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Six people were exposed to a white powder in a mailed envelope at 540 E. Fordham Road on Friday, but the FDNY said it was not hazardous. A day earlier, letters addressed to Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer were intercepted.
NewYorkNews Newsroom · 3 hr agoNews 12ABC7 New YorkOffice of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 0 commentsThe bus was due at P.S. 289 in Crown Heights before 9 a.m. and arrived at about 1:25 p.m. A parent tracked her children with devices in their backpacks while the school couldn't reach the bus company.
The city approved a plan to slowly lift floors that sagged when two steel columns buckled in July at 235 E. 42nd St., the city's largest office-to-housing conversion. Work is set to begin next week.
NewYorkNews Newsroom · 3 sources · 3 hr agoThe city's health access program for uninsured New Yorkers dropped from 140,222 members to 123,124, the Mayor's Management Report shows. Officials credit Medicaid expansions but say immigrants are increasingly reluctant to hand over information.
NewYorkNews Newsroom · 3 sources · 7 hr agoTwo adults and at least five young owls have been seen on a rooftop water tank on West 75th Street near Central Park West. Birders say it may be the first recorded barn owl nest in Manhattan, and crowds now gather nightly.
NewYorkNews Newsroom · 3 sources · 7 hr agoMost of the 1.5 million households that got HEAP last winter will be paid automatically. Others can apply starting Nov. 2, and the state raised the base benefit for delivered fuels to $990 after heating oil prices jumped.
NewYorkNews Newsroom · 3 sources · 7 hr agoA cold front is expected to push a line of strong to severe thunderstorms through the city between about 6 and 9 p.m. Behind it, Saturday's highs drop into the low 50s with gusty northwest winds.
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