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Facts About Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry
Sep 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Why Is Sexual Harassment so Prevalent? Sexual harassment is more prevalent in the restaurant industry than any other industry. Statistics show that 90% of women and 70% of men working in the restau...
How to Avoid Boating Accidents: Boats and Personal Watercraft
Sep 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Jet Skis®, WaveRunners® and Other Personal Watercraft (PWC) Have High Accident Rates Warmer weather and extra daylight hours make summer the perfect time for outdoor sports like boating and persona...
What to Expect from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company
Sep 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
How the Workers’ Compensation Evaluates Your Work Injury Claim Queens |NYC| Brooklyn |Bronx Workers’ Compensation Lawyers In the wake of a work-related injury, you want an experienced and knowledge...
How Paper And Color Can Make You Dream. Exclusive Interview With Artist Adele Rahte.
Sep 04, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 280 280 recommendations | email to a friend
  Interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena I met Adele Rahte at the beautiful Harlem house of a common friend, the soprano Lauren Flanigan. The conversation soon turned from music (we had just the fortu...
Construction Accidents Involving Falls from Heights
Aug 21, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 352 352 recommendations | email to a friend
Why Are Falls from Heights So Significant in New York City? New York takes construction accidents involving falls from heights very seriously. In fact, the NY State Legislature passed the Scaffold ...
Sackstein Sacktein & Lee, LLP Sponsors the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 378 378 recommendations | email to a friend
August 25–26, 2018: the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival in Nassau County on Long Island This year, Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP takes pride in being the lead sponsor of the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festi...
Why You Have Legal Rights in Construction Accidents Involving Falling Objects
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 360 360 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Injured workers and families who have lost their loved ones pursue lawsuits? By December of 2017, a construction site at 61 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea had been repeatedly cited for construction co...
Company Security and Surveillance: Where Should Employers Draw the Line?
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 406 406 recommendations | email to a friend
Are Your Security and Surveillance Policies Violating Privacy Laws? Companies have the right to protect against internal theft or property destruction. They also have a responsibility to evaluate p...
Changes in New York State and NYC Sexual Harassment Laws
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 266 266 recommendations | email to a friend
Sexual Harassment: Mandatory Arbitration and Nondisclosure Agreements The NY legislature passed changes in sexual harassment law that Governor Cuomo signed into law on April 17, 2018. These laws we...
Your Rights Regarding Medical Treatment after a Work Injury
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 393 393 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s common knowledge in New York that, in the event of a work-related injury, you have a right to seek medical attention and have the costs covered by the workers’ compensation insurance provider....

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False facts
Dear Editor, As a constituent of Councilman Rory Lancman, I was shocked by his comments during a meeting held by the Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association over the future of Rikers Island. During a h...
Sep 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Winning coverage
Dear Editor, Game, set, match to the coverage of the 2018 US Open in the pages of the Ledger/Star Newspaper Group. From pre-event highlighting of the pilot program featuring nightly tours of Downto...
Sep 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuomo's toll
Dear Editor, Now that the second span will open, motorists and taxpayers have more reason to be concerned regarding how Governor Andrew Cuomo will find several billion dollars to pay for constructi...
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Notable omission
Dear Editor: Damien Chazelle's movie "First Man" is the story of the moon landing. A number of people who have viewed the film have noted that there is no moonshot scene that specifically reenacts ...
Sep 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Barack's back
Dear Editor, How wonderful to see Barack Obama speak the other day. Such class, such dignity, such command of the English language. Such a clear, intelligent grasp of the issues facing American cit...
Sep 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bridge karma
Dear Editor, I have been reading about the fiasco surrounding the opening of the new Mario M. Cuomo bridge, the bridge that Governor Andrew Cuomo named for his father without asking his constituent...
Sep 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lights on
Dear Editor, Can anybody explain why almost all the streetlights in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and along the Passarelle pedestrian overpass from the subway station to the USTA National Tennis Cen...
Sep 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pope has to go
Dear Editor, The worsening scandal involving priests that abused children over decades, as well as allegations that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused young seminarians and priests and tha...
Sep 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Phone-y drivers
Dear Editor, According to a report by Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which offers an app to motorists to track their road habits, 50 percent of New York drivers speed while on their cell phones. I fi...
Sep 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vote Teachout for AG
Dear Editor, The powers that be in the Democratic Party may not want to talk about the scandals in Albany, but it should be clear to voters headed for the primary polls on Sept. 13 that New York ne...
Sep 05, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Undocumented?
Dear Editor, Stop calling illegal aliens "undocumented immigrants" because they often have documents that are bogus. Two tragic incidents underscore this point. A purported MS-13 member with a fake...
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Trump's last stand?
Dear Editor, With all of the latest news regarding Paul Manafort and Michael Coen, President Donald Trump might not finish out his first term in office. It seems that all of the evidence is pointin...
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Honoring Junior
Dear Editor, I would like to applaud the NYPD for honoring a teen at a graduation ceremony on August 22. Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was murdered in a case of mistaken identity by members of Trinitarios ...
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Fare change
Dear Editor, August 31 was the 49th anniversary of New York City Transit bus drivers no longer having to use a coin collector to make change for riders. August 31, 1969, was the first day that bus ...
Sep 05, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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Not great
Dear Editor, Republicans are delusional when they say we're better off with President Donald Trump, just ask the 2.1 million federal workers who are worse off now than they were at the start of the...
Sep 05, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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