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Lousy loophole: The American Dream has turned into more of a nightmare for a Chinese food deliveryman who can’t collect a penny of $328,000 he won in a wage theft settlement with his former boss. Cai Shuang Chen, 47, was awarded the hefty sum by a federal judge in 2017. But
because the eatery where he worked changed its name, he can’t get paid. State lawmakers are trying close that loophole so Chen (photo) and at least 20 other stiffed workers can receive their just desserts.
Towering love: A pair of lifelong friends — daughters of Port Authority police officers — tackled the Fifth Annual Tower Climb together to honor first responders who perished in the terror attacks at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Caitlyn McIntyre, 22, lost her father, PAPD Officer Donald McIntyre that day. Natalie McHale’s father, PAPD Detective Thomas McHale, went to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the wake of 9/11. “Through all of it, I felt it was meant to be,” McIntyre said. “If [my father] could do that on that day, the least I can do is pay it forward.”
Big shoes to fill: Rookie FDNY EMT Joel Rosado is following in his big sister’s footsteps. Rosado, 32, graduated from the FDNY EMS academy on Thursday and was assigned to same Bronx station where his slain sibling EMT
Yadira Arroyo worked. Arroyo, a 14-year FDNY vet, was killed March 16, 2017, when career criminal Jose Gonzalez stole her ambulance and mowed her down in Soundview. “She’s my hero,” Rosado said in an exclusive interview. “I want to do this for her.”
Island horror: A Brooklyn woman says she had a neardeath experience at the same Dominican Republic resort where three tourists died last month. Awilda Montes, 43, told The News that she was left with chemical burns in her mouth and vomited blood after she drank a bleach-filled soda bottle from the minibar in her room at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville.