BROOKLYN WEATHER: What’s it gonna do today? Check here for Brooklyn weather.
CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS: Daylight savings time
for New York (EST, GMT -7:00) began on Sunday. You were supposed to set your clocks
ahead (spring forward) one hour at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 3, 2005. DO IT NOW.
CITY NEWS: A
federal engineering study of the collapse of the World Trade Center,
released Tuesday, highlights flaws in assumptions about evacuating
skyscrapers and responding to emergencies.
_A missing man was discovered Tuesday
inside a stuck elevator in the Bronx apartment building where he was
headed to deliver food four days ago. Ming Kung Chen, 35, was taken to
Montefiore Medical Center to be treated for dehydration.
_The MTA has decided NOT to
close subway booths. According to New York 1, the 169 booths set to be
closed will remain open but the attendants will still be out in the
station acting as customer service representatives. Subway booths will
remain accessible to the clerks so that they can use the phone to call
police or fix metro card problems.
_The federal government issued report saying that the city’s bridges are structurally inadequate or obsolete.
_Children age seven and younger must be buckled into a car seat in New York State. This is up from age four.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Brooklyn Assemblyman William Colton introduced a bill called "Terri’s Law," that would make it illegal in New York to remove a feeding tube
_Senator Charles Schumer is asking the government to reopen the investigation into the Rockaway crash of American Airlines Flight 587.
_Packages of pound cake sold at the T&H Supermarket on 86th Street in Brooklyn were recalled because a milk ingredient was not listed on the package. It could lead to a serious or fatal reaction in someone allergic to milk.
_Monday night the City Council held
its first public meeting on the city’s Greenpoint-Williamsburg
waterfront rezoning plan. Much of the crowd, which didn’t fit in the
room, held its own rally outside on the steps of City Hall, and the
majority of the people there wanted the plan thrown out.