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The accident occurred just before 7 p.m. as the vehicle, described as a white Chevrolet Astro, traveled south on Lexington Avenue near 125th Street.

May 16, 2008.

The Bush administration proposed Friday to auction landing slots at two major airports, Kennedy and Newark, and to impose a limit on airline traffic at Newark.

Johathan Schwartz prepared fiscal notes on hundreds of union-backed bills involving New York City pensions in recent years, but his financial relationship with the unions was not disclosed.

Gifford Miller has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent him in a federal investigation into the City Council’s longstanding practice of allocating millions of dollars to phantom nonprofit groups.

Anyone who's ever been to an art museum and thought, "My kid could do that," will appreciate the new show at the Guggenheim Museum.

The push to prevent City Hall from cutting next year's education budget gained a powerful ally Friday - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Already facing soaring gas and food prices, New Yorkers got soaked again Friday when the Water Board unanimously approved a 14.5% rate hike, the biggest jump in 16 years.

The Daily News "School Bus Disgrace" investigative series and The News' political blogger Elizabeth Benjamin won first-place awards from the city's Deadline Club.

While bantering with a radio host Friday, Mayor Bloomberg revealed he's got contacts - and not the kind in his BlackBerry.

While Big Brown prepared for the race of his life yesterday, his Long Island hometown was abuzz with Preakness fever, with fans flocking to betting parlors in hopes of cashing in on the stud steed's run today toward a Triple Crown. "Big Brown...

A crazed homeless man spit on a pregnant woman in the subway yesterday - then allegedly stabbed a man who valiantly intervened to protect her. The victim, Clarence Carter Cochran, 44, a real estate agent and actor, was waiting in the 23rd Street/Sixth Avenue subway station at 1 p.m. when a friend stepped off the F train. As they began to talk, ex-con Herron Wilson, 64, who was screaming wildly, ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. - A man died after being struck and killed by a train near Buffalo while examining a scratch-off lottery ticket. Police say 48-year-old Ronald Wittenberg did not respond to the train's blaring horn as it approached him from behind as he walked between the rails.

No matter how sunny it is this summer, you're going to get soaked if you're a homeowner, because the Water Board yesterday approved a 14.5 percent hike in water rates that takes effect July 1. That will bump up the bill for the average one-family home from $699 to $801 a year. Board members reluctantly voted 6-0 to approve the increase. One member, Marilyn Gelber, was absent. Water rates rose ...

Signaling he's still interested in running for office, scandal-singed Rep. Vito Fossella showed his face at a Conservative Party dinner on Staten Island last night - his first political appearance since word of his second family broke. The stop was Fossella's second of the night, after he showed up at a Gracie Mansion dinner hosted by Mayor Bloomberg for the state's congressional delegation. At ...

Hundreds of Hasidic Jews marched in a Brooklyn neighborhood and blocked traffic to protest the assault and robbery of a Jewish teenager. The group marched in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, briefly blocking traffic on Eastern Parkway.

A Brooklyn deli owner who struck a 15-year-old boy in the head with a hammer was indicted on assault charges, though he says he acted in self defense.

Education officials announced $52 million in funding to soundproof a Queens school building located on the flight path to John F. Kennedy International Airport.

It was a call from a relative that brought police to the white house on Tenafly Avenue on Friday. Officers found the back door unlocked and three bodies upstairs – in three different rooms. Neighbors heard of the deaths and saw police opening windows to air the place out. Some theorized it was carbon monoxide poisoning, but there was another, more horrifying reason.

Seven people, including two children are recovering from injuries they suffered when an out of control van jumped a curb. The van barrelled into a crowded subway station entrance at East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem just before 7 a.m. Friday.

A federal jury has ruled that an East Meadow school was unsafe for a student with cerebral palsy.

The Long Island Rail Road is increasing patrols and erecting fences along a section of the freight-only Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, branch as the agency works to clear out homeless encampments deemed risks to safety and security as well as eyesores.

Nassau University Medical Center said it had underestimated the number of diabetes patients potentially exposed to reused insulin pens and would be sending letters to at least 840 diabetes patients instead of 185, urging them to be tested for hepatitis C and B and HIV.

After hearing about an estimated $140,000 in renovations for the office of Levittown's school superintendent, Marie Pustorino had to see the rebuilt suite for herself.

A Jericho High School senior won a top $50,000 prize Friday in the world's largest precollege science fair, featuring more than 1,550 teenage competitors from 51 countries.

Police suspect foul play after the body of a woman was discovered outside a Brooklyn dry cleaner where she worked.

A man who hit a car and a school bus at a busy Huntington Station intersection Thursday, then fled, was nabbed at home and charged with driving while high on drugs, Suffolk police said.

One day two winters ago, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, just back from an overseas trip, traveled to Albany to testify at a key fiscal hearing. During his testimony, he grew agitated at an Assembly Ways and Means Committee staffer who was whispering information to a lawmaker - a practice even casual viewers of C-Span know is utterly routine.

Two rookie cops in Queens are under investigation for a scam involving overtime pay and possibly bogus summonses, police sources said.

A 78-year-old borough woman was standing in her backyard, chatting with a neighbor, when a raccoon ran at her and mauled her leg Thursday evening, police said.

Township officials are proposing the sale of $3.2 million in bonds to help finance a large open space acquisition and to help purchase emergency, police and public works equipment and maintenance upgrades for inside town hall. "A large portion of this is for open space," said Township Administrator Joseph L. Verruni. The police department is scheduled for a communications upgrade that will ...

A stiff, cold breeze and a steady rain couldn't spoil the party for hundreds of hardy souls who ventured out Friday night for the second day of the four-day Seaside Music Festival. "It's awesome," said Erick Highberg, 49, who came in from Harrisburg, Pa., for the event. "We started out three bars down. And we're going to keep going until the bars close. Then it's back to the hotel!" The music is ...

The state Board of Public Utilities is taking a second look at vegetation management practices, with regard to the cutting down of trees along high-tension power lines.

The cost for fencing and installation work at the Shaw Arboretum at Holmdel Park will run at least $142,000 if Monmouth County officials go through with a plan to enclose the entire 22-acre site, essentially to protect specimen trees from deer damage.

The marquee guest speaker wasn't big in name only. Former basketball star Luther Wright, at 7-foot-2 and 390 pounds, towered over his audience of about 500 middle-schoolers attending the World Against Violence program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark yesterday.

On Wednesday afternoon, I watched a guy load my first motorcycle into a pickup truck and drive away. I told him I was selling because I didn't have time to ride anymore, which was part true. I have a new motorcycle, but the old bike was like "the first" anything. Special.

The Ford Model T got better gas mileage in 1908 than the average American car does 100 years later in 2008. The trivia is interesting, but the reality for many is horrifying.

Book: "Medical Tips from the Inside ... Things You Need To Know!" (Merit Publishing International, $13.95, paperback) Authors: Patricia Raya and Corine MogenisJersey ties: Raya lives in Griggstown in Somerset County.

New Jersey Turnpike Authority executive director Michael Lapolla announced yesterday he will step down by July 1 to take a job at a private-sector transportation company.

The driver of a van has died after jumping a curb near a crowded subway stop in East Harlem, authorities said. One person is in critical condition and six other people suffered minor injuries. LISTEN NOW TO 1010 WINS

A sergeant assigned to New York City's Police Academy has been jailed on $500,000 bond after being charged with sexually preying on a child for six years.

Slot auctions designed to reduce delays and increase competition are coming to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, the government said Friday.

Prosecutors have charged 41 people, including several members of the Crips street gang, with selling crack and other crimes at a Queens housing project. Photo by Al Jones 1010 WINS AUDIO: Al Jones Reports

Police suspect foul play after the body of a woman was discovered inside a Brooklyn dry cleaner where she worked.

FAIR LAWN — Henry Bros. Electronics Inc., an electronic security provider, said first-quarter revenue rose 46 percent because of improved use of direct labor and a shift to higher-profit margin projects.

PARAMUS — The 2008 Arthritis Walk will take place on Sunday at Bergen Community College. The walk is the Arthritis Foundation's annual nationwide event to raise awareness and funds to fight arthritis, the nation's leading cause of disability.

Animal lovers can adopt a pet or donate money for spaying and neutering stray and abused animals this weekend.

PARAMUS — A truck smashed into the Forest Avenue overpass Friday morning, closing parts of Route 4 for several hours. Police Sgt. Norm Bizik said the truck continued on after hitting the overpass and that police gathered debris left behind as evidence.

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