By Michael V. Cusenza
A 14-year veteran City cop was killed early Tuesday on the Long Island Expressway in Fresh Meadows by an allegedly unlicensed, intoxicated driver, according to City officials.
Jessica Beauvais, 32, has been charged for allegedly driving while intoxicated and striking Police Officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, a married father of two young children.
According to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, Beauvais, 32, of Hempstead, Long Island, is being held pending arraignment on a 13-count complaint charging her with manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated manslaughter in the second degree, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting/death, unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second and third degree, operating a motor vehicle while under influence of alcohol or drugs, as a felony, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree, operating a motor vehicle while und
NYPD officer struck and killed on Long Island Expressway in Queens
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An NYPD officer, a 43-year-old husband and father of two, was killed early Tuesday when he was struck by a passing vehicle while diverting traffic from a previous fatal crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens, and an alleged drunk driver is in custody.
The officer is identified as Anastasios Tsakos, a 14-year veteran of the force assigned to Highway 3, who has a 6-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son. We stand here this morning reminded once again, in law enforcement, there is no such thing as a routine job, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. We stand here devastated and trying to pick up the pieces of what is a shattered home and a shattered NYPD family.
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When people talk about the way New York has changed, they re usually leaving out neighborhoods like Whitestone, a far-flung enclave that often seems content to let time pass on by. Is it any wonder that one of the city s very best bagel emporiums thrives here? Serving the neighborhood since 1980, Utopia Bagels has a modern vibe, but back behind the counter, where it matters, everything here is done the old way, the correct way, from a longer ferment than most New York bagel makers, to the oven on premises, a remarkable 1940s relic. What you get: correctly-sized, hand-rolled bagels, crackling between your fingers like a pond at spring thaw. A rare feat, Utopia consistently knocks it out of the park with their unseededs plain, egg, and cinnamon raisin in particular. Service will range from mildly distracted to downright dismissive, but you re not here to make friends you re here for some of the last truly great bagels to be found in the five boroughs.
Powerful Winter Storm Pushes North Into New England
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Heavy snow was expected in Maine after more than 17 inches fell on New York City and parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania received more than 30 inches.
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A powerful winter storm is making its way through New England on Tuesday, after hammering much of the Northeast the day before.CreditCredit.Tristan Spinski for The New York Times
A powerful winter storm pushed into northern New England on Tuesday, after hammering much of the Northeast the day before, leaving at least one person dead and disrupting travel for millions.
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Stacey Abeles and Christine Kanakaris with their late mother, Anastasia Sund. (Courtesy of Stacey Abeles)
DOUGLASTON, QUEENS Anastasia Sund, a longtime fixture of the Benjamin N. Cardozo High School community as a parent-teacher association president and an employee, died Jan. 3 at her home in Douglaston. She was 75.
Sund, who was known to the Cardozo community as Ann, worked as the secretary to the principal s office for nearly three decades and led the school s PTA when her two daughters were among the students.
Even after Sund s daughters graduated from Cardozo in 1997 and 1999, Principal Meagan Colby the fourth and last principal to work with her said that Sund, in a sense, still had a child roaming the halls.