Showing posts with label NEW YORK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NEW YORK. Show all posts

1.14.2011

12.09.2010

This is How You Promote an Album!



Just walk around scaring people into buying it. Hey, it works for the GOP.

4.05.2009

3.15.2009

Need Money? Find the Tree Killer [Rewards]


Yes, we are in a recession. Could you use some extra cash? I'm sure you could! How about $2,000? All you have to do is find the idiot who is cutting down trees at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan. That's a pretty penny just to find the guy who is chopping down and removing trees. I think everyone, at least ever New Yorker, should be looking for this fool. You have a better chance of catching this guy and getting the reward than you do of winning the lottery or heck, even finding a decent-to-good job right now!


Now, I'm no tree hugger, but if it's going to make you money, I'm all for it! Arborcide is illegal.


NEW YORK (AP) -- An ax might have been used. Or a machete.


But this is undisputed: Park employees have discovered 17 trees at Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan have been chopped down and left to rot. The victims include pines, sugar maples and young tulip trees.


Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe calls it a "methodical serial attack just to kill trees.'' He says there's a $2,000 reward for information about the attacks.


It's not the first times trees have been slaughtered at the park. Parks officials say 35 eastern red cedars were cut down to their stumps last March and 28 were killed in November 2006.


The 200-acre park is home to hundreds of plants and tree species.

1.15.2009

A US Airways Commercial Jet has Crash Landed into the Hudson River


US Airways Flight 1549 that was going from LaGuardia to Charlotte has apparently hit something (perhaps a bird) and managed to crash land into the Hudson River just behind the Intrepid Museum. The plane is partially afloat in the water. There were 146 people along with 5 crew members aboard the flight.


Witnesses say the plane slowly crashed into the water meaning the pilot was able to "land" onto the water relatively safely. The temperature of the water is 34 degrees and it feels even colder than that so survivors will feel 0 degree water.




CNN is reporting that passengers have been taken off the plane and back on land in a building on 42nd street.

One passenger/survivor, Alberto Panero, says that after takeoff, they heard a loud bang and although there was a smell of smoke, nothing was really happening. They could tell that something was wrong as the plane was changing directions. The pilot then came on and said to brace for impact.

He also says that passengers were able to get out from the exits above the wings and hop onto a boat to get off the plane without getting too wet.

Panero says that he's pretty sure that everyone has gotten off the plane safely.

The FAA says that a potential "bird strike" caused the plane to go down three minutes after the plane took off.

Follow the video: CNN LIVE