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Battered bulkhead spells danger for Rockaway

NYDailyNews.com Headlines

Local officials in Rockaway are pleading with Mayor Bloomberg to fix a battered bulkhead that has allowed Jamaica Bay to creep dangerously close to Beach Channel Drive. A portion of the esplanade near Beach 108th St. and Beach Channel Drive has collaps... »

City to shutter Rockaway Park charter school

NYDailyNews.com Headlines

Parents of students at a Rockaway Park charter school are in an uproar after the city announced it plans to close the elementary school in July. Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School, which state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis) helped found in 200... »

Do U TXT ND DRV?

Ossining-Croton-on-Hudson Patch

As part of a county-wide public safety education initiative, a representative from the Westchester District Attorney’s office along with an insurance company spokesman, visited Cortlandt's Walter Panas High School on Wednesday—opening the eyes of a roo... »

Westchester D.A., Police Team Up to Crack Down on Texting-While-Driving

New Rochelle Patch

Westchester County law enforcement officials took turns texting-while-driving Monday afternoon in downtown White Plains. It all took place on a simulator and far away from any real roadways, but the results were all too familiar — frequent accidents, p... »

Advocates fuel school-by-school preemptive effort on closures

GothamSchools

City Councilwoman Margaret Chin at a preemptive rally against the closure of P.S. 137. Education activists continued their preemptive assault against the city’s school closure policy today. No closure announcements have been made yet this year, but the... »

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Beach Channel Drive needs shoring up

Queens Crap

From the Daily News:Local officials in Rockaway are pleading with Mayor Bloomberg to fix a battered bulkhead that has allowed Jamaica Bay to creep dangerously close to Beach Channel Drive.A portion of the esplanade near Beach 108th St. and Beach Channe... »

Weekend work impacting 15 subway lines

Second Ave. Sagas

As Friday evening dawns, we’re on the verge of a three-day weekend. NYC Transit will operate trains on a regular weekday schedule on Monday, but the intervening pair of days, service changes abound. Subway Weekender has the map. From 12:01 a.m. Saturda... »

SOTC: Bloomberg Touts Bike-Share, Bike Lanes, Street Safety [Updated]

Streetsblog New York City

Mayor Bloomberg is presenting his penultimate State of the City address at this hour. His prepared remarks, which we’ve excerpted below, include more regarding livable streets than we’ve seen since 2008, and the most any mayor has said about bike polic... »

Qpocalypse starts as work impacts 15 subway lines

Second Ave. Sagas

For weekend straphangers, December is always a welcome month. Weekend work slows down considerably, and taking the trains on Saturday and Sunday is a decidedly humane experience. Now it’s January, and well, things are B-A-D. The MTA is conducting work ... »

Livery Cab Driver Shot Near Rockaway Park

Gothamist

A livery cab driver was shot and killed at around 7:40 a.m. this morning near Rockaway Park. Police responded to a 911 call that a man had been shot around 32nd Street and Lewmay Road, and found a 30-year-old man dead inside the driver's seat of a whit... »

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