Suspect in series of Molotov cocktail attacks in custody

 

Earthquake in NYC reported, may be cause of Roosevelt Island 'explosion'

Number of women accusing Catholic priest of sexual abuse rises to 23

Number of women accusing Catholic priest of sexual abuse now 23

BY Graham Rayman

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Updated: Monday, October 9, 2017, 11:11 PM

Attorney Mitchell Garabedian (right) and Robert Hoatson (left) at a news conference held by Road to Recovery, a non-profit charity that assists victims of sexual abuse, outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on Friday Oct. 7, 2016. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News)

BY Graham Rayman

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Updated: Monday, October 9, 2017, 11:11 PM

The number of women alleging they were abused as children by a Catholic priest in Queens has swelled to 23, the Daily News has learned.

The accusers of former Rev. Adam Prochaski, ranging in age from 39 to 57, say the priest abused them in the Holy Cross parish in Maspeth between 1972 and 1994. The women were between 11 to 16 years old when the abuse allegedly took place.

Mitchell Garabedian, their lawyer, said he’s been contacted by women now living in six states, as well as Canada and London. When he first came forward with the allegations, there were 15 accusers.

“Many of them claim he abused them for years in the school, the church, the rectory, and some were abused in his car,” Garabedian said.

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“The police are investigating this matter. I have forwarded many of my clients’ names to them and I am informed they are interviewing my clients.”

Diocese of Brooklyn spokeswoman Carolyn Erstad said the growing number of accusers is “terrible.”

“Anytime there is news of another survivor, it is devastating to the diocese, the clergy, the faithful,” she said.

In Little Egypt, Echoes From Home

 In Little Egypt, Echoes From Home

August 17, 2013By Reem Makhoul and Mona El-Naggar


Egyptians in New York are following the news from back home with great anxiety, and here, as in Egypt, they disagree about the causes of the bloody conflict.

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Police say NYC subway push victim was from India, release video of woman fleeing

Video: A man was killed on Thursday night, after he was pushed in front of a New York subway train. Police are looking for a woman who was seen fleeing the area.


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Tornado strikes beachfront neighborhood in NYC

This photo provided by Joey Mure, shows a storm cloud over the Breezy Point area of Queens section of New York, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012

September 8, 2012 (NEW YORK) -- A tornado swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood in New York City on Saturday, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.

Firefighters were still assessing the damage, but no serious injuries were reported and the area affected by the storm appeared small.

Videos taken by bystanders showed a funnel cloud sucking up water, then sand, and then small pieces of buildings, as it moved through the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.

Residents had advance notice. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for Queens and Brooklyn at around 10:40 a.m. The storm took people by surprise anyway when it struck about 30 minutes later.

"I was showing videos of tornadoes to my 4-year-old on my phone, and two minutes later, it hit," said neighborhood resident Peter Maloney. "Just like they always say, it sounded like a train."

In the storm's wake, the community of seaside bungalows was littered with broken flower pots, knocked-down fences and smashed windows.

At the Breezy Point Surf Club, the tornado ripped the roofs off rows of cabanas, scattered deck chairs and left a heavy metal barbecue and propane tank sitting in the middle of a softball field, at least 100 yards from any nearby home.

"It picked up picnic benches. It picked up Dumpsters," said the club's general manager, Thomas Sullivan.

Half an hour later the weather was beautiful, but he had to close the club to clean up the damage.

The tornado struck as part of a line of storms that were expected to bring damaging winds, hail, heavy rain and possibly more tornadoes throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday. Across New York state, in Buffalo, strong winds from a broad front of thunderstorms blew roofing off of some buildings and sent bricks falling into the street.

The storm system killed four people, including a child, in Oklahoma on Friday.

Radar data, video and witness reports confirmed that the cyclone that hit New York City was a tornado, National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Hofmann said. He said an inspection team would assess the damage and before estimating the strength of the storm. Hofmann said some witnesses were reporting that the wind had been strong enough to lift cars off the pavement.

Lizann Maher, a worker at Kennedy's Restaurant at the edge of Jamaica Bay, said she saw a "swirling cone kind of thing with something flying in it" come down and then head back out into the water toward Brooklyn.

"It was scary. We have all glass so we kept saying, 'Get away from the glass!' just in case it did come back around," she said.

Tornadoes were once exceedingly rare in New York, but they have occurred with regularity in recent years. A small tornado uprooted trees on Long Island last month. In 2010, a September storm spawned two tornadoes that knocked down thousands of trees and blew off a few rooftops in Brooklyn and Queens. A small tornado struck the same year in the Bronx. In 2007, a more powerful tornado damaged homes in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

The storm delayed play at the U.S. Open tennis tournament a few miles away. The women's final, scheduled for Saturday night, was postponed until Sunday because of a forecast of additional rain.

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Biden motorcade involved in accident in Queens

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Last Updated: 5:59 PM, August 5, 2010

Posted: 5:51 PM, August 5, 2010



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In this photo released by the New York City Mayor's Office, Vice President Joe Biden, left, joins New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion in New York,.That same month, a vehicle in Biden's motorcade traveling in Albuquerque, N.M., was involved in an accident, sending one sheriff's deputy to the hospital.

Part of a motorcade escorting Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a minor accident Thursday while traveling in Queens, N.Y., WNBC-TV reported.

Two officers with the New York Police Department motorcycle unit sustained minor injuries during the incident and were undergoing treatment at a local hospital, according to the report.

Biden was not delayed by the accident, who met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier Thursday.

It was the third motorcade incident in less than a year for the Vice President. In November 2009, a police car traveling in his motorcade struck another car in Manhattan.

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Strong Winds Create Damage Accross City

Updated 10/07/2009 11:01 PM

By: NY1 News


Strong winds are being blamed for some minor damage and power outages across the five boroughs Wednesday.

Con Edison and the Long Island Power Authority both reported power outages throughout Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

In Dyker Heights, a tree was knocked down causing an outage and residents say it's been a problem before.

"The residents of the house have complained for numerous years because they saw that the tree was rotting and other limbs have fallen off of the tree in past years as well and nothing was ever done. And today it was done by nature," said one Dyker Heights resident.

It was a similar situation elsewhere in Brooklyn where at least two trees were knocked down, one in Gravesend and the other in Bath Beach.

"We called about this tree about four months ago, five months ago, and they told us they would come by and trim the tree because we knew sooner or later it was going to break down because the limbs were pretty thin and it eventually happened today. It got pretty windy and one of the branches broke and fell down," said one Brooklyn resident.

A large tree also toppled over on Staten Island.

The National Weather Service says it's gotten reports of some wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour.

In Midtown Manhattan, a downed street lamp caused traffic problems at the intersection of West 31st Street and 9th Avenue.

No injuries were reported.

The Department of Buildings is urging property owners, builders, and contractors to take necessary precautions.


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FBI warns police depts after NYC anti-terror raid

A boy looks out the window of an apartment raided by FBI agents as part of a terror investigation in the Flushing area of the Queens borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. No arrests were announced. ( AP Photo/David Karp)

By TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT (AP) – 1 hour ago

NEW YORK — Counterterrorism officials are warning police departments around the country to be on the lookout for evidence of homemade bombs following raids on several New York City apartments in a hunt for explosives and possible links to al-Qaida operatives.

Investigators issued warrants to search the residences early Monday for explosives material but did not find any, according to a person briefed on the matter who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity.

The searches came after the man, who was under surveillance for possible links to the terrorism network, visited New York City over the weekend and then left the area, said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

The joint FBI and Homeland Security intelligence warning, issued Monday, lists indicators that could tip off police to homemade hydrogen peroxide-based explosives, such as people with burn marks on their hands, face or arms; foul odors coming from a room or building; and large industrial fans or multiple window fans. The warning, obtained by The Associated Press, also said that these homemade explosive materials can be hidden in backpacks, suitcases or plastic containers.

The notice was not intended for the public, said Justice Department spokesman Richard Kolko.

Homeland Security and the FBI have no specific information on the timing or target of any planned attack, Kolko said, but "we believe it is prudent to share information with our state and local partners about the variety of domestically available materials that could be used to create homemade explosives, which have been utilized in previous terrorist attacks."

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday he couldn't comment on whether there would be any arrests or whether the raids were tied to al-Qaida.

"I think you just have to think about the sequence of events here," Kelly told the AP. "Warrants were executed. Material was obtained during the execution of those warrants, that material is now being analyzed, and we'll see what develops from the analaysis."

Sen. Charles Schumer said the law enforcement action Monday was unrelated to President Barack Obama's visit to the city the same day.

"There was nothing imminent, and they are very good now at tracking potentially dangerous actions, and this was preventive," said Schumer, D-N.Y.

Both lawmakers were briefed by law enforcement officials.

Two U.S. intelligence officials, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly, said the target of any purported attack — or who would carry it out — remained unclear.

Authorities have not found any weapons ready for use that would indicate an attack was imminent, they said. Nevertheless, one of the officials called the threat very real and emphasized the urgency of it.

New York police spokesman Paul Browne confirmed that searches were conducted in the borough of Queens by agents of a joint terrorism task force.

Residents in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens on Monday described officers armed with search warrants swarming their immigrant neighborhood at about 2:30 a.m.

Akbari Amanullah, a cab driver who lived in an apartment with four other natives of Afghanistan, said when he arrived home from work afterward, he was told that one of his roommates had been taken away.

Neither the FBI nor the NYPD would discuss the whereabouts of the al-Qaida suspect or whether anyone was being held for questioning in New York.

A White House spokesman said Obama, who spoke on Wall Street on Monday, had been briefed on the investigation.

The person familiar with the case said the raids were the result of previous law enforcement surveillance of people.

The investigation was continuing.

One man at a three-story brick apartment building in the neighborhood confirmed Monday that authorities had been at his apartment, but he wouldn't identify himself or comment further. Nearby resident Kabir Islam said he saw FBI agents and police officers surrounding the apartment when he arrived home after 3 a.m.

Amanullah said about a dozen FBI agents went to his nearby fifth-floor apartment at about 2:30 a.m.

Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan, Lara Jakes and Pamela Hess in Washington and Adam Goldman and Bonny Ghosh in New York contributed to this report. Barrett reported from Washington.


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