Fred Mogul

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A second firefighter has died, following a three-alarm blaze yesterday at a Bronx discount store. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

Lt. Howard Carpluk, a 20-year veteran of the FDNY, was pronounced dead today at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. He had been in critical condition, after ...

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The number of city children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years who were poisoned by lead dropped last year, continuing a long-term trend.

There was a 17 percent decline last year, bringing the drop in lead poisoning down to 2,600 cases. A decade ...

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After months of editing, the city released more than 20 hours of dispatcher tapes from September 11. The recordings provide more details about how emergency responders reacted to the World Trade Center attacks. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

Most of the 1600 calls are from firefighters ...

Area airports have been having their ups and downs, since the alleged plot was announced – due to both canceled flights and federal rule-changes for luggage.

REPORTER: After initial confusion about what could and could not be carried onto planes, average delays by mid-day were around thirty to forty minutes at ...

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New York has not seen one of the world’s largest – and smelliest – plants bloom since 1939. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden says this is the year -- and this is the week -- for its specimen, which is sitting in the main conservatory, waiting ...

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Two more people were killed by last week's heat wave than previously thought.

Yesterday, the city's Medical Examiner attributed the deaths of two Queens men to overheating. One man was age 45, the other 72, and both died on Friday. So far, 24 people are believed ...

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You don’t need to be a climate scientist to know that the summer sun can turn the city into an asphalt sauna. WNYC's Fred Mogul reports on one researcher, who's studying how heat gathers on tree-less, open playgrounds – and what the city can do ...

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Despite a big drop in recent years, tuberculosis is still a major public health challenge. The Health Department annually provides free drugs to hundreds of patients with the highly contagious lung disease. Health officials also get court orders to lock up about a dozen people ...

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The city's new disaster plan for pandemic flu is winning praise from experts, but they still have some concerns for how health officials might address a worst-case scenario. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more.

There has not been a flu pandemic in almost 40 years, but the ...

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Now that New York's high court has rebuffed efforts to legalize gay marriage, supporters of the law-change are directing their attention from the judiciary to the state legislature and elsewhere. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more.

Elected officials -- and political candidates -- are cautiously staking out ...

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Supporters of gay marriage rallied last night at the site of the historic Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village. The protest came after the state high court ruled that the New York constitution does not give same-sex couples the right to marry. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has ...

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Legislators are writing laws, litigants are suing, scientists are researching -- all over what happened to the health of workers and others in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. Thousands of people have been getting sick, and some are dying. But if injury, ...

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A half-million women around the world die during childbirth each year. That we even know this number and are slowly making progress to improve it is something many people attribute to Dr. Allan Rosenfield. Rosenfield is retiring this spring after 20 years as the dean ...

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A day after federal authorities slammed the state's inability to fight Medicaid fraud, officials are either calling for more action from Albany, or defending their efforts to date.

The report of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services faulted the state Health Department and Attorney General's ...

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A second round of surveys is getting underway for the World Trade Center Registry. The long-term project monitors the health of responders, residents and other people exposed to dust and debris on September 11th and after.

REPORTER: More than 70,000 people signed up in 2003 and ...

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Advocates hope the Bloomberg administration will fight fewer worker-compensation claims for 9/11-related health problems . . . after the mayor halted a challenge to a court-award for a former aide to Rudy Giuliani.

Former Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington was among the first to the collapsed towers ...

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A man who has pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up Herald Square subway station has testified against his alleged co-conspirator in federal court in Brooklyn.

21-year-old James Elshafay told a jury about his troubled upbringing, which included an absent father, sexual abuse by an uncle ...

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Following the death of their revered rabbi, the world's largest sect of Hasidic Jews is preparing for a showdown of sorts tonight and tomorrow in Brooklyn. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more.

The hallmarks of the Jewish sabbath are peace and joy, but confrontation is in the ...

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The lawyer of an accused terrorist says his client did conspire to bomb the Herald Square subway station. But he says the Pakistani immigrant was entrapped by a paid informant of the NYPD. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more.

At the very beginning of his opening argument, ...

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A study says the proposed New York Mets stadium would cost the city and state more than a quarter-billion dollars over 40 years. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: The Independent Budget office says the Mets would get almost 300 million dollars in savings, much of ...