ARMED ROBBERY

Written by admin on December 23, 2008. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

Police are looking for a man they say robbed a Bank of America on Dec. 12. According to police, the man entered the bank, on the corner of Broadway and West 97th Street, and pulled a silver and black handgun on the teller while demanding cash. He then ran out of the bank. The robber
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LDS MEETS UWS

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

For nearly 25 minutes, Brent Belnap talked about the history of the Mormon Church in New York City, moving deftly across decades and geography. He described how the early Mormons were expelled, sometimes violently, from Upstate New York, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri before settling in what eventually became Utah. And by the time he turned
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THEY’VE HAD IT WITH HELICOPTERS

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Each weekend, writer Sam Leff hears the buzzing of helicopters flying over his house and areas of the park where he walks and bikes. One afternoon, he saw two within five minutes in the West 70s. “Particularly in the last number of months, there seems to be an extreme increase in the number of helicopters,”
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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING VISIT

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Beacon High School students celebrated their stately new library with a grand reopening last month. The teens were of course impressed with the library’s new computers, movie-viewing rooms and access to online databases. But the big draw for the students was author Frank McCourt, who spoke at the school’s weeklong literary festival in honor of
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CALL FOR PARK CONSTRUCTION

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Four West Side legislators urged parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe to start construction of a park on the Riverside South development. The project has been awaiting public funds to build a two-block underground cavity for the relocation of the southbound lane of an elevated portion of the West Side Highway. With the current economic climate and
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O’DONNELL SETS RECORD STRAIGHT ON GAY MARRIAGE

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell took umbrage with State Sen.-elect Pedro Espada Jr.’s assertion that O’Donnell agreed to hold off on pushing a gay marriage bill in the legislature. In an interview last week, Espada said the gay marriage concession would be part of a deal between the Senate Democratic conference and Espada’s three-man renegade caucus.
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WATER BACK TO NORMAL

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

For the past month, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection has been taking water from the Croton water supply to perform maintenance on the Delaware Aqueduct in preparation for repairs. During that time, customers using water from the Croton supply had discolored water, which the agency said is harmless. On Dec. 15, parts of the
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HAILING A CAB FROM THE PHONE

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Wheelchair and scooter users can now hail a wheelchair-accessible cab by dialing 311 and asking for the Accessible Dispatch System, which then finds the nearest wheelchair-accessible taxi. The fare is the same rate as every yellow taxi. To accommodate these customers, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission chose United Spinal Association to train taxi drivers
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BATHROOM GETAWAY

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A restaurant employee said she was going to the bathroom at 5 p.m. on Nov. 22 and hasn’t been seen since. The 23-year-old woman never returned to the diner where she worked, at 2567 Broadway between 96th and 97th streets. Police said that when the other employees counted register receipts that night, they discovered the
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TEENS ASSAULT CASHIER

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A 44-year-old man was assaulted by a group of teenagers inside his convenience store. Cops said that on Nov. 21 at 7:18 p.m., a large group of teens came into the store, at 101 W. 109th St. and Columbus Avenue. One asked the cashier for a philly. When the cashier requested ID, the teen allegedly
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