Mark Bulliet
The Archive
GRANDMA DIES AFTER GUN HORROR
December 16, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx grandmother died last night after a gun accidentally went off while her two grandsons were cleaning the weapon, according to police and witnesses. Lydia Santiago, 65, was in...
TAXIS' NICE TOUCH - PASSENGER VIDEO
December 15, 2006 | 5:00amThe Taxi & Limousine Commission yesterday previewed the "cabs of the future" - 200 of which are set to hit the streets in the next two weeks. Touch-activated screens, called...
BRIGHTENED XMAS SPIRITS ON L.I.
December 10, 2006 | 5:00amFor the Spadaforas, it's not 12 days of Christmas, it's 21 weeks. With the help of three contractor co-workers, Andrew Spadafora begins to assemble his winter wonderland on Labor Day,...
CASKET MA: 'LIFE IS OVER'
December 9, 2006 | 5:00amThe mom of a 6-year-old killed on a Brooklyn street by a truck carrying caskets says her "life is over" without her son, the family's attorney said yesterday. Maria Vega...
CHARITY EXEC GUILTY OF SCAM
December 7, 2006 | 5:00amA sticky-fingered former executive of a charity pleaded guilty yesterday to bilking it out of more than $156,000 meant to fight cancer. Keith DaCosta, 44, admitted in Newark federal court...
DA: 'KILLER' COKED UP
December 3, 2006 | 5:00amThe man accused of killing an East Harlem porter was "high on cocaine" and remembers little more than the bloody aftermath, prosecutors said in court last night. At the arraignment...
CAB FARE WORTH ITS WAIT IN GOLD ; 40ó A MINUTE MEANS AN EXTRA $50 A DAY: CABBIES
December 1, 2006 | 5:00amThe taxi-fare hike that went into effect yesterday had cab drivers seeing green - especially at red lights. Cabbies said doubling the charge for waiting time to 40 cents per...
RIDERS RAGE AT CABS' $LOW BURN; 40ó-A-MINUTE IDLING BUMPS UP FARES 27%
December 1, 2006 | 5:00amTaxi riders were seeing red at every stop light, as fare hikes kicked in yesterday and walloped them for as much as 27 percent more per trip. Most of the...
TICKER SHOCK AT REAL TAXI HIKE; PROMISED 11% BOOST GOES AS HIGH AS 27%
December 1, 2006 | 5:00amTaxi riders saw red at every stop light yesterday as fare hikes up to 27 percent kicked in - after New Yorkers were promised they'd average only 11 percent. Most...
TREE LIGHTS THE WAY TO CHRISTMAS
November 30, 2006 | 5:00amTens of thousands of people - not including funnyman Tracy Morgan - were on hand last night at precisely 8:58, when the 30,000 lights on the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree...
REQUIEM FOR FALLING TOWER
November 23, 2006 | 5:00amCue the sad violin music for Tower Records, which is going the way of vinyl records and eight-track tapes. This is the last holiday season for the record stores that...
MOMS A SECRET WEAPON VS. GUNS
November 19, 2006 | 5:00amGunfire robbed them of their sons. Now, a group of angry moms is firing back at the peddlers who put the weapons on the street. The group, Harlem Mothers Stop...
HEAD CASE - CATHEDRAL VANDAL CHOPS WASHINGTON; STATUE-TORY CRIME: CATHEDRAL VANDAL BEHEADS WASHINGTON
November 10, 2006 | 5:00amBy George! Our first president has lost his head in Morningside Heights. A brazen and unholy vandal decapitated a stone statue of George Washington inside The Cathedral of St. John...
MARATHON MAN GOING ON A LIMB; TO PROVE NYPD WRONG
November 5, 2006 | 5:00amHe can run the marathon, but he can't walk a beat. Brian O'Sullivan, a 30-year-old amputee who lost his right leg at birth, is suing the NYPD for discrimination because...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 3, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN (lcf) * A man was shot in a housing project in the Upper West Side last night, police sources said. The 18-year-old victim was in the courtyard of the...
FEAR FACTOR
October 28, 2006 | 4:00amHOMICIDAL clowns? OK. Power-tool dentistry? Uh-huh. Bad Chinese food? Now, that's scary. Gotham's grown-upsonly haunted house, "Nightmare: Face Your Fear," has returned. What began two years ago as a Manhattan-only...
SALOON-ATICS ARE STILL DRINKING IN THE MOMENT IN BIG APPLE
October 27, 2006 | 4:00amHog Pit bartender Lisa Ballard wasn't surprised to learn that her saloon is nestled in the heart of the Big Apple's binge-drinking area. "It's just crazy now, how busy it...
MORE BODY PARTS - SURPRISE AT WTC
October 20, 2006 | 4:00amCon Ed workers have found human remains and identification cards at the World Trade Center site, officials said yesterday. Utility workers were clearing out two manholes at the site Wednesday...
TWIN-SLAY SUSPECT IS EX-CON
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe man being held by cops in connection with the gruesome discovery of a mother and her 9-year-old daughter found decomposing in their apartment is an ex-con who had just...
EX-CON HELD IN MOM-KID SLAY
October 19, 2006 | 4:00amThe man being held in connection with the gruesome discovery of the decomposing bodies of a mother and her 9-year-old daughter is an ex-con who had been released from prison...