The City Planning Commission and the City Council caused an uproar after they approved New York University’s expansion plan in July of 2012. Eleven groups opposing the construction announced on Tuesday that they are filing a lawsuit against the city. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, lists 11 individual plaintiffs, as 
by Nora Bosworth On the cusp of the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the federal government has at last decided that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act should also cover cancer—about 50 different types, in fact. The act, according to the NYPost, already grants medical checkups and/or treatment to around 40,000 people; but up 
by Nora Bosworth While Saturday felt like just another—very—rainy day to most New Yorkers, for residents of Breezy Point, Queens it was an unexpected encounter with a cinematic twister. While the tornado was relatively weak, (the National Weather Service gave it a zero out of five on the Fujita scale), it still managed to terrify 
