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  • 30
    Apr
    2013
    11:26am, EDT

    I smell a rat: New York City dogs hunt hated rodents

    Craig Ruttle / AP

    Susan Friedenberg of New York takes a rat from Tanner, her border terrier, in lower Manhattan on April 26.

    By Jennifer Peltz of The Associated Press

    NEW YORK — Bodies tense and noses twitching, the dogs sniff the fertile hunting ground before them: a lower Manhattan alley, grimy, dim and perfect for rats. With a terse command — "Now!" — the chase is on.

    Known with a chuckle as the Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society — parse the acronym — the rodent-hunters have been scouring downtown byways for more than a decade, meeting weekly when weather allows. Read full story

     

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    A group of dog owners gather in a lower Manhattan park April 26 before a hunt for rats that takes their various breeds into New York City alleys. Participants say the hunts are less about killing rats than giving dogs the experience of chasing them.

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    A dog named Paco, owned by Bill Reyna of Wayne, N.J., looks over a dead rat in a lower Manhattan alley on April 26.

    Craig Ruttle / AP

    A wire-haired dachshund named Vina, owned by Trudy Kawami of New York, carries a rat after catching it in a lower Manhattan alley on April 26.

    Craig Ruttle / AP

    A number of rats are displayed in a lower Manhattan alley, caught and killed by small hunting dogs, on April 26.

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

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    • Blind sled dog thrives with brother's help
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    This is what these small breeds were developed for in the 1200s/1300s because the, Civilized religious Society at that time killed all of the reptiles [EVIL Satanistic Creatures who seduced Eve] which were keeping rodent populations under control. When they killed the reptiles it brought on over-pop …

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  • 19
    Feb
    2013
    3:31pm, EST

    Work begins on Snooki's destroyed Jersey Shore boardwalk

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    A worker cleans debris from the Fun Town Pier that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Feb. 19, in Seaside Heights, N.J.

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    Workers install new pilings to replace the boardwalk that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Feb. 19, in Seaside Heights, N.J.

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    Workers install new pilings for the boardwalk that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, Feb. 19, in Seaside Heights, N.J.

    By Jon Sweeney, NBC News

    Rebuilding the boardwalk made famous by MTV's "Jersey Shore" began in earnest last Friday as heavy equipment including a gigantic drill and a pile-driving machine were brought onto the sand in the south end of Seaside Heights, N.J., the Associated Press reported.

    They quickly began drilling holes in the sand and pounding wooden pilings into them, shaking the ground for blocks around.

    It marked the beginning of a $3.6 million contract the borough awarded to rebuild the boardwalk. Mayor William Akers said the initial work — restoring the boardwalk so that it can be walked on safely — should be done by May 10. Continue reading.

    New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has estimated that damage in New Jersey caused by Superstorm Sandy could reach $37 billion.

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    The Star Jet roller coaster remains in the water on Feb. 19, after the Casion Pier it sat on collapsed from the forces of Superstorm Sandy, in Seaside Heights, N.J.

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    Snooki's Boardwalk? Are you KIDDING?!?! That's an insult to everyone one of us that grew up on the Jersey Shore. She's a sham, and worse, a NEW YORKER! It's idiots like her that make NJ look bad!!

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  • 7
    Feb
    2013
    11:44am, EST

    100 days after Hurricane Sandy, the Jersey Shore slowly recovers

    Andrew Mills / The Star-Ledger

    LEFT: One of the most iconic images of Hurricane Sandy, the lemon yellow home in Union Beach split in half, but remained standing. RIGHT: The same property 100 days later.

    By Amy Ellis Nutt, The Star-Ledger

    Published 11:30am ET -- Too cold even for the seagulls, the Jersey Shore in winter is a desolate place. Up and down the abandoned beaches a fringe of snow and ice, like the frayed hem of an old wedding dress, sketches the edge of the last high tide. Only a handful of well-bundled souls, and a black Lab with no birds to chase, roam the ocean’s edge. Shuttered and silent, the Jersey Shore in winter is supposed to be bleak, but today, paused between storm and summer, 100 days after Hurricane Sandy and 110 days until Memorial Day, the shore remains a mournful place — struggling not to be.

    Continue reading: 100 days after Sandy, a crippled Jersey Shore stutters back to life

    More photos: The Jersey Shore 100 days later on nj.com.

    Andrew Mills / The Star-Ledger

    LEFT: The Atlantic Ocean has breached the Ocean County barrier island in three places in the borough of Mantoloking, and created a new inlet at the base of the Mantoloking Bridge. RIGHT: This is what the Mantoloking Bridge looks like 100 days later.

    Andrew Mills / The Star-Ledger

    LEFT: Work begins to clean up Ocean Avenue between 17th and 16th Avenues in Belmar on Wednesday after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the Jersey Shore. RIGHT: How Ocean Avenue looks today.

     

    Andrew Mills / The Star-Ledger

    LET: A destroyed sport utility vehicle at the intersection of Brielle Road and First Avenue on the Manasquan beachfront was one of the first images to be transmitted from the Jersey Shore after Sandy's storm surge subsided. RIGHT: The same intersection 100 days later.

    Slideshow: Recovering after Sandy

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    Residents of the Northeast are still picking up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy.

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    Disgraceful!

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  • 3
    Dec
    2012
    8:28pm, EST

    Joe Epstein / AP

    A multi-family building, with a supermarket on the ground floor, burns as firefighters from North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue and the Jersey City Fire Department fight the flames in Union City, N.J., Dec. 3, 2012. Smoke from the fire, located at the corner of Fifth street and Bergenline avenue, could be seen for miles.

    Large fire burns in Union City building

    NBC New York reports — Flames could be seen from News Chopper 4 shooting through the roof of the building on the residential block. Fire crews were on truck ladders and the roofs of neighboring buildings directing hoses at the flames.

    Neighbor Kevin Geigel said, "I looked out the window and saw the first couple of flames coming out of the middle apartment on the top floor, and it just spread from there." Full story…

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  • 15
    Nov
    2012
    11:02am, EST

    Rebuilding lives after Sandy, one photo at a time

    By Jon Sweeney, NBC News

    Thousands of photos have been taken of the destruction left in Sandy’s wake, but as people return home to pick up the pieces of their disrupted lives, it’s the family photos that remind residents of happier times.

    Mike Segar / Reuters

    Nancy Gardini holds wedding pictures of her parents and of her mother and her two grandmothers that she salvaged from the remains of her home, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, on Fox Beach Avenue on the south side of Staten Island, New York City.

    Mike Segar / Reuters

    A photograph lays on the stoop of a home condemned after flooding from Hurricane Sandy in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, Nov 13.

    John Moore / Getty Images

    Family photos lie in the debris of Michael Russo's flood damaged home on Nov. 1, in the Ocean Breeze area of the Staten Island borough of New York City.

    Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images

    Rosalind Silletto displays 43-year old water logged photos of her aunt's wedding party removed from her basement on Nov. 6, in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York City.

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    A damaged family portrait is propped outside of a flooded home in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City.

    Julio Cortez / AP

    Photographs of Elliott Miller's wedding day and graduation lay on a snow covered bench on Nov. 8, in Point Pleasant, N.J.

    David Friedman / NBC News

    Kerilynn and Drew Allen clean flood ravaged items out of their Breezy Point, N.Y., home on on Nov. 2.

    Tom Mihalek / Reuters

    Family photographs are piled on a water-logged chair in the backyard of Dean Stavley 's home following the damage by Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, N.J.

    Mike Segar / Reuters

    Photographs are seen jammed into a fence left by Hurricane Sandy on the south side of hard-hit Staten Island in New York City.

    Lucas Jackson / Reuters

    A woman weeps as she is overwhelmed by emotion after finding her family photographs inside of her heavily damaged home in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York City.

    John Moore / Getty Images

    Frank Burfeind displays a wedding photo salvaged from a flood-damaged home on Nov. 1, in the Ocean Breeze area of the Staten Island borough of New York City.

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    Slideshow: Recovering after Sandy

    Eric Thayer / Reuters

    A snowstorm hits the Northeast as residents are still struggling to pick up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy.

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    Scanning photos is a great idea - however it takes allot of time - so while you work on that....... Put all your photos in a waterproof plastic or fireproof (if possible) box - leave enough room to throw the framed photos you have around the house in when and if the time comes. If the time comes whe …

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  • 6
    Nov
    2012
    2:07pm, EST

    One displaced voter heads to the polls in New Jersey town devastated by Sandy

    John Makely / NBC News

    Nikolas Policastro leaves a mobile polling station after voting in Little Egg Harbor, N.J.

    John Makely / NBC News

    A sample Ocean County ballot

    By John Makely, NBC News

     Nikolas Policastro, 20, didn't think his first time voting would be on a bus. "If I could have picked a scenario this would have been the last," he said after exiting a 38-foot mobile polling station set up by the Ocean County Board of Elections to help out after Superstorm Sandy thwarted their plans for election day. On voting Policastro said, "I feel it's important to have a voice. Everyone can complain that the president and Congress aren't doing a good job, but if you don't vote then you don't have a say."

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    Nikolas Policastro, right, casts his ballot on a mobile polling station in Little Egg Harbor.

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    Policastro and his family--four brothers and his parents--sought refuge at the Red Cross shelter at the Pinelands Regional Junior High School after their home in Mystic Islands was swamped with over five feet of water from the storm. The shelter was one of the few places that the family could house their extended family of five cats, five dogs and five three-week-old puppies.

    Policastro gives a kiss to one of his five puppies that are staying with him and his family at a Red Cross shelter. Paige Shaw of the Red Cross pets the puppies' mother, "Bella."

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    Residents across the Northeast pick up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy killed more than 100 people in 10 states and left a trail of destruction.

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    Campaigning with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, voting and election results.

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  • 31
    Oct
    2012
    3:27pm, EDT

    Aerial views reveal Sandy's destructive power

    Mark Lennihan / AP

    An aerial view shows the destruction in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 31, two days after a fire raged through the area as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

    Mike Groll / AP

    Figures stand amid burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 30, 2012. The tiny beachfront neighborhood burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters from Sandy, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field.

    Michael Reynolds / EPA

    A boardwalk, left, and waterfront property are heavily damaged following Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 31.

    Michael Reynolds / EPA

    At dawn, a police car patrols an empty waterfront neighborhood that lost power as a result of Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 31.

    Master Sgt. Mark Olsen / US Air Force via EPA

    A photo provided by the US Air Force shows damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast during a search and rescue mission by the New Jersey Army National Guard on Oct. 30. Photo was made available Oct. 31.

    Randall Chase / AP

    Homes in Fenwick Island, Del., are surrounded by floodwaters from superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Officials said Fenwick Island and nearby Bethany Beach appeared to be among the hardest-hit parts of the state.

    Aerial videos of Sandy's destruction:

    • Fires, devastation seen in New Jersey aerial tour
    • Dramatic NYPD roof rescue caught on video
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  • 30
    Oct
    2012
    8:54pm, EDT

    East Coast deals with power outage from Hurricane Sandy

    Patrick Semansky / AP

    Jeff Willard lights a candle in his living room as his girlfriend, Diana Conte, back left, and her son, Ricky, wait for electricity to return in Ventnor City, N.J., Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

    Timothy A. Clary / AFP - Getty Images

    A man shops for groceries by flashlight at an East Village grocery store in New York, Oct. 30.

    Justin Lane / EPA

    Food is served at the Mee Sun Cafe in Chinatown as power to most of lower Manhattan was down Oct. 30. Superstorm Sandy was one of the largest in history to hit the U.S. East Coast and has caused power outages for millions of people in the Eastern U.S. and crippled transportation in New York City.

    John Makely / NBC News

    Stephanie Sikaris, of Union, N.J., with red bandana, waits in line on Oct. 30 at an Exxon station on Route 22 to fill up her gas containers to feed the generator she bought on Monday from Home Depot. "This looks like it may take a while [to restore power] but hey, it could be worse, right?" she said while standing in line.

    Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters

    Customers and staff ride out Superstorm Sandy together by candle light at the Greenwich Village restaurant French Roast in New York, Oct. 30. New York Power Company Consolidated Edison Inc. said that it had shut off power to part of Lower Manhattan to protect electrical equipment and to allow for quicker restoration after Hurricane Sandy passes.

    Richard Drew / AP

    People in New York's Tribeca neighborhood wait for a chance to charge their mobile phones on an available generator setup on a sidewalk, Oct. 30. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.

    Slideshow: Sandy slams into East Coast

    Andrew Burton / Getty Images

    Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.

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  • 30
    Oct
    2012
    3:10pm, EDT

    Rescuing residents in flooded New Jersey

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    Miatid Amini makes his way with his family onto John Mercadante's truck assisted by his son, Frank Mercadante, right.

    Adam Hunger / Reuters

    A resident passes his baby to an emergency worker as they are rescued from flood waters in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

    Adam Hunger / Reuters

    An emergency personnel carries an elderly resident from flood waters brought on by Hurricane Sandy in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

    Adam Hunger / Reuters

    Emergency personnel rescue a resident from flood waters in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

    Craig Ruttle / AP

    Olivia Loesner, 16, hugs her uncle, Little Ferry Deputy Fire Chief John Ruff, after she was brought from her flooded home in a boat in Little Ferry, N.J., Oct. 30. At right, carrying pets, is her mother, Janice Loesner.

    Craig Ruttle / AP

    People are rescued from floodwaters on a large truck in Little Ferry, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30.

    Adam Hunger / Reuters

    Rescue workers carry a wheelchair-bound resident from flood waters in Little Ferry, New Jersey, Oct. 30.

    Good Samaritans and emergency personnel had their arms, trucks and boats full as they rescued people from four New Jersey towns that were quickly flooded with water following Hurricane Sandy. Full story

    Slideshow: Sandy slams into East Coast

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    Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.

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    what amazes me about this is the amount of evacuations and rescues they are doing post hurricane sandy. i live in florida and been threw all of them including the worst ANDREW. we have learned a lot over the years and there are no more rescues nor is there any emergency help as to water and ice.

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  • 23
    Oct
    2012
    12:09pm, EDT

    Clayton NJ residents face grisly news - missing girl’s body found

    Joseph Kaczmarek / AP

    Gina Bateman, left, and her sister Carmen Bateman watch as investigators gather at a house on Clayton Avenue in Clayton N.J. on Oct. 23, after the discovery of a girl's body in a home's recycling bin.

    Joseph Kaczmarek / AP

    Investigators gather at a house on Clayton Avenue in Clayton N.J. on Oct. 23, after the discovery of a girl's body in a home's recycling bin.

    Joseph Kaczmarek / AP

    An investigators photographs evidence in the back yard of a house in Clayton, N.J. on Oct. 23, after the discovery of a girl's body in a home's recycling bin.

    Joseph Kaczmarek / AP

    Clayton Mayor Tom Bianco speaks to members of the news media Clayton, N.J. on Oct. 23.

    By NBC News staff and wire

    A relative confirmed Tuesday that a body found in a Clayton, N.J., recycling container is that of missing 12-year-old girl Autumn Pasquale, The Associated Press reported.

    Paul Spadafora, the girl's uncle, thanked the community Tuesday morning for helping search for Autumn, whose body was found in a recycling bin at a Clayton home around 10 p.m. Monday, according to The AP. No arrests have been announced so far and authorities said they don't have any suspects.

    Autumn was last seen around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday leaving her Clayton home while riding a white BMX bike to a friend's house. The girl’s parents called police after she never made it to that friend's house. Full story.

    The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports the bike was found late Tuesday morning and brought out from inside the house to the audible gasp of those gathered at the scene.

    Joseph Kaczmarek / AP

    A teen who declined to be identified is overcome with grief after visiting the crime scene on Clayton Avenue in Clayton, N.J. on Oct. 23.

    Thousands of people gathered earlier in the evening on Monday for a tearful candlelight vigil to pray for her safe return.  

     

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    I am so sorry for the family and for the Autumn. I believe putting evil men back into the prison system isn't the answer. The death penalty would be the best choice for these guys. If you take a life you have to give up yours.

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  • 11
    Oct
    2012
    8:11pm, EDT

    Residents struggle for food in Camden, N.J.

    A 21-year-old heroin addict looks for food among garbage in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11, 2012.

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images — Camden, New Jersey is now the most impoverished city in the U.S. with nearly 32,000 of Camden's residents living below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Camden has a chronic crime problem with 48 recorded homicides this year alone. A lack of jobs has been a feature of life in Camden since the city lost most of its manufacturing base in the late 1960s and 70s. While the state unemployment rate is about 9.9 percent, Camden's is estimated at 19 percent.

    A youth volunteer serves food to the needy at Cathedral Hall in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11. Cathedral Hall serves lunch five days a week to thousands of Camden residents having trouble affording food.

    A homeless man panhandles on a street in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11.

    Workers in a culinary arts training program prepare meals at the Cathedral Kitchen soup kitchen that serves 300 to 600 meals a day, six days a week, to the needy and hungry in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11. Cathedral Kitchen was founded in 1976 and offers a variety of programs and life services to Camden's poor and disadvantaged.

    Homes sit vacant in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11.

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    If the news media is going to report such headlines such as this be sure that you have properly identified who our Camden City Residents are ok. Herion addict? These are suburbanites who continuously get dumped on our our city and you run crappy headlines like this. We are tired of the news media p …

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  • 19
    Sep
    2012
    5:36pm, EDT

    High winds topple Jesus Christ statue atop New Jersey school

    Julio Cortez / AP

    A statue of Jesus Christ lays on its side on top of the St. John's School building following a high wind storm, Sept. 19, in Orange, N.J.

    Julio Cortez / AP

    Sergio Mendoza works on securing a strap around a statue of Jesus Christ on the roof of the St. John's School building after it toppled during a high wind storm, Sept. 19, in Orange, N.J.

    Julio Cortez / AP

    A statue of Jesus Christ is lowered off the roof of the St. John's School building by a crane after it toppled during a high wind storm on Sept. 19 in Orange, N.J.

    A 25-year-old statue of Jesus Christ was toppled from it's base on the rooftop of St. John's School in Orange, N.J. during a storm that rolled through the region.

    "You don’t see the Lord leaning at 90 degrees too much," said the city’s construction official, John Buonanno in an interview with the Newark Star-Ledger. "This statue is sitting there precariously."

    The Newark Archdiocese spokesman James Goodness said the statue was a replacement for the school's original statue, which also was toppled in a storm.

    • NJ.com: Jesus Christ statue falls victim to the storm at Orange school

    Julio Cortez / AP

    A statue of Jesus Christ lays on its side on near the St. John's School building after workers removed it from the roof after it toppled duirng a high wind storm.

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    Joisey, huh? Obviously, it was a power struggle within the Family, and the GodFather had his own kid whacked.

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