Following five years of operating in the red, USPS faces default on a $5.5 billion annual payment to the US Treasury for retiree health benefits. It is projected to have a record loss of $14.1 billion next year amid steady declines in first-class mail volume. It must make cuts of $20 billion by 2015 to be profitable.
Bronx Bright lights is how to describe the Garabedians' most amazing Christmas display in New York City. For 40 years their Pelham Parkway North house in the Baychester neighborhood has been a traffic-stopping must-see. It draws thousands of visitors every week during the holiday season.
Starting on the last Thursday in November and lasting until January 6, this place appears to comes alive. It attracts visitors and media outlets from all over the world.
New York Botanical Garden's is celebrating it's 20 year anniversary of their Annual Holiday Train Show. The last few years they have had approximately 170, 000 visitors.
This well loved exhibit features an abundance of model trains, bridges, and replicas of New York landmarks from the past, such as the original Yankee Stadium, Statue of Liberty, and Brooklyn Bridge.
This popular event will run until January 16, 2012. A holiday film festival will also be featured as a part of the train show.
Holiday Train Show hours are as follows:
Weekdays: Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
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Hostage Terry Anderson freed in Lebanon. Islamic militants in Lebanon release kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson after 2,454 days in captivity.
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New Rochelle and Westchester County Department of Health officials have issued a rabies alert to residents who may have had contact with a rabid cat near the vicinity of Kress Avenue at the intersection of Webster and Lincoln Avenue. The health department used robo-calls to notify residents who live within a half-mile of the area where the cat was found.
This cat was red and had been acting aggressively towards other animals and humans. The health department is concerned because there are stray cats in the area, who may have come into contact with this rabid cat.
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Jill Abramson, the first woman to serve as executive editor of the New York Times, says female journalists don't have a different taste in stories or sensibility. A number of top newsroom managers and researchers beg to differ. http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5198
On Saturdays, December 3, 10, & 17, 7–9 p.m.
Get Your Tickets
On these nights for grown-ups at the Holiday Train Show, view the wondrous exhibition while sipping a complimentary cocktail. All three nights will feature the Dylan's Railway Explosion, a twist on their Pop Rocks Explosion cocktail. Get into the holiday spirit under the magical glow of thousands of twinkling lights--a perfect holiday date night! Other cocktails, beer, wine, soda and snacks will be available for purchase.
Non-Member $30/Member $20 (Adults 21 and over)
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is suspending his bid for the Republican nomination, deciding to end his campaign after weeks of alleged sexual misconduct and accusations of an extramarital affair.
"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," From his Atlanta headwaters "I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt caused on me and my family. Not because we are not fighters."
Mr. Cain is launching a new policy-oriented website:
TheCainSolutions.com.
NYC commuters who boarded a bus in Queens yesterday had no idea what type of a ride they were in for.
It turns out that a crazed ex-convict changed their peaceful afternoon bus commute into a bloody ride through hell on Friday, executing one bus rider and shooting another in the jaw. Minutes earlier, he had killed his girlfriend’s teenage son.