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Senior reporter at Law360 covering legal industry. Past: City Hall at NY Daily News, NY Post, Staten Island Advance. Artist 🥯 Email anna.sanders@law360.com
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The Bowery Mission Braces for Winter

The Bowery Mission Braces for Winter

The Local East Village, a New York Times blog — At exactly 4:45 a.m. everyday, Albert Alston flicks on the lights to rouse the men asleep on what passes for a dormitory annex at the Bowery Mission-its chapel floor and pews. "I do it the same way I did it as a platoon sergeant," he said. "I know I just have to get them up." Sometimes the men wake weary-eyed and waspish, but not usually. "Sergeant" Alston's gruff voice and wide grin are part of a routine they've come to expect when sleeping at the Mission this winter, as temperatures drop and it's become too cold to stay outside.
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PHOTOS: Mexican Poet Leads Anti-Drug War Protest In NYC

PHOTOS: Mexican Poet Leads Anti-Drug War Protest In NYC

Huffington Post — NEW YORK -- Javier Sicilia took one last drag on his cigarette before tossing it in front of a downtown HSBC bank branch. He then strode into the bank lobby, followed by fellow demonstrators and a dozen police officers, returning outside a few minutes later with a black briefcase filled with $1 bills dotted in red. Sicilia then grabbed a fistful of the cash and threw it on the sidewalk in front of the bank. "En este banco se lavan dinero!" Sicilia shouted, jabbing his finger behind him. "In this bank, they launder money!" someone translated as the noted Mexican poet repeated himself in Spanish.
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New #OWS Lawsuit Names Ray Kelly And Pepper-Spraying Officer For False Arrests

New #OWS Lawsuit Names Ray Kelly And Pepper-Spraying Officer For False Arrests

Huffington Post — NEW YORK -- Three days after Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one-year anniversary with mass demonstrations and a slew of arrests, two protesters sued the city and several members of the NYPD, claiming they were falsely arrested during the first week of the movement a year ago.
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'Insufficient Evidence' In Traffic Cop Rape Case

'Insufficient Evidence' In Traffic Cop Rape Case

Huffington Post — An NYPD traffic officer arrested Tuesday following allegations that he drugged and raped a 17-year-old girl was released without charge Wednesday night after the Bronx district attorney's office deferred prosecution due to insufficient evidence.
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Empire State Building Shooter Quiet and 'Very Lonely,' Neighbors Recall

Empire State Building Shooter Quiet and 'Very Lonely,' Neighbors Recall

Huffington Post — NEW YORK -- A laid-off women's clothing designer killed by police after shooting his former boss near the Empire State Building was a quiet and fastidious man who lived alone with his two cats in an apartment building on the Upper East Side, neighbors said.
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Search For Justice In Wild Brooklyn Shooting

Search For Justice In Wild Brooklyn Shooting

Huffington Post — Saquan Dixon was dancing in the backyard at a crowded party in Brooklyn, N.Y., last June when the festivities suddenly turned nightmarish. A man who was slapped in the face stumbled into Dixon, then pulled out a handgun and started shooting in the direction of his attacker. Dixon took a round in the leg. Another young man, Donzell Rogers, was shot in his side. The bullet pierced Rogers' heart, killing him. From the witness stand in Brooklyn court on Thursday, Dixon identified Jonathan Thomas, 20, as the shooter. "He was just shooting wild," Dixon, 20, testified. "I thought I was going to die."
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GUILTY

GUILTY

Huffington Post — His eyes glazed over and his voice a barely audible whisper, Levi Aron pleaded guilty Thursday to abducting, suffocating and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky last summer, a grisly crime that rocked Brooklyn's insular and devout Jewish Orthodox community.
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PHOTOS: Community Mourns Murder Of Bronx 4-Year-Old

PHOTOS: Community Mourns Murder Of Bronx 4-Year-Old

Huffington Post — NEW YORK -- Prosecutors charged two men in the death of a 4-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet during a wild gun battle in a Bronx park on Sunday night.
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PHOTOS: Hundreds Gather For Funeral Of Slain 4-Year-Old

PHOTOS: Hundreds Gather For Funeral Of Slain 4-Year-Old

Huffington Post — NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton's voice echoed off the packed pews of Mt. Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem Wednesday night as he decried the recent surge in gun violence that put 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan Jr. in the small white coffin before him. "I'm angry at myself and all of us, 'cause it shouldn't have gotten to this," Sharpton said, pointing to the 4-foot-long casket as he delivered Lloyd's eulogy. "This is not about the blame game no more. This is about all of those who will stand up and take responsibility for our part in making sure our babies grow up."
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PHOTOS: After 3-Year-Old Shot, A Rally To End Violence In Bed-Stuy

PHOTOS: After 3-Year-Old Shot, A Rally To End Violence In Bed-Stuy

Huffington Post — BROOKLYN -- Isaiah Rivera was playing in an elephant-shaped sprinkler on a warm Sunday afternoon earlier this month when two men charged into the playground and fired 13 rounds, grazing the 3-year-old's leg. Three days later, the boy's father, Jose Rivera, took the microphone at an anti-violence rally sparked by the Bedford-Stuyvesant shooting. As the young father addressed hundreds of neighbors, local elected officials and community leaders gathered in the park, Isaiah slept in a stroller at his parent's feet, a scrape on his shin. "This gun violence needs to stop," Rivera said, standing with his pregnant wife and two eldest sons.
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A New Rule Balances Wildlife and Off-Road-Vehicle Use on a North Carolina Beach | Audubon Magazin...

A New Rule Balances Wildlife and Off-Road-Vehicle Use on a North Carolina Beach | Audubon Magazin...

Audubon Magazine — Congressional legislation and a pending civil suit threaten the future of a new rule that protects wildlife and allows vehicles on Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Five years ago tire tracks carved by recreational off-road vehicles traced a path of destruction over dead birds and demolished eggs. Today least tern chicks, nesting loggerhead sea turtles, and piping plovers are flourishing at North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore. After a legal battle waged by Audubon North Carolina and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, the National Park Service issued a new rule put into effect this past February that allows ORV access in certain areas within the seashore while also protecting sea turtles and birds.
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Coal Control

Coal Control

Audubon Magazine — Audubon and the Sierra Club celebrate a landmark settlement. Just north of Interstate 30 in southwestern Arkansas, bald-cypress trees submerged in swamps and bottomland hardwoods provide habitat for the endangered interior least tern and the iconic bald eagle. One of Audubon's Important Bird Areas, the 18,001-acre Little River Bottoms nesting ground is home to more than 11,000 waterbirds, and hosts thousands of migratory waterfowl each winter. But in 2006 American Electric Power and its subsidiary, Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), announced plans to construct what is now a $1.7 billion, 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant just east of the reserve that threatened this habitat (see "Smoke on the Water," January-February 2008).
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Do the Neighs Have It? Activists Try to Dissuade Tourists from Carriage Rides

Do the Neighs Have It? Activists Try to Dissuade Tourists from Carriage Rides

New York Observer — The two little blonde girls, each no more than nine, stood next to their parents on the cobblestone sidewalk at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, slouching in the way only bored children can. Moments before, an older woman had come up to the family wielding a flyer emblazoned with the words “DON’T RIDE A HORSE CARRIAGE,” and proceeded to feverishly explain what she viewed as the evils of the industry. During the speech, the girls’ father stared blankly into the intersection. He finally looked down at his daughter and asked, “What do you think about that? You asked earlier…about the horses? How they were treated?”
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Bespoke Blokes on Spokes

Bespoke Blokes on Spokes

New York Observer — His glasses were brown, semi-rimless and matched the crisp white gloves he wore to replace modern-day fingerless bike gear. He had a black bowler hat with a tiny brown feather tucked into the lip and a red bow-tie complimented his brown, red and tan checkered suit. And, as he twirled a woman around, moving with bousterous live swing music, the rest of the sidewalk crowd watched, dazed by the energy of his imprompteau dance. Samuel Coleman, straightening his so-called "loud" suit after the dance, said he commutes by bike from the Bronx into the city everyday for work.
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The Carriage Horse Wars Stampede Through City Hall

The Carriage Horse Wars Stampede Through City Hall

New York Observer — Ruby looked restless. The brown horse shifted in place, turned around, and occasionally poked her white muzzle between the red bars of her 8 by 10-foot stall on the second floor of the Clinton Park Stables. Her golf ball-sized eyes glistened and she sighed, staring out at us all the while. The Observer reached in and stroked Ruby's snout between the bars, wondering if the horse had any clue of the battle raging around her.
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Mark Ruffalo Attends Tension-Filled Hydrofracking Forum on UWS

Mark Ruffalo Attends Tension-Filled Hydrofracking Forum on UWS

New York Observer — Last night, actor Mark Ruffalo was on hand at an Upper West Side public forum to voice his opposition to the proposal allowing hydrofracking in New York State. Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal arranged the forum as a means for her UWS constituents, along with other New Yorkers, to discuss the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's proposal to open the Marcellus Shale to natural gas drilling, which comes after the moratorium on the practice was lifted in June. The DEC has opened its Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS), which explores the controversy surrounding hydrofracking, to public comment through Dec. 12.
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