Ring the bell! When the owners of Flatbush Gardens, the quality, affordable apartment complex in East Flatbush, read a story that appeared in this space in January about a former narcotics detective named Patty Russo, of NYPD Boxing, who runs NYC Cops & Kids, they reached out to him. The PAL, in its infinite wisdom […]
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Going the extra mile
by Tris Dixon, BOXING NEWS, 2010-02-12 Teddy Atlas endures a hectic schedule as an expert analyst and trainer but his principle calling in life is not even boxing-related, as Tris Dixon explains. EVEN though he is a tough guy who pulls no punches and says what he thinks, Teddy Atlas is a big softie under […]
Their dads would be proud of them
Teddy Atlas has found another project with Eric Mangini to help young people succeed. (Staten Island Advance file photo) Sometime before dawn on Saturday, a platoon of sleepy football players and coaches from a dozen Staten Island high schools will climb aboard a bus outside the Petrides School in Sunnyside, on their way to Connecticut […]
CSI raises over $5,400 on Grace Hillery Breast Cancer Awareness Night
The College of Staten Island dropped a 7-6 decision to Monroe Community College in seven innings, but even a loss and some wet weather couldn’t put a damper on the sixth annual Grace Hillery Breast Cancer Awareness Night in Willowbrook.
Ann Noble Carlton’s ailing heart beats for the gift of life
Ann Noble Carlton was a 22-year-old whose transplanted heart was killing her when she came here in December “to see the Christmas lights of New York” before she died.
Gravely ill transplant recipient gets wish to see holiday lights
After five years, Ann Noble Carlton‘s new heart is killing her. So when doctors told the heart-transplant recipient this might be the last holiday season of her life, the 22-year-old fromBirmingham, Ala., said: “I’d really love to see the Christmas lights of New York City.”