http://1010wins.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:30:10 EDT en-us New York City says a $68 million effort to modernize its water meters will help save money and water by flagging leaks fast. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:14:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2467914 Drug addicts, gamblers and alcoholics trying to kick their habits in treatment facilities won't be allowed to use tobacco under a new regulation that goes into effect across New York state this week. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:46:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2461151 Former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has been hired as chief executive of CMA Consulting Services, which provides computer programming and information technology to the state and other clients. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:59:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2460585 Serbia's foreign minister says it won't extradite a Serb student wanted in New York on assault charges. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:12:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2454628 A New York City crane inspector has resigned a month after he was suspended for neglect of duty. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:44:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2454432 One person has died and two people were injured in accident involving a motorcycle and a car near the Staten Island ferry, on the Manhattan side, Monday afternoon. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2454131 An autopsy has failed to determine what caused the death of a 32-year-old Argentine athlete during the swimming leg of the New York City Triathlon. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:54:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2454071 Law enforcement authorities have collected 697 weapons and handed out more than $132,000 as part of a guns-for-money exchange in Brooklyn. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:39:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2454015 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:59:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2453868 A Broadway mogul whose actress wife trashes him in a widely viewed Internet video has been granted a divorce from her. A Manhattan judge granted Philip Smith a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on Monday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:41:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2453731 Jeremy Shockey was traded to the Saints for two draft picks Monday, giving New Orleans a disgruntled star tight end who watched from the sideline while injured as the New York Giants surged to the Super Bowl title.<br /> <a href="http://player.play.it/player/player.html?v=3.11.85&amp;id=90&amp;onestat=wins">LISTEN NOW to 1010 WINS</a> Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:29:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2453339 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has notified Comcast Corp. that the state will take legal action against the media company if it doesn't agree to eliminate access to child pornography through its Internet service. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:46:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2453128 Another child was struck by a hit and run driver in Brooklyn on Saturday, and police have a 41-year-old Brooklyn man in custody. Police say a 9-year-old Brooklyn girl is in critical condition after a tan Nissan Maxima slammed into her just before 9 p.m. Saturday. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:35:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2447615 A 32-year-old man has died during the New York City triathlon. It's the first death in the event's eight-year history. Race director Bill Burke says other competitors alerted medical personnel during the 1,500-meter swim in the Hudson River on Sunday morning and the man was unconscious when he was pulled from the water. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:46:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2447622 The Latin food vendors are back. Six vendors, after months of trying to meet health department regulations and coming up with thousands of dollars to buy food trucks and equipment, have returned the Red Hook Park in Brooklyn. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:54:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2447571 The Metropolitan Transit Authority is jumping on the technology train. The MTA is planning to start a program in September for riders to get system alerts about service problems via text messages or emails. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:03:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2447496 Parents, plaintiffs and grandparents call on the city to begin testing all materials installed in playgrounds to avoid children getting burned. Each year more than a dozen children are treated Ianthe city's three burn centers due to injuries caused by playground equipment that reach dangerous temperatures. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:43:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2447448 Several big fast food chains say they have finally begun obeying a new rule requiring some New York City restaurants to post calorie counts right on the menu. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:39:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2442002 A New York agency is one step closer to forcing some property owners near Columbia University to give up their land after approving a $6.2 billion expansion. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:05:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2441639 Police say a knife-wielding man who refused to drop his weapon has been fatally shot by an NYPD officer. The shooting happened Thursday night on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:20:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2440892 Mayor Michael Bloomberg is planning to host a party for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to ease her transition back from the presidential campaign trail, where she waged a tough fight for the Democratic nomination. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:04:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2436526 When longtime Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno retires this week from the Senate seat he's held since 1976, he could land a job with a friend whose business grew fast in recent years with the help of millions of dollars in state contracts, according to two Republicans close to Bruno. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:17:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2430550 A New York City report issues dozens of new recommendations to improve fire safety at construction sites nearly a year after a deadly skyscraper blaze killed two firefighters. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:52:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2430066 The Coast Guard says it has detained a cruise ship in New York Harbor after a safety inspection found significant hull damage. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:18:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2429333 A pit bull is fighting for his life, after being bitten by a rattlesnake in the Bronx Tuesday. Miguel Mota, the dog's owner, was walking the male pit bull, named &quot;Stone,&quot; in a public park near the Bronx Zoo at Boston Road and Bronx Park East when the dog went into the bushes and yelped. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:23:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2428754 The New York Police Department has restored to full duty an officer who failed a sobriety test after shooting an armed suspect while he was off the clock. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:33:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2428579 Three major auto manufacturers are promising to reserve 300 new hybrid vehicles each month exclusively for New York City as it replaces its entire fleet of yellow cabs. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:14:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2428487 In 1965 the Beatles played the first concert at Shea Stadium. In 2008, Billy Joel who was inspired by the Beatles, will play the final musical concert at the world famous stadium. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:40:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2428142 More than 50 New York City sanitation department workers have been suspended for using the department's trucks to collect and sell scrap metal for their own profit. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:57:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2428017 Police are seeking the publics help in locating three men who allegedly robbed a Staten Island home and raped one of the residents. Three men reportedly entered the Port Richmond home about 5:30 a.m. Sunday at 90 Park Avenue. Carrying a gun, the suspects demanded money from two men, ages 52 and 42 and a 48-year-old woman, police said.<br /> <b><a href="http://player.cbsradio.com/player/CBSRadio_Player.html?id=90&amp;onestat=wins">LISTEN NOW to 1010 WINS</a></b> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:40:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2427938 An off-duty housing officer was stabbed early Wednesday morning in Chelsea.&nbsp; The officer was leaving a club on West 27th Street near 10th Avenue around 3 a.m. when he and his girlfriend were approached by three men, police said. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:50:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2427723 Actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have said they oppose a huge hospital development in Manhattan's historic Greenwich Village. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:27:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2427621 A man claims that he was nearly cut when he found a knife baked into the bun of a cold-cut 12-inch sandwich he bought at a Subway restaurant in New York City. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:20:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2427561 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering a new way of gauging poverty in the United States. Bloomberg planned to discuss the city's alternative to the current federal poverty measure in a speech Sunday evening at the National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People's national convention in Cincinnati. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:33:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2410551 The crack of a bat is the sweetest sound in the world to some baseball fans living in the Bronx neighborhood that hugs Yankee Stadium. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:31:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2410234 Federal Aviation Administration officials say two airborne planes came within 600 feet of colliding at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It was the second incident of its kind in a week. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:54:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2406402 A former New York City medical examiner's office worker has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars earmarked to identify victims of the Sept. 11, 2001&nbsp;terrorist attacks. Natarjan Venkataram was sentenced Friday infederal court in Manhattan. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:35:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2406370 A plan to build a new train tunnel into New York City just got a funding boost.&nbsp; New Jersey Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez have secured $75 million in appropriations for the project, dubbed Access to the Region's Core. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:29:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2406341 A gospel singer critically injured in a Pennsylvania highway crash has not been told of his wife's death.&nbsp; A son of the Rev. Timothy Wright says his 61-year-old father is alert and recognizes him. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:08:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2406269 The medical examiner says a woman who died unnoticed on a Brooklyn hospital floor was killed by blood clots caused by a long period of physical inactivity. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:37:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2406195 Art can be hazardous. Two kayakers reportedly found themselves in distress in the east river today after getting a little too close to the 'Waterfalls' art display at the Brooklyn Bridge. They apparently got sucked in by the turbines that recycle the water.<br /> <a href="http://player.cbsradio.com/player/CBSRadio_Player.html?id=90&amp;onestat=wins"><b>LISTEN NOW to 1010 WINS</b></a> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:15:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2406128 The Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired a series of three paintings by Jasper Johns, which had been in the artist's private collection. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:21:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2405619 The entity overseeing the design and construction of the 5-mile Hudson River Park in New York City is seeking design proposals for one of the last piers still available for development. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:49:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2405466 A 27-year-old bicyclist has died after being struck by a car in New York City.&nbsp; Police say Pedro Fernandez-Pacheco , who lived in Brooklyn, was hit by a 1998 Ford sedan Thursday at the intersection of 54th Street and Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:13:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2404979 One man is dead and a woman is in critical condition after what police are calling an attempted murder-suicide. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:16:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2404763 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2404072 Apple Inc.'s new iPhone went on sale Friday to eager buyers worldwide, but there were problems getting the phones to work, including in New York. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:56:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2404548 The rising cost of a cigarette pack is getting more New Yorkers to seek help to quit smoking. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:37:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2397795 Johnny Damon was very careful as he got dressed to leave the ballpark Saturday, wincing from the pain in his left shoulder as he pulled a shirt over his head. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:46:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2371025 The New York Philharmonic has canceled its first-ever concert on Governors Island because of bad weather.&nbsp;Saturday's free concert won't be rescheduled. It was to have been the orchestra's first outing to the former military base in New York Harbor. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:27:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2371005 Police say a teenager and a man in his 20s were pulled from the Delaware River after drownings only hours and 22 miles apart near the Pennsylvania state line. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:24:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2371004 Delaware state police say two stolen truck trailers have been recovered in New York City, minus their loads of bananas. The trailers were full of the fruit when they disappeared from the Port of Wilmington, in Delaware. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:11:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2370994 It was many and many a year ago in a cottage in the Bronx when Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote some of his classic pieces. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:44:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2370976 A Queens driver has been arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges after crashing into a storefront, killing two of his passengers. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:33:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2370971 Jones Beach has been evacuated on a holiday weekend after state parks officials said unexploded July Fourth fireworks washed up on the popular beach. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:27:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2370968 Police say one man has died and two others are wounded after they were stabbed during a dispute in Brooklyn. The violence happened at 2:20 a.m. Saturday at Ashford and Liberty streets in the East New York section. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:24:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2370872 For the third time in as many days, someone has died in a pool in our area. Police say an 8-year-old boy who drowned at a Fourth of July party in Flushing, Queens may have had a seizure while swimming. On Thursday, a Long Island nanny died while saving a 3-year-old boy who slipped into a pool in Syosset. A 2-year old drowned in a pool in Central Islip on Wednesday night. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:14:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2370100 A Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Lower Manhattan apartment building Saturday.&nbsp;Police are still investigating what appears to be the apparent suicide of Ruslana Korshunova, who&nbsp;plunged off a building on Water Street. The almond-eyed beauty,&nbsp;originally from Kazakhstan,&nbsp;had been&nbsp;hailed as &quot;a face to be excited about&quot; in 2005. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:26:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2336071 A 15-year-old boy has been shot to death in Manhattan, the third teenager killed in New York City in four days.&nbsp;Police officers responding to a 911 call early Sunday discovered the 15-year-old on a street corner with a gunshot wound to his torso. Police say he was pronounced dead about 15 minutes later. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:15:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2336056 New York City Transit wants to catch graffiti artists in the act -- and on camera. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:15:00 EDT http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=1966015