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The paper quoting a report from the political newspaper and website Politico said that Nicole Paultre Bell was considering the pursuit of the Queens City Council seat that became open when Councilman Thomas White died last Friday.
Paultre Bell lives in Far Rockaway with her 2 children, but not in White’s former district.
She must accumulate signatures on a nominating petition before the November 2 election, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported.
Sources said advisers were meeting with Paultre Bell Friday to discuss the possibility of running, Papa reported.
Bell, who was 23, died in a hail of 50 bullets on November 25, 2006, around the corner from a Queens topless bar where he had just had a bachelor party and where undercover police were investigating complaints of prostitution.  Bell was to marry his fiancée later that day.

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The infamous MTV show the Jersey Shore was brought up by Andy Cohen during part one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion. While other members of the cast seemed to agree that this other infamous New Jersey based show shed a bad light to the Garden State, Danielle seemed fine with it.  And with her behavior on her current show, perhaps she would fair better by running with the young and tougher crowd. She could be a den mother of sorts. Danielle could teach the girls some moves of the stripper pole and spend her days flirting with all the boys, especially the Situation. She would deem them all Danielle Mafia worthy. And she could pass on all her wacky wisdom in a way that only those over the top reality stars could appreciate and apply.

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Instead, I urge you to consider turning the site into a center for interfaith encounter. Build the mosque—but do so together with a church and a synagogue and a center for common reflection for all three faiths and for those with no faith. Do this, Imam Feisal, not to surrender to your critics but to honor their pain, and, in the process, to honor Islam.
In the abstract, such a center would be a wonderful idea. Is it “better” (from the standpoint of interfaith healing? From the a general social utility view?) than the current blueprints? It’s hard to say, though I suspect that, under whatever standard that labels such a center superior to Park 51, that same center would be a “better” usage for nearly any parcel of land publicly or privately developed in New York City (those strip clubs spring immediately to mind). And I maintain that, if the purpose of the community center is to serve the Muslim community in Southern Manhattan, it kind of misses the point to relocate the center to

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It is my understanding that a mosque currently exists and has been at its location, four blocks from ground zero, before there was a World Trade Center, which now is trying to build an Islamic center for the mosque, not a new mosque.
I have been to a few Islamic centers that were similar to fellowship halls that usually are next to or near churches. The new Islamic center will house a gym and a large kitchen where they hope to give culinary training to people from the neighborhood. I do not know how many of you have been to this part of New York, but in proximity to the proposed location and even closer to ground zero, as I recall, there is an Irish pub, a McDonalds, a Burger King, the New York Dolls Gentlemens Club, the Pussycat Lounge and many sidewalk street vendors.

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Adam Clayton Powell IV, who is trying to unseat embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, was caught taking thousands of dollars of campaign donations from the owner of Bronx strip club Sin City. The Daily News confronted and browbeat Powell into promising to return the money yesterday, telling him about owner Konstantine (Gus) Drakopoulos, who pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2002 and was recently slapped with a racial and sexual harassment suit by dancers at his club.
“Wow,” Powell repeated six times, “I don’t want to hear any more. Jesus Christ, that’s quite a resume…I’m going to return the money. I want no part of anybody like that.” Drakopoulos claims he gave Powell five $1,000 donations this spring, though Powell says there were only three checks, which he said he returned Wednesday. The News sounded even more excited than that time the “bumbling New York Post reporter was busted”.

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As previously reported, the city of New York has agreed to award family and friends of Sean Bell $7 million for the fatal shooting of the unarmed Black man on his wedding day.
The settlement filed Tuesday will pay $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell and $3 million to Joseph Guzman and $900,000 to Trent Benefield, two of Bell’s friends that were with him injured in the shooting.
The lawsuit filed by Bell’s fiancé Nicole Paultre-Bell accused the city of wrongful death, negligence, assault and civil rights violations.
Three police officers were acquitted of multiple charges including manslaughter in 2008 for the 2006 shooting of Bell, as he left his bachelor party on his wedding day.
Officers fired 50 shots into Bell’s vehicle outside of a NYC gentleman’s club, one even stopping to reload before firing 31 shots into the unarmed Black man’s car.

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… Ye recently spoke on his breakup from stripper-turned-model Amber Rose, explaining that it was time to close that chapter in his love life. “It was an amazing time and it came to an end,” he said in a radio interview. “My goal in life is to really have an amazing woman and have a family, but I think I had to go through these different things to grow.”

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Adam Clayton Powell IV, who is challenging Rep. Charlie Rangel in the September 14 Democratic primary in NY-15, was told at a press conference yesterday that one of his major donors pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2002, and has been slapped with multiple racial and sexual harassment suits by dancers at his Bronx strip club, “Sin City.”
“I don’t want to hear any more. Jesus Christ, that’s quite a resume,” said Powell.
“I’m going to return the money. I want no part of anybody like that,” Powell said, according to the New York Daily News, when he heard about the legal troubles of Konstantine Drakopoulos. “Wow,” he said, six times.
Powell did admit he knew that Drakopoulos, who according to federal records gave Powell five donations of $1,000, was a strip club owner: “I honestly don’t know [when I learned about the strip joint],” he said. “I know he owns it. I haven’t been there.”

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We talked a bit yesterday about the Post’s constituency of New Yorkers with special interest in the conflicts of the Middle East: American Jews who watch Israel closely; right-wingers looking for flashpoints in their continuing narrative of a macro-conflict between Islamic nations and the West; left-wingers who object to the state of Israel altogether; and many in between. It’s not “HEADLESS WOMAN IN TOPLESS BAR,” but it still often works well for the Post.
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Daily News: Meanwhile, the News tries to flex its political muscle in a different way: To make Charlie Rangel’s challenger for a seat in the House, Adam Clayton Powell IV, return somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000 in donations to Gus Drakopoulos, a former Wall Streeter banned from securities after a finding he’d engaged in fraud, who now owns Sin City, a strip club in the Bronx. Powell talks a lot in the piece: He was happy to take money from the owner of a strip joint—”I’m not Charlie Rangel. I don’t have a million dollars in my reelection campaign,” he said—but not happy to take money from a Wall Street grifter.

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Rangel challenger under fire for campaign donations
By Shane D’Aprile – 09/02/10 09:34 AM ET
New York State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV (D), who appears to have the best shot of defeating embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) in a primary later this month, says he has returned campaign cash he received from an ex-felon.  
According to the New York Daily News, Powell received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Konstantine Drakopoulos, the owner of a Bronx strip club called Sin City who pleaded guilty to insider trading eight years ago. 
Drakopoulos is now the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by dancers at the club he owns.
“I don’t want to hear any more. Jesus Christ, that’s quite a résumé,” said Powell, who is running in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary against Rangel, the veteran congressman facing a House ethics trial. “I’m going to return the money. I want no part of anybody like that.”

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