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Eugene L. Lyver Passes At 77

Eugene L. Lyver of New City passed on January 17, 2012.
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[Noteable Persons] Jacob Lew - White House Chief Of Staff

On January 9, 2012, President Obama announced that Jacob Lew, born August 29, 1955, is scheduled to be the 25th White House Chief of Staff, replaceing Bill Daley. ...
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[Legal Notices] To The Clerk Of Court & To Reynaldo Herrera

TO THE CLERK OF COURT AND TO: REYNALDO HERRERA                                                                    140 Alcott Place, #2B                                               ...
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[Noteable Persons] William Martin Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, performer, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA....
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[Noteable Persons] Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri

Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952) is an American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale, and his Academy Award nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in Bullets Over Broadway....
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[Noteable Persons] Alfredo James Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino was born to a family of Italian immigrants in East Harlem, New York, on the 25th of April, 1940, his grandparents having crossed the Atlantic from Sicily....
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[Noteable Persons] Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928, at the Lying-In Hospital in Manhattan, New York, the first of two children of Jacques (Jacob) Leonard Kubrick (1901–85) and his wife Sadie Gertrude (née Perveler; 1903–85), who were both Jewish. At Stanley's birth, the Kubricks lived in an apartment at 2160 Clinton Avenue in Bronx....
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[Noteable Persons] Wesley Trent Snipes

Wesley Trent Snipes, born July 31, 1962, is an American actor, film producer, and martial artist, who has starred in numerous action films, thrillers, and dramatic feature films....
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[Obituaries] Len Rinaldi, Sr. Dies At 69

Len Rinaldi, Sr., a Bronx native and Falls Church, VA resident and poet, died on December 15, 2011. He was 69 years old....
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[Obituaries] Jillian B. Andrews Dies At 30

Jillian B. Andrews, Coordinator of Membership Services for the Middletown YMCA, passed away peacefully at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She was 30. The loving daughter of Neville and Beverly Ballard Andrews, she was born on January 21, 1981 in Bronx....
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[Obituaries] Anthony Amato Passes At Age 91

Anthony Amato, the founder and artistic director of the Amato Opera Theater, the scrappy, often threadbare and very rarely dull chamber opera company on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that was a mainstay of New York’s cultural life for 61 years, died on Tuesday at his home on City Island, in Bronx. ...
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[Noteable Persons] John F. Kennedy's Life In Bronx

As a boy, in the late 1920s, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president, resided at a mansion at 232nd Street and Independence Avenue in the Riverdale section of Bronx....
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[Obituaries] Sanford Garelik Passes At 93

Bronx native Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral candidate and a City Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and criminal turmoil of the 1970s, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93....
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[Obituaries] Muhammed Kebbeh, 51, Dies

A construction worker caught in a building collapse in Bronx has died....
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[Obituaries] Teresa Ann Fazio Has Passed

Teresa Ann Fazio was called home to God on October 15, 2011....
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[Music] Looking For Cutting Edge Music

Hector Peña, Jr. smiled as he rolled his chair over to his computer in Cut Zone Entertainment’s recording studio, a small, air-conditioned room he often sits in for hours at a time....
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[Pets & Animals] Baby Giraffe At Bronx Zoo

Baby animals are always a big draw at zoos, and now the Bronx Zoo is home to a five-week-old giraffe calf....
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[Pets & Animals] Police Rescue Dog From Bronx River

Forming a human chain, police saved a homeless man’s Rottweiler that was desperately trying to stay afloat in the Bronx River....
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[Noteable Persons] Calvin Richard Klein

Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein, Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....
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[Obituaries] Bronx Soldier's Death Appears To Be Suicide

Authorities say the death of a Fort Bragg soldier whose body was found in his apartment over the weekend appears to be a suicide....
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Breeding Better Wheat

I spent this past summer trudging through six-mile treks each weekend with two good friends. We walked along the edge of wheat fields outside of town. (My friends and I qualify as middle-aged ladies, so the walks counted as significant exercise. Sad but true.) One of the interesting things about the walks was simply observing the growth and ripening of the wheat fields by which we passed.
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Raymond J. Keating

Raymond J. Keating is the editor and publisher of the Keating Reports, which operates the Long Island Sentinel. He is a writer, commentator and economist, who wrote a column for Newsday for more than a decade, and is now a columnist with Long Island Business News and Dolan Media Company. The views expressed by Keating are strictly his own.