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Con Ed: Balloon to blame for Brooklyn outage
Consolidated Edison says a wayward balloon is to blame for a power outage that affected some customers in Brooklyn. Utility spokesman Bob McGee says it appears the mylar balloon interfered with overhead wires. The resulting outage left 573 customers...Tags: Consolidated Edison Incorporated
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Balloon blamed for small NYC power outage
The utility Consolidated Edison says a wayward balloon is to blame for a power outage that affected customers in Brooklyn. Utility spokesman Bob McGee says it appears the balloon interfered with overhead wires. He says the balloon was made of Mylar, a...Tags: Consolidated Edison Incorporated
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British merry for Jamestown
Daily PressSpirits are high in London in anticipation of Jamestown's 400th anniversary, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said after visiting British landmarks Tuesday. Kaine and other officials, including two James City County supervisors, were in London to commemorate Dec....Tags: Executive Branch, Imperial and Royal Matters, Elizabeth II, St. George, Regional Authority
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'Mafia Cops' defense to ask for mistrial
NEWSDAY STAFF WRITERDefense attorneys in the "Mafia Cops" case will ask for a mistrial after letters surfaced Thursday from a mob boss who claimed that the ex-NYPD detectives were being falsely accused of some murders. The letters were from imprisoned former acting...Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Organized Crime, Law Enforcement, Witnesses
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Hitting the trails
The boroughs offer hundreds of miles of paths and trails for biking.
(Eventually it will have 550 miles of on-street pathways and more than 300 miles of off-street greenways and paths). Just make sure you wear a bike helmet, bright reflective clothing...Tags: Ocean Parkway, Whitehall, Rivers, Prospect Heights (Brooklyn, New York), Tourism and Leisure
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Rating Brooklyn's Parks
- Columbus Park, Cadman Plaza and Tillary Street, Downtown Brooklyn. A - Charlie's Place, Hopkins to Ellery Streets, Tomkins to Throop avenues, Bedford-Stuyvesant. F - Harmony Park, Troy, Atlantic and Schenectady avenues, Weeksville. A - Nehemiah...Tags: Bay Ridge, City Line, Ocean Parkway, Euclid, Montrose
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Polly Gets a Crackdown
Staff WriterTalk about ruffled feathers. In the past couple of weeks, bird activists have been in a flap about rumors that Con Edison planned to trap wild Quaker parrots living in 65 large communal nests on power lines and transformers throughout south Brooklyn....Tags: Nuclear Power, New Jersey, Flatbush, Consolidated Edison Incorporated, Kennedy Airport
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An LI Victory Tour
Staff WriterGeorge Washington bore disturbing memories of the last time he had been on Long Island. Fourteen years earlier his outmanned Patriot forces had taken a terrible pounding from the British at Brooklyn Heights. With the battle lost he had sneaked away from...Tags: Charles Wang, Alexander Hamilton, Long Island, Long Island Sound, History
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Breuckelen Becomes Home
Staff WriterBy the mid-1630s, the Dutch were ready to expand their base from the southern tip of Manhattan Island -- a collection of clapboard houses, a church, a tavern, a large storehouse, orchards and cow pastures -- to the unchartered wilds of Long Island....Tags: Queens County, Queens (Queens, New York), Flatlands, Delaware, Long Island
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Richard Nicolls, New York governor, 1664-68
Staff WriterHis entrance onto the New World stage was grand. In March, 1664, England's King Charles II gave to his brother, James, the duke of York, all of the Atlantic coastline from Maine to Delaware. Long Island lay at the heart of this huge land grant. To seize...Tags: Executive Branch, Delaware, Long Island, New York, Government
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