#Lowly Heat snap Knicks’ three-game win streak

#Lowly Heat snap Knicks’ three-game win streak

“#Lowly Heat snap Knicks’ three-game win streak” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said during the NBA Finals last October he’d like to build a defensive culture like Pat Riley’s Miami Heat. Thibodeau has done a good job at trying to get there, but his Knicks still can’t beat the Heat and saw their three-game winning streak…

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#Texas dog helped fight off knife-wielding home intruder

#Texas dog helped fight off knife-wielding home intruder

“#Texas dog helped fight off knife-wielding home intruder” A dog in Texas is being hailed by her family as a hero after reportedly helping to fight off a home intruder on Friday. The Newsom family said that Marley, their eight-year-old dog, bit 53-year-old Thong Pham, who police said had a knife while in the house. “She’s our hero. If it hadn’t been for…

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#NYS must open COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all inmates

#NYS must open COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all inmates

“#NYS must open COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all inmates” A Bronx judge on Monday ruled that New York must offer all state prison and jail inmates the coronavirus vaccine — calling the group’s past eligibility exclusion “unfair and unjust.” The decision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Alison Tuitt came the same day that state officials…

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#Battle for southeast Queens heats in up mayor’s race

#Battle for southeast Queens heats in up mayor’s race

“#Battle for southeast Queens heats in up mayor’s race” The battle for black voters in the Democratic mayoral primary is heating up in Queens. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, one of the frontrunners in the race, was raised in south Jamaica and is seeking to run as the borough’s favorite son. But he is fending…

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#Balthazar re-opens year after pandemic to long lines

#Balthazar re-opens year after pandemic to long lines

“#Balthazar re-opens year after pandemic to long lines” There are some things even jaded New Yorkers will wait in line for in the rain during a pandemic — and one of them apparently is Balthazar. The sceney soho brasserie founded in 1997 by famed restaurateur Keith McNally began serving oysters and champagne again last week for the…

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#NY’s Legoland hit with 0K in environmental fines

#NY’s Legoland hit with $600K in environmental fines

“#NY’s Legoland hit with $600K in environmental fines” They’re not playing around. New York environmental officials just slapped the upstate Legoland theme-park project with a mountain of violations — bringing the total amount of green-related fines levied against the site to more than $600,000. The planned amusement park, expected to debut soon in Goshen, was…

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