On Thursday, MTA police patrols found an explosive device in the waiting room at the Harlem 125th St Metro-North station waiting room. The suspect, Perry Roosevelt, is currently at Bellevue awaiting bedside arraignment.

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In the wake of the attempted bombing on the Delta flight, an absurd amount of ‘security theater’ has inevitably resulted. Steps that attempt to do nothing more than advertise ‘some kind of’ bureaucratic action. By far the most absurd and insulting humanitarian inconvenience recently implemented is the inability of passengers to use the lavatory during [...]

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Personally, I do not understand the US position on the Russian attacks on Georgia – Georgia started it, unprovoked, by killing over 1200 South Ossetian civilians last weekend. Russia retaliated for five days, and the US kept characterizing the retribution as disproportionate. Hello? We had an attack on our country on 9/11 and completely invaded [...]

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One Greenwich Plaza, part of an 2-building office complex adjacent to the Greenwich Metro-North Train Station, was evacuated yesterday when a package broke open in a mail room and a suspicious powder came out, contaminating a mail room worker’s hands. The Stamford Bomb Squad and FBI were called in to remove the package and investigate. [...]

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One of the unfortunate and completely unnecessary side effects of 9/11 is that a *lot* of photographers get hassled by security workers, doormen, and – almost especially – MTA personnel. Its not an entirely new issue, its just that 9/11 made it a hell of a lot worse, creating this overreaching pretense that any photographer [...]

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Spokesmen for the Army and Mayor Bloomberg specifically stated that the Times Square bombing was a direct insult to all of our troops – that may or may not necessarily be the case. Photo: Sarah Baker “The fact that this appears deliberately directed at the recruiting station insults every one of our brave men and [...]

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