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DUCK THE DOG COMES HOME
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After eight frantic days of searching, posting flyers, scouring social media and the city, dog owners Sam A mini dachshund escaped from Roth and Helena Yoo were finally rea dog walker in Central Park and united with Duck, their red haired was missing for over a week before mini-dachshund who escaped hhis Centr leash and went missing in Central he was found safe th Park. The dog was found in the Bronx on Monday, giving a happ happy BY NICOLE DEL MAURO wor ending to every dog owner’s worst nightmare. It all started when the engage engaged apartmen couple had their apartment cleaned last week and le left their vacuum-phobic dog dogs Duck and Robin, also a dachshund, in the hand hands of Priceless Pet Service Services, Loca a doggy daycare. Located at 100th and Centr Central Park West, Priceless Pet Pets da takes clients’ dogs on day Par walks around Central Park. 100t Duck got off his leash at 100th and Central Park West, sprintin sprinting away from his dog walker and ou out of sight. ful Duck’s leash, unbroken and fully inciden functioning after the incident, seems to prove a human erro error is the cause of his escape. Yo Yoo guesses the clasp did not propprop erly close. “ It’s not abou about Priceles blame. Priceless bee Pets has been t very good to Yo our dogs,” Yoo i said. “But in ther this case, there wa s clea rly some mistak mistake happened that happened.” ho Unsure of how to find the litt little Yor dog in New York coup City, the couple sought help an and com for t f rom New Yorkers. They Duck, a mini dachshund, went missing from Central Park papered subways after he escaped from his dog walker last week.
BY DANIEL NIEL FITZSIMMONS
Community Board 8 member Jim Clynes will take over as chair of the hair Nick Viest board when current chair steps down at the end of the year. oard’s Nov. 19 The agenda for the board’s ting for offimeeting, when the voting cers will take place, listss Clynes as er sources the only candidate. Other lynes was told Our Town that Clynes ut forward the only candidate put mmittee in by the nominating committee their October report, and that no re made from other nominations were the floor. Nominations are now closed and Clynes is running unopposed, efg he will be the fectively guaranteeing next chair of CB 8. red the board Viest, who has chaired rced out due to since 2011, has been forced ity Board 8 ofterm limits. Community ore than three ficers may serve no more one-year terms. iest were apBoth Clynes and Viest pointed by City Councill Member Dan erms expire in Garodnick and their terms me they’ll be up April 2015, at which time for reappointment. ear veteran of Clynes is an eight-year e board’s CorCB 8 and serves on the elt Island Task nell-Technion/Roosevelt venue Subway Force and the 2nd Avenue Task Force, as well ass the housing ife committee. committee and street life hairs several Viest chairs or co-chairs uding the CorCB8 task forces, including elt Island Task nell-Technion/Roosevelt Force, the CUNY-MSK Task Force and sity Task Force, the Rockefeller University dor Task Force and serves on the Vendor
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Jim Clynes, an eight-year veteran of the board, will replace outgoing chair Nick Viest
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Yoo brought Duck to work with her after his happy homecoming. and poles with over 3,000 information fliers. A “Find Duck” Facebook page was created and got over 300 “likes,” complete with an email address, FindDuckNYC@gmail.com, for sending tips and advice. Roth and Yoo even posted a thread on Reddit, garnishing 1,758 points and over 200 comments within three days. Scrolling through responses, a community genuinely concerned with the dog and his family’s well being emerges. Redditors suggested search methods, provided names of pet services and even posted potential sightings of the animal. “I think [Duck’s story] touched a chord really deep inside a lot of people, because we trust our dogs, who are members of our family, with dog walkers many times,” Yoo said. “It could have happened to anyone.” A Redditor suggested that Yoo and Roth hire SMART Dogs, a non-profit out of Connecticut, to bring a tracking dog to Central Park and sniff out Duck’s trail. The dog, who can detect both air and ground scents, smelled Duck’s collar and lead the couple to 111th St. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. before coming to a dead stop. This could indicate, Yoo said, a spot where Duck was picked up by someone. “Sometimes a dog will be picked up and then thrown out of cars if they act naughty in the car,” Yoo said.
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New York City is getting at least $1.6 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to help public A hhospitals install floodwalls, flood proof elevators and otherwise pro become more storm-resilient, bec officials announced Thursday. Bellevue and Metropolitan B hospital centers in Manhattan hos are two of the hospitals that will get the aid Mayor de Blasio called “badly needed.” “ba About $65 million will reimburse A repairs and improvements already rep made after Superstorm Sandy in 2012; the rest is for projects yet to be completed, said Daniel Zarrilli, who runs the mayor’s recovery and resiliency efforts.
DRIVER CONVICTED IN SPEEDY LAP AROUND MANHATTAN A driver who whizzed across 26 miles of New York City in 24 minutes was convicted Thursday of reckless endangerment for a stunt trumpeted in dashboardcamera video posted online. But Adam Tang wasn’t in court to hear the verdict. The Canadian citizen was deemed a fugitive after failing to show up for court Wednesday. Prosecutors portrayed Tang, 31, as a dangerous daredevil who put lives at risk by circling Manhattan in a BMW Z4 convertible at an average of 69 mph, sometimes hitting 100 mph, and flaunted it in a YouTube video that has drawn more than 875,000 views. But defense lawyer Gregory Gomez suggested that while Tang pushed the envelope on traffic regulations, he didn’t commit a crime.
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