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Last of the lost need rescue
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Dozens of pets still stranded after Superstorm Sandy Months PROVIDED
later, groups still working to reunite lost pets ASPCA hopes
to place pets before finally shuttering its emergency shelter
As many people begin to ASPCA
rebuild after Hurricane
Sandy, another city popu-
lation is still trying to find
their homes: pets lost dur-
ing the storm. Stringer at the
The ASPCA took in news conference
about 300 pets in the days
after the hurricane, many ‘Deplorable’
of which were found roam-
conditions at
ing evacuated neighbor-
hoods. Others were given city shelters
to the ASPCA while their
In the news owners tried to salvage Manhattan Borough
their own homes and lives. President Scott Stringer
Bus drivers
More than two months 1 released a report yester-
to go on strike later, the ASPCA and other day detailing “deplor-
volunteers are still trying able conditions” and “a
In response to the city’s to get pets to their owners. high rate of illness” at
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decision to invite bids on “Many of the evacuees Animal Care & Control
yellow school bus con- left in such a way they shelters. The report
tracts, Transit Union could not take their pets states that nearly all ani-
Local 1181 will go on with them,” said ASPCA mals the ASPCA receives
strike today, according Director of Planning and from AC&C have infec-
to reports from CBS. The Field Operations Joel tions, recounting
city said it has been Lopez. Some thought instances of “dogs and
more than 33 years since theywouldbe back soon, cats being left to wallow
competitive bidding has while others were simply 280Pets in their own waste” and
occurred, and that trans- unable to bring along sheltered “stacked in cages and
portation costs taxpay- their furry friends, he said. at the ASPCA emer- left in hallways.”
ers an average of $6,900 The ASPCA hoped to gency facility, with Volunteers reported
a year per student. The connect all pets by yester- 2 140 remaining last that “no one could get
second largest school day before beginning to week in touch with AC&C”
district in the country, shutter an emergency during Hurricane Sandy,
Los Angeles, costs less boarding facility opened “field operations
than half that. METRO just for Sandy pets in ceased,” and it “all but
Bedford-Stuyvesant. News locked its doors to new
The group will soon be- Find your pet intakes from the public.”
In the news gin placing pups through in pictures
shelters around the
Northeast. To find out if your pet is
Out of 280 pets rescued, 1. An ASPCA worker in at the facility, call the
from cats and dogs to fer- Staten Island ASPCA’s Hurricane Sandy Quoted
rets and birds, 140 were 2. An owner reunited Pet Hotline at 347-537-
waiting to be claimed, with her lost pet 9935 or visit nycacc.org. “There’s so many
ASPCA officials said. 3. A cat at the emergency Also, visit facebook.com
people that are
4 shelter /SandysPets to see if
Alison Bowen 4. ASPCA in Staten Island your pet is featured. still displaced,
[email protected]
SI committee their homes are
to vote on destroyed. Some
arming schools Trying to website. They also feature pets from tion,” said Rosalie Carlson, are elderly
identify owners Facebook is another way the storm whose owners who makes fliers for the people, some are
Staten Island’s a separate group of volun- can no longer keep them pets on the site. More than people that don’t
Community The ASPCA tried to track teers is trying to place pets. after losing their homes 500 pets have been
Education Council down owners with fliers The Hurricane Sandy Lost and that now need foster or featured, she said, with have their homes
will vote today on a and advertisements in and Found Pets Facebook adoptive homes for a short about 174 reunited so far. in general for
proposal to place newspapers, on the radio site posts photos of pets period of time. Just Friday, they reunited a them to stay in.”
plainclothes armed and on the organization’s found during the storm. “It’s such a sad situa- parakeet, she said.
guards in city ROSALIE CARLSON
schools, CBS reports.
The plan calls for 300
to 500 retired police
officers to carry con- shot multiple times outside Police said Sunday that no Day, an officer in the Bronx were shot on Jan. 3: one
cealed weapons of a Queens nightclub. arrests had been made yet. shot a man who hit anoth- off duty at his Bronx car
through the city’s In the news Kwasi Olatunji was METRO er officer with his car. On dealership and two at the
schools. The Council gunned down around 3:30 Jan. 2, an officer in Fort Fort Hamilton Parkway
does not have the One dead after a.m. in front of the Flavor Multiple NYPD Greene shot a man threat- stop on the N line. The
power to enforce pol- Lounge, located on Hillside shootings in 2013 ening to stab a woman shooter in the second inci-
icy but can make a shooting at Avenue in Richmond Hill, with scissors. Three officers dent was killed. In East
recommendation to Queens nightclub according to the NYPD. Saturday marked the first New York on Jan. 4, an offi-
the city school board. A second victim, 27, is day of 2013 in which there cer shot a man after the
METRO A 36-year-old man died in stable condition after were no NYPD-involved 5NYPD officers man pointed a gun at him.
early Sunday after being being stabbed in the leg. shootings. On New Year’s shot in 2013 METRO

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New Yorkers excited
In the news PHOTO BY SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
Job growth in
New York to slow for the puck’s return
in 2013
This year is expected to be
a slow one in terms of job BESS ADLER
growth, but employment
opportunities will pick
back up in 2014, according
to a recent report from the
city’s Independent Budget 515_Photo Caption
Office.
The IBO predicted an
increase of 50,900 jobs in from 2009 to 2016.
2013, nearly half of which 73.4KThe “This would constitute
will come from the educa- IBO the most robust city em-
tion and health care sec- predicted number of ployment expansion since
tors. It said that more than city jobs will go up 1950, when these records
480,000 payroll jobs are by about 73,400 per begin,” the IBO said.
expected to be gained year from 2014-2016. METRO/JG
Diehard Rangers fans swarmed the National Hockey League store in Times Square
yesterday after the NHL announced that the hockey season would return.
In the news
Force to Reduce Gun
Gillibrand, Violence. In New York City, The finally reconciled tender Ashling
Schumer urge 85 percent of the guns used NHL lockout undoubtedly Games missed O’Callahan. “We’re look-
better checks in crimes are from out-of- affected the city’s econo- ing really forward to the
state and an estimated 90 my. On a local level, busi- season starting up again.
percent are illegal. The sen- nesses like the Flying Rangers: 19 We’re really excited.”
Sens. Kristen Gillibrand and ators say there are no laws Puck sports bar near Islanders: 20 O’Callahan said when
Chuck Schumer urged Vice addressing gun trafficking. Madison Square Garden Devils: 17 the lockout ended, the
President Joe Biden in a let- They plan to introduce two saw a definite difference Overall: 625* bar received “a lot of
ter to give attention to pieces of legislation in the from business last season. Percent of total crazy phone calls from
background-check reform Sen. Gillibrand new Congress to remedy “It was pretty slow, but season:50.8 percent* regulars” cheered up by
with the Interagency Task that. METRO/DT we have gotten through *According to the NHL in the long-awaited
it,” said Flying Puck bar- 3late December agreement. METRO/DT
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Report: Obama, Biden
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contested area both coun-
tries claim as their own.
In the news There were more than attempt wider gun
75 ceasefire violations
along the Line of Control in
India, Pakistan 2012. REUTERS control methods
clash in Kashmir
Nixon Bloomberg
remembered in
ISLAMABAD. A Pakistani sol- NYC mayor
dier was killed and another centennial The White House is weigh-
injured in a gunfight celebration ing a far broader approach
between Indian and to curbing U.S. gun vio- The White House has
Pakistani troops in Kashmir LOS ANGELES. A planned lence than just reinstating been in contact with
yesterday, a disputed inci- yearlong centennial cele- a ban on assault weapons advisers to New York
dent that could heighten bration of Richard Nixon’s and high-capacity maga- Mayor Michael
tensions between the nu- birth kicked zines, the Washington Post Bloomberg, a gun
clear neighbors after a pe- off yesterday reported yesterday. control advocate who
riod of rapprochement. at his presi- A working group led by could emerge as a sur-
The Pakistani army said dential library Vice President Joe Biden is rogate for the admin-
Indian troops had raided in Southern seriously considering istration’s agenda,
their Sawan Patra check California, measures that would re- the paper said.
post in Kashmir, a hotly with military honors and quire universal back- The Post cited sev-
the laying of a wreath by ground checks for gun eral people involved
Quoted the eldest daughter of the buyers and track the move- Protesters demonstrate against in the
late 37th U.S. president. ment and sale of weapons the National Rifle Association. administration’s talks
“Pakistan army Nixon, the Cold War-era through a national data- on gun control for its
troops effectively Republican stalwart who base, the newspaper said. GETTY IMAGES story. They included
opened U.S. relations with The measures would Obama assigned Biden the around the National Rifle Dan Gross, president
responded and communist China and be- also strengthen mental job of designing the strate- Association, the powerful of the Brady
repulsed the came the only American health checks and stiffen gy after the massacre at a gun lobby. Campaign to Prevent
president to resign from penalties for carrying guns Newtown, Conn., elemen- They include rallying Gun Violence, and
attack.” office, leaving the White near schools or giving tary school last month that support from Wal-Mart Chuck Wexler, execu-
House in disgrace over the them to minors, the Post killed 20 children and six Stores Inc. and other gun tive director of the
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