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Teen Charged In Connection With Rape Of 82-Year-Old Brooklyn Woman
Asa Roberts, 18, was charged with rape, robbery, assault, burglary and other charges late Friday afternoon.
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NYPD Cops Beat Man Who Had His Hands Up, Because They ‘Thought He Stole A Pizza’
New York City Police officers were just caught on a grocery store surveillance video beating a young African American man who was holding his hands up.
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How Synthetic Weed Is Ravaging Brooklyn's Homeless Population
Call it spice, K2, spike, or Flamingo—by any name, it's the cheapest and most dangerous way to get high right now.
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2 robbers beat up 32-year-old man in Manhattan, steal iPhone
Two men pummeled a 32-year-old in broad daylight near the waterfront in Manhattan Sunday in a scuffle for the man's iPhone.
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Finn Shatters Record in World's Longest Certified Footrace
Ashprihanal Aalto, 44, covers 3,100 miles around a block in Queens in just over 40 days.
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Subway Station Hits Blazing 106 Degrees
The hottest day of the year so far didn't just bring sweltering conditions to the streets in New York City -- subway riders suffered underground, too.
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$450M AirTrain not worth the trip thanks to crowded 7 train, say transit advocates
The $450 million AirTrain, which would run from LaGuardia Airport from Mets-Willets Point, is not even worth it due to the crowded 7 train, transit advocates say.
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MTA finds extra $1 billion, plans to spend on reducing wait times
The MTA found a billion dollars in extra cash in its proverbial couch cushions. The cash is a combination of real estate tax income, less money paid out to pensions, lower energy costs...
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Affordable Housing Building Invites People Making $99,825 Per Year to Apply
150 of the building's 200 affordable units are set aside for people making 165 percent AMI.
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The Most Recognizable Voice in New York
Meet the man behind New York City's subway announcements.
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Tourists annoyed by painted naked ladies in Times Square
An out-of-control influx of near-naked women jockeying for tips has turned Times Square into the XXX-Roads of the World.
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NYC cabs will test app-based system to challenge Uber
Around 7,000 NYC cabs are currently beta testing a new e-hail app called Arro, which the industry hopes can help it get back the customers it's lost to Uber. Arro isn't the first hailing app for cabs -- it actually works quite similarly to Uber -- but the startup believes it can do better than its predecessors. Why? Because; (a) it doesn't have surge pricing, meaning you'll just have to pay whatever shows up on the meter, and (b) it has a partnership with...
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New Yorkers Without "Enhanced" ID Could Face Travel Restrictions From Homeland Security
Enter the imposition of an "enhanced" driver's license as part of the federal Real ID Act of 2005.
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Average NYC school janitor makes $109K a year
School custodians are cleaning up — in the hallways and in their paychecks — because the city doesn’t want to hire enough of them. Custodians took home an average pay of $109,467 in the 2013-14 school year — and 634 of the city’s 799 custodians earned more than $100,000 in salary and overtime during that time, city payroll records show. That’s because of the city’s 1,500 school buildings, 238 have...
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Papal Visit: NYC Traffic Changes
A summary of traffic changes from the pope's visit to New York later this week
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1,500-pound rogue cow has been eluding capture for months in Central NY
Police hope a farm device used to feed cattle will help corral a cow that has been on the loose for months in a Central New York town. Officers in New Hartford have put feed in a headlock feeder and placed the device along a road outside Utica where the rogue cow has been spotted. Headlock feeders have locking mechanisms that trap a cow's head while it's feeding.
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The NYPD Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its X-Ray Spy Vans
This week we found out that as many as 90 percent of people killed by US drones weren’t the intended targets, thanks to a ‘second Snowden’ who leaked a motherload of documents to The Intercept. The Democratic presidential candidates discussed Edward Snowden during the Democratic presidential debate, but only long-shot candidate Lincoln Chafee said he would welcome him home without any charges. French hackers showed they can remotely...
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NYC nears record for rat complaints: 'I've seen rats walking upright, saying, "Good morning"'
The city's complaint hotline is on pace for a record year of rat calls, exceeding the more than 24,000 over each of the last two years.
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New York City's ATM fees are second-highest in US
When you’re away from your neighborhood bank in New York City and need cash, you’re going to have to dig deep.
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance. They stand still in ones and twos, clearly strangers to one another, mostly quiet, as though they’d stopped on their way to work to take note of some spectacular disaster in the sky. But you look in the general direction they’re all looking and there’s nothing there.
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