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  • A sneak peek into Tribeca peeping photographer’s apartment

    The Post yesterday turned the tables on a sneaky photographer who snapped pictures of his unwitting neighbors in Tribeca - by pointing a camera at his own windows."It would be funny if we ...

  • Union blasts FDNY for underreporting response time

    Union head Steve Cassidy on Wednesday blasted the agency for not releasing to the public information that tracks emergency response calls from the moment a 911 call is answered by an ...

  • Cuomo cabinet pushing his tax-free NY proposal

    NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet are hitting the road to push his proposal to create tax-free zones for businesses that set up shop on or near public college campuses in New ...

  • Small band of Sound Garden supporters sits mutely through Syracuse council session

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. - They did not "flood city council chambers'' as planned, but roughly a dozen fans of The Sound Garden attended Wednesday's session of the Syracuse Common Council to support the popular record store's quest for relief from the city's secondhand dealer law. Led by David Andrew Gay, a candidate for city council, the group sat quietly ...

  • Todays obituaries Jack A. Barwind worked at Syracuse University from 1985 to 2001

    Jack A. Barwind, 70, died May 16, 2013. He was a well known educator, administrator, scholar, and consultant. Jack began his career in 1969 as an assistant professor and director of graduate studies at Cornell University's School of Communication Arts. He also worked at Montana State University and in 1985 joined Syracuse University as area director of the speech communication department in ...


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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Shrouded in ashen cigarette smoke, heavy silences, backroom intrigue, and horridly despondent early 70s British interior dcor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes an ... ...

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  • Claudio Reyna named director of football at New York City Football Club

    Manchester City and United States international midfielder Claudio Reyna was named as the first director of football for new Major League Soccer (MLS) team New York City Football Club, the team confirmed yesterday. The new club, which will start playing in 2015, was announced on ...

  • Anthony Weiner hides from the tough questions and serves up pizza for reporters

    Andrea Peyser Shame-faced, prickly and evasive, Anthony Weiner stayed in hiding yesterday, the day he announced he’s running for mayor. But the disgraced ex-congressman materialized on the telephone - so terrified of talking to me, a known pussycat, that he refused to speak unless another reporter was on the line to deflect hard questions. Nice try. Weiner camped out inside his Park Avenue ...

  • Hofstra suspect won praise from parole panel

    UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from ...

  • New U.S. Census report Syracuse area shows more signs of stability

    This is an aerial view of downtown Syracuse, looking to the southeast from Clinton Square. The city has halted five decades of steep population losses, according to U.S. Census Bureau reports. As of July 2012, the city had a population of 144,170, new Census Bureau estimates show ...

  • Angered over bathroom fan request Syracuse man defecates in roommates car police say

    Syracuse, NY -- Roommates sometimes fight. Other times, they share things from deep within themselves. James V. Palmieri did both one day in March, according to Syracuse police. Palmieri, 59, was suffering from severe diarrhea March 10 in the apartment he shared at 473 Pleasantview Ave. with David Utt, 62, according to a Syracuse police report. "I asked him to use the bathroom fan so ...

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