Jenna Flanagan

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The Hudson River Park Trust is encouraging New Yorkers to drop a line into the river and see what comes up.

The Trust's annual Big City Fishing program is underway at Piers 84 and 46.

Noreen Doyle, executive director of the Park Trust, says fishing 'coaches' not ...

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Now that four suspects have been arraigned in federal court in White Plains in connection with an alleged terrorism plot against two Bronx synagogues, congregants are being advised to remain vigilant. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the union for reform Judaism, says he's also asking ...

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With a gay marriage bill now before a divided New York senate, opponents and supporters are gearing up to sway members to their side. The Empire State Pride Agenda, which advocates for same sex marriage, released a commercial today in Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo.

AD: "Our ...

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Mayor Bloomberg says he expects federal officials to confirm the presence of swine flu at P.S. 177 in Queens. The special ed school is blocks from Saint Francis Prep, the epicenter of New York City's outbreak. So far, there are 49 confirmed cases of swine ...

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Queens District Attorney Richard Brown is praising Senator Chuck Schumer for his mortgage fraud bill. The measure would allocate $100 million to help district attorneys crack down on unscrupulous mortgage lenders.

BROWN: It's gonna allow local prosecutors like myself and my colleagues to more effectively prosecute ...

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A Yankees fan who claims 'nature called' during the 7th inning stretch singing of God Bless America, was ejected from the stadium by two police officer for trying to leave his seat. Chris Dunn with the NYCLU has taken up the case, and says police ...

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The city placed nearly 5,000 New Yorkers in jobs during the first three months of 2009, a 23 percent increase compared to the same time period in 2008. Mayor Bloomberg says the success of what's known as the Workforce One Career Centers has put the ...

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Straphangers get ready. Plummeting tax revenue and gridlock in Albany may force the MTA to impose even more service cuts and higher fare hikes to make ends meet. Mayor Bloomberg says if the state senate doesn't support the rescue plan passed by the governor and ...

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Mayor Bloomberg has been pushing New York to become a greener city. He's instituted a one million tree planting program, required municipal buildings to become more energy efficient and today was on hand for the announcement that the Brooklyn Navy Yards would be partly powered ...

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Mayor Bloomberg shot back at union leaders who have criticized him for proposing more layoffs. He says he won't have to lay off 7,000 city workers if unions agree to contribute toward health care costs, and to create a new, cheaper pension tier for new ...

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Now that Iowa and Vermont have done it, Governor Paterson says he's ready to put forth a measure to legalize same-sex marriage, even if the legislature doesn't appear ready to pass it.

PATERSON: Let the legislation go up or down based on whether people like it ...

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How polluted is the Gowanus Canal? The federal Environmental Protection Agency wants to find out. It's proposing putting the industrial waterway in Brooklyn on its Superfund site. Councilman David Yassky, whose district includes the nearly two-mile long canal, says this is good news.

YASSKY: The Gowanus ...

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Non-smoking New Yorkers are more likely to be exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke than those in the rest of the nation. The city's health department found 57 percent had a nicotine by-product in their blood, indicating exposure to second-hand smoke. That's compared to 45 percent ...

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Governor Paterson says he and other government leaders continue to struggle over his proposed $120-billion budget. Along with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, Paterson said crucial issues like health care cuts, property tax rebates and how to apply stimulus money ...

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The federal government has allocated $1.3 billion of stimulus money to Amtrak for capital improvements to cut down travel time and increase arrival accuracy. Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole says ticket prices will stay the same, because the funds will be dedicated to rail system upgrades.

It ...

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Other billionaires may have taken a hit during this recession, but not Mayor Bloomberg. According to Forbes Magazine's survey of the world's wealthiest, Bloomberg's fortunes blossomed while others wilted. The magazine's annual list of billionaires ranks Bloomberg number 17 in the world with $16 billion. ...

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Governor Paterson says he's meeting with state lawmakers today to discuss what shovel-ready programs should get federal stimulus funds.

Paterson says republicans who continue to criticize the stimulus package as wasteful spending are missing some historical context. He says stimulus plans have worked in countries like ...

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New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese is getting another Irish-Catholic leader. The pope has tapped 59-year-old Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee, to replace 76-year-old Cardinal Edward Egan, who's retiring. Dolan's selection continues a chain of Irish-American bishops that was broken only once in the history of ...

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A huge excavating machine was lowered into a tunnel on the Far West Side today where it will eventually start cutting an extension for the Number Seven subway line.

Mayor Bloomberg says, even in a down economy, the two billion dollar project was a good investment ...

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New York Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal says some of the city's biggest retailers are not properly labeling their garments, and consumers may be unwittingly buying real fur they think is fake, or vice versa.

A state law requires all fur items to be clearly identified. Rosenthal says ...