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NY Mayor Adams disputes his own memoir over schoolyard gun incident — "What book is this?"
Mayor Eric Adams confronts controversy over his memoir, claiming a schoolyard gun story is fictitious and blaming an uncredited co-author for the mix-up.
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Photographing New York City From the Perspective of a Taxi Driver
Meet the Cabbie and Photographer David Bradford on a film journey that explores the unexpected moments that add up to the world's greatest city.
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Is declawing cruel to cats? New York might be the first state to ban it.
Declawing involves amputating the first segment of a cat's toes. New York might the next state to ban it.
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The Vapologist will see you now: Inside New York's first e-cigarette bar
The Henley Vaporium, is the latest manifestation of the emerging e-cigarette trend. A 2,700-square-foot space nestled on the border of NoLita and SoHo, among pop-up art galleries and boutique clothiers, the Vaporium caters not only to e-cig users — "vapers" — but also to hardcore smokers looking for a healthy way out and casual curiosos eager to taste test vaporized gummy bears.
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Banksy sells art for $60 at New York stall
British street artist virtually 'gives away' works sold at non-descript looking market stall - and just three people buy.
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Death takes a holiday: NYC had a murder-free week
Murder took a holiday last week. There were no murders in the five boroughs in the seven days ending last Sunday, the mayor’s office said on Monday.
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Banksy Snapped? This Is Allegedly a Photograph of the Graffiti Artist at Work in New York City
Has Banksy finally been photographed? This is allegedly a photograph of the graffiti artist at work.
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Photographing Puerto Rican New York, With A 'Sympathetic Eye'
Photojournalist Bolivar Arellano's documentation of Latino life in the '70s is now on display.
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New York Raising Age to Buy Cigarettes to 21
Buying cigarettes in New York City is about to become a lot harder for young people, as lawmakers on Wednesday adopted the strictest limits on tobacco purchases of any major American city.
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What We Found at Hart Island, The Largest Mass Grave Site In the U.S.
It’s a place where few living New Yorkers have ever set foot, but nearly a million dead ones reside: Hart Island, the United States’ largest mass grave, which has been closed to the public for 35 years. It is difficult to visit and off-limits to photographers. But that may be about to change, as a debate roils over the city’s treatment of the unclaimed dead. Never heard of Hart? You’re not alone--and that’s part of the problem.
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New WTC is finally beaming
Lower Manhattan residents were awestruck Friday night as the bright lights atop 1 World Trade Center were switched on in a test for the first time.
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It's official: One World Trade Center to be tallest U.S. skyscraper
One World Trade Center in New York will be the United States' tallest building when completed, beating out Chicago's Willis Tower, according to an announcement Tuesday by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
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Stop-and-frisk: only 3% of 2.4m stops result in conviction, report finds
New York’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, hailed by the city’s mayor and police chief as crucial in fighting crime, could boast only a 3% conviction rate between 2009 and 2012, according to a report by the state attorney general released on Thursday.
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The Invisible Island
Nearly one million people are buried in mass graves off of the Bronx. But the city prefers you know nothing about it.
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So whatever happened to all those Banksy pieces in NY?
One’s at a strip club. One is held by cops. Another is heading to sunny Miami. Nearly a month after Banksy’s “residency” in New York, his surviving works have met…
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4 Dead in Metro-North Train Derailment in the Bronx
At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said. A total of 67 people were injured — 11 critically — a New York Fire Department spokesman, Jim Long, said.
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Unarmed Man Is Charged With Wounding Bystanders Shot by Police Near Times Square
An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders, according to an indictment unsealed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
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Mysterious proposal to build 'America's China City' in Upstate NY
A Long Island businesswoman is facing fierce opposition over her plans to build a massive 'Chinese city' in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York - complete with a Disneyland-like amusement park, community of mansion-sized homes, a university and a 'Forbidden City' - all fashioned to the principles of Feng Shui.
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How Do You Charge an Unarmed Man with Shooting People? Get the NYPD Involved.
In September, New York Police officers responded to an emotionally disturbed man causing a ruckus at a Times Square bus terminal by opening fire on him while they were surrounded by crowds and traffic. They missed him and hit two innocent bystanders (one of whom was in a walker). Police said at the time they thought the man, Glenn Broadnax, was reaching for a gun, but he turned out to be unarmed.
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Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.
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