SMASHING START
Four Crashes Start The New Year Off With A Bang
by Sam Goldman
      The new year was unkind to motorists throughout Brooklyn and Queens, with four separate car crashes taking place in the first days of 2010, including three on Saturday, Jan. 2.
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Commissioner Restores Fifth Firefighter At 49 Engine Cos.
Say Staffing Tied To Absentee Rate
      Newly installed Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano announced on Saturday, Jan.
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CB5 Education Cmte. Meets 1/11; Full Board Meets 1/13
      In addition to its usual monthly meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 13, Community Board 5 will hold a special meeting of its Education Committee to debate issues relating to the under-construction Metropolitan Avenue schools complex. The Education Committee will meet on Monday, Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of Christ The King Regional High School, at 68-10 Metropolitan Ave.
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CB2 Meet 1/7 In Sunnyside; Hearing 1/13 In H.P.
      January will be a busy month for Community Board 2, with its regular public meeting tonight, Thursday, Jan. 7, in Sunnyside, and a public hearing in Hunters Point on Wednesday, Jan. 13.
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B61 Bus Route Split In Half
      On Sunday, Jan. 3, MTA New York City Transit's B61 bus route, which travels from Long Island City to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, was divided into two shorter routes— the B61 and B62—with an aim toward increasing service reliability.
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Braving The Cold To Battle Cuts
     City Council Member Peter Vallone (third from left) joined protesters during morning rush hour on Tuesday, Jan. 5 at the Ditmars Boulevard N/W train station in Astoria.
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Army Vet For Gun Charge
Gov. Grants Clemency To Would-Be Cop
      Gov. David A. Paterson announced his pardon of Osvaldo Hernandez, a decorated Army veteran who once pled guilty to a weapons charge, so that Hernandez can fulfill his lifelong dream of pursuing a career in law enforcement.
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Deadly Blaze In East NY A
     Deadly Blaze In East NY A two-alarm fire on Dec.
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Governor Announces 12 New In Effect For New Year
Tackles Pension Reform, Identity Theft
      Gov. David. A. Paterson announced on Friday, Jan. 1 new laws that took effect on the first day of the new year. As noted, the new laws will address pension reform, protection from identity theft and the manner in which workers’ compensation benefits are paid to livery drivers.
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Electrical Fire Is Cause For Alarm
     Electrical Fire Is Cause For Alarm A one alarm fire in a brownstone building located at Halsey Street and Ralph Avenue in Bedford- Stuyvesant on Monday, Jan. 4 left no one injured, it was reported.
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Fight Ice To Extinguish East NY Fire
     A one alarm fire ripped through a three-story woodframe house (top photo) located near the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Broadway in East New York on Wednesday, Jan.
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