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September 15, 2006
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Damaged Lungs Found for 70% Of WTC Crews; Mayor Questions Link But Bolsters City Aid Efforts
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
Seven out of 10 workers who responded to the World Trade Center site five years ago suffered some sort of lung problem related to their work there, according to a report released Sept. 5 by Mount Sinai Hospital. More...
Fire Cos. Honor the Lost: Uptown Memorial's Air More Personal
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS

Two different memorials dedicated to the bravery of the Fire Department bracketed this year's 9/11 commemorations, bookends to the tales of sacrifice that are an inherent part of firefighting. More...

Ex-Jail System IG: Honor Was My Undoing; Caruso Charges His Refusal to Frame Kerik Cost Him
By RICHARD STEIER

The longtime Inspector General of the Correction Department has sued his former bosses, alleging that he was forced from the position because he refused to give More...


Ex-Chief Looks Back: For Hayden, Day Never Fades
By RICHARD STEIER

Peter Hayden doesn't need anniversaries to be looming to focus on Sept. 11. "Nine-eleven, when you're in the Fire Department - particularly when you were there that day - is ever-present in your mind," the man who was the incident commander for the FDNY at the North Tower said during a Sept. 8 inter... More...


Mourn Sanman Allen: This Time, Hero In The Wrong Place
By REUVEN BLAU

Last September, rookie Sanitation Worker Damon Allen was surprised by the media attention after he and his partner helped save a little girl whose stepfather tossed her from the third-floor fire escape as they tried to flee a burning building. More...


'No Micromanaging': 2nd UFT Charter's Sailing on Freedom
By HOWARD MEGDAL

Literacy Teacher Deatrice Bacchus described her experience at the new United Federation of Teachers' secondary charter school as "more of what I expected when I got into teaching. More...


 Editorial
•THE FALLOUT, FIVE YEARS LATER
A study by Mount Sinai Hospital that concluded that seven of every 10 workers who responded to the World Trade Center site five years ago for the rescue, recovery and cleanup operations have sustained lung problems as a result produced some revealing reactions from government officials last week. More...
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 Editor's "Razzle Dazzle" Column
•Razzle Dazzle: Paranoia Rules At '768'
In January, after winning a runoff election, Bernadino De La Cruz took office as the new treasurer of Health Service Employees Local 768 of District Council 37. He did so figuratively, anyway; actually getting inside the local's suite on the 7th floor of 125 Barclay St. was hardly that simple. More...
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 Letters to the Editor
•Letters To the Editor: Questions for the Mayor
To the Editor: (The following open letter to Mayor Bloomberg is printed here at the request of its More...
•SOCIAL SECURITY HIT
•WRONG WAY FOR '2507'
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 Professionals' Column
•Current Pension Topics: Time to Build Deferred Comp
Q.: I am 61 with 31 years of credited service with the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS). I earn $42,000 per year. If I retire at age 62, my annual retirement allowance will be about $27,000. This represents 64 percent of my salary. More...
•YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
•Ask the City Ethicist:: Starting an Outside Business?
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 Civil Service Exam Stories
•APPLY UNTIL SEPT. 26 FOR POLICE 911 POSTS
Start at $27G; Experience With Public Helpful; Car Insp., Architect, Health Advisor Also Open
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services is accepting applications for an exam leading to Police Communication Technician positions. More...
•Yonkers Holding Filing for Legal Clerk Positions
•Will Fill Jobs: CITY CERTIFICATIONS
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