The body of an elderly man who lived on a houseboat was found floating under a dock today in Brooklyn, authorities said.
The 74-year-old man’s boat was docked in the Plumb Beach Channel off of Ebony Court in Gerritsen Beach when he he was spotted in the water around 12:35 p.m., cops said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police do not suspect any criminality at this time, cops said.
The city’s medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
A 71-year-old man was rushed to the hospital with hypothermia after he fell in the frigid waters off Queens while kayaking, authorities said.
The kayaker was rescued by divers off the coast of Broad Channel. They hauled him onto land at E. 12th Street and Cross Bay Boulevard before he was taken to Jamaica Hospital, officials said.
The elderly adventurer is lucky to be alive.
"He did not have a life jacket," a police source said.
The other man was rescued from the kayak by a helicopter and taken to Floyd Bennett Field, where he was later taken to a hospital.
It’s like the Enchanted Forest out there.
Suffolk County cops pulled a seemingly-dead fawn out of icy waters in Fire Island today — and a family of deer came up to it and licked it back to health!
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Marine Bureau officers Robert Femia and Peter Bogachunas were nearing the Davis Park Marina on their boat about 1:04 p.m. when they noticed a little baby deer’s head among pieces of ice and slush floating on the water about 30 yards from shore.
“They don’t know how long it’s been there, so they maneuver their boat close to the deer, pick it up and throw it into the boat,” said Lt. Raymond Epp, of the Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau, who met the officers on the dock as they tried to rescue the little animal.
The cops quickly covered the brown-eyed deer in several thick blankets but, despite their best efforts, the little guy remained freezing wet and motionless.
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Suffolk County police officer with the fawn.
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Suffolks County police officer feeding fawn popcorn.
“It wasn’t flailing or kicking, it was just sitting there,” Epp said. “We weren’t sure if it was in shock of hypothermia.”
That’s when the Enchanted Forest-like miracle happened: Three deer — an adult and two young babies that appeared to be members of the fawn’s family — came out of the woods and began to lick the little guy.
Slowly, he started to come back to life, first blinking its big brown eyes, then getting up slowly and moving around the dock.
The officers took the fawn over to the station house and fed it warm popcorn, which the little guy took gladly. “We had limited food,” Epp explained.
After a few minutes, the fawn started to get even more alert and ran off with the other deer.
“I couldn’t wait to go home and tell my daughter about it,” said Epp, who has an 11 year old. “It was just such a nice, heartwarming story.”
A Brooklyn teen was found stabbed to death this afternoon, law-enforcement sources said.
The 18-year-old was discovered in his cousin's bedroom about 2:50 p.m. on Suydam Street near Wilson Avenue, sources said.
He had several stab wounds, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The killer is still on the loose.
A quick-thinking cop saved the life of a man in downtown Brooklyn, authorities said.
A distraught woman approached Officer Kenia Marte about 1:35 p.m. Jan. 22 while she was driving her sergeant on Schermerhorn and Nevins Street, cops said at a 76th precinct community council meeting yesterday.
When Marte reached the 53-year-old, he couldn't speak and was convulsing—but had two pills of nitroglycerin in his hand, which is used to treat heart conditions.
“She knew exactly what to do,” said Captain Jeffrey Schiff at the meeting.
Marte placed the medication under the man’s tongue, and began to administer CPR, while her sergeant called for an ambulance, authorities said.
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Captain Jeffrey Schiff and Officer Kenia Marte.
FDNY paramedics responded, and gave him CPR until the patient reached Long Island College Hospital, where he stabilized, cops said.
Marte was recognized at the 76th precinct community council meeting yesterday for her life-saving work, where she was honored as the command’s cop of the month. She has five years on the job.
A New Jersey-based crime ring with New York ties used fake identities to create 25,000 bogus credit cards and steal more than $200 million in one of the largest schemes ever investigated by federal authorities, officials said today.
Agents arrested 18 people who were allegedly involved in an elaborate fraud scheme that lasted nearly 10 years and stretched across dozens of states and several, according to a criminal complaint.
Authorities said the creative crew even doctored credit reports to pump up the fake cards’ spending and borrowing power, then borrowed and spent as much as they could without ever paying back the colossal debt.
To pull off the ruse, feds said the scammers would, in some cases, buy real Social Security numbers from people leaving the country.
In other cases, they just simply made up Social Security numbers.
They also created 80 sham companies that allowed them to run bogus charges through credit-card swipe machines.
And they also enlisted the services of small jewelry stores in Jersey City that supplied them with a steady stream of fresh IDs.
With their library of identities, the scammers ran up as much credit as they could on individual cards before tossing them aside and moving on.
“This type of fraud increases the costs of doing business for every American consumer, every day,” said Paul Fishman New Jersey’s US Attorney
Fishman said the suspects bought luxury cars, electronics, spa treatments, high-end clothing and millions of dollars in gold.
The leaders, Fishman said, were Babar Qureshi, 59, of Iselin, New Jersey, and Muhammad Shafiq, 38, of Bellerose, New Jersey.
Eleven live in New York, six in New Jersey, and one in Pennsylvania. Most are Pakistani, and some are US citizens, Fishman said.
It took a Manhattan jury less than four hours today to reject the insanity defense of a psychotic, racist gunman who had held an East Village wine bar hostage in June, 2002, announcing, "White people are going to burn tonight!"
Steven Johnson, an African American, AIDS-infected, unemployed Brooklyn barber, had spent the 40-minute siege pistol-whipping and holding guns to the throats of his 15 hostages, while ranting, "Die, mother f---ing cracker!" Johnson's previous two trials, at which he also used the insanity defense, ended in a mistrial and an overturned verdict; he now faces life in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder.
"White people must die and pay for what they have done to my people," the barbecue lighter-waving fiend had shouted at his terrified captives, all of whom were white.
He had left home that night ten years ago with a homemade catheter strapped to his leg, and a bag packed with dozens of plastic wrist cuffs, three handguns, a 30-inch sword, a barbecue lighter and a squirt bottle of kerosene.
Even before he barged into Bar Veloce on Second Avenue, he'd shot a young passerby, who was also white, on the street outside the bar. During the siege, he also shot a female hostage in the leg, and a sushi chef who'd peered into the bar to see what was going on.
The harrowing standoff only ended when the bezerk bigot was jumped by two female hostages, young women barely in their 20s who sprang into action even though they were bound at the wrists and soaked in kerosene. Both took the stand against him for the third time in December.
"Shoot him again!" Ann-Margret Gidley, now 33, remembered screaming to cops as she and fellow hero Annie Hubbard grappled with Johnson on the wine bar floor.
"They showed amazing bravery," one female juror, who declined to be named, said after today's verdict. "They were amazingly cool young women," she said. "They were pretty gutsy."
Johnson was quickly convicted today of the entire kidnapping and attempted murder case against him, save for the one count of attempted murder involving the shot Johnson fired at the sushi chef, who suffered a gunshot wound to the hand.
At each of his three trials, defense lawyers told jurors that Johnson, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and prosecutorial delusions, could not appreciate that his actions were wrong. The first trial deadlocked due to a lone, pro-acquittal holdout juror in 2004; the second resulted in a 240-year prison sentence, but the conviction was overturned on a technicality on appeal.
Defense lawyer Michelle Gelernt, who represented Johnson at all three trials, argued that Johnson did know that his actions were illegal, but suffered command hallucinations and believed that God had ordered and sanctioned his actions.
This trial had a new spin -- Johnson for the first time took the stand in his own defense, not doing himself any favors by telling jurors personally that he believed himself to be just fine.
"To be frank, I don't particularly agree with my defense as a delusion," Johnson had testified. "I'm perfectly sane."
"I didn't object to it because my advisor, who is God, told me to let it go," he explained of going along with the insanity defense.
"Everybody should be proud of me," he told jurors. "I stood up for my people. . .I didn't do this. God did this. He put the ideas in my head," he said, calling himself "the next Malcolm X."
On cross, though, assistant district attorney Steinglass reminded Johnson that days after the standoff, he had told a doctor at Rikers Island that, "White people killed my girlfriend and I am out for revenge." The girlfriend had died of AIDS, according to testimony.
Steinglass also reminded Johnson that during the standoff itself, he was caught on a 911 tape taunting cops and proclaiming that he was having "mad fun." When a female hostage started crying and praying, telling Johnson, "Jesus loves you," Johnson answered "Shut the f--- up" and kicked her repeatedly in the face. "Correct," Johnson answered when reminded of those kicks.
In one bizarre exchange, Steinglass asked Johnson whether God had told him specifically who he wanted killed.
"The enemies of my people," he answered.
"And who are the enemies of your people, Mr. Johnson?" the prosecutor asked.
"The white man," Johnson explained.
"All white men?"
"I said not all white men," Johnson answered.
"So how," the prosecutor asked, "do you decide which white men are worthy of killing?"
"They all look the same to me," he answered.
Sentencing has been set for March 8 by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel FitzGerald.
Ralph Peters
Violence in Allah’s name in northern Africa won’t end in my lifetime — and probably not in yours. The core question is: To what extent can the savagery be contained?
From the Atlantic coastline to the Suez Canal, struggling governments, impoverished populations and frankly backward societies struggle to find paths to modernization and to compete in a ruthless global economy. Religious fanatics for whom progress is a betrayal of faith hope to block development.
Still, if the only conflict was between Islamist terrorists and those who want civilized lives, the situation could be managed over time. But that struggle forms only one level in a layer cake of clashing visions and outright civil wars bedeviling a vast region. Much larger than Europe, the zone of contention encompasses the Maghreb, the countries touching the Mediterranean, and the Sahel, the bitterly poor states stretching down across desert wastes to the African savannah.
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Figthers of the Islamic group Ansar Dine
The Sahel is the front line not only between the world of Islam and Christian-animist cultures in Africa’s heart, but between Arabs and light-skinned tribes in the north, and blacks to the south. No area in the world so explicitly illustrates the late, great Samuel Huntington’s concept of “the clash of civilizations.”
If racial and religious differences were not challenge enough, in the Maghreb the factions and interest groups are still more complicated. We view Egypt as locked in a contest between Islamists and “our guys,” Egyptians seeking new freedoms. But Egypt’s identity struggle is far more complex, involving social liberals, moderate Muslims, stern conservative Muslims (such as the Muslim Brotherhood) and outright fanatics. The military forms another constituency, while the business community defends its selfish interests. Then there are the supporters of the old Mubarak regime, the masses of educated-but-unemployed youth and the bitterly poor peasants.
Atop all that there’s the question of whether the values cherished by Arab societies can adapt to a globalized world.
The path to Egypt’s future will not be smooth — yet Egypt’s chances are better than those of many of its neighbors. Consider a few key countries in the region:
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Viva la France! (Never thought I’d write that in The Post.) Contrary to a lot of media nonsense, the effective French intervention in Mali demonstrates that not every military response to Islamist terror has to become another Afghanistan: The French are welcome.
As extremists invariably do, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its allies rapidly alienated their fellow Muslims — after hijacking a local uprising. The local version of Islam is far more humane and tolerant than the Wahhabi cult imposed by Islamist fanatics. To the foreign extremists, the Malian love of Sufi mysticism, ancient shrines and their own centuries of religious scholarship are all hateful — as is the Malian genius for music that’s pleased listeners around the world.
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CAIRO — Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger against security forces, but suggested that initial results absolve the police of direct abuse.
The beating was caught on camera and broadcast live on television late Friday as protests raged in the streets outside the presidential palace. Video showed police trying to bundle the naked man into a police van after beating him.
Less than 24 hours after the incident, several thousand anti-government demonstrators marched again on the palace Saturday denouncing the police and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after a week of violent protests that claimed more than 60 lives nationwide.
Speaking to reporters after Friday's assault, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said that initial results from the public prosecutor's investigation show that 48-year-old Hamada Saber was undressed by "rioters" during skirmishes between police and protesters. He was then hit in the foot by a bird shot, the interior minister said, stopping short of saying if the injury was a result of police firing into the crowds.
"The central security forces then found him lying on the ground and tried to put him in an armored vehicle, though the way in which they did that was excessive," said Ibrahim.
In the footage from Friday, at least seven black-clad riot police beat Saber, whose pants are down around his ankles, with sticks before dragging him along the muddy pavement and tossing him into a police van.
The beating happened as thousands of protesters chanted against Morsi, throwing firebombs and firing flares at the presidential palace as police pumped volleys of tear gas and bird shot into the crowd, killing one protester and wounding more than 90.
The Interior Ministry said in a rare statement that it "regrets" the beating, and that it too is investigating the incident. But it also sought to distance itself — and the police in general — from the abuse, saying that "what took place was carried out by individuals that do not represent in any way the doctrine of all policemen who direct their efforts to protecting the security and stability of the nation and sacrifice their lives to protect civilians."
A statement by Morsi's office called the incident "shocking", but stressed that violence and vandalism of government property is unacceptable.
He said he'd kill me, too, the wife of an accused quarter-million-dollar insurance murderer testified today.
"He threatened to kill me," Christina Moreno, 37, told a Manhattan jury today, testifying against estranged husband Edward Demirdjian.
The wife's testimony did little to help Demirdjian, 57, a former limo owner from Orlando, Fla. who is on trial for killing young, pretty Sherra Morgenstern as she slept in her bed at the Jefferson Houses project on Second Avenue in 2009.
Lead prosecutor Shanda Strain, in arguing with Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon, revealed outside the jury's hearing that Demirdjian was quite vivid in his threats to the wife — made as they honeymooned in the Dominican Republic just days before the murder.
"He threatened to chop her up," the prosecutor told the judge.
Demirdjian allegedly killed Morgenstern in an attempt to keep custody of their three year old daughter and collect on a $250,000 insurance policy. Trial testimony is expected to continue through next week.
A Queens man was convicted today for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her toddler.
Jimmy Humphrey was found guilty of strangling Linda Anderson to death and setting her lifeless body on fire. The fire ultimately killed her 2-year-old son, Aiden Hayes, as he searched for his mother through the smoke in their St. Albans apartment.
"I'm not happy about the verdict, I really don't know how to feel. My little sister, Aiden and Gabriel are all gone," said Anderson's heartbroken older brother Rob, 40, outside of Queens Supreme Court.
The 6-foot 2, muscular Humphrey, 25, choked back tears as the forewoman read eight "guilty" verdicts to the court.
Humphrey will be sentenced on March 6.
Anderson, 25, was seven months pregnant with Humphrey's son -- to be named Gabriel -- when their complicated relationship escalated to a crime of passion on July 13, 2010.
Humphrey testified that after their altercation he went home to for a few hours to call his girlfriend and called 911 to report the fire from a pay phone three blocks away.
"I'll be alright, I love ya'll," said Humphrey, who faces up to 50 years in prison, to his family.
Both of Anderson's brothers are expected to give impact statements.
Even after the economic crash, you still can’t afford to buy a home in Manhattan.
The average sale price of apartments of all types soared 66 percent in the past decade, from $850,340 in 2003 to $1,417,080 last year, a new Douglas Elliman study found.
It was actually worse back in 2008 when the economy was tanking — and the average sales price was just under $1.6 million.
The average rose a paltry 0.7 percent last year but get ready for a jump because there’s so little housing on the market.
“Inventory is at or near record lows in most neighborhoods,” said analyst Jonathan Miller, who prepared the report. “It’s a national phenomenon as tight credit continues to keep sellers, who don’t qualify as buyers, from listing their properties.”
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Condos in Battery Park City went up 10.7 percent per square foot last year.
As a result, the listing inventory plunged 34.2 percent to the lowest level in 12 years.
“The upward pressure on housing prices starts now,” Miller said.
Average prices for condos and co-ops are 12 percent from the 2008 peak. And townhouses are down a stunning 25 percent.
Bust since 2009 the Manjattan real estate market has become much less volatile.
The number of sales increased by a modest 3.4 percent to 10,508 last year, compared with 10,161 in 2011, 10,060 in 2010 — and only 7,430 in 2009.
“For the past three years Manhattan has shown remarkable stability in terms of sales and prices, making it one of the best performing housing markets in the US,” Miller, of Miller Samuel Inc., said/
But there’s a lot of fluctuation from neighborhood to neighborhood in sales prices, the study found.
For example, condos in Battery Park City went up 10.7 percent per square foot last year and co-cops in Greenwich Village soared 9.8 percent.
But co-ops in Lincoln Center fell 10.1 percent per square foot, thanks to an addition of new units. Co-ops on East End Avenue dropped 18 percent.
“We often think of Manhattan as a single market when in fact it is a collection of different neighborhoods and price points that have behaved differently over the decade,” Miller said.
He’s going from the schoolhouse to the jailhouse.
Brooklyn janitor Ambiorix Rodriguez, 34, was convicted on multiple counts of rape and sex assault in Brooklyn Supreme Court today for having sex with an eighth-grade girl who attended the East Flatbush middle school where he worked.
The hulking Rodriguez had sex with the girl when she was 12 and 13-years-old in the basement and stairwell of the Middle School for Marketing and Legal Studies. The abuse took place between September 2010 and January 2011, according to Brooklyn prosecutors.
He was caught in 2011 after the girl reported the abuse to school officials, who called the cops.
Rodriguez faces up to life in prison when sentenced, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.
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He was re-elected just two months, but significant challengers are already lining up to take on Republican Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm again in 2014.
The latest is Brooklyn City Councilman Dominic Recchia, who is dropping his bid for Brooklyn Borough President, to explore a run against Grimm, sources said.
"He is still exploring his options," said a Recchia spokeswoman.
Michael McMahon, who lost to Grimm in 2010, is also looking at the possibility of staging a comeback.
Grimm, whose fundraising practices in 2010 became the subject of an FBI investigation, beat Democratic opponent Mark Murphy last year 53-46 percent.
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Egyptians pray during a mass funeral in Port Said today.
PORT SAID, Egypt — Clashes flared anew in the turbulent Egyptian city of Port Said on Sunday, killing at least three more people as a mass funeral was held for most of the 37 people who died during intense riots in the city a day earlier.
The three were killed when police exchanged fire with gunmen trying to storm two police stations and the local prison, according to the city's director of hospitals, Abdel-Rahman Farah. A total of 418 people were injured, some of them with gunshot wounds, he said.
Tens of thousands of mourners poured into the streets for the mass funeral of those killed a day earlier, chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
"We are now dead against Morsi," said Port Said activist Amira Alfy. "We will not rest now until he goes and we will not take part in the next parliamentary elections. Port Said has risen and will not allow even a semblance of normalcy to come back," she said.
Violence in the city, about 140 miles northeast of Cairo, erupted on Saturday after a court convicted and sentenced 21 defendants to death for their roles in a mass soccer riot in a Port Said stadium on Feb. 1, 2012 that left 74 dead. Most of those sentenced to death were local soccer fans from Port Said.
The clashes in Port Said were the latest in a bout of unrest across the country that has left more than 50 people dead since Friday. That death toll includes 40 dead in Port Said and 11 killed in clashes in other cities between police and protesters marking the second anniversary of the uprising that overthrew Mubarak after nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule.
The riots stemmed mostly from animosity between police and die-hard Egyptian soccer fans, known as Ultras, who have become highly politicized. The Ultras frequently confront police and were also part of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime two years ago.
They were also at the forefront of protests against the military rulers who took over from Mubarak and are now again on the front lines of protests against the Morsi, the country's first freely elected leader.
A prominent Islamist leader delivered a thinly veiled warning that Islamist groups would set up militia-like vigilante groups to protect public and state property against attacks.
Addressing a news conference, Tareq el-Zomr of the once-jihadist Gamaa Islamiya, said:
"If Security forces don't achieve security, it will be the right of the Egyptian people and we at the forefront to set up popular committees to protect private and public property and counter the aggression on innocent citizens."
Aaron Neilson-Belman
These are some hot wheels! Firefighters doused a raging taxi fire that erupted on busy Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn today, just a block from the new Barclays Center.
Firefighters quickly put out the blaze, which erupted on Flatbush near Dean Street in the northern section of tony Park Slope. No one was hurt and the FDNY did not know what caused the fire, but from photos captured by a quick-thinking lensman, the taxi looks like a total loss.
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'HOT' COUTURE: Cab caught fire in front of the Versailles clothing shop on Flatbush Ave.
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JUST AIN'T 'FARE': This cab won't be making pickups any time soon.
Two restaurant workers were rushed to the hospital after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a Hell's Kitchen eatery, a leak that prompted fire officials to briefly evacuate the building.
The employees, one of whom was knocked unconscious, were taken to New York-Cornell Medical Center after they succumbed to the gas escaping from a defective oil burner in the basement of Turkish Cuisine restaurant on 9th Avenue near 45th Street at 3:40 p.m.
"When the company arrived on scene, their carbon-monoxide meters ran at 1,000 parts per million," said FDNY Battalion Chief Mike Meyers, who added that safe levels are just 10 parts per million.
The stricken workers, who were not identified, will spend the next 24 hours in an oxygen chamber and are listed in serious condition.
Ten residents ordered to briefly leave the building were allowed back inside, but not before being chilled to the bone during today's cold snap.
"I was buying groceries, then I came back and firefighters told me, 'You can't go in.' Now I'm cold as hell and my hands are freezing." said John Zieley, 86, a retired actor who has called the building home for 44 years.
Meyers said that carbon monoxide poisoning is especially dangerous in wintertime, as cold weather prompts chilled residents to cover windows with plastic, concentrating the effects of a leak.
He said everyone should make sure carbon-monoxide detectors are installed and working.
A Queens worker was killed a construction site this afternoon, police said.
The 42-year-old fell from the first floor to the basement of an Astoria building on Broadway near 45th Street about 3:20 p.m., cops said.
He suffered head trauma and was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, according to an FDNY spokesman.
Police said he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
No criminality is suspected.
Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn faces closure -- just two years after the state approved a merger to save the financially ailing 155-year old facility, source told the Post.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which acquired LICH in 2011, has sent out word that its eying shutting down the Cobble Hill hospital — the only one that provides emergency room service in Brownstone Brooklyn.
A New York State Nurses Association rep visited the hospital to warn staffers that the hospital could close as soon as March 15.
“It’s disheartening,” said one nurse.
“We’ve seen it sort of get dismantled over the past two years.”
A recommendation to close LICH would have to be approved by SUNY’s Board of Trustees.
Talk of closure comes a week after state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued a scathing audit saying that SUNY Downstate was on the verge of insolvency. The report said SUNY Downstate had been mismanaged and called its decision to absorb LICH a colossal mistake — a marriage of two financially failing hospitals.
The state audit estimated that the LICH unit of SUNY Downstate would run a cash deficit of $72.5 million next year
“We’ve been talking all along with the new C.E.O. of SUNY Downstate, and it’s been made clear to us that the hospitals are not making money, they’re hemorrhaging,” said state Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D-Brooklyn)..
She claims that over 1000 people were serviced in the emergency room for flu-like symptoms from December 2012 to early January.
“What would we do if we didn’t have it?” she asked.
Elected officails plan a rally on Friday to save LICH .
“It looks really bad,” said one borough official.
SUNY Downstate is Brooklyn’s fourth largest employer.
LICH’s closure “would be a major health care blow for all of Brownstone Brooklyn,” said Roy Sloane, president of Cobble Hill Association.
A rep for SUNY Downstate-LICH declined comment.
A Colombian nationalist ratted out his buddy today in exchange for a lighter prison sentence for senselessly stabbed an innocent man to death and seriously injured another.
Francisco Uribe, 48, was moments away from going to trial in Queens Supreme court when he plead guilty for knifing Robinson Lopez outside of the Blue Lounge in Jackson Heights on Feb 4, 2007.
Uribe was facing up to 50 years in prison for murder, attempted murder and other charges, but instead he plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter and will be sentenced to 18 years in prison on Feb 5.
"Carlos and I went to a bar to drink, we stabbed two people, I stabbed one and Carlos stabbed the other, Carlos used one knife and I used another one," said Uribe through a Spanish interpreter as Assistant District Attorney Debra Pomodore asked the fugitive several questions to satisfy the plea bargain.
"What's Carlos' last name?" asked Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth C. Holder.
"Sanchez," he replied.
The co-horts fled the bloody scene on Roosevelt Avenue and 82nd Street in a BMW.
Sanchez, 34, was arrested later that day while Uribe jumped the boarder to Columbia and was returned to Queens in June 2010.
Uribe also admitted that he didn't know his victim.
Lopez, 34 of Rego Park, was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital were he was pronounced dead.
The other victim survived the attack.
"If this case went to trial, we would have called the Medical Examiner who did the autopsy of Robinson Lopez which concluded that he died from two stab wounds to the chest...which resulted in his death," said Pomodore.
Sanchez's case is still pending.
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