Fulton Fish Market bolts to the Bronx
NewYork The historic Fulton Fish Market shut down in Lower Manhattan, leaving its waterfront site after more than 180 years for a new facility in the Bronx.
The market, the center of the city’s seafood industry, closed Friday. Tonight, workers move to the $85 million New Fulton Fish Market.
“Big guys ain’t supposed to cry, but a part of old New York is dying here today,” said Joey Centrone, one of the workers at the market. “I recognize this place is antiquated, but it’s a part of us.”
It opened on Feb. 5, 1822, as a meat and vegetable market, and eventually grew to a wholesale emporium handling about $1 billion worth of seafood a year.
Breast-feeding mother passes out on baby
Oshkosh, Wis. A 4-month-old girl died when her inebriated mother fell asleep on top of her while breast-feeding, prosecutors said.
Lorinda Hawkins told police she fell asleep about 15 minutes after she started breast-feeding the baby Feb. 23 because of her intoxication, a criminal complaint said. When she woke up about an hour later, the baby was pale and wasn’t breathing, the complaint said.
Hawkins was charged Friday with one count of child neglect causing a death. If convicted as a repeat felony offender, she could be sentenced to 29 years in prison and fined $100,000.
Two walking on tracks struck, killed by train
Milwaukee Two people walking along railroad tracks just south of Milwaukee were struck and killed by an Amtrak train bound for Chicago on Saturday, authorities said.
Amtrak spokeswoman Marcie Golgoski said the two were trespassing on rail property when they were hit about 11:15 a.m.
“It’s an area that’s not a pedestrian crossing,” she said.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office and the Oak Creek Police Department declined to release further details.
Families observe fourth anniversary of airliner crash that killed 265 in NYC
Families remember 2001 Queens jet crash
New York Scores of families gathered in a seaside neighborhood Saturday to observe the fourth anniversary of one of the nation’s deadliest airline disasters.
The crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on a quiet residential block in the Belle Harbor section of Queens killed 265 people – including five on the ground – on Nov. 12, 2001, at a time when the city was still reeling from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
“It feels like yesterday,” said Juan Reyes, 19, of the Bronx, who lost his father in the crash. “It happened four years ago, but it seems like four minutes ago.”
Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the hundreds gathered on a chilly morning that the city hopes to pick a design soon for a $2 million memorial to the victims. Officials hope to have a monument in place next fall.
High-strung pilot finally rescued
Milwaukee A pilot whose small plane became tangled in utility wires as he tried to land in a thunderstorm Saturday evening was pulled to safety after dangling from the lines for about two hours.
The plane was hanging nose down, about 10 feet off the ground when police were called to the scene shortly after 6 p.m., said Milwaukee Police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz.
The pilot, identified as a 37-year-old man from Elkhorn, was alone in the plane and conscious.
“We were in contact with him the whole time,” firefighter Steve Scherer said. “He’s doing fine.”
The pilot, who was hospitalized Saturday night, was trying to land at Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport. He had called off his approach several times before the plane got caught in the utility lines, Schwartz said.
The crash knocked out power to 3,600 customers