Drunk Driver Charged in Sunnyside Pedestrian Death
SUNNYSIDE — Police have arrested and charged a driver they believe struck and killed a young man while driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning in Queens. Sayesh Avedis, 58, of East New York in Brooklyn, faces charges of manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and driving while intoxicated, police said. Cops responded to a call […]
Raimondi’s PSAL softball seeding reaction
1:40 AM, May 13, 2012 ι By MARC RAIMONDI Softball wasn’t on my mind Saturday afternoon. I was at York College covering the PSAL boys volleyball quarterfinals. Then my phone blew up. Calls. Texts. Tweets. E-mails. All PSAL softball coaches upset with the seeding following the meeting held Saturday morning. Two said it was the […]
FreshDirect’s rotten Bronx deal
SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS FreshDirect will get $127.8 million to come to the Bronx, but it won’t deliver to most of the borough. I recently moved to Crown Heights. FreshDirect delivers to my apartment, and I was offered a promotion to try the online grocery service that has become popular since starting to serve New York in […]
Sarah Thein, Owen Weber
Sarah Perla Thein and Owen William Weber are to be married Sunday evening at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, Queens. Cantor Miriam Eskenasy is to officiate. The bride, 29, is the executive assistant to the director of the Frick Collection in Manhattan. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College and received […]