Officers responded to a report of a shooting on New York Avenue in East Flatbush at 1 a.m. Saturday. They found a 27-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the torso and a 27-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the leg.

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A thief who broke into the vehicle as it was parked on 53rd Street near Second Avenue saw the explosives, then drove the van from the mostly residential block to a remote location near the waterfront.

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A 29-year-old man and a 33-year-old man died in the 3:30 a.m. wreck on Rockaway Boulevard. A third passenger suffered minor injuries.

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The violence happened at 2:20 a.m. Saturday at Ashford and Liberty streets in the East New York section.

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Poe Cottage, located in Poe Park, is scheduled for a complete renovation that will include a complete exterior repainting, restoration of the shutters and shingles, and improvements to interior painting and plasterwork, said Abigail Lootens, director of communications for the Historic House Trust.

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Police said the 28-year-old was arrested Saturday on charges that also include drunken driving. A 29-year-old man and a 33-year-old man died in the 3:30 a.m. wreck on Rockaway Boulevard. A third passenger suffered minor injuries.

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National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.

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The violence happened at 2:20 a.m. Saturday at Ashford and Liberty streets in the

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Investigators crawled over the van at 37th St. and Second Ave. Friday and discovered several 5-gallon containers and 12-ounce water bottles filled with a clear liquid that smelled like gasoline, according to a police source.

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Investigators believe that the van had been parked at 53rd St. and Second Ave. for more than a month, and its dangerous cargo was discovered only after a car thief broke into the vehicle Thursday afternoon.

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, 42, was crossing Castle Hill Ave. after a day at work when he was slammed by a car racing north on the busy street just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.

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Charles Pena bled to death and two friends - J.R. Hines, 18, and Anthony Modesta, 17 - were in critical condition after being jumped by a gang of eight men on Ashford and Liberty Streets in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, at 2:20 a.m., relatives said.

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Thomas Jefferson’s original version of the Declaration of Independence includes passages that were deleted, including his lengthy condemnation of slavery.

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The smaller building is part of the price the developer, Tishman Realty, would have to pay to build the adjacent 34-story hotel at the southwest corner of 44th Street and Eighth Avenue. Another part of the price is the cost of some of the air space above the Majestic Theater, a landmark Broadway playhouse diagonally across Eighth Avenue on 44th Street.

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The other involves another proposed hotel near Times Square, at 120 West 41st Street just west of Bryant Park. In that case, the developer has proposed buying 9,480 square feet from the Broadhurst Theater, a neighbor of the Majestic on 44th Street. Both of those properties are within the boundaries of Community Board 4, which has not yet voted on the proposal.

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Police say the boy may have had a seizure while swimming in the backyard pool on 136th Street in the Queensboro Hill section on Friday.

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They had met at a pub on Kings Road in Chelsea called the Lord Nelson.

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In Richmond Hill, Queens, where Ms. Guaricci and her husband were heading in the Buick that day, a local newspaper had published an article the previous week under the headline “Tea Time.”

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Sixty years later, these beachheads remain in a few places like Flushing, Queens, where a handful of surviving British war brides meet monthly in a small British veterans hall, lunching on cold cuts and potato chips.

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A newsstand on Water Street and Whitehall in the financial district attracts attention with a bright red paint job and prominent displays of upscale magazines and Vitamin Water.

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A Harlem newsstand on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and 135th Street sports a well-worn office chair where its owner sits and chats with passers-by.

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The new newsstands began to appear last year. The old stand on West 57th Street west of Fifth Avenue, for example, which was photographed by Ms. Barrett, is gone.

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Outside the Staten Island Borough Hall, what was once a mailbox serves as a depository for worn-out Stars and Stripes.

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Officers responded to to a report of a shooting on New York Avenue in East Flatbush at 1 a.m. Saturday.

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Eliot Spitzer, who succeeded Pataki as governor, didn't make major changes to plans to build office towers, a transit hub, memorial and performing arts center at Ground Zero.

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Police said the boy might have had a seizure while swimming in the backyard pool on 136th Street in the Queensboro Hill section on Friday.

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Officers responded to a report of a shooting on New York Avenue in East Flatbush at 1 a.m. Saturday.

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The conflict surrounding the New York Comedy Club is a reminder of the tension between the city’s businesses and its residents over noise.

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After being told that the path of landing planes would be changed, reducing the air traffic above their neighborhood, Park Slope residents learned that it was not to be.

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What is contained in each of the floors in the spire of the Chrysler Building?

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Murray Hill, is an enclave generally immune to trends. Like virtually every other neighborhood, though, it always has room for decent new restaurants.

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In recent months, an old crime has started to reappear near where Ms. Evans lives, on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant: a spate of muggings that has caught some in the neighborhood by surprise.

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In recent months, an old crime has started to reappear near where Ms. Evans lives, on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant: a spate of muggings that has caught some in the neighborhood by surprise.

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The head of security at Pratt Institute, whose campus is in the neighborhood, said that at least six students had been mugged since April.

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The 88th Precinct, which covers Clinton Hill, has recorded a 26 percent increase in robberies so far this year, from 99 in 2007 to 125, for the period ending on June 29. Robberies are defined as the forcible taking of property from a person.

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On June 10, Nina Lalli was mugged as she walked from Fort Greene to her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, she said in an interview.

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As she walked past a group of teenagers at the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Walworth Street, she said someone hit her on the back of the head, and she fell to the ground.

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Gordon Polatnick’s no cover-charge, daytime jazz club in Harlem is closing due to lack of funds.

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The National Park Service has started inching closer to reopening the Statue of Liberty’s crown for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.

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A ring of drummers — and tambourine, gourd and cowbell players — forms in Marcus Garvey Park on Saturdays. Some residents of a nearby co-op find them disruptive.

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Across the street from the park is 2002 Fifth Avenue, a new seven-story cream and red brick luxury co-op with a doorman, $1 million apartments and a lobby with a fireplace.

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And so in this corner of Harlem, which is known as Mount Morris Park, two sides have formed, each with complaints that many agree are legitimate. The stalemate has bubbled over into a dispute about class, race and culture and has become a flash point in the debate over gentrification.

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And so in this corner of Harlem, which is known as Mount Morris Park, two sides have formed, each with complaints that many agree are legitimate. The stalemate has bubbled over into a dispute about class, race and culture and has become a flash point in the debate over gentrification.

Published by New York Times on July 5, 2008.

New York is usually one tough town, but it's hard to imagine a softer civic touch than the one that greeted the admission last week that Ground Zero is a mess. When, after nearly seven years of false starts and promises, officials finally admitted that everything is hopelessly behind schedule and over budget, New Yorkers' general reaction was to applaud the honesty and turn the channel.

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The signature skyscraper that replaces the World Trade Center is nearly ready to move in. The memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is a year away from opening. A skyscraper damaged by the falling towers was taken down years ago.

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The New York Philharmonic has canceled its first-ever concert on Governors Island because of bad weather.

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This year, seven police officers were injured -- and that was when a police cruiser and police van responding to an officer needing assistance at a fireworks call in Huguenot collided just before 9 p.m. The accident happened at Hylan Boulevard and Arbutus Avenue as a drizzle that would continue throughout much of the night began to fall.

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Last year, police arrested 28 revelers busting up a raucous barbecue at 23 Fillmore, during a brawl that ended with a dozen officers injured.

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Fireworks were reported in Emerson Hill, Midland Beach, at the handball court at IS 61 in Brighton Heights and Pleasant Plains beginning at about 4 p.m. yesterday, but really picked up at around 10 p.m., after the city fireworks display was over and as the rain subsided somewhat.

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Fireworks were reported in Emerson Hill, Midland Beach, at the handball court at IS 61 in Brighton Heights and Pleasant Plains beginning at about 4 p.m. yesterday, but really picked up at around 10 p.m., after the city fireworks display was over and as the rain subsided somewhat.

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Fireworks were reported in Emerson Hill, Midland Beach, at the handball court at IS 61 in Brighton Heights and Pleasant Plains beginning at about 4 p.m. yesterday, but really picked up at around 10 p.m., after the city fireworks display was over and as the rain subsided somewhat.

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Seven police officers were injured when a police van and a patrol car collided at Arbutus Avenue and Hylan Boulevard in Huguenot as they responded to an officer needing assistance on a fireworks call.

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Police said the 43-year-old mom slipped into her son's empty classroom at PS 52 in Dongan Hills sometime during the May 29 ceremony and swiped his teacher's Louis Vuitton handbag.

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The fireworks, large and small, were bagged and held at the 122nd Precinct stationhouse in New Dorp.

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Last summer, Chuck Wilson didn't think twice before taking day trips to Coney Island or planning vacation trips to Maryland and Virginia Beach.

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The high price of gas, and the impact of that on family budgets, has forced many families, like the Busers of Eltingville, to make some tough choices.

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"A simple everyday trip may turn out to cost $200," said Wilson, a New Springville resident, who will spend more time in Clove Lakes Park with his grandson, Gabriel.

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"A simple everyday trip may turn out to cost $200," said Wilson, a New Springville resident, who will spend more time in Clove Lakes Park with his grandson, Gabriel.

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The beauty and melancholy of Latin America are intertwined in documentaries from Colombia and Peru & the Borucua Roots Music of NYC. Explore the work of contemporary Latino filmmakers, enjoy the infectious music of YERBABUENA, and support El Barrio.

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"Let everyone else get out of town," said Jamie Moy, 32, who enjoyed the day in Central Park. "It's great. You can get any table you want this weekend."

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Brooklyn resident William Duchemin, 39, enjoyed having the beach at Coney Island almost to himself.

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"It makes me think about the soldiers in Iraq," said Terrance Brown of Harlem.

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Cops said the man had just left a bar at about 4 a.m. when at least six people jumped him in Jackson Heights.

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Pool at 136th St. home in Queensboro Hill is where Justine Almonte drowned during backyard Fourth of July barbecue. The 8-year-old is stepson of an NYPD officer.

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The park service requested bids last month to study what it would take to safely open the Statue of Liberty's iconic headpiece to the public, according to documents released by U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.

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Bielfeld died running into the World Trade Center on 9/11, a day he was supposed to have off.

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Artist Eddie Gonzalez painted two murals in his memory in 2001, one near Bielfeld's house at Olinville Ave. and Thwaites Place and the other near his firehouse, Ladder 42 in the South Bronx.

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Gonzalez used a combination of spray paint, detailed brush technique and stenciling, with supplies donated by Al Jampol Paint & Hardware on Morris Park Ave. and Ronan Paints on E. 135th St. to finish the work.

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Gonzalez used a combination of spray paint, detailed brush technique and stenciling, with supplies donated by Al Jampol Paint & Hardware on Morris Park Ave. and Ronan Paints on E. 135th St. to finish the work.

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The victim, who was the only child at the gathering on 136th St. in Queensboro Hill, likely had a seizure while swimming, a police source said.

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Famed East Village Veniero's Pasticceria & Caffe served up a cannoli that was over the limit for trans fat.

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The taboo fat was also found in a cannoli at Ferrara's in Little Italy, a chocolate cupcake at Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village, a croissant at Sarabeth's on the upper West Side and a strawberry cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn.

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The taboo fat was also found in a cannoli at Ferrara's in Little Italy, a chocolate cupcake at Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village, a croissant at Sarabeth's on the upper West Side and a strawberry cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn.

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The taboo fat was also found in a cannoli at Ferrara's in Little Italy, a chocolate cupcake at Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village, a croissant at Sarabeth's on the upper West Side and a strawberry cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on July 5, 2008.

The taboo fat was also found in a cannoli at Ferrara's in Little Italy, a chocolate cupcake at Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village, a croissant at Sarabeth's on the upper West Side and a strawberry cheesecake at Junior's in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on July 5, 2008.

The New York Philharmonic has canceled its first-ever concert on Governors Island because of bad weather.

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Edwin Aleman staked out his viewing spot in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn hours before the show.

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In New York, a decidedly less majestic display of will took place in Coney Island, the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating competition.

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Police say the boy was found unconscious in the pool on 136th Street in Flushing at 7 p.m. Friday.

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...in an interview. As she walked past a group of teenagers at the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Walworth Street, she said someone hit her on the back of the head, and she fell to...

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