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Progress Seen on Bill to Grant Residency to Relatives of Illegal Immigrants Killed on 9/11

Fourteen immigrants who were in the country illegally when their relatives were killed in the World Trade Center attacks are still waiting to gain permanent residency, and their lawyer said their tenuous immigration status could be imperiled if ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  Peter T. King,  Lamar S. Smith

Tackling Gun Violence Many Ways on L.I.

On Long Island, one county said yes, and the other said no. Nassau County said yes. Its police commissioner, Lawrence W. Mulvey, began focusing on increased gun violence in pockets of the county after assuming the job in 2007. “It’s a very safe place,” ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Microphones Join Cameras in Westchester

Shortly before the end of October, ShotSpotter went live in Mount Vernon, blanketing the city’s entire 4.5 square miles with its acoustic gunshot tracking technology. Using half of the $3 million earmarked by Westchester County for the system the other ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

For Now, New Yorkers Are the Gunfire Sensors

There are no immediate plans to install gunshot listening sensors on New York City’s decreasingly mean streets, according to Paul J. Browne, a spokesman for the Police Department. This is not because New York is safer than ever, he said, but rather ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Stock Exchange

High-Tech ‘Ears’ Listen for Shots

BANG! The shot rang out after midnight, sending revelers who had spilled from a house party screaming and running down a scrappy Long Island street. Four miles away, in a concrete bunker 25 feet below ground, an emergency dispatcher jumped at the sound, ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBN Technologies

The Neediest Cases: Needing Proof She Had, Indeed, Embraced a New Home

It took all of three hours for Carmen Cruz to decide to leave her homeland behind in exchange for a new life in the United States. The agencies supported by the Neediest Cases Fund explain how readers' donations bring stability to people's lives in ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  New York Times Company,  American Airlines,  US State Department

Fire Forces Evacuation of Stuyvesant High School

A fire broke out in a third-floor bathroom of Stuyvesant High School in TriBeCa Thursday morning. The school has been cleared, and so far no injuries have been reported, a spokesman for the Fire Department said. The Fire Department got the emergency ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stuyvesant High School,  Economic Development Corporation,  Najibullah Zazi

Sunday Routine | Christine Vachon: When Being Home Is an Adventure

Christine Vachon, 47, is an independent film producer whose movies include “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Far From Heaven,” “I’m Not There” and the recently released “Motherhood,” starring Uma Thurman. A native New Yorker, she lives in the East Village with her ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Uma Thurman

Sunday Routine | O. Aldon James Jr.: Quoth the Raven, ‘Hey, Find Your Pen’

O. Aldon James Jr., president of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park, sees the world through rose-colored glasses, and not just because the lenses of his spectacles are pink (he likes to say that the O., which is for “Oliver,” stands for ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Edgar Allan Poe

In the City, Highly Productive Drug Mills

In New York City, heroin is being packaged in covert locations and distributed at levels not seen since the heroin crisis of the 1970s. The evidence, according to the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget G. Brennan, is the enormous number of ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

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