Torres, who works in the Transit Bureau, was arrested in Muhlenberg, Pa., on Thursday after allegedly stealing $113,000 at gunpoint. After his arrest, the NYPD checked unsolved bank heists and determined Torres also struck a Lower East Side bank twice last year, Kelly said.

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In Woodhaven Friday, Torres' neighbors were perplexed. "He was pretty excited about being a cop," Scott Alnwick said.

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A schoolteacher at P.S. 79 in the Bronx was arrested Friday after she bit an 11-year-old student on the shoulder at the school, police said.

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Firefighters say a Westchester rabbi and his wife have been killed in a blaze at their home in New Rochelle.

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Riverside park got a spring cleaning Saturday -- thanks to volunteers from New York Cares.

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Grace Lewis, 44, who works at PS 79 on East 181st Street, was munching on a slice of pizza just before 2 p.m. when a hungry student approached her, law-enforcement sources said.

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Instead, he allegedly drove her to a secluded part of Riverside Park, barred her from leaving the car, and fondled her.

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The single largest residential deadbeat, the Electchester co-op housing complex in Flushing, Queens, coughed up $212,663 Wednesday as a down payment on its $2.2 million debt.

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Dozens of others outside 60 Centre St. dove for cover after the booming crash ignited fears of a terrorist attack.

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The driver, Lorenzo Bello, 33, of Ridgewood, Queens, was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he told cops he had suffered a seizure behind the wheel. He was charged with reckless endangerment and aggravated unlicensed operation, for having a suspended license, police said.

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"All of a sudden there was a very deep impact and I rolled over two or three times in the cart," said the vendor, Jaweed Naseri, 26, of Douglaston, Queens.

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The culprit is a mason - born and raised in the Country Club section of southeast Bronx.

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Two knucklehead Mets fans kicked apart a seat during the team's final home opener at Shea Stadium and tried to steal the broken bits as souvenirs, authorities said yesterday.

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The three arrests at the home opener Tuesday afternoon were one more than at the Yankee home opener on April 3, when two fans were arrested for trying to steal bunting from the stadium. Yankee Stadium is also slated to be demolished after the end of the season.

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Paul Chavarria, a freelance photographer, had stopped to have a drink at the bar in the Benjamin Hotel on Lexington Avenue at about 6 p.m.

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But some sensitive information, such as the pope's specific travel plans and exits and entrances from high-profile events, such as a Mass at Yankee Stadium, was also in the files.

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The first robbery occurred before Christian Torres, 21, had entered the Police Academy, when cops suspect he walked into a Sovereign Bank in the East Village on June 8 and handed a teller a note demanding cash, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

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"He always talked about being a cop," said Pablo Salcedo, Torres' landlord in Woodhaven, Queens. "He was dying to be a cop. All of a sudden, he became a cop and look what happened. Why? Why would he do that? It doesn't make sense."

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A judge has tossed a lawsuit by a photographer who claimed he was defamed when The Post revealed he had been misrepresenting himself as the fire union's "official photographer" at Ground Zero and stiffing a 9/11 charity he had pledged to support.

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During the investigation, detectives learned that Tracey had an identical twin brother, Casey, who lives on Walton Avenue in Morris Heights.

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The NYPD said Friday it was investigating whether Torres twice robbed a Sovereign Bank on Avenue A, once in June 2007 before he entered the Police Academy, and once in November, a month before he graduated.

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When cops got to the Lenox Ave. building minutes later, they found Murray, bound and dead, lying face up just past the vestibule, police said.

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formally instituted in november 2002, art in harlem is a collaborative effort to showcase the works of upcoming and established fine, graphic, decorative and performing artists. artists and their admirers gather at the space in harlem for art, performance, music, food and spirits.

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His name is handed like a gift from man to man, admitting them to a little relic of the SoHo of old.

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A new clothing store in Brighton Beach is targeting upscale newcomers to the neighborhood.

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Final rehearsals are underway for the first play to be put on in Harlem's Audon Ballroom, where 43 years ago, Malcolm X was assassinated in front of an audience of hundreds.

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These restaurants on Orchard Street, the historic hub of the Lower East Side, have at least two things in common: pint-size dining rooms and reasonable prices.

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The former worker at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center was arrested Friday night, shortly after the hospital announced the security breach. He was arraigned Saturday at a federal court in Manhattan.

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The attack happened last night at 341 Lenox Avenue.

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All that being so, the scene in the comptroller's office in lower Manhattan was another sign of the distance traveled over the course of the Irish peace process. McGuinness, Thompson and Northern Ireland's First Minister, Ian Paisley, posed, smiling, for photographers.

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Three Mets fans are facing charges that they tried to steal souvenirs during the team's last home opener at Shea Stadium.

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The 4-foot fence also runs in front of Ruby's Bar, which puts out tables and chairs in the area in the summer

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Even though this is his busiest time of year with the April 15 tax deadline looming, he never misses a beat at Bushwick-Hyland Community Center on Humboldt St. where he spends three nights a week helping others perfect their moves.

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The officer - whose car license plate reads TRNG DAY after the movie "Training Day," in which Denzel Washington plays a corrupt cop - allegedly approached the 18-year-old in Riverside Park in 2002.

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The boy approached Grace Lewis, 44, as she savored a slice in the cafeteria at Public School 79 in Tremont, sources said.

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Rock star Sting paid a breathtaking $26.5 million for a condominium at 15 Central Park West, city records show.

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"I'm excited to try new things, meet new people and learn about another place," said Isaiah, 15, who, with Durrell, attends the Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx.

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Nasais and Angela are students at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice.

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The former worker at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center was arrested Friday night, shortly after the hospital announced the security breach.

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"[McFarland] is a nice person. I've never seen him angry," said Saeed Khan, 47, an employee of West Harlem Fried Chicken, which is located on the building's ground floor.

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When cops got to the Lenox Ave. building minutes later, they found the bound man dead, lying faceup just past the vestibule, police said.

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The pope will straddle second base in Yankee Stadium, but stand over center field at Nationals Park in Washington. There are 100,000 ponchos on hand in the Bronx in case of rain, while three Polish nuns have dusted off a gold and silver garment, hand-woven more than a century ago, for the pontiff to wear at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the capital.

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On the 20th floor of the New York Catholic Center in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan is a cramped conference room that will serve as a command center for the visit. It is where Mark G. Ackermann, a retired hospital executive, coordinates a 50-member task force.

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“I ask that you immediately protect the important part of history of the Upper West Side and landmark these buildings,” she said.

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The stables in question had not housed horses for years. A developer, the Related Companies, had plans to knock them down one of them, the Dakota Stables on Amsterdam Avenue near 77th Street, and put up a condominium building designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects. Ultimately, the commission voted against landmark status, and the Dakota Stables were knocked down. The other stable, the New York Cab Company stables at 201 West 75th Street, was given landmark protection.

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Ms. Parkhouse denies that she misrepresented herself. On the sign-up sheet for the hearing, held Oct. 17, Ms. Parkhouse signed in with her home address in Murray Hill, as a representative of Landmark West. She then said she was “volunteering” to read the letter from Mr. Stringer.

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As many as 40,000 patients’ records were raided by an employee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, for name, phone number and Social Security data.

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For several years in the 1960s, he lived with his father in a red brick building at 108 Avenue D, part of the sprawling public housing complex named for the photojournalist who wrote “How the Other Half Lives.”

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When Tino Hernandez looks back, he dwells not on the drugs and the crime in his old Lower East Side neighborhood, but on the stability of the Jacob Riis Houses that he knew as a teenager.

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“This is less about Tino and more about the growing deficit for public housing and the sources of that deficit,” said David R. Jones, president of the Community Service Society, a nonprofit antipoverty group. “Tino, to his credit, has finessed this relatively well.”

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She was asked what she visualized about the confrontation, outside the Club Kalua in Jamaica, Queens, between Mr. Bell and his friends and Fabio Coicou, a stranger who was waiting for his girlfriend and, according to testimony, standing with his hands in his pockets as if he were armed.

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She was asked what she visualized about the confrontation, outside the Club Kalua in Jamaica, Queens, between Mr. Bell and his friends and Fabio Coicou, a stranger who was waiting for his girlfriend and, according to testimony, standing with his hands in his pockets as if he were armed.

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Shortly after 8 p.m. on Friday, the police responded to a 911 call of a trespasser at 341 Lenox Avenue near West 127th Street.

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Three Harlem men were arrested and charged with manslaughter after the death on Friday night of a Brooklyn man in an apartment building where the men lived, the police said.

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