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02 new york #1 FREE DAILY IN NYC THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013
The dark side of going online
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Cops investigate murder after Queens man made possible online connection
Experts caution against feeling too comfortable with people you meet online
SI woman still missing in Turkey after potentially meeting Instagram friends
FACEBOOK
Use caution
behind the
computer screen
“If you’re connecting
with somebody in the
online world, unless you
are seeing the whites of
their eyes, they should
be treated as a stranger
to you,” Nigam said.
In the news Instead, he said,
when people talk online,
Cops cuff
they can feel very com-
Bronx kid fortable because they
are in the safety of their
A 7-year-old boy was own home. But people
handcuffed by police at should have the oppo-
P.S. X114 in the Bronx on site reaction. If
Dec. 4, according to a something seems off,
$250 million lawsuit ask for clarification, he
filed against the city and advised.
the NYPD. Frances “I think your first best
Mendez said her son, Sarau Sierra is still missing in Turkey. David Rangel was killed in his Queens apartment. friend in all of this is
Wilson Reyes, was “in- Google,” he said. “You
terrogated” for 10 hours can see if the job they’re
by police, the NY Post re- talking about actually ex-
ported, after being false- Police are searching for a the murder as a hate Quoted planned to meet with ists. … If your instincts
ly accused of stealing $5 suspect they think may crime. strangers she met through say there’s something
from another child at the have murdered a Queens “The horrific crime “The moment you Instagram, according to wrong, you’ve got to go
school. Another boy has teacher after they met on- committed against David the Daily News. with it.” He also suggests
touch that
come forward to accuse line. Rangel, an openly gay pub- Online safety expert a face-to-face chat on
Reyes of being a violent David Rangel, 53, was lic school teacher who keyboard, your Hemu Nigam said that the computer or phone.
bully. METRO/DT found choked to death and lived in one of the city’s senses need to go when people sit behind a “If the person refuses be-
shoved under his couch in most tolerant communi- computer screen, they cause they’re giving you
up as though you
his Jackson Heights apart- ties, is deeply distressing,” may wrongly lower their examples like, ’My hair
In the news ment Sunday, officials said. Dromm said. are leaving the guard. doesn’t look good today,
A police spokesman Dromm spokesman front door of your “When you’re going on- I’m just not feeling well,’
said cops responded to a Alex Florez said Rangel ap- line, it’s very much like your senses should go
911 call, after a friend pears to have met some- house.” NIGAM you’re going down a New up,” he said. If you do
checking on him found one online. The York alley,” he said. “You meet someone, perhaps
the door unlocked and councilman’s concern is Meanwhile, the family don’t know where you’re through an online dating
ajar. that someone may have of a Staten Island woman, going, you don’t know website, make sure it is
Police found Rangel targeted him because he is Sarai Sierra, is searching what might pop up. … Yet in a public place, and
with trauma to his head as openly gay and that this for her in Turkey, where when you’re on a comput- consider having a friend
well as blood on the floor perhaps led to a potential she disappeared while er, you do it without think- show up two or three ta-
NJ Transit train and the walls. bias-motivated murder. traveling this month. ing twice.” bles down or suggesting
Councilman Daniel “Something obviously They, too, are con- a group setting.
hits trailer Dromm asked the NYPD went terribly wrong cerned she may have met Alison Bowen METRO/AB
A New Jersey Transit yesterday to investigate there,” Florez said. someone online. She had [email protected]
train hit a truck yes-
terday, according to
news reports. The News in brief Police search for
New York Times re- her arm as she walked
ported that the com- Cuomo threatens child predator away. The girl fled.
muter train hit a to force teacher The man is described as
tractor trailer at a rail- evaluation deal Cops are searching for a Hispanic, light-skinned, 5-
road crossing yester- man officials say has been foot-7 to 5-foot-9, 170
day morning and trying to lure children pounds.
that multiple people Gov. Andrew Cuomo said toward his car. The same day, cops said,
were injured. No one that if the city and the teach- Councilwoman Julissa around 8 p.m., a man in the
was reported killed. ers union cannot reach a Cuomo Ferreras said that a man same type of car drove
The train hit the truck deal on a teacher evaluation tried to lure a child two alongside a 14-year-old
as it was going system by Sept. 1, he will times recently in her East girl, again on Northern
through a railroad propose a law granting the million when a deal failed to Elmhurst community. Hispanic male, 30 to 35, in a Boulevard.
crossing, and there state’s education be reached two weeks ago. “He is a predator on the Cadillac Escalade drove by a He motioned her to ap-
did not appear to be department to create one, Most other cities in the state loose and has now tried 13-year-old girl on proach the vehicle, but she
any immediate prob- NY1 reports. Cuomo cited were able to meet that multiple times to harm Northern Boulevard. He en- would not. This girl fled as
lem with the signals, the danger of losing federal deadline. City schools now young women in our com- gaged her in a well, cops said.
according to the funding as well as state stand to lose an additional munity,” she said. conversation, cops said, Anyone with
newspaper. funding. New York City $450 million in aid and Police said that on and she walked away. The information can call 800-
METRO/AB schools already lost $250 grants. METRO/DT Friday around 7 a.m., a man got out and grabbed 577-TIPS. METRO/AB
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insurance premiums 25
percent higher than be-
fore, but those same struc-
tures may be able to
reduce rates by raising Buildings damaged by superstorm Sandy can
their elevations, FEMA now be built eight feet above the foundation, four feet
stated. higher than zoning regulations used to allow.
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classified in flood zones three feet higher than the formal use, FEMA report-
can be built eight feet flood line, an average ed. To defray the high
above a foundation, four house could reduce flood costs of rebuilding, FEMA
feet higher than previous insurance costs from said homeowners with
zoning regulations al- $9,500 to $427 a year. The federally backed insur-
lowed, FEMA reported. new maps replace those ance policies could receive
Under the Flood Insurance made 25 years ago, and up to $30,000 in addition-
Reform Act of 2012, FEMA the city will have up to al reconstruction funds.
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Cuomo’s approval
News in brief
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gun control laws in the Daily News reported.
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University. next year, while the
In December, Gov. Pacific Branch on 4th
Cuomo’s approval ratings Cuomo Avenue in Boerum Hill
were at a record-high 74 would go in 2016. The
percent. But by the end of 15 library would remain
January, after the passage on the ground floor of
of the new gun laws, his the Brooklyn Heights
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percent, with a 28-percent the space from 60,000
disapproval rate. Approval-point drop to 16,000 square feet,
Republican approval for for Gov. Cuomo in while the floors above
the governor has fallen the last month would be used as resi-
from 68 percent to 44 per- dential apartments.
cent, with a disapproval Cuomo's controversial The Pacific Branch
rate of 43 percent. The gun law broadened the would move to the
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Family of
woman killed in
elevator sues
Hart Brager Three fatalities happened
Monday - Friday MIDTOWN.The relatives of a last night in NYC.
woman who was crushed to
“A family that
death in an elevator in 2011 tactical medic Detective into him. Police said Richard
11am - 8pm is suing, according to news Robert Brager deployed to should have been Griffin, 85, was walking east
reports. DNAinfo reports the ship, where Brager sta- celebrating the new on E. 69 St. around 8 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday that Suzanne Hart’s family bilized the captain onboard year is instead when a Jeep Liberty travel-
sued Transel Elevator com- the ship. An NYPD helicop- ing north on York Avenue
mourning the loss
pany, which was repairing ter airlifted the captain and collided into him. A Staten
11am - 6pm the elevators in the build- Brager to Staten Island of a beloved Island resident, Griffin was
ing. Hart was killed in University Hospital. The cap- daughter and brought to New York
December 2011 on her way tain, a 60-year-old Egyptian sister.” VANCE Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
to work when the elevator named Aly Akl, is now in Medical Center, where he
she was in suddenly shot stable condition. was pronounced dead.
up. Their lawsuit reportedly METRO/DT building. “A family that A few hours later, a man
accuses the Transel repair should have been celebrat- was killed in Brooklyn after
crew of not posting signs Man charged ing the new year is instead being struck by a Jeep.
that they were repairing the with NYE murder mourning the loss of a Police said Gerald Green, 52,
elevator or otherwise beloved daughter and was crossing Linden Boule-
following safety rules. INWOOD. A Manhattan man sister,” Vance said. “This case vard at Rockaway Parkway
METRO/AB was indicted yesterday for is yet another harrowing ex- at around 10:30 p.m. during
allegedly stabbing his ex- ample of how quickly a green light when the Jeep
Cop doc saves girlfriend in what prosecu- domestic violence can turn Cherokee ran into him. He
cargo ship tors say was a domestic deadly.” METRO/AB was found unconscious and
violence murder. According unresponsive at the scene,
captain
to Manhattan District Three pedestrian police reported.
Attorney Cyrus Vance, Shortly after 1 a.m., a
NEW YORK HARBOR.Police Jonnathan Pena-Castillo, 21, fatalities occur man, 35, was killed by a yel-
rushed to the rescue is charged with killing his over one night low taxicab while attempt-
Tuesday night when the ex-girlfriend, Edith Rojas, on ing to cross W. 125 St. at the
captain of a Panamian car- New Year’s Eve. Prosecutors NEW YORK CITY.A man died intersection of Broadway.
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go ship anchored in New say he stabbed her multiple Tuesday evening on the His name was being held
York Harbor had a heart at- times in the back outside Upper East Side of pending notification of his
tack. NYPD Harbor and a her Inwood apartment Manhattan when a Jeep ran family. METRO/EC
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