STATEWIDE

STATE WILL LIKELY APPROVE $1.65B FOR GOLDMAN HEADQUARTERS

The state is expected to approve today the allocation of $1.65 billion in Liberty Bonds to help finance a new $2.4 billion headquarters for Goldman Sachs near ground zero. On August 15, the Empire State Development Corporation, the state agency that administers the allocation of the bonds, announced the unanimous approval of the bond issue. Today’s vote will signal final approval after considering minutes of the September 7 public hearing, according a spokeswoman for the Empire State Development Corporation, Deborah Wetzel. The director of Good Jobs New York, Bettina Damiani, said that “it seems the state got a little ahead of itself when they announced it was a done deal previously. … They came out saying it was final. Everyone was very confused.” – Staff Reporter of the Sun

QUEENS

VEHICLE LEADING A FLOAT IN PARADE HITS 5 TEENAGERS

A sport utility vehicle leading a float in an annual Hispanic independence parade in Queens hit five teenage girls marching in the parade when the vehicle’s driver mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake yesterday afternoon, police said. Five girls ranging in age from 14 to 17 and representing a group called Taxi International, including Ms. Taxi International herself, were struck near the corner of 35th Road and 70th Street. Three of the girls suffered abrasions, one 16-year-old fractured her ankle, and another 16-year-old may have a fractured leg, police said. Three other teenagers who were not hit were treated for minor injuries at the scene: one for hyperventilating, one for a sprained ankle, and one for abrasions. The SUV’s driver passed a breathalyzer test, according to police, and was not charged.

– Special to the Sun

CITYWIDE

L-LINE CONDUCTORS RETURN TO WORK

Conductors on the L line returned to their shifts early this morning in compliance with a labor arbitrator’s ruling that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had previously ignored. The MTA said the decision to restore conductors would not affect its legal challenge to the ruling made earlier this month. The ruling stated that the authority violated a contract with the transit workers union when it removed conductors from certain shifts on the L-line. The MTA said restoring those conductors would not hamper its implementation of a new program, known as one-person train operation, to remove conductors on computerized trains.

– Special to the Sun

POLICE BLOTTER

MAN STABBED IN SUBWAY STATION

A man was stabbed in the chest while waiting for an F train inside the West 4th Street subway station yesterday morning, police said. The stabbing occurred around 5 a.m. when three Asian men approached the victim, a 26-year-old male who was intoxicated, and tried to take his cell phone, police said. The assailants fled on a northbound F train. The victim was later taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was in stable condition yesterday, police said.

– Special to the Sun

ASSAILANT KILLED AFTER ATTACKING COUPLE IN QUEENS

A man broke into his ex-girlfriend’s house in Bayside, Queens, in the early hours of Saturday morning and attacked her boyfriend with a knife, according to police. The woman, 40-year-old Aiyiang Guo, tried to intervene and was stabbed in the right leg, police said. Her boyfriend, 34-year-old Min Hung Guo, wrested the knife from the assailant, allegedly stabbing to death Han-Zhong Wang, who was 40 years old. Mr. Guo fled the scene, police said, but later turned himself in. The Queens district attorney’s office deemed the incident a “justifiable homicide” and will not take action against Mr. Guo.

– Special to the Sun

MAN FATALLY SHOT WHILE PLAYING GAME OF DICE

A Bronx man playing dice with a group on an Upper East Side street corner was allegedly shot fatally in the head by an unknown suspect on Saturday night. At 10 p.m., 29-year-old Max Manning, of the Baychester section of the Bronx, was taken from the crime scene in front of 70 E. 115th St. to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.

– Special to the Sun