#Water leak leads to hundreds of cancelations and delays at JFK

#Water leak leads to hundreds of cancelations and delays at JFK

“#Water leak leads to hundreds of cancelations and delays at JFK” Record-breaking holiday weekend travel at JFK Airport was grounded Saturday night by a “minor water leak” at the airport’s control tower, officials said. Hundreds of departing and incoming flights were canceled or delayed at the international transit hub, the Port Authority’s online flight tracker…

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#Miami condo residents nervous after Champlain Towers collapse

#Miami condo residents nervous after Champlain Towers collapse

“#Miami condo residents nervous after Champlain Towers collapse” After reading an engineer’s report on the Miami condo tower next door to his own, Bob Ross is worried. Ross lives in Palm Bay Towers, across the marina from Miami Bay Towers, where the report, prepared in December, found “structural deficiencies” in the 26-story, 68-unit building, one…

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#2 more Florida condo collapse victims ID’d

#2 more Florida condo collapse victims ID’d

“#2 more Florida condo collapse victims ID’d” Florida officials identified two more victims of the Surfside condo collapse Saturday, as search-and-rescue operations were suspended ahead of a planned building demolition and tropical storm. Graciela Cattarossi, 48, and Gonzalo Torre, 81, were identified Saturday, a day after their remains were recovered, Miami-Dade County Police said. Cattarossi,…

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#Incompetent de Blasio team whiffs on  billion Bronx boost

#Incompetent de Blasio team whiffs on $1 billion Bronx boost

“#Incompetent de Blasio team whiffs on $1 billion Bronx boost” If you thought Mayor de Blasio’s inept governance of our city couldn’t get any worse in his  administration’s waning days, think again.  A consortium of businesses working with the New York Yankees handed the city a $1 billion development plan for a blighted South Bronx neighborhood,…

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#Celebrate America this 4th of July

#Celebrate America this 4th of July

“#Celebrate America this 4th of July” Katharine Lee Bates, a 33-year-old English literature teacher at Wellesley College, was on “a merry expedition up Pike’s Peak” in Colorado in 1893 when she looked out “over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies.” In an instant, she said, “the opening…

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