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David Diaz, Award-Winning TV Reporter For WCBS, WNBC, Dies David Diaz, Award-Winning TV Reporter For WCBS, WNBC, Dies
David Diaz, Award-Winning TV Reporter For Wcbs, Wnbc, Dies David Diaz, whose career as an award-winning TV news reporter in New York City spanned three decades, has died. He was 82.  His death, which occurred last week, was announced on Monday, March 17 by WCBS. Following 15 years with WNBC-TV, Diaz spent 12 years at CBS New York. A native of Puerto Rico, Diaz relocated to upper Manhattan during his childhood. He earned a master's degree from Columbia after graduating from City College and Fordham Prep. In a video tribute to Diaz, CBS Evening News co-anchor Maurice Dubois described Diaz as "a reporter's reporter," and a quintessential…
One Arrest Made During Gaza War Protest In Teaneck One Arrest Made During Gaza War Protest In Teaneck
One Arrest Made During Gaza War Protest In Teaneck FOLLOW UP: An Upper Manhattanite was the only person arrested at a large demonstration outside a Teaneck synagogue, authorities said. Pro-Palestinian protestors faced off against Jewish counter-demonstrators during a fundraiser on Monday, April 1, at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun on West Englewood Avenue. The private event featured a representative of ZAKA, a Jewish group that collects body parts and blood for burial at the scenes of accidents and terrorist attacks. After American Muslims for Palestine and Within Our Lifetime announced plans to picket the event, township authorities took the …
New Update: Peekskill Woman Crashes Into 6 People, Including 2 Toddlers, Police Say New Update: Peekskill Woman Crashes Into 6 People, Including 2 Toddlers, Police Say
New Update: Peekskill Woman Crashes Into 6 People, Including 2 Toddlers, Police Say This story has been updated. A Northern Westchester woman has been arrested for allegedly losing control of a stolen car and careening onto an Upper Manhattan sidewalk, striking six people, including two 3-year-olds. Northern Westchester resident Sharon Godwin, age 32, of Peekskill, was arrested on Wednesday, March 15, after New York City Police responded to a 911 call of pedestrians struck by a motor vehicle at West 190th Street and Broadway, said the NYPD. Upon arrival, officers observed six pedestrians with injuries on the sidewalk. A preliminary investigation determined that Godwin los…
UPDATE: Body Of Female GWB Jumper Recovered From Hudson River UPDATE: Body Of Female GWB Jumper Recovered From Hudson River
Update: Body Of Female GWB Jumper Recovered From Hudson River The body of a woman who jumped from the George Washington Bridge was pulled from the Hudson River less than an hour after her abandoned vehicle was found on the span, Port Authority officials said. A search began after the vehicle was discovered on the westbound lower level around 6:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, they said. The NYPD Harbor Unit retrieved the body about three miles south of the bridge shortly before 7:30 a.m. and brought it to a pier on the Upper Manhattan side across from Edgewater, Port Authority police said. ****** The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the…
Fierce Fire Destroys Trailer, Several Vehicles, Sends Smoke Column Skyward In Fort Lee Fierce Fire Destroys Trailer, Several Vehicles, Sends Smoke Column Skyward In Fort Lee
Fierce Fire Destroys Trailer, Several Vehicles, Sends Smoke Column Skyward In Fort Lee Investigators were probing the cause of a fire early Saturday that engulfed a storage trailer and several vehicles behind a Fort Lee gas station. Huge columns of black, then gray, then white smoke could be seen from Washington Heights and Upper Manhattan after the fire broke out in the office-like trailer behind Fort Lee Getty on Palisade Avenue around 6 a.m. Fort Lee firefighters confined the rampaging blaze, protecting the gas station and other nearby buildings and vehicles. Assisting were their colleagues from Cliffside Park and Ridgefield. Eight vehicles in all were reportedly either…
COVID-19: Long Island Locations Expected To Be Named Yellow Zones COVID-19: Long Island Locations Expected To Be Named Yellow Zones
Covid-19: Long Island Locations Expected To Be Named Yellow Zones Click here for an updated story - COVID-19: Four Long Island Yellow Cluster Zones Added Some Long Island communities are on the verge of being designated as COVID-19 “yellow zone” micro-clusters due to a recent rise in new cases as the virus continues to rapidly spread. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced over the weekend that by the end of the week, some areas that have seen a rising infection rate will see new restrictions put in place due to the second wave of the virus. “We have several communities that are in the warning track,” Cuomo said on Sunday, Nov. 22. “Right now, unless …