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2001
Apr 26, A group led by Larry Silverstein, a NYC
developer, and Westfield America Inc., signed a 99-year lease on the
11-million square-foot WTC complex from the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.B1)
2001 Jun 17, In NYC a 5-alarm fire
at a hardware store in Queens killed 3 firefighters and in-jured dozens
of others.
(SFC, 6/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 11, In NYC the city and
police union made a tentative agreement to pay $9 million to settle a
suit by Abner Louima over his 1997 police beating.
(WSJ, 7/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 24, Larry Silverstein
signed a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease for the NYC World Trade
Center (WTC).
(WSJ, 4/30/04, p.A11)
2001 Jul 30, Former Pres. Clinton
opened his new office in Harlem.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 4, In NYC police officer
Joseph Gray (40) ran over Maria Herrera (24), her son Andy and her
sister (16). A baby boy was delivered by c-section but did not survive.
Gray had been drinking with fellow officers at a strip club and was
later charged with manslaughter for killing the family while driving
drunk on his way to work. 17 cops at the 72nd precinct were soon
disciplined transferred or suspended. Gray was convicted of
manslaughter in 2002 and sen-tenced to five to 15 years in prison. Ms.
Herrera's husband, Victor, and his mother-in-law, Maria Peña,
later filed lawsuits. The city settled the civil lawsuit for $1.5
million.
(www.courttv.com/trials/gray_joseph/chronology.html)(AP,
8/5/02)(http://tinyurl.com/5oa8lz)
2001 Aug 23, Thierry Devaux (41),
a French stuntman, got snagged on the Statue of Liberty arm while
trying to land there using a motor-driven parachute. He was rescued and
arrested.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A3)(AP, 8/23/02)
2001 Sep 11, 8:45 a.m. American
Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 92 people, crashed into the
North tower of the World Trade Center in NYC. It was enroute from
Boston to LA.
9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767
carrying 65 people, crashed into the South Tower of the WTC. It was
enroute from Boston to LA.
9:38 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757
carrying 64 people, crashed into the Pen-tagon in Arlington, Va. It was
enroute from Washington DC to LA.
9:40 a.m. The FAA grounded all domestic flights and
ordered all airborne craft to land immedi-ately.
10:00 a.m. The South Tower of the WTC collapsed.
10:10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757
carrying 45 people, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh. The plane had left
Newark for SF but was believed to be directed by hijackers to Camp
David. Passengers appeared to have overcome the hijackers.
10:29 a.m. The North Tower of the WTC collapsed.
5:25 p.m. Building 7 of the WTC complex collapsed.
Four groups of terrorists used knives, hi-jacked 4 airplanes, and were
suspected to be linked to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organiza-tion and
appeared to be a franchise operation.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6,10,12)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/6/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 11, World leaders
expressed outrage at terrorist attacks in NYC and the Pentagon and
pledged solidarity with the US. In the West Bank town of Nablus, some
3,000 people cele-brated the attacks and chanted "God is great." Later
the estimates of the WTC dead dropped to 4,396. In 2004 the count was
reduced to 2,749.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/21/01, p.A2)(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)(WSJ, 1/26/04,
p.A1)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1M4eH9Kk7I)
2001 Sep 11, Rick Rescorla,
security chief at MS, evacuated 2,700 Morgan Stanley employ-ees from
the WTC and was killed trying to save others. In 2002 James B. Stewart
authored "Heart of a Soldier," a biography of Rescorla.
(WSJ, 9/11/02, p.D10)
2001 Re: Sep 11, In 2005 NYC said
it was unable to identify the remains of 1,161 of the 2,749 people
killed in the Sep 11 attacks.
(WSJ, 2/24/05, p.A1)
2001 Sep 11, Peter Alderman (25)
was among those murdered by terrorists while attending a conference at
the World Trade Center. His parents later established the Peter C.
Alderman Foundation in his name to alleviate the suffering of victims
of terrorism and mass violence in post-conflict countries by providing
physicians and other indigenous caregivers with the tools to treat
mental anguish using Western medical therapies combined with local
healing traditions.
(www.petercaldermanfoundation.org/about/index.html)
2001 Sep 13, "Urinetown" was
scheduled to open on Broadway. It was written by Greg Kotis and Mark
Hollman and closed Jan 18, 2004 after 965 performances.
(SFC, 7/3/03, p.E1)(SFC, 11/4/03, p.D6)
2001 Sep 23, The NYC missing # was
raised to 6,453 with 252 accounted dead. On Nov 20 the official count
was reduced to just below 3,900. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A3)(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A2)(SFC,
12/20/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 3, In NYC Nathan Powell
killed and dismembered Jawed Wassel, an Afghan émigré and
filmmaker. Powell claimed anger over the Sep 11 attacks and pleaded
guilty in 2003.
(SFC, 6/5/03, p.A3)
2001 Oct 4, NYC officials
estimated that the Sep 11 disaster would cost as much as $105 bil-lion
over the next 2 years. Depending on the number of jobs permanently
shifted out of the city, the September 11th attacks could cost New York
City as much as $83-95 billion dollars, though the financial loss could
never compare to the horrendous loss of nearly 3,000 lives.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A15)(HNQ, 9/11/02)
2001 Oct 7, A scheduled peace
demonstration in NYC drew some 10,000 people. Anti-war demonstrations
in SF and Chicago drew some 1,000 each.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 8, NYC celebrated its
57th annual Columbus Day Parade.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 11, Mayor Giuliani
rejected a $10 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
due to an attached press release that said the US should re-examine its
policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the
Palestinian cause.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 24, In NYC 14-story
scaffolding collapsed in a courtyard behind 215 Park Ave S. and at
least 5 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 25, The Broadway musical
"Thou Shalt Not" premiered. It was based on the 1867 novel by Emile
Zola (27): "Theresa Raquin."
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Oct 29, A hospital worker in
NY and a woman who handled mail in New Jersey were found to have
anthrax. Since Oct 4 a total of 37 people have tested positive for
exposure and 15 have contracted the disease.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 31, Kathy Nguyen (61), a
NYC hospital worker, died of anthrax. The source of infec-tion remained
a mystery.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, Anthrax spores were
found in 4 mailrooms in Rockville, Md., a postal facility in Kansas
City, 3 new locations in a Manhattan processing center and a 6th postal
facility in Flor-ida.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 2, A 17th case of anthrax
was reported in a NY Post employee.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, NYC firefighters and
police engaged in a scuffle as firefighters protested a limit to the
number of firefighters working to retrieve their dead at the WTC
disaster site.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, Estimated of the WTC
dead dropped to 4,396. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 4, Tesfaye Jifar of
Ethiopia won the NYC Marathon in record time, 2:07:43. Marga-ret Okayo
of Kenya set a woman’s record of 2:24:21.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, Michael Bloomberg,
self-made billionaire, was elected as the NYC’s 108th mayor. He spent
$69 million on his self-financed campaign. He soon introduced “311,” a
form of centralized customer service for the city.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)(Econ,
2/19/05, Survey p.11)
2001 Nov 12, American Airlines
Flight 587, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed in Belle Harbor
in the Far Rockaway district of Queens just after takeoff from JFK
Airport. All 260 crew and passengers were killed as well as 5 people on
the ground. The A300-600 plane ap-peared to have fallen apart. The
vertical tail section cracked off when composite fittings failed
possibly due to turbulence from a preceding 747. In 2004 a safety board
said the pilot’s “unnec-essary and excessive“ use of the rudder
contributed to the crash.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A19)(SFC,
10/27/04, p.A3)(AP, 11/12/05)
2001 Dec 15, With a crash and a
large dust cloud, a 50-foot tall section of steel, the last standing
piece of the World Trade Center's facade, was brought down in New York.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 18, A fire at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the world’s largest Gothic
cathe-dral, damaged 2 of 6 17th century Barberini tapestries.
(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, The Sep 11 WTC death
toll was reduced to 3,000. In 2002 a revised tally put the total dead
at 2,795. In 2003 the count was reduced to 2,752.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/9/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)
2001 Dec 19, The fires that had
burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for
the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few
scattered hot spots.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2001 Dec 23, Time magazine named
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as Person of the Year.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 27, A van lurched out of
control in Herald Square at 34th ST. and 6th Ave. and killed 6
pedestrians. A 7th died the next day.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 30, A viewing platform
opened over ground zero of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A9)
2001 Dec 31, New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani spent his final day in office praising po-lice,
firefighters, and other city employees, and said he had no regrets
about returning to private life. In 2005 Fred and Harry Siegel authored
“Prince of the City,” an account of the Giuliani’s years as mayor of
NYC.
(AP, 12/31/02)(WSJ, 6/23/05, p.D8)
2001 New York City was supposed to
close its only landfill in this year.
(SFC, 10/12/97, p.A2)
2001 Eric H. Monkkonen authored
"Murder in New York City," a historical look at murder in NYC.
(WSJ, 3/20/00, p.A20)
2001 Martin Tytell (d.2008 at 94),
master of typewriter technology, closed his shop in Manhat-tan after 65
years in business. During WWII he turned Siamese keyboards into 17
other Asian languages.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.106)
2002 Jan 1, Michael Bloomberg
succeeded Rudolph Giuliani as New York City's mayor.
(AP, 1/1/03)
2002 Jan 31, Some 2,500
participants met at the 31st World Economic Forum in NYC at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 2, The Bush
administration approved a $700 million grant to help rebuild lower
Man-hattan devastated by the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A13)
2002 Feb 2, In NYC protesters of
the World Economic Forum turned out in large numbers. Inside Bill Gates
and U2 rock star Bono pushed for increases in foreign aid by rich
countries to poor countries.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Feb 12, Ronald Popadich of
New Jersey struck 19 pedestrians at 6 spots along Seventh Ave. near
Madison Square Garden and one died 2 days later. He struck 7 more
people Feb 13. He shot his girlfriend, Lisa Gotkin Feb 10, and a cab
driver on Feb 13.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 25, After a 35-year plot
to accept bribes and cheat the city out of tax revenues, 16 tax
assessors were arrested and charged with altering values of over 500
properties worth some $8 billion.
(SFC, 2/26/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 17, After nearly a year's
run, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick left the Broadway hit musical
"The Producers." They later returned for a limited engagement.
(AP, 3/17/07)
2002 Apr 1, Pres. Bush said he
would sell Governor’s Island in NY Harbor to NY state and NYC for a
nominal charge.
(SFC, 4/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Apr 2, The 1848 Turgenev
comedy: "A Poor Gentleman," opened at Broadway’s Music Box as
"Fortune’s Fool."
(WSJ, 4/3/02, p.A20)
2002 Apr 16, The new New York Sun
newspaper was launched by investors led by Canadian Conrad Black. The
previous NY Sun ran from 1833-1950.
(SFC, 4/17/02, p.A2)
2002 Apr 25, In NYC dozens were
injured in an explosion at a building on W. 19th St. Indus-trial
chemicals were suspected.
(SFC, 4/26/02, p.A3)
2002 May 21, The NYC MOMA opened
for a last day prior to closing for a $500 million reno-vation to be
completed in 2005. A temporary home was set to open Jun 29 at a former
staple factory in Queens.
(SFC, 5/24/02, p.D15)
2002 May 30, In NYC a solemn,
wordless ceremony was held to mark the end of the cleanup at the World
Trade Center site.
(SFC, 5/31/02, p.A1)(AP, 5/30/03)
2002 Jun 4, A crime sweep arrested
17 alleged members of the Gambino family with charges that included
extortion.
(SFC, 6/5/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 10, John Gotti (b.1940),
former mob boss, died at age 61 of cancer in a prison hos-pital in
Missouri.
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A2)
2002 Aug 1, In NYC the alleged
ringleader of a massive identity theft operation was indicted along
with 3 associates.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A6)
2002 Aug 15, In NYC WNEW-FM radio
shock jocks Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia aired an eyewitness account
of a couple having sex in the vestibule of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Their show was cancelled Aug 23.
(SFC, 8/24/02, p.D4)
2002 Sep, The Museum of Sex opened
at 27th and Fifth. Its 1st show was titled: NYC Sex: How New York
Transformed Sex in America."
(WSJ, 10/22/02, p.D8)
2002 Oct 30, DJ Jam Master Jay,
rap artist, was shot to death in Queens, NYC.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 3, The NYC Marathon was
won by Rodgers Rop of Kenya in 2:08:06; Joyce Chep-chumba of Kenya won
the women's title in 2:25:55.
(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 30, It was reported that
NYC estimated 37,000 homeless.
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.A4)
2002 Dec 19, After a prosecutor
cited new DNA evidence, a judge in New York threw out the convictions
of five young men in a 1989 attack on a Central Park jogger who had
been raped and left for dead.
(AP, 12/19/03)
2002 Lynne B. Sagalyn authored
"Times Square Roulette," an examination of the transforma-tion of Times
Square.
(WSJ, 2/20/02, p.A20)
2002 Julia Solis authored “New
York Underground: The Anatomy of a City.” It was 1st pub-lished in
German. An English version was made in 2004.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.M1)
2002 The 1st Int’l. knitting
contest was held in NYC. The winner managed 180 stitches in 3 minutes.
(WSJ, 2/28/05, p.A1)
2002 Mayor Michael Bloomberg took
charge of NYC’s school system. He soon opened 15 small high schools. In
2003 he got money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help
open 169 more.
(Econ, 1/20/07, p.41)
2003 Feb 8-Mar 20, Larme Price
(30) killed 4 immigrants in 4 different all-night stores in Brooklyn
and Queens.
(SFC, 4/1/03, p.A8)
2003 Feb 21, An explosion
rocked a Mobil oil refinery on the edge of Staten Island and 2 workers
were killed.
(AP, 2/21/03)
2003 Feb 26, NYC chose an
airy spire, designed by Daniel Libeskind, for the site of the for-mer
World Trade Center destroyed on 9/11/2001. The spire would be taller
than any other building in the world at a height of 1,776 feet.
(AP, 2/27/03)
2003 Mar 7, In NYC most of
Broadway went dark as actors supported a strike by theater mu-sicians.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A3)
2003 Mar 10, In NYC 2
undercover police officers were killed during an undercover gun buy on
Staten Island. 3 people were arrested the next day. Ronell Wilson
climbed into the back seat of an unmarked police car on the pretense of
selling an illegal gun. He shot officers Rodney Andrews and James
Nemorin in the head. In 2007 Wilson (24) was convicted and sentenced to
death. Wilson was one of seven people arrested in his case; the other
six pleaded guilty to vari-ous charges.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A6)(AP, 1/31/07)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers to
end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7, agreeing to a
smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 May 10, The New York Times
announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jay-son Blair, had
"committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud," according to an
investigation con-ducted by the paper.
(AP, 5/10/04)
2003 Jun 5, In NYC Howell Raines,
NY Times executive editor, resigned along with Gerald M. Boyd, managing
editor, due to their handling of inaccurate stories by recently
released reporter Jason Blair.
(WSJ, 6/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, New York City
Councilman James Davis (41) was shot to death by political rival
Othniel Askew (31) at City Hall; a police officer shot and killed Askew.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2003 Sep 8, In NYC Harvey Milk
High School for gay, bisexual and transgender kids opened in Greenwich
Village. It was named after the San Francisco supervisor killed
in 1978.
(SFC, 9/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 9, The WSJ disclosed that
Dick Grasso, Chairman of the NYSE, had a retirement package close to
$140 million along with entitlements to an additional $48 million. His
2001 pay exceeded $30 million with a base pay of $1.4 million. Grasso
soon decided to forego the $48 million undisclosed compensation.
(WSJ, 9/11/03, p.C1)(WSJ, 5/25/04, p.C1)
2003 Sep 17, Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates said his foundation would donate $51 million to create 67
small high schools in NYC. It was part of a larger plan by the city to
create 200 small high schools to replace struggling large ones.
(SFC, 9/18/03, p.A3)
2003 Oct 18, Wynton Marsalis was
scheduled to help inaugurate the new $128 million Freder-ick P. Rose
Hall at Manhattan's Columbus Circle.
(SFC, 10/14/03, p.D4)
2003 Oct 15, A Staten Island ferry
pilot lost consciousness before the vessel slammed into a pier, killing
at least 10 people and injuring 42, including 3 who lost limbs. Pilot
Richard J. Smith fled the scene and attempted suicide. Smith later
pleaded guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter. In 2006 Smith was
sentenced to 18 months in jail. Patrick Ryan, the ex-ferry director
received a one year sentence.
(AP, 10/16/03)(SFC, 10/16/03, p.A1)(AP,
10/15/04)(SFC, 1/10/06, p.A5)
2003 Nov 2, The NYC Marathon was
won by Martin Lel of Kenya in 2:10:30; Margaret Okayo of Kenya won the
women's title in 2:22:31, a course record.
(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2003 Nov 15, Laurence Tisch (80),
NY billionaire, died at NYU Medical Center. He and his brother Preston
Robert gained control of Loews movie house chain in 1960 and developed
the business into a conglomerate of hotels, insurance, cigarette
manufacturers, movie theaters, oil tankers and watch making that served
as a vehicle for other investments.
(SSFC, 11/16/03, p.A29)
2003 Dec 19, New plans revealed
that the signature NYC skyscraper at the World Trade Cen-ter site will
be a 1,776-foot glass tower that twists into the sky, topped by
energy-generating windmills and a spire that evokes the Statue of
Liberty. The plan was produced after months of contentious negotiations
between Daniel Libeskind, who designed the overall five-building site
plan, and David Childs, the lead architect for the Freedom Tower.
(AP, 12/20/03)(SFC, 12/20/03, p.A1)
2004 Jan 10, Spalding Gray, morose
humorist, disappeared in NYC. His body was found in the East River in
March.
(SFC, 2/09/04, p.A2)
2004 Feb 10, NYC said nearly 4% of
men age 40-49 in the city have AIDS or are infected with HIV.
(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.A1)
2004 May 3, A NYC court found
financier Frank Quattrone (48) guilty on 3 counts of obstruc-tion of
justice and witness tampering. On Aug 22, 2006, a NY judge approved a
settlement that would allow him to avoid another trial and return to
the securities industry.
(SFC, 5/4/04, p.A1)(Econ, 8/26/06, p.56)
2004 May 24, NY Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer sued the NY Stock Exchange, former ex-change chairman
Dick Grasso and an executive who headed its compensation committee.
Spitzer wanted Grasso to return $100 million of the $200 million plus
that the NY Exchange gave or promised to Grasso.
(WSJ, 5/25/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 6, In the 58th annual
Tony Awards “Avenue Q” won for best Broadway musical.
(SFC, 6/7/04, D1)
2004 Jul 4, In NYC a 20-ton slab
of granite, inscribed to honor "the enduring spirit of free-dom," was
laid at the World Trade Center site as the cornerstone of the
skyscraper that will re-place the destroyed towers.
(AP, 7/4/04)
2004 Jul 4, In NYC Takeru "The
Tsunami" Kobayashi chewed up the competition at the Na-than's Famous
hot dog eating competition, breaking his own previous world record.
Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, gulped down 53 1/2 wieners in 12 minutes
and shattered his own world re-cord by three dogs. 105-pound Sonya "The
Black Widow" Thomas, 36, of Alexandria, Va., ate more hot dogs (32)
than any other woman and any other American in the contest's history.
(AP, 7/4/04)
2004 Jul 27, NYC Mayor Michael
Bloomberg visited a slum in Haiti and met interim leaders.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jul 30, In NYC Joseph
Massino, a Bonanno crime boss, was convicted of orchestrating murder,
racketeering, arson and extortion over the last 25 years.
(SFC, 7/31/04, p.A2)
2004 Aug 4, Richard Smith, a
Staten Island ferry pilot, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in a
crash that killed 11 commuters in the October 15, 2003, wreck of the
Andrew J. Barberi Staten Island ferry, acknowledging that he'd passed
out at the helm after arriving at work with medication in his system.
(AP, 8/4/05)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Staten_Island_Ferry_crash)
2004 Aug 5, Patrick Ryan (52), New
York City's director of ferries, pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of
manslaughter in the October 15, 2003, wreck of the Andrew J. Barberi
Staten Island ferry. Ryan later pleaded guilty to negligent
manslaughter.
(AP,
8/5/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Staten_Island_Ferry_crash)
2004 Aug 27, Thousands of cyclists
snarled traffic in NYC and police said they arrested more than 250
people and confiscated their bicycles in the first significant protest
against President Bush before the Republican convention.
(Reuters, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 29, Tens of thousands of
demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan to protest
President Bush's foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates
gathered to nominate the president for a second term. Organizers
estimated up to 400,000 participants.
(AP, 8/29/04)(SFC, 8/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 30, Republicans opened
their convention in NYC with speeches by Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. John
McCain. They belittled Democratic Senator John Kerry as a
shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House and lavished
praise on Pres. Bush as a steady, deci-sive leader. Pres. Bush ignited
a Democratic inferno of criticism by suggesting on NBC's "To-day" show
that an all-out victory against terrorism might not be possible.
(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A1)(AP, 8/30/05)
2004 Aug 31, Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Laura Bush spoke on the 2nd night of the Republi-can Convention in
NYC as police arrested nearly 1,000 demonstrators.
(AP, 8/31/04)
2004 Sep 1, VP Cheney and Democrat
Zell Miller were featured as prime-time speakers at the Republican
Convention in NYC.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 11, Songwriter Fred Ebb
(76) died of a heart attack in NYC. His songs included “New York, New
York,” written for the 1977 film of the same name.
(SFC, 9/13/04, p.B4)
2004 Oct 23, Robert Merrill (87),
NY Metropolitan Opera star, died in NYC.
(SFC, 10/26/04, p.A2)
2004 Nov 7, The NYC Marathon was
won by Hendrik Ramaala of South Africa in 2:09:28; Paula Radcliffe won
the women's title in 2:23:10.
(WSJ, 11/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 20, The new NYC MOMA
opened in midtown Manhattan. Its new tower was de-signed by Yoshio
Taniguchi.
(Econ, 11/20/04, p.85)
2004 Nov 20, Juan Rodriguez (49)
of NYC, a Colombian immigrant and parking garage worker, won the $149
million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. He chose to take a single
payment of $88.5 million before taxes.
(USAT, 11/21/04, p.3A)
2004 Nov 26, In NYC a man jumped
to his death from the 86th-floor observation deck at the Empire State
Building.
(AP, 11/27/04)
2004 Dec 20, Jack Newfield (66),
NYC reporter and columnist, died. His books included “Robert Kennedy: A
Memoir” (1969).
(SFC, 12/22/04, p.B5)
2004 The $1.7 billion Time Warner
Center in NYC was completed. It measured 2.8 million square feet.
(SSFC, 8/8/04, p.J1)
2005 Feb 11, In NYC ceremonies
marked the completion of the 46-story Hearst headquarters building on
8th Ave. between 56th and 57th streets. It was built over Hearst’s
original 1927 6-story, Art Deco structure.
(SFC, 2/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Feb 12, Christo and
Jeanne-Claude opened their NYC Central Park Gates project. The $20
million,16-day exhibit featured 7,532 fabric draped steel gates
spanning 23 miles.
(SSFC, 2/13/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 15, The Gates Foundation
granted $32 million for 35 new small schools in NYC. Mayor Bloomberg
had recently announced the closure of a number of large, troubled
schools to be replaced by 200 new small schools with pupils capped at
500-600.
(Econ, 3/5/05, p.33)
2005 Feb 23, A real estate report
said uptown Manhattan, condo and co-op apartments sold for a median
price of $305,490 in 2004, up a whopping 349.3 percent from $68,000 in
1995.
(Reuters, 2/23/05)
2005 Mar 9, The acting boss of the
NYC Gambino family and at least 30 other mob figures were arrested
following an undercover FBI operation.
(SFC, 3/10/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 9, In Las Vegas 2 retired
NYC police detectives, Louis Eppolito (56) and Stephen Caracappa (63),
were arrested on federal charges of taking part in 8 murders on behalf
of the Mafia. In 2009 both men were sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 3/11/05, p.A3)(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A5)
2005 Apr 20, The NYSE, in a move
toward computerized trading, agreed to buy Archipelago Holdings of
Chicago in a reverse merger. The new company, to be called NYSE Group
was val-ued at $3.5 billion.
(WSJ, 4/21/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 26, Clarence Williams
(58), suspected of raping at least 25 women in 3 states, was arrested
in NYC following DNA tests that linked him to a 1973 rape case.
(SFC, 4/27/05, p.A3)
2005 Jun 15, The opera “Gertrude
Stein Invents A Jump Early On” with music by William C. Banfield
(b.1961) and words by Karren LaLonde Alenier (b.1947) had its world
premiere by the Encompass New Opera Theatre in New York City under the
direction of Nancy Rhodes.
(www.steinopera.com)
2005 Jun 23, An indictment,
unveiled in US federal court in Los Angeles, said Seymour Lazar and his
family were plaintiffs in over 50 class action lawsuits against both
large and small com-panies. Prosecutors claimed that he received $2.4
million in illicit kickbacks from a New York law firm believed to be
Milberg Weiss. In 2008 Melvyn Weiss (72) agreed to plead guilty to
racketeering and acknowledge that his firm, Milberg Weiss, concealed
secret payment ar-rangements with plaintiffs in class-action suits.
(Econ, 7/2/05, p.65)(SFC, 3/21/08, p.C3)
2005 Jun 23, Joseph Massino, who
went from the New York Mafia's last old-school don to its
highest-ranking turncoat in a betrayal that rocked organized crime, was
sentenced to life in prison after admitting his involvement in eight
mob murders.
(AP, 6/23/05)
2005 Jun 29, In Manhattan a new
design, by architect David M. Childs, was unveiled for the Freedom
Tower.
(WSJ, 6/30/05, p.B1)
2005 Jul 4, In NYC Takeru
Kobayashi (27) captured the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating con-test for
the 5th straight year, gobbling a nauseating 49 dogs in 12 minutes, but
missing his own world record of 53 1/2, set at last year's July Fourth
competition.
(AP, 7/5/05)
2005 Aug 23, NYC said it will
install 1,000 surveillance cameras and 3,000 motion sensors in its
subways and rail stations in a new deal with Lockheed Martin.
(SFC, 8/24/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 24, Monica
Lozada-Rivadineira (26), a immigrant from Bolivia, disappeared in NYC.
Her daughter, Valery, was found in the evening wandering barefoot in
Queens. On Oct 6 Police found her body in a Pennsylvania landfill and
police said she was killed by her boyfriend.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Sep 28, In NYC a
groundbreaking ceremony unveiled the $3 million memorial design by
Rodney Leon, a Yale-trained architect who has lived in West Africa. As
many as 20,000 slaves and free blacks who helped build New York's
economy from docks to warehouses will be hon-ored with a memorial near
their burial ground. Closed in 1794, the five-acre burial ground was
forgotten as a construction landfill eventually buried it 20 feet
underground. When the cemetery was rediscovered during construction of
a federal office tower in 1991, community pressure prompted the
government to abandon the project.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Nov 24, A giant balloon in
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York snagged a street light
and caused part of it to fall, injuring a woman and a child.
(AP, 11/24/06)
2005 Dec 10, In NYC police officer
Daniel Enchautegui (28) was shot a killed when he inter-rupted a
burglary in progress while off duty. 2 suspects were arrested. Steven
Armento (48), a convicted burglar, and Lillo Brancato Jr. (29), an
actor who appeared in episodes of "The So-pranos" and in films
including "A Bronx Tale," were shot by the officer and were in stable
condi-tion yesterday in the critical care unit of Jacobi Medical
Center. Armento was convicted of first degree murder in 2008 and
sentenced to life in prison. On Jan 9, 2009, Brancato was sen-tenced to
10 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/12/05, p.A3)(SFC, 1/10/09, p.E4)
2005 Dec 20, In NYC subways and
buses ground to a halt morning as transit workers walked off the job at
the height of the holiday shopping and tourist season, forcing millions
of riders to find new ways to get around.
(AP, 12/20/05)
2005 Dec 21, Millions of New
Yorkers trudged to work in another bone-chilling commute with-out
subways and buses as a transit strike entered its second day. The
transit union suggested it would be willing to end the strike if a plan
to change workers’ pensions were dropped.
(AP, 12/21/05)(SFC, 12/22/05, p.A9)
2005 Dec 22, NYC striking bus and
subway workers ended a 3-day strike voting to return to work and resume
negotiations on a labor contract.
(SFC, 12/23/05, p.A3)
2005 Dec 23, In a NYC probe, first
reported by the Daily News in October, authorities con-firmed this week
that investigators found paperwork indicating that bones of British
broadcaster Alistair Cooke had been removed and sold by Biomedical
Tissue Services, before he was cre-mated in 2004. Human bone, skin and
tendons were allegedly removed from the bodies of hun-dreds of others
without required permission from their families. The Brooklyn case
stemmed from a deal struck between Michael Mastromarino (42), a Fort
Lee, NJ, dentist who started Bio-medical Tissue Services, and Joseph
Nicelli (49), an embalmer and funeral parlor operator from Staten
Island. In 2006 seven funeral directors pleaded guilty to undisclosed
charges and agreed to cooperate with investigators.
(AP, 12/23/05)(SFC, 2/24/06, p.A2)(SFC, 10/19/06,
p.A7)
2005 Dec 27, In NYC the executive
board of the transit workers approved a tentative contract that
included a 10.9% raise over 3 years and a requirement for workers to
contribute to their health care plans.
(SFC, 12/28/05, p.A3)
2005 Stacy Horn authored “The
Restless Sleep: Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad.” She noted that
NYC had 8894 unsolved murders dating back to 1985.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.E6)
2005 Barbaralee
Diamonstein-Spielwogel, former commissioner of the NYC Landmarks
Pres-ervation Commission (1972-1987) authored “The Landmarks of New
York.”
(WSJ, 7/8/05, p.W7)
2006 Feb 2, NYC Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, a billionaire known for his philanthropy, anony-mously
donated $100 million to Johns Hopkins University to support stem cell
research.
(AP, 2/2/06)
2006 Feb 21, New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Italy signed a deal under which it will
return antiquities Italy says were looted in exchange for long-term
loans of other artifacts.
(AP, 2/21/06)
2006 Feb 23, In NYC Michael
Mastromarino, owner of Biomedical Tissue Services in New Jersey, was
charged along with 3 others of selling body parts for use in
transplants across the US. Joseph Nicelli, owner of a Brooklyn funeral
home, was among those charged.
(SFC, 2/24/06, p.A2)
2006 Apr 29, Thousands of US
anti-war demonstrators converged on lower Manhattan to call for an
immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 May 2, A pre-dawn fire in NYC
raged through a 21-acre site. It destroyed 15 industrial buildings and
was the worst city fire in 10 years.
(http://nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/home2.shtml)(WSJ,
5/27/06, p.P9)
2006 May 8, Stunt artist David
Blaine emerged weak and wrinkly from a week spent sub-merged within an
eight-foot snow globe-like tank in the plaza of New York's Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts, but without a world record for holding
his breath.
(AP, 5/8/07)
2006 May 9, Victor Gonzalez,
former butcher, murdered his roofing foreman Wilfredo Pinto. He
then dismembered and bagged the body parts and scattered them on NYC
street corners. In 2009 Gonzalez was convicted of murder.
(SFC, 4/9/09, p.A4)(www.mahalo.com/Victor_Gonzalez)
2006 May 25, A major power outage
stranded thousands of rush-hour commuters between New York and
Washington, stopping trains inside sweltering tunnels and forcing many
passen-gers to get out and walk.
(AP, 5/25/06)
2006 Jun 10, In NYC a
firefighter’s monument was unveiled for the 343 who died in the Sept.
11 attacks.
(SSFC, 6/11/06, p.A2)
2006 Jun 11, In the Tony Awards in
NYC the play “The History Boys” won best play and “Jer-sey Boys” won as
best musical. The award for best actor went to Richard Griffiths of
"The His-tory Boys." Cynthia Nixon won best actress for her role in
“Rabbit Hole.”
(Reuters, 6/11/06)(SFC, 6/12/06, p.E3)
2006 Jun 14, In NYC Kenny Alexis
(20), a homeless man, was arrested following a string of stabbings
through Manhattan over a 13-hour period.
(SFC, 6/15/06, p.A12)
2006 Jun 16, Barbara Epstein (77),
co-founder and editor of the NY Review of Books (1963), died in NYC.
(Econ, 7/1/06, p.79)
2006 Jun 30, Former NYC Police
Commissioner Bernard Kerik, whose Homeland Security nomination was
withdrawn because of ethics questions, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor
charges of accepting $165,000 in improper gifts while serving as a top
city official.
(Reuters, 6/30/06)(WSJ, 7/1/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 6, Ralph Ginzburg
(b.1929), journalist, magazine publisher and photographer, died in NYC.
His magazine included Eros (1962), Avant Garde (1968) and Fact (1964).
In 1962 he wrote “100 Years of Lynchings,” a chronicle of racist
hangings in the South. He was at the cen-ter of two First Amendment
battles in the 1960s and served 8 months in federal prison for
ob-scenity.
(AP, 7/6/07)(SFC, 7/7/06, p.B9)
2006 Jul 10, In NYC a four-story
townhouse collapsed and burned in an apparent gas explo-sion after what
witnesses described as a thunderous explosion that rocked the
neighborhood just off Madison Avenue. Dr. Nicholas Bartha (66), owner
of the building, was pulled alive from the rubble. He had recently lost
a $4 million judgement in a divorce case. Bartha died from his wounds
on July 15.
(AP, 7/10/06)(SFC, 7/11/06, p.A4)(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 21, In NYC residents of
Queens suffered through a 5th day of power blackouts. ConEdison said
power blackouts in Queens had affected some 25,000 customers.
(SFC, 7/22/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 25, In NYC 14 athletes
competed in the 10th annual Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race in
Jamaica, Queens. The 51-day event was sponsored by followers of
meditation master Sri Chinmoy.
(Reuters, 7/25/06)
2006 Aug 10, In NYC organizers
said Germany's Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk (51) won the 3,100-mile
Self-Transcendence event, capturing the world's longest foot race in 41
days, eight hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds. Suprabha Beckjord (50)
was 14th overall and the only woman to finish, doing so after 60 days,
four hours, 35 minutes and 24 seconds.
(AFP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 15, NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg
said he is putting $125 million of his own money into a new worldwide
anti-smoking campaign.
(SFC, 8/16/06, p.A2)
2006 Aug 16, New York City
officials released new tapes of hundreds of heart-wrenching phone calls
from the World Trade Center on 9-11, along with other emergency
transcripts.
(AP, 8/16/07)
2006 Sep 21, In NYC Venezuela’s
Pres. Chavez visited the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Harlem and
promised to double the amount of discounted heating oil his country is
shipping to needy Americans.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A3)
2006 Oct 11, A small plane,
carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle (b.1972) and in-structor
Tyler Stanger, crashed into a 50-story condominium tower on Manhattan's
Upper East Side killing both men. It was not clear who was at the
controls.
(AP, 10/12/06)(SFC, 10/13/06, p.A12)
2006 Nov 1, Adrienne Shelly
(b.1966), actress and director, was found by her husband hang-ing by a
bed sheet in their Manhattan apartment in an apparent suicide. In 2008
Diego Pillco (20), an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly)(SFC,
3/14/08, p.A4)
2006 Nov 5, Marilson Gomes dos
Santos of Brazil won the NYC Marathon in 2:09:58. Jelena Prokopcuka of
Latvia won the women’s race for the 2nd year in a row in 2:25:05.
(WSJ, 11/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 25, In NYC Sean Bell (23)
and two other unarmed men in a car were killed hours before Bell was to
have married the mother of his two children. The confrontation with
police stemmed from an undercover operation by 7 officers investigating
the Kalua Cabaret in Queens. Two officers were later indicted for
manslaughter, and a third was charged with reck-less endangerment; all
pleaded not guilty. In 2008 three NYPD detectives were acquitted of all
charges in the case.
(AP, 11/27/06)(AP, 11/25/07)(AP, 4/25/08)
2006 Dec 5, New York became the
first city in the nation to ban artery-clogging trans fats at
restaurants. The ban became effective July 1,2007.
(AP, 12/6/06)(SFC, 7/2/07, p.A4)
2006 Franklin Acosta de Vargas
(34) was arrested in Queens, NYC, on suspicion of drunk driving. Vargas
led gang members from the Dominican Republic who preyed on rival drug
deal-ers along the East Coast, stealing their money and cocaine. They
allegedly bound their victims with duct tape, beat them and held guns
to their heads to get them to reveal information. The bandits also
applied pliers to their genitals and pressed hot irons to the soles of
their feet. His lieutenant, Rudy Martinez, kept the operation alive,
but was arrested in 2007.
(AP, 7/18/08)
2007 Jan 2, New York City commuter
Wesley Autrey Sr. saved a 19-year-old student who had fallen onto
subway tracks by leaping down and pulling the teen and himself into the
trough be-tween the tracks as a train passed over them.
(AP, 1/2/08)
2007 Jan 8, In NYC an unidentified
rotten-egg smell wafted over the city.
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.A2)
2007 Jan 30, Jeanne Kane, a member
of the 1960s singing group the Kane Triplets, was shot and killed by
her ex-husband John Galtieri, a retired NYC police officer. In 2009
Galtieri was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/lhbevm)(SFC, 5/28/09, p.A5)
2007 Feb 8, The Museum for African
Art unveiled plans for a new home in Manhattan, be-coming the first
major addition to New York's Museum Mile in 50 years.
(Reuters, 2/8/07)
2007 Mar 4, In NYC a videotape
captured Rose Morat (101) as she repulsed an attack by a mugger in the
vestibule of her apartment. A suspect was later arrested.
(SFC, 4/28/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 7, In NYC 9 people,
including 8 children, died inside their burning Bronx house. An-other
child died the next day.
(AP, 3/8/07)(SFC, 3/9/07, p.A8)(SSFC, 3/11/07,
p.A2)(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 14, In NYC David Gavin
(32), with a fake beard and carrying 100 rounds of ammu-nition, fatally
shot a pizzeria employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers in
Greenwich Village before other officers shot him to death. Gavin was a
former employee at the pizzeria.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2007 Apr 1, Brooklyn's borough
president launched the Coney Island amusement park's last season ahead
of a major redevelopment that will raze much of the lovably seedy
boardwalk area.
(Reuters, 4/1/07)
2007 Apr 12, In NYC transit
officials and politicians broke ground on the Second Avenue line in
East Harlem.
(Econ, 4/21/07,
p.34)(www.mta.info/mta/news/releases07/index.html?en=070412)
2007 Apr 13, In NYC lawyer Moshe
Kanovsky (31) leaped to his death from the 69th floor of the Empire
State Building. At least 30 people have jumped from the Empire State
Building since it opened in 1931.
(SFC, 4/14/07, p.A3)
2007 Apr 15, Airlines canceled
over 400 flights in the NYC area as a hard-blowing nor'easter gathered
strength along the East Coast. The storm out of the Great Plains was
already blamed for 5 deaths.
(AP, 4/15/07)(SFC, 4/16/07, p.A4)
2007 Apr 19, A Brooklyn jury
convicted Gerald Garson, a former matrimonial court judge, of taking
bribes. His arrest in 2003 prompted investigations into judicial
corruption.
(www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/20/judge.cigar.ap/index.html)
2007 Apr 20, In NYC 13 people were
indicted on charges stemming from their roles in a credit card fraud.
Waiters in about 40 restaurants, in New York and as well eateries in
Florida, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut, had quietly
recorded customers' credit card informa-tion and passed it on to people
who used the information to make more than $3 million worth of worth of
illegal purchases. The conspirators had operated from November 2005
until this week.
(AP, 4/21/07)
2007 May 23, Seven insurance
companies agreed to pay out over $2 billion in claims related to the
World Trade Center. The payout will be split between the Port Authority
of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, and Larry Silverstein,
the developer who took over the site weeks before it was destroyed on
Sep 11, 2001.
(Econ, 5/26/07, p.28)
2007 Jun 2, Four Muslim men were
arrested and in connection to a plan to set off explosives in a jet
fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs
through residential neighborhoods.
(AP, 6/2/07)(AP, 6/2/08)
2007 Jun 11, NY City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said the city will incorporate biofuel made from corn and
soybeans into oil used to heat city buildings starting in 2008.
(Reuters, 6/12/07)
2007 Jun 18, NYC officials
detailed an experimental anti-poverty program whereby poor resi-dents
will be rewarded for good behavior, like $300 for doing well on school
tests, $150 for holding a job and $200 for visiting the doctor.
(AP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 19, After some six years
as a Republican, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg (65) an-nounced that he
has left the Republican Party and become unaffiliated in what many
believe could be a step toward entering the 2008 race for president.
(AP, 6/20/07)
2007 Jun 26, Liz Claiborne
(b.1929), fashion designer died in NYC. She revolutionized the way
working women put together their wardrobes. Claiborne launched her
label in 1976 after working for years as a relatively unknown dress
designer.
(AP, 6/28/07)(WSJ, 6/30/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 1, In NYC a ban on
restaurant cooking with trans fats went into effect.
(SFC, 7/2/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 4, In NYC Joey Chestnut
emerged as the world's hot dog eating champion, knocking off six-time
winner Takeru Kobayashi in a record-setting yet repulsive triumph.
Chestnut ate 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
(AP, 7/5/07)
2007 Jul 18, A massive geyser of
steam and debris erupted through a midtown Manhattan street near Grand
Central Terminal as an 83-year-old steam pipe ruptured. One woman,
identi-fied as Lois Baumerich (57) of Hawthorne, N.J., died from
cardiac arrest.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 18, NYC and New Jersey
claimed $170.2 million in anti-terrorism funds, LA and Long Beach, Ca.,
claimed $72.6 million, DC claimed $61.7 million, Chicago got $47.3
million, the SF Bay Area got $34.1 million and Houston got $25 million.
(SFC, 7/19/07, p.B3)
2007 Aug 8, A tornado struck
Brooklyn, NY. This was the first ever tornado in recorded history to
touch down in Brooklyn. It was the first tornado to hit New York City
since 2003, when a weak tornado touched down in Staten Island, and only
the sixth tornado recorded in the city since 1950.
(http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/37273/)(http://tinyurl.com/3a2npv)
2007 Aug 18, A seven-alarm fire
ripped through the former Deutsche Bank next to ground zero in Lower
Manhattan, killing two firefighters who were responding to the blaze.
(AP, 8/19/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.34)
2007 Aug 20, Leona Helmsley (87),
the NYC hotelier who went to prison as a tax cheat and was reviled as
the "queen of mean," died at her home in Greenwich, Conn.
(AP, 8/20/07)(Econ, 8/25/07, p.79)
2007 Aug 22, It was reported that
some US lawyers in NYC had crossed the $1,000 per hour billing mark.
(WSJ, 8/22/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 4, New York city’s first
Arab-language school opened.
(Econ, 9/8/07, p.36)
2007 Sep 24, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in NYC for a speech at Co-lumbia University
followed by a scheduled address to the UN General Assembly. Ahmadinejad
defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried
out the Sept. 11 at-tacks in a tense showdown at Columbia University.
(AP, 9/24/07)(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 28, A federal judge
refused to block a new NYC city rule that requires taxi drivers to
install global positioning systems and credit card machines in their
cabs by Oct 1.
(AP, 9/29/07)
2007 Oct 30, Linda Stein (62), a
pioneer in the punk music scene and later known as a real estate
“broker to the stars,” was found murdered in her Manhattan apartment.
On Nov 9 police arrested Natavia Lowery (26), Stein’s personal
assistant, who bludgeoned her boss to death because Stein “just kept
yelling at her.”
(SFC, 11/2/07, p.E2)(SFC, 11/10/07, p.E2)
2007 Nov 4, Paula Radcliffe
outlasted Gete Wami to win her second New York City Marathon in
2:23:09. Martin Lel of Kenya won his second men's title, in 2:09:04.
(AP, 11/4/08)
2007 Nov 5, NYC Mayor Bloomberg
announced a new report card for the city’s schools. He said high grade
schools will get a budget increase and schools that fail will not be
tolerated. Bloomberg and school chancellor Joel Klein announced a plan
to in effect charterize the entire school system.
(Econ, 11/10/07, p.16,35)
2007 Nov 10, A stagehands strike
shut down most Broadway shows, with curtains rising again 19 days later.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2007 Nov 16, The first summit of
women leaders opened in NYC. The two-day "International Women Leaders
Global Security Summit," opened under the co-chairmanship of former
Irish president Mary Robinson and former Canadian prime minister Kim
Campbell. At the close over 70 women leaders issued a call for action
on global warming, terrorism, poverty and women's security. The women
leadership initiative was launched in October 2006.
(AFP, 11/18/07)
2007 Nov 28, Broadway stagehands
and theater producers reached a tentative agreement on ending a
crippling 19-day-old strike.
(AP, 11/28/08)
2007 Dec 3, In NYC Don Imus
returned to the airwaves eight months after he was fired for a racially
charged remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team, and
introduced a new cast that included two black comedians on WABC-AM.
(AP, 12/3/07)
2007 Dec 7, In NYC 2 window
washers fell 47 stories from a Manhattan skyscraper when their
scaffolding failed; Edgar Moreno was killed, but his brother, Alcides,
miraculously survived.
(AP, 12/7/08)
2007 Joseph Dominick Pistone
(b.1939), alias Donnie Brasco, authored “Donnie Brasco: Un-finished
Business.” Pistone, a former FBI agent, worked undercover for six years
(1976-1981) infiltrating the Bonanno family and to a lesser extent the
Colombo Family, branches of the Mafia in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Brasco)
2007 Graham Russell and Gao Hodges
authored “Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.”
(WSJ, 4/6/07, p.W6)
2008 Jan 22, The NYC Board of
health voted to require restaurant chains to state the number of
calories in everything on their menus. Full enforcement began in July.
(www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr008-08.shtml)(Econ, 8/30/08, p.64)
2008 Feb 7, Authorities in Italy
and the US conducted raids targeting dozens of alleged mem-bers of
Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of
the Atlantic. A 169-page indictment in the US went back 3 decades and
included at least 7 murders. The main tar-gets in NY included 3 of the
“five families” controlling organized crime in America: the Geno-vese,
Bonanno and Gambino families.
(AP, 2/7/08)(Econ, 2/16/08, p.41)
2008 Feb 11, It was reported that
Patricia Cornwell (51), crime novelist, was donating $1 mil-lion to
NYC’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice to help start a Crime Scene
Academy.
(WSJ, 2/11/08, p.B7)
2008 Feb 12, In Manhattan
psychologist Kathryn Faughey (56) died in her Upper East Side office
after being stabbed 15 times with a cleaver and knife. Psychiatrist
Kent Shinbach was also slashed in the attack. The assailant escaped.
David Tarloff (39) was arrested on Feb 16. He blamed Faughey for having
institutionalized him 17 years earlier.
(SFC, 2/14/08, p.A3)(SSFC, 2/17/08, p.A2)
2008 Feb 26, Brunei’s Prince Jefri
effectively lost control of the 55-story New York Palace Ho-tel,
formerly known as the Helmsley Palace. A firm owned by prince Jefri
paid $202 million for the hotel in 1993 using funds from the Brunei
Investment Agency (BAI).
(WSJ, 3/1/08, p.A6)
2008 Mar 11, Paul LeClerc,
president of the NY Public Library, said its main Manhattan build-ing
on Fifth Ave. would be renamed after Stephen Schwarzman, billionaire
chairman of the Blackstone Group, who has pledged $100 million toward
library expansion plans.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.E2)
2008 Mar 15, In NYC an apartment
building on Manhattan’s East Side was crushed in a giant crane collapse
that killed 7 people and injured 17.
(AP, 3/16/08)(SFC, 3/18/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 20, Pope Benedict XVI
held a Mass at Yankee Stadium on his last day in the US.
(WSJ, 4/21/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 23, New York’s Gov. David
Paterson signed into law a $1.25 per pack tax hike on top of the
state’s $1.50 per pack cigarette tax. NYC has an additional $1.50 per
pack tax. By July 1 smokers will be paying an average $9.00 a pack for
legal cigarettes. The taxes have en-couraged major criminal smuggling.
(WSJ, 5/7/08, p.A17)
2008 May 14, A triptych by Francis
Bacon (1909-1992), titled “Triptych 1976,” sold for $86.3 million in
NYC, a record for contemporary art auctions.
(Econ, 5/17/08, p.79)
2008 May 30, A construction crane
collapsed on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story
apartment building before crashing onto the street below and killing
two workers.
(AP, 5/30/08)(SFC, 5/31/08, p.A3)
2008 Jun 2, Melvin Weiss (72),
co-founder of the NYC law firm Milberg Weiss, was sentenced to 30
months in prison for his roll in a kickback scheme targeting US
corporations. He was also ordered to pay $9.7 million in forfeitures
and $250,000 in fines.
(SFC, 6/3/08, p.D4)
2008 Jun 5, Alain Robert (45), the
man known as the French "Spiderman," climbed The New York Times
building to draw attention to global warming, adding to earlier
conquests including the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge. Hours
later a 2nd man ascended the building and was also arrested at the top.
(Reuters, 6/6/08)(SFC, 6/6/08, p.A4)
2008 Jun 10, In NYC a million
pieces of stainless steel toy parts assembled into a nearly seven-story
model skyscraper glimmered under the hot sun. It was created by
American artist Chris Burden (b.1946). The 16,000-pound (7,250-kg)
"poetic interpretation" of the 30 Rock Building at Rockefeller Center
was made of replicated Erector set pieces from the toy created by A.C.
Gilbert in 1912.
(Reuters, 6/11/08)
2008 Jun 12, Deaths due to the
heat wave across the US East Coast climbed past 30 with at least 15
dead in Philadelphia and 7 in NYC.
(WSJ, 6/13/08, p.A2)
2008 Jun 15, In the annual NYC
Tony Awards “August: Osage County” won 5 awards and the musical “In the
Heights” won 4 awards.
(SFC, 6/16/08, p.E3)
2008 Jun 24, In NYC Robert
Williams (31) was convicted of attempted murder, rape, kidnap-ping,
arson and other charges in an attack of a Columbia University graduate
student, which was so prolonged and agonizing that Ann Prunty begged
her tormentor to kill her and later tried to kill herself.
(AP, 6/25/08)
2008 Jun 24, In NYC David Fisher,
an Italian architect, said he is poised to start construction on a new
skyscraper in Dubai that will be "the world's first building in
motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an
ever-shifting shape.
(AP, 6/25/08)
2008 Jun 28, Ruslana Korshunova
(20), a European Vogue cover model, fell to her death from her
Manhattan apartment building in an apparent suicide. She was originally
from the for-mer Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
(AP, 6/29/08)
2008 Jul 30, Nicholas Corozzo
(68), New York City mob captain, pleaded guilty to racketeer-ing and 2
murders in 1996. In 2009 he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/cz7tj8)(SSFC, 4/19/09, p.A10)
2008 Aug 11, Federal prosecutors
in NYC charged Joseph Shereshevsky and Steven Byers, partners in
Chicago-based WexTrust Capital, with raising over $250 million through
a Ponzi scheme, mainly from Orthodox Jews.
(WSJ, 8/15/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 10, A regulatory filing
revealed that Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman, and his family had
purchased a 6.4% stake in the New York Times.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.78)
2008 Sep 11, Pres. Bush attended
the dedication of a new memorial at the Pentagon in honor of 9/11
attacks in 2001. In NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg led a ceremony attended
by presi-dential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
(SFC, 9/12/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 15, Lehman Brothers,
burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, filed a Chapter
11 bankruptcy petition in US Bankruptcy Court after attempts to rescue
the 158-year-old firm failed. Bank of America Corp. said it is snapping
up Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in a $50 bil-lion all-stock transaction.
(AP, 9/15/08)
2008 Sep 24, In NYC police Lt.
Michael Pigott ordered a fellow officer to fire a taser at Imam
Morales, who had threatened to kill himself and stood naked on a window
ledge. Morales fell about 10 feet and died. A distraught Pigott
committed suicide on Oct 2.
(SFC, 10/3/08, p.A6)
2008 Sep 21, NYC police arrested
more than a dozen people for stealing pieces of Yankee Stadium during
the 85-year-old ballpark's final game.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Oct 15, A NYC police officer
warned Michael Mineo, a tattoo parlor worker, that if he re-ported
being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station,
officers would lock him up for a felony. Officer Richard Kern (25) was
later charged with aggravated sexual abuse and assault. Fellow Officers
Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales were charged with hindering prose-cution
and official misconduct for allegedly covering up the crime.
(AP, 12/9/08)
2008 Oct 23, NYC Mayor Bloomberg
persuaded the city council, in a 29-22 vote, to amend the term limit
law allowing him to run for re-election next year.
(SFC, 10/24/08, p.A4)
2008 Oct 23, In NYC Raffaello
Follieri (30) was sentenced to 4½ years in prison for cheating
investors by claiming he had ties with the Vatican enabling him to buy
Catholic Church property at a discount.
(WSJ, 10/24/08, p.A2)
2008 Nov 2, Paula Radcliffe
defended her title at the NYC marathon to become the second woman to
win the race three times. Marilson Gomes dos Santos of Brazil won the
men's race for the second time in three years.
(www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445965,00.html)
2008 Nov 5, John Leonard, former
editor of the NY Times Book Review (1970-1983), died in NYC.
(SFC, 11/11/08, p.B4)
2008 Nov 19, In NYC the Triborough
Bridge was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge.
(SFC, 11/20/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 25, Gerald Schoenfeld
(b.1924), head of the Shubert Organization, died in NYC. From 1972 he
and Bernard B. Jacobs (d.1996) reinvigorated the commercial theater
business.
(SFC, 11/27/08, p.B8)
2008 Nov 27, Macy’s held its 82nd
Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC.
(SFC, 11/28/08, p.A2)
2008 Dec 8, Marc Dreier (58),
owner of a prominent NYC law firm, was indicted with criminal charges
and civil complaints alleging he defrauded investors of some $115
million by selling them phony financial instruments. On Dec 23 federal
prosecutors charged Kosta Kovachev (57), a former stockbroker, for his
role in Dreier’s 2006 Ponzi scheme. In 2009 the indictment was amended
and estimated the alleged fraud at about $700 million.
(WSJ, 12/9/08, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/24/08, p.A3)(WSJ,
3/18/09, p.A7)
2008 Dec 11, Bernard Madoff (70),
a quiet force on Wall Street for decades, was arrested and charged with
allegedly running a $50 billion "Ponzi scheme" in what may rank among
the biggest fraud cases ever.
(AP, 12/12/08)
2008 Dec 18, John Costelloe (47),
the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mob-ster on "The
Sopranos," died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York City.
(AP, 12/25/08)
2008 Dec 20, The NY Times said
China has blocked access to its Web site, days after the central
government defended its right to censor online content it deems illegal.
(AP, 12/20/08)
2008 Dec 23, In NYC police found
the body of investor Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet (65) at his
Madison Avenue office. He had grown increasingly subdued after the
Madoff scandal broke and apparently swallowed sleeping pills and
slashed his wrists with a box cutter. His in-vestment fund had lost
$1.4 billion with Bernard Madoff.
(AP, 12/24/08)(SFC, 12/24/08, p.C3)
2008 Dec 25, Eartha Kitt (81),
singer, dancer and actress, died in NYC. The self-proclaimed "sex
kitten" attracted fans with her sultry voice and catlike purr even as
she neared 80.
(AP, 12/26/08)
2008 Dec 31, SF ended the year
with 98 homicides. In Milwaukee, Wisc., the total number of homicides
dropped 32%, from 105 in 2007 to 71 in 2008, the lowest number since
1985. Detroit had 344 slayings, a 13% drop from the 396 in 2007;
Philadelphia's 332 killings were a 15% drop from the 392 in 2007; and
the 234 homicides in Baltimore were 17% less than the 392 the year
before. Cleveland recorded 102 homicides in 2008, down from a 13-year
high of 134 in 2007. Homicides in New York rose 5.2%, to 522 from 496
the year before. Slayings in Los Angeles were down to 376 in 2008
compared to 400 the prior year. Preliminary data in Chicago showed 508
homicides were reported in 2008, the first time the city had more than
500 murders since 2003 and about 15% more than the 442 homicides
reported in 2007. Washington, D.C., ended 2008 with 186 homicides, up
from 181 in 2007.
(SFC, 1/2/09, p.1)(AP, 1/3/09)
2008 Max Page authored “The City’s
End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's
Destruction.”
(WSJ, 10/3/08, p.A19)
2008 Darcy Tell authored “Times
Square Spectacular,” a history of NYC’s Times Square.
(WSJ, 3/22/08, p.W11)
2009 Jan 15, A US Airways Airbus
A320 jetliner, piloted by Chesley B. Sullenberger and bound for
Charlotte, NC, landed in the Hudson River after both engines failed
shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia and an encounter with a flock of
geese. All 155 people aboard Flight 1549 survived.
(AP, 1/16/09)(WSJ, 1/16/08, p.A3)
2009 Jan 16, Citigroup said it is
splitting into two businesses as it reported a fourth-quarter net loss
of $8.29 billion, its fifth straight quarterly loss.
(AP, 1/16/09)
2009 Feb 11, In NYC Guido Salvador
Carabajo-Jara (26), an immigrant from Ecuador, died after he was hit by
a car then trapped under a van and dragged for nearly 20 miles.
(SFC, 2/13/09, p.A6)
2009 Feb 24, In NYC Monzer
al-Kassan, a Syrian-born arms dealer, was sentenced to 30 years in
prison for conspiring to sell weapons to Colombian militants in 2007.
(SFC, 2/25/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, Former NYC police
detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were sen-tenced to life
in prison for their conviction in 8 gangland murders. They had
moonlighted as hit men for the Luchese crime family while on the police
force during the 1980s.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 19, In NYC Henry Morris
(55), political adviser to former New York comptroller Alan Hevesi, and
David J. Loglisci (38), former New York Deputy Comptroller, were
arrested on charged in a 123-count indictment that included money
laundering, corruption and bribery charges. Some $30 million was
allegedly paid to Mr. Morris in a pay-to-play scheme.
(WSJ, 3/20/09, p.C1)
2009 Mar 29, Helen Levitt (95),
photographer of New York City, died.
(Econ, 4/11/09, p.87)
2009 Apr 26, New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg said that the Centers for Disease Con-trol and
Prevention has confirmed that students at a city high school were
infected with swine flu. About 100 students complained of flu-like
symptoms at the school. Some students went to Cancun on a spring break
trip two weeks ago. The flu has spread beyond Mexico's borders with
confirmed cases in the US and suspected cases as far away as New
Zealand.
(AP, 4/26/09)
2009 May 17, In NYC Mitchell
Wiener, an assistant principal at a middle school, became the first
death linked to the H1N1 flu virus.
(SFC, 5/18/09, p.A3)
2009 May 20, In NYC four
ex-convicts, 3 Americans and a Haitian citizen, were arrested and
accused of plotting to place bombs at NYC synagogues and shoot down
National Guard jets. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and
Laguerre Payen envisioned themselves as holy warriors.
(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7642086&page=1)(SFC,
5/22/09, p.A7)
2009 Jun 8, Royal Dutch Shell
agreed In NYC to a $15.5 million settlement to end a lawsuit alleging
that the oil giant was complicit in the executions of activist Ken
Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by Nigeria's former military regime.
(AP, 6/8/09)
2009 Jun 29, Bernard Madoff (71)
was sentenced in NYC to 150 years in prison for his
multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme.
(AP, 6/29/09)
2009 Jul 2, In NYC federal
marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million
Manhattan penthouse and forced his wife to move out and leave her
possessions behind, in-cluding a fur coat she had asked to take with
her.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 4, NYC police arrested a
dozen people and seized 33 pounds of heroin worth $30 million that was
stuffed inside Build-A-Bear toys.
(SSFC, 7/5/09, p.A11)
2009 Jul 4, Joey Chestnut (25), of
San Jose, Ca., ate a record 68 hot dogs capturing his 3rd straight
Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Int’l. Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney
Island, NYC.
(SSFC, 7/5/09, p.A2)
2009 Aug 11, Bernard Madoff's
long-time deputy, Frank DiPascali, pleaded guilty to financial crimes
including helping others carry out Wall Street's biggest investment
fraud, but shed little more light in court on the decades-long swindle.
(Reuters, 8/11/09)
2009 Sep 8, Philip Barry (52) of
Brooklyn was charged with operating an alleged $40 million Ponzi scheme
that stretched for three decades and apparently helped finance a
pornography business. He had turned himself in to authorities in August
after running the scheme for 31 years. Barry spent a portion of his
investors' money on real-estate purchases that he hoped would
appreciate. They did not.
(http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/09/brooklyns_philip_barry_may_hav.html)
2009 Christopher Dickey authored
“Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—the NYPD.
(Econ, 2/14/09, p.93)
2009 Eric W. Sanderson authored
“Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City.”
(SSFC, 5/17/09, Books p.H4)
2022 The 1973 film "Soylent Green"
with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in his last role was set in
NYC in 2022. The screenplay play was by Stanley R. Greenberg (d.2002).
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A19)(MoTV, 1977, p.667)
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