May
20
Model takes four years to build; survives Sandy for trip to real stadium
Yankee Stadium made from matchsticks: Match stick Yankee Stadium made by Toms River man survives Sandy and goes to the Bronx
TOMS RIVER — You’ve heard of “The House That Ruth Built”? Now there’s the house that Bill Becker built. And they both are Yankee Stadium.
Becker, 87, of Toms River, is a master builder of models made of matchsticks. Perhaps his greatest triumph to date is the massive replica he has built of the original Yankee Stadium — 75,000 matchsticks strong — using photographs, memory and a lot of Elmer’s glue.
It took four years to build.
Becker’s masterpiece is one of only a few items in his Toms River home that was not washed under by floodwaters during superstorm Sandy. And now he is getting recognition for his work.
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May
20
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Smoke out smuggled cig biz
B ronx: Re “Sheik his butt” (May 16): The illegal sale of smuggled cigarettes costs New Yorkers more than millions in tax dollars lost. Smuggled, untaxed cigarettes are more affordable to our youth, making addiction, disease and death more likely. Stores that sell them harm law-abiding small businesses that struggle to compete. Proceeds from that illegal trade could be fueling terrorists who want to kill us even faster than cigarettes will. Better enforcement would save more than smokers’ lives. Spach Trahan
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May
17
Woman Claims Rapper Is Avoiding Paying His Debts
7:30PM ET May 16th, 2013
Contributor : Martin James
A Rocky Williform Company
Rumors have arisen regarding the death of Bronx-born rapper Tim Dog back in February. A woman is claiming that the emcee, born Timothy Blair, faked his death to avoid debt troubles. She says the repayment of a debt that she owed him stopped after the news of his death broke and that she is still owed $32,000.
“He really thinks he can outsmart everybody,” says Esther Pilgrim. She says claims she was swindled via “a fictitious business deal” with the rapper. She says Tim Dog owes more than $2 million to various parties.
“Twenty victims have contacted me personally from around the world,” she told WREG News.
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May
17
A new report by two state senators accuses city day care centers of being unsafe, unregulated and filled with numerous health code violations.State Senators Jeff Klein and Diane Savino looked at day care providers in the five boroughs in the last three years, and their staff members shot video at some of the worst offenders.
Brooklyn day care centers have an average of 14.49 violations, followed by 13.06 violations in Bronx centers, 12.39 violations in Staten Island centers, 11.57 violations in Manhattan centers and 7.07 violations in Queens centers.
The senators say the city Health Department has failed to revoke or suspend a license since 2008.
They want to require providers to post their inspection reports outside, like restaurants.
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Officer Pedro Serrano walked through the heavy wooden doors of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx and headed upstairs to the locker room. For eight years he’d been working out of this 89-year-old station house, with its broken fax machines and crummy computers. “We work in a shithole,” the cops there would say, “but it’s our shithole.” Serrano, 43, had the day off—he’d stopped by only to pick up some papers—but when he got close to his locker, he noticed something strange.Someone had placed a dozen rat stickers on the door.There was a blue rat baring sharp teeth; a red rat curled up tight; another rat posing next to the word dirty. And dangling from his combination lock was a spring-loaded rat trap. A minute or two passed before his initial shock subsided. “Now it begins,” he said to himself. “The little game that’s going to start—it’s real now.”