Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Milvia Lopez, by her attorney MICHAEL STEWART FRANKEL, of New York City, recently filed suit, in Supreme Court, New York County, bearing Index # 112888/2009. The complaint alleges that while Ms.
HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Today I came across a dancing themed video that rocked the khaki pants off Microsoft’s awkward experiment with viral video . The video, posted this week, features the entire staff of St Vincent’s Medical Center in Portland, Oregon donning pink gloves and dancing for Breast Cancer Awareness. As the grand-daughter of a Breast Cancer survivor, I thought the video was touching. As an inbound...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, is providing an update on its RNAi pipeline, platform, and technology at its R&D Day being held in New York today. Alnylam scientists and management will be joined by two guest speakers: Professor Allan Glanville, Director of Thoracic Medicine and Medical Director Lung Transplantation,...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Photo by Ethan Sprague There are some more details coming out about the truck that hit a woman in a wheelchair on Bleecker and 8th yesterday. The Daily News reports that the victim was 78-year-old off-Broadway actress and playwright Shami Chaikin, who was "riding her motorized wheelchair in a Manhattan bike lane" and was hit by a city garbage truck. Locals told the NY Post that cars and...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
After the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved St. Vincent's Hospital's supercontroversial hardship application to demolish Greenwich Village's O'Toole Building a year ago, a community group, Protect the Village Historic District , filed a lawsuit against Landmarks. The folks at PVHD alleged that Landmarks didn't give enough thought to non-demolition options for the "Overbite Building."...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Just before 10 a.m. a report came over the newswire saying a female in a wheelchair was pinned under a truck. Shortly after a reader sent in these photos from the accident, which occurred on Bleecker and 8th Avenue , showing the truck was a City Parks vehicle. The vicitim was unconscious and transported to St. Vincent's Hospital, and there has been no additional word on her condition. Update : According...
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Back in March, Protect the Village Historic District sued the Landmarks Preservation Commission over its granting of a hardship to St. Vincent’s Hospital, so that it might demolish Albert C. Ledner’s National Maritime Union Headquarters, now known as the O’Toole building, and replace it with a new hospital tower designed by Pei Cobb and Freed. [...]
Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Andrew Williamson-Noble, a New York University junior committed suicide this morning by leaping from the 10th floor of the main library. The student reportedly used an NYU-issued card to swipe himself into the Bobst Library, where he committed suicide around 4:30 a.m. One student reported hearing a "loud thud" when the student's body hit the marble floor in the atrium of the library. Police...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Aha! After the NYPD had few details about the just-after-midnight Sunday shooting that left four people injured , the Daily News and a reader have some more information. According to the News , "Two groups of men brawled at the doorway of the Morandi restaurant at the corner of Waverly Place and Seventh Ave. just after 1:30 a.m., police said. One of the combatants pulled out a gun and fired wildly...
The Birmingham Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Burger King is building a new restaurant across from St. Vincent’s Hospital - and across from a McDonald’s restaurant - in Birmingham.
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive It's unlikely that Simon Ratcliffe will forget the night he spent sitting next to a crack addict with no legs. Surprisingly, the unfortunate man was the least of the Basement Jaxx member's worries. Ratcliffe was in New York for a recording session for the London-based dance duo's fifth album, 'Scars,' which was released Tuesday, when he received a phone call...
WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Associated Press - September 29, 2009 10:04 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A 17-year-old has been injured in a 25-foot fall while visiting family at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham.
Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Teen injured after "he got bored and went exploring," firefighter says.
Issa's Untidy Hut (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Last week, it was mourning the death of a great poet/rocker, Jim Carroll. It's fitting then that this week we celebrate the birth of another great rocker/poet, Nick Cave. This is Cave's (& the Bad Seeds) second appearance on Issa's Sunday Service and, though I promised myself to keep the repeats to a minimum, at least to start out, my extremely biased opinions are showing. There She Goes, My Beautiful...
Birmingham, Alabama Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Go ahead and say it. I'm guilty as charged for dragging my little darlings on my blog again. Well the "babies" have turned five within a day of each other, and we need to celebrate, right'? For those of you who think that being their Mumsie makes it easier to get photos, think again. I'll let you decide which one is the ham and which one would rather clean up his room than smile for the camera!...
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