NEW YORK (AP) -- Students late for school and workers late for their jobs because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to their teachers and bosses.

The New York City Transit division says it gives passengers the notes so they can prove they're not lying about being delayed while riding the subway.

Passengers request the delay verification letters over the phone.

NYC Transit verifies the date and time of the delay and sends an official note in the mail in one or two weeks. It mails out 34,000 notes a year. It's working on an online system so it can take requests on the Internet and e-mail the excuse letters.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.

New York City police stepped up patrols in the city's subways and trains Thursday after the federal government warned of a potential Al Qaeda attack during the holidays.

The potential threat — described in an internal FBI memo as "plausible but unsubstantiated" — does not extend beyond the New York City area, sources told FOX News.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J . (AP) -- Residents in 19 towns in Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties don't have to boil their water to brush their teeth.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The builders of the new stadium for the New York Giants and Jets football teams say construction on the
$1.6 billion facility is ahead of schedule and under budget.

Work is about 60 percent complete on the building, which is scheduled to open for the 2010 season.

Team executives, who conducted a media tour yesterday, say the emphasis will be on fan comfort and high technology.

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Some Garden State residents are seeing snow.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Even as many government agencies cut back, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is pressing ahead with plans to replace the central terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

The authority authorized a $40 million study Thursday that should result in a new design for the 45-year-old terminal, which handles about 12 million passengers a year.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he'll work with the New York City Council to find a ``balance'' regarding this year's
$400 homeowners' rebate.

Appearing Friday on WOR Radio, Bloomberg said: ``We will work with (Council Speaker) Christine Quinn and we'll find some balance. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be pretty.''

In the economic turndown, the city has to reduce expenses, he says, ``without killing any major programs.''

Bloomberg first proposed canceling the checks to save $256 million. After the city's budget director said that would require council approval, Bloomberg had conceded: ``It's probably up in the air.''

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After 72 years, the well-known trio of bridges comprising the Triborough has been renamed to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge- though not without some angst. There were the expected ceremonies, though...

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After all these years, the end is nigh... Playland will be charging Westchester residents $25, and all others $30, for admission to the park.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A geologist has discovered rare fossils, estimated between 248 million and 540 million years old, on a Staten island Civil War monument.

College of Staten Island professor Alan I.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Commuters who ride NY Waterway ferries are getting a break.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation has named the first three municipalities to be accepted into a pilot program that uses red light cameras to catch traffic violators.

Brick Township, East Brunswick and Newark will be allowed to install traffic cameras at high-volume intersections.

NJDOT spokesman Timothy Greeley says twenty-one municipalities from around the state applied to the five-year program so far, but only 12 will be accepted for the first year.

The devices take digital photographs of vehicles that run red lights or otherwise disregard traffic signals.


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By RICHARD SANDOMIR - Published: October 24, 2008

WASHINGTON — Randy Levine, the president of the Yankees, told a Congressional hearing Friday that if the city had not issued tax-exempt financing for the team’s new stadium, it would have left town.

“It’s been no secret for many years” that the team would move if it could not save tens of millions of dollars on financing with tax-free bonds, Levine told the House subcommittee on domestic policy. He added: “There was no shortage of suitors. We see ourselves as a paradigm in professional sports.”

Levine refused to be specific about the other suitors, but when asked after the hearing if New Jersey has wooed the Yankees in recent years he said, “Absolutely!”


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COLUMBUS, Ohio — New York Rangers coach Tom Renney was hit on the head by a stick and briefly lost consciousness during the second period Friday night.

He was taken to the dressing room and didn't return to the bench, but did watch the second half of the game with team medical personnel.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Transit officials are planning to install computer screens at a Brooklyn L line subway station that will show commuters where the next trains are on the line.

New York City Transit officials say the screens that will be installed at the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues station will display a graphic representation of each train. The data will be updated every 15 seconds.

One transit official says that if the technology works, more screens could be installed in other stations along the L line.

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NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- The Tappan Zee Bridge opened a fifth Westchester-bound lane Thursday in the hopes of easing the commute for thousands of drivers.

The 53-year-old bridge that links Westchester and Rockland Counties is under constant repair. Raised steel construction plates on parts of the bridge have caused constant traffic back-ups.

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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut officials say they've found 10 boxes of cookies made in China that contain melamine, a chemical used in plastics manufacturing, in a small East Hartford store.

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Rail service is suspended on NJ Transit's Gladstone branch between Gladstone and Summit.

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Authorities say they have recovered the body of a teen from Brooklyn who had been missing since yesterday when his boat capsized in a lake upstate.

The body of Carlo Milito, 19, was recovered earlier today in Mountain Lake in Sulivan County, about 75 miles away from the city.

Milito had been on the 15-foot fishing boat with his three relatives when one of the passenger stood up, tipping the boat.
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