opened last friday, stole the
box-office this weekend.
The Fare Hike debacle continues on Monday because the judges have asked for
new materials from both sides.
The TLC (Taxi and Limosine Commision) has published a list of the
10 worst cabbies.
Elmhurst Baptist Church in Queens has been ravaged by fire. New York's bravest brought the blaze under control around 11:00am today.
A bodega in Queens was the location of a horrible execution in which
five people were killed in the basement during a robbery.
If the fare hike should be reversed, the MTA will allow everyone to
ride free two days for every seven days that the hike was in effect.
Miserable weather is headed our way.
The fare hike injunction may be lifted if the MTA convinces a state judge that delaying the injunction would result in financial hardship.
Rudy Crew, the new school's chancellor, held his first town-hall meeting last night in the Bronx.
A Brooklyn pizzeria is suing Pizza Hut for their patented rights to
"stuffed crust pizza". They claim that they approached Pizza Hut with
the idea but were turned down only to find that Pizza Hut circumvented
them entirely.
Cabs will soon include maps of the city in the passenger area.
Staten Island incumbent wins the heated race for DA.
The mayor and the govenor have returned from their trip to Israel to
mourn Yitzhak Rabin.
Bronx
Staten Island's battle over the next D.A. will probably the most interesting
vote on tommorrow's ballots.
Gays Adopt
New York City has entered a ten year, more the one billion dollar
agreement with towns in the north to protect the watershed that
supplies the city.
Queens
A sketch is being circulated of a rapist in Queens who poses as an
immigration officer and preys on women he thinks are illegal aliens.
Arrests have been made in the violent incident Halloween night where a
young male's hand was severed.
Halloween Beating