Sandy Buyout Program Expanded

The Cuomo administration, as part of the state's Superstorm Sandy recovery process, has expanded the NY Rising Housing Recovery Program, aimed at reversing the tide of residential development into vulnerable coastal wetlands by offering buyouts to 129 flooded-out Staten Island homeowners.

Homeowners in the Ocean Breeze section, where two people drowned in the flood last year and many homes

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DeBlasio: LICH Coded

Update 7/20/13

According to an email blast today from deBlasio, SUNY is violating the temporary restraining order issued by State Supreme Court Justice Baynes yesterday by continuing to divert ambulances and trying to move patients out of LICH.

De Blasio has demanded that SUNY comply with the terms of the TRO. Hospital staff, responding to SUNY's attempts to move their patients out of LICH,

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Albanese: deBlasio Jumped the Shark at LICH Protest

In a press release today, Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese, responding to the news that rival Democrat Bill deBlasio had staged a protest action with Long Island University Hospital staff at the offices of hospital operator SUNY Downstate, questioned his rival's commitment to saving the critically-endangered LICH.

DeBlasio, in a statement today, joined Albanese in calling on Governor

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Digging up the Dead

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office will expand its Conviction Integrity Unit into a blue-ribbon panel tasked with reviewing 50 murder convictions linked to retired NYPD detective Lou Scarcella, the 26-year veteran whose tainted murder investigation put David Ranta in jail for 23 years.

Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes is recruiting judges, attorneys and
investigators to sit on the panel,

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