Blog Posts in September, 2011
Posted on Sep 30, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Some students at Great Neck North High School on Long Island said they asked a college student to take an SAT test for them. By JENNY ANDERSON Published: September 29, 2011 When Samuel Eshaghoff, a ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Fixed gear bikes that have become popular in New York neighborhoods and fashion forward accessory in Brooklyn, LIC and as far west as San Fransisco are now heading overseas and are being found in ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
In effort to make New York City more "biker friendly", Mayor Bloomberg has ordered 10,000 bicycles to be distributed among 600 bike racks throughout Manhattan and some areas of Brooklyn by next ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A rise of 26 per cent in the number of accidents involving cyclists in the UK has prompted an outcry for greater awareness of the dangers of cycling amongst all road users. The Department for ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
ESCONDIDO - A 79-year-old Escondido man died Tuesday night following a bicycle accident, police said. Officers responded about 7:30 p.m. to Mission Avenue, east of Gamble Street, to a report of an ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A teenage boy riding a scooter has had a brush with death after crashing into a 15-tonne truck in central Otago. Police say the 15-year-old Alexandria boy was riding his 50cc scooter along Dunstan ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By IAN AUSTEN Published: September 24, 2011 MONTREAL - When the Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt was killed in a crash during the Giro d'Italia in May, the commemoration began immediately. Each rider ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The New York times recently published an article on the deception produced in competitve races, including bike races that compel competitiors to ride faster. Tom Boland/The Canadian Press, via ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Port Authority Not Liable in Bombing, Court Rules By BENJAMIN WEISER In a sharply divided decision, New York's highest court ruled on Thursday that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Cops Shrug Off Witnesses to Fatal Vespa/SUV Crash Aileen McKay-Dalton Despite three witnesses who say that the driver of an SUV blew through a red light and killed a Vespa-driving Fort Greene mother ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
$5 Million Payment to End Suits Over Death of 13-Year-Old Boy in State Care By DANNY HAKIM ALBANY - The State of New York has agreed to pay $5 million to settle two civil suits brought by the family ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
SOMETHING lovely and all too rare happened to Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's frequently demonized transportation commissioner, as she and I rode our bikes down Park Avenue South one morning last ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A new study claims that around 1,000 pedestrians in New York State are treated in hospital each year following collisions with cyclists, more than half of the incidents taking place in New York City ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A Guide to Nursing home and Assisted Living Facility Abuse and Neglect in New York Written by: Daniel Flanzig , Attorney licensed in New York This is a guide to help you better understand the Nursing ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A Building's Scaffolding Collapsed Onto a City Bus in Harlem This Morning Ten people were hurt in the accident, say officials. There were no life-threatening injuries, but apparently it's time to add ...
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Posted on Sep 15, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Report Finds Improved Performance by Hospitals By KEVIN SACK Published: September 14, 2011 In the latest advance for health care accountability, the country's leading hospital accreditation board, the ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
NEW YORK, NY, September 09, 2011 -- Unsecured construction site fencing that tipped over during Irene forced a bicyclist to swerve into the path of a passing car, reported The New York Daily News. ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Published: September 7, 2011 New York Times The Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit with a 21-year-old woman who said she was ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By KIM SEVERSON Published: September 6, 2011 ATLANTA - The family of a black man run down and killed in a motel parking lot in Jackson, Miss., filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Tuesday against the ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By Jay Sheppard: Like many of you on the East Coast, I've been spending my Sunday without power, thanks to Hurricane Irene . As I write this Sunday night, we're in our eighth hour without electricity. ...
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