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This flock of devotees can start getting in line on Tuesday, October 6, at 6 a.m. Clearly, these people love free chicken a lot more than sleep.

We already knew that New York City was on the front lines of sea level rise, but research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science finds that the Big Apple has also become a lot more susceptible to inundation from massive storms.

A combination of climate-driven sea level rise and stronger tropical cyclones is putting New York City at risk for more and higher floods like those seen during Hurricane Sandy, a group of researchers has found.

While Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States this fall has stirred excitement among many Catholics in America, the historic trip comes at a time of mixed emotions for some in New York’s Chinese Catholic community. “I know he did”, said Cardinal...

“These are professionals and there has been significant planning that’s gone into this, and we’re confident that they have what it takes to do this job right”, he said.

While he is visiting Washington, D.C. and New York City, Philadelphia-our home-is arguably the most important stop on his tour.

However Apple has warned that many of its followers in New York City and Philadelphia might not receive their phones thanks to the antics of Pope Francis prepares to visit both of those cities next week.

The hotel’s cooling tower and all other cooling towers in the affected area were disinfected, and no new patients have contracted Legionnaires’ since August 3, city officials said.

The city is in the process of extensive cleaning and preventative maintenance of all city-owned and operated cooling towers in response to the outbreak in New York City.

The regulations, approved by the state Public Health and Health Planning Council at a special meeting Monday afternoon, requires that any owner of a building with a cooling tower must register the tower with the state health department in the next 30 days.

It assured the public that the medicines manufactured in the plant, which include inhaled asthma drug Advair, have not been infected with the bacteria, as the cooling tower was a self-standing structure that had no contact with the drugs, Reuters reports.

Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced the state and city would take the unprecedented step of jointly crafting and instituting uniform regulations to combat Legionnaires’ disease.

The New York City health department on Thursday had ode red that within a per sod of 14 days all possible buildings and cooling towers will be tested for the bacteria and if any found, it will be immediately decontaminated.

Studies estimate between 8,000 and 18,000 people are hospitalized annually in the U.S. with the disease.

Legionnaire’s disease has not been something we have had to worry too much about but the bacteria which causes it has cropped up in New York over the past few months. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 8,000 and 18,000 people in the...