New York Desk
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STATEWIDE
RETOOLED MILLENNIUM PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION SLATED TO BEGIN IN 2006
A planned natural gas pipeline stretching across New York’s Southern Tier to suburban New York City was going nowhere. Now it has new life. The Millennium Pipeline, first proposed in 1997, was envisioned as a 425-mile link connecting gas supplies in Canada with the New York City market. Backers saw the pipeline as a way to supply gas to the growing energy trading market and to power plants they believed would spring up around the state.
That proposal stalled, but backers have since retooled plans, gotten a key new partner, and are awaiting final federal approval to start work on the pipeline’s initial phase in the second half of 2006.They plan to have the first part of the pipeline running in late 2007.The original $683 million line ran into opposition from local groups along the route and some environmentalists. In 2002, New York’s Department of State ruled the line would threaten fish and wildlife around Haverstraw Bay in Rockland County, a waterfront revitalization project in Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester, and drinking water supplies for New York City and Westchester.
– Associated Press
POLICE BLOTTER
POLICE VEHICLE STRUCK IN PARK ACCIDENT
Six police officers from the 23rd Precinct were injured when a car struck their police van yesterday, police officials said. At 6:47 a.m., the officers from the Upper East Side precinct were traveling through Central Park on the 86th Street Transverse Road, on their way to the Thanksgiving Day Parade, when a man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the side of the police van. The officers were taken to New York Hospital with minor injuries, police said. The collision was considered accidental, law enforcement officials said.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
THREE CIVILIANS AND FOUR FIREFIGHTERS INJURED IN BROOKLYN FIRE
A teenage girl was in critical condition after a fire in her family’s third-story Flatbush home yesterday morning prompted the girl to jump from a window, Fire Department officials said. She remained in critical condition as of early yesterday afternoon, the Fire Department said. At 6:01 a.m., the fire started in a bedroom in the Ocean Avenue apartment where the 16-year-old girl and her father, 58, resided. They both suffered from smoke inhalation, and the girl suffered trauma from the fall.
The fire was contained in the apartment, but a 40-year-old woman who lives directly above the apartment was treated for smoke inhalation. Three firefighters sustained burns during the fire and were treated at a hospital and released. A lieutenant from Engine 255 in Brooklyn was admitted to the hospital as an in-patient because his burns were more severe, though not life-threatening, officials said. Fire officials were investigating the cause of the fire, but it did not appear to be suspicious.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND IN WOODED AREA
An individual wandering in the woods in Staten Island yesterday discovered a badly decomposed and beheaded body, police said. At 12:55 p.m. yesterday, the body of what appeared to be a 27-year-old man was found in a wooded area opposite 835 Forest Hill Rd., in New Dorp. The head was detached from the body but nearby. The man was wearing clothes and boots, police said. By mid-afternoon, the man’s identification and the cause of death had not been determined.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
MAN STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRAIN IN BRONX
A man between 35 and 40 years old was struck and killed by a subway in Baychester, police said. Criminal activity was not suspected, police said, but the investigation continues. At 1:06 p.m. yesterday, the man was in the subway station at Pelham Parkway and White Plains Road when a no. 5 subway hit him.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
CITYWIDE
SAVVIS CEO QUITS AFTER CONTROVERSY OVER STRIP CLUB BILL
The chairman and chief executive officer of Savvis Incorporated, Robert McCormick, has resigned after an investigation into a $241,000 bill he charged to a corporate American Express card at a New York City topless club. Savvis issued a statement Wednesday saying it had accepted Mr. McCormick’s resignation after an investigation by its audit committee was completed.” The board has determined that it is in the best interest of the company to accept Mr. McCormick’s resignation,” the head of the company’s audit committee, Clyde Heintzelman, said.
– Associated Press