🌱 Pit Bull Attack + Teacher Fired For Gay Wedding | Queens Daily

Finally, the storm has passed through Queens, though it left a mark. Also this morning in Queens, a man walking in a borough park said two pit bulls viciously attacked him. Now he's suing their owners.

First, today's weather:

A couple of morning showers. High: 58 Low: 48.

Here are the top stories today in Queens:

1. 'Vicious' pit bulls attacked a man as he took a walk in a Queens park, he said. He's now suing the dogs' owners (Patch)
2. A gay teacher married his husband, and was then fired from his job at a Queens Catholic school (Patch)
3. The nor’easter that tore through the city sparked manhole fires in Queens (NEWS10 ABC)
4. It also toppled a tree onto a car in Jackson Heights (CBS New York)
5. Nicki Minaj and her husband took a trip back to her old neighborhood (HotNewHipHop)
6. An effort to combat food insecurity continues in Queens neighborhoods hit hard by COVID-19 (QNS.com)
7. The fight for the last red City Council seat in Queens (Politico)

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About me: Adam Nichols is in charge of New York City coverage at Patch and currently oversees our 36 (and growing) neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Previously he was Senior Editor at DNAinfo, helping build that website from inception into a leading local news source. Adam has worked at the New York Post, the New York Daily News and daily regional newspapers in the United Kingdom, as well as teaching a hyperlocal news course at Seton Hall University.

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