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James Edstrom On CBS 2 News We did a interview today on the illegal renting of affordable apartments in New York City On Air BNB websites and others.  Doing this harms all New Yorkers. It raises the rents in our buildings and takes away our housing stock.  When you do this, you put other tenants in your building at risk. You have no idea who you are really renting to and having transients in and out of a building is dangerous to other tenants. If you know of anyone doing this, call 311. This effects all New Yorkers.

Bob Simon NEW YORK CITY -- Bob Simon, the longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly tonight in a car accident in New York City. The CBS reporter died when the Lincoln Town Car he was riding in crashed with a Mercedes and then lost control and plowed into a pedestrian expansion near 30th Street at about 7 p.m., according to sources. The driver of the Mercedes said the livery driver was driving erratically. “He swerved into me,” the driver said. “He hit me and he looked like he lost control of the car.” Simon was taken to St.Luke’s where he died. The award-winning newsman was 73. Simon's five-decade career took him through most major overseas conflicts spanning from the late 1960s to the present. He joined CBS News in 1967 as a New York-based reporter and assignment editor, covering campus unrest and inner city riots. Simon also worked in CBS News' Tel Aviv bureau from 1977-81, a...

**** ‘Collaborating for a Cure’ Photos By: James Edstrom **** Ziggy Marley Ruth Finley And Chris Wragge Carly Cushnie And Michelle Ochs Bettina And Spencer Waxman Elin And Michael Nierenberg Marion Waxman And Dr. Samuel Waxman Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (SWCRF) hosted its ‘Collaborating for a Cure’ Benefit Dinner and Auction, honoring fashion designers Cushnie et Ochs, and featuring a special musical performance by six-time Grammy award winner Ziggy Marley, on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at Cipriani Wall Street. The annual event, now in its seventeenth year, raised $2.5 million to support the Waxman Foundation’s research efforts to produce a cure for cancer. Robert Kantor And Spencer Waxman Notable guest attendees included Dr. Samuel Waxman (Founder and CEO of Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation), Michael and Elin Nierenberg (17th Annual Collaborating for a Cure Hosts), Chris Wragge (Co-Anchor of...