Link Between OWS Protest and Unsolved 2004 Murder is Result of Lab Mistake (Updated)

Written by NYPress on July 11, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized

UPDATE: It turns out that the only connection between the DNA sample lifted from a subway gate at a recent Occupy Wall Street protest and DNA collected in the unsolved 2004 murder of Juilliard student Sarah Fox was an NYPD lab worker who processed both, the Daily News reported Wednesday. The matching DNA was found
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Renovated 96th Street Station Open to Straphangers

Written by admin on April 7, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

“I got a monthly. Here I go,” said State Sen. Bill Perkins, pulling his MetroCard out of his wallet inside the new expansion of the West 96th Street station. Straphangers wiggled through a throng of MTA officials, elected representatives and press to access the new 96th Street station house—an above-ground entrance to the No. 1,
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Subway Creep Arrested

Written by admin on August 19, 2009. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

Thanks to a woman armed with a cell phone camera, police arrested a man who was captured on camera masturbating on a train. On Aug. 13, two anti-crime officers recognized Kevin Bishop, 44, from a wanted poster when he entered the subway station at 163rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. The Bronx man was arrested
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