NYC: Fight on Islamic Center Flares Anew as Ex-Firefighter Takes His Case to Court

The furor over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero flared up again on Tuesday, as lawyers for a former New York City firefighter asked a judge to overturn the city’s decision to withhold landmark protection for the building site. The decision last August by the Landmarks Preservation Commission removed a significant obstacle

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Veteran Vendor Lance Orton Is Times Square Hero

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) – “I’m not a celebrity, I’m just an average Joe,” Lance Orton told the New York Daily News Sunday night from his apartment in the Bronx. But this average Joe is being hailed as the savior of Times Square. Orton is one of the street vendors who alerted police to the suspicious

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