She stepped up to the plate as the head of the nation’s largest police department. Now, former New York Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell will bring her years of police leadership …
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By Juan Lasso
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11/10/23
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Summer makes me happy, but I must confess to being very irritated by one subject. I refer to the Yankees and the Mets.
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7/27/23
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Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that “being Irish means knowing that somewhere, somehow, the world is going to break your heart.”
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7/6/23
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It is unknown if anyone will recite the movie line, ”you’re killing me, Smalls,” but former Major League Baseball player Daniel Murphy — a Mets playoff hero — said he is just looking for a sandlot to play in. The 2015 postseason record breaker is part of the 2023 Long Island Ducks, the team’s 23rd season.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/3/23
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Whether we like it or not, our political system and our erratic president are wearing us down on a daily basis, so it’s worthwhile to switch to a completely different topic. At this time of year, I favor discussing college graduations and the Yankees.
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6/7/19
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I am a child, scavenging the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. I am 6 or 8 or 10; I can’t recall. Many of the world’s greatest works of art stare down at me. I am unimpressed. My eyes are fixed on the oak floor.
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3/8/19
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Mets third baseman David Wright was holding an impromptu news conference amid a crush of reporters around noon on Monday when the 5- to 7-year-old campers started to cheer his name repeatedly, followed by three thunderous claps.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/9/16
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Late Sunday night and early Monday morning, my sons Joseph, 17, and Michael, 12, and I stayed late at Citi Field, watching our Mets lose the World Series. We’re all bummed.
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11/5/15
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Mets fever is sweeping the region as the hard-luck team plays its first World Series since 2000, and local fans are in a state of exhilaration. The cheering at Charlie Meaney’s Restaurant in Valley Stream was deafening after the last win over the Cubs, and fans from around the county gathered in Mineola on Monday for a rally that featured Mets legend Doc Gooden and a blue-and-orange-lit dome of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building.
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By Micah Danney mdanney@liherald.com
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10/28/15
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Fifth-grade students at the Clear Stream Avenue School got as close to a baseball game experience as they could on June 17, when the school set up a pint-sized version of Citi Field in its gymnasium.
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By Micah Danney
mdanney@liherald.com
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7/8/15
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