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: Firefighters From Rockland Rescue Palisades Hiker Above NJ Marina
Responders from Piermont rescued a stranded Fourth of July hiker from the Palisades above the Hudson River, authorities said. The 32-year-old Manhattan hiker was with a group who called Palisades Interstate Parkway police from the Giant Stairs in Alpine when he became lightheaded and had difficulty breathing shortly before noon Saturday, PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. Piermont EMS members stabilized the man while members of the Marine Unit firefighters ran a line that they used to lower him to the Alpine Marina, with help from their colleagues from Nyack, Walter said. Pal…
Police & Fire
Port Authority, Westchester, NYC, PIP Police Search Hudson In Vain For Presumed GWB Jumper
Responders from several law enforcement agencies searched the Hudson River in vain for a presumed jumper after a car was found abandoned on the George Washington Bridge. Port Authority police found the abandoned vehicle midspan of the bridge's westbound upper level around 9 p.m. Sunday. Among the agencies that sent air and sea units to assist were the NYPD, Palisades Interstate Parkway Police, the Nyack and Piermont fire department marine units, the Thiells dive team, the Irvington and Tarrytown fire departments, the Rockland County Sheriff's Office and the Westchester County Police A…
Police & Fire
Authorities ID Bodies Pulled From Hudson River As Edison Man, 23, NYC Woman, 22
Details surrounding the discovery of bodies floating in the Hudson River in Jersey City on July Fourth remain unclear, although authorities have identified the victims. Authorities responded to the Hudson River near the end of Morris Canal Park on reports of a female floating in the water around 7:30 a.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The body was identified as a 22-year-old New York City woman, whose name was not released. She was pronounced dead around 7:45 a.m. Then, five hours later, police received a call of a second body found in the Morris Canal, approxima…
Police & Fire
North Bergen Special Police Officer Dies From Self-Inflicted Wound
REQUIESCAT IN PACE: A special police officer from North Bergen who shot himself in the parking lot of a Hudson River hotel in Edgewater succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, authorities said. Responding officers found township the officer sitting in a vehicle outside the Comfort Inn along the Hudson River around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, responders said. As they approached him to talk, a shot rang out, they said. A landing zone was set up at nearby Veterans Field, but weather conditions cancelled plans for an airlift. An ambulance took the 28-year-old officer to Hackensack University Medical …
News
Environmentalists Explain Hundreds Of Dead Fish Floating In Hudson River
Hundreds of dead fish recently found floating in the Hudson River are no cause for concern, environmentalists say. Their deaths, in fact, are the result of a "naturally occurring phenomenon," according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The dead bunker were first spotted floating between 59th Street and the George Washington Bridge on the Manhattan side of the river. People in Edgewater and Fort Lee who also noticed them posted footage to social media. Warm water temperatures are likely a contributing factor, according to the DEC, adding water is less a…
Police & Fire
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: North Bergen Special Police Officer Dies From Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
UPDATE: A special police officer from North Bergen who shot himself in the parking lot of a Hudson River hotel in Edgewater succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, authorities said. Responding officers found township the officer sitting in a vehicle outside the Comfort Inn along the Hudson River around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, responders said. As they approached him to talk, a shot rang out, they said. A landing zone was set up at nearby Veterans Field, but weather conditions cancelled plans for an airlift. An ambulance took the 28-year-old officer to Hackensack University Medical Center, wher…
Police & Fire
Update
: Woman Slain In Jersey City Murder-Suicide Was Five Months Pregnant, Authorities Say
A Jersey City restaurateur was five months pregnant when she was killed Sunday morning in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Monday. Garima Kothari, 35, was found dead in her Christopher Columbus Drive apartment around 7:15 a.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Around half-hour later, police found her 37-year-old husband dead in the Hudson River near Montgomery Street and Exchange Place, Suarez said. The incident was being investigated as a murder-suicide, and Kothari's death was ruled a homicide, Suarez said Monday. "While it remains at this time that the…
Police & Fire
Husband, Pregnant Wife Dead In Jersey City Murder-Suicide Were Dedicated Restaurant Owners
UPDATE: The 35-year-old Jersey City restaurateur killed in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday morning was five months pregnant, and her death was ruled a homicide, authorities announced Monday. ** ORIGINAL STORY BELOW ** She was a talented chef, dedicated to her profession. He was an intelligent graduate of India Institute of Technology, who came to the U.S. to pursue his master's degree. Together, Garima Kothari and Manmohan Mall were a happy couple, and owners of Nukkad, an Indian restaurant a few blocks from their Jersey City high-rise apartment, relatives say. Both were fou…
Events
'No One Fights Alone': Loved Ones, Friends Rally As Fearless NJ Performer's Cancer Returns
Multi-talented entertainer Olivia Hutcherson of Ridgefield was still basking in the glow of a Manhattan book release party when she got the news that the breast cancer she’d fought off four years ago had not only returned. It’s Stage 4. Days after the launch of “The Show Must Go On,” a collection of Hutcherson’s poems, her lead oncologist told her that the returning cancer had metastasized to her bones, lymph nodes and spine. Those who know her weren’t surprised when Olivia dug in, undergoing 10 rounds of radiation in 10 days. That’s what she’s all about. “I remember laying in those big,…
Police & Fire
Authorities: Search Continues After Jumper Abandons Car On GWB
Searchers continued looking for a driver who abandoned a car on the George Washington Bridge and jumped into the snowy Hudson River early Monday afternoon, authorities said. New York City harbor and aviation units searched the coast lines of the New Jersey and New York sides of the river with negative results after confirming a jumper at 12:45 p.m., Port Authority Spokesperson Lenis Rodriguez said. The truck was abandoned in the right lane on the New Jersey-bound upper level, Rodrigues said. Port Authority police were continuing to investigate along with the NYPD Harbor Unit and Marine 1 F…
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PA Police: Pickup Driver Turned Away From Holland Tunnel Tries Again, Busted With Loaded Gun
A pickup truck driver from Virginia who tried going back into the Holland Tunnel after being turned away for pulling an unauthorized trailer was arrested after he was found carrying a loaded gun, Port Authority police said. Port Authority Police Officer Nicholas Levitas stopped Ronnie C. Johnson, 43, at the tunnel’s downtown Manhattan entrance Sunday afternoon and made him turn around, authority spokeswoman Lenis Rodrigues said. Johnson returned and tried again, but Levitas notified officers on the New Jersey side, she said. They smelled burnt marijuana from inside the truck, searched the …
News
23 NY Waterway Ferries Suspended For Safety Reasons: Report
Nearly two dozen ferries out of NY Waterway's fleet of 32 that travel between New York and New Jersey were suspended by the Coast Guard for safety reasons, News 4 reported Sunday. Six of the ferries were since returned to service Sunday, but the company said the ferry service -- which crosses the Hudson River from Bergen and Hudson counties to Manhattan -- would likely experience delays during the rush hour commute Monday morning. Some ferries were expected to travel only every 20 minutes, double the normal 10 minutes, a NY Waterway spokesman said. The Coast Guard said the inspe…
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