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As the New York Times reported on Thursday, the NYPD has a new anti-gun violence strategy called Operation Crew Cut. One part of this strategy involves keeping tabs on suspected gang members' social media feeds, to try to spot any simmering tensions ...
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The Suffolk County Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for an 87-year-old man suffering from dementia. Medio Figliolia was last seen standing in his driveway of his house at 8 Southhaven Avenue, Mastic, in the early morning on September 18. H...
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That inmate was in prison for possessing large amounts of drugs. Life is funny, isn't it? After a little shopping, Whitfield found an inmate, a heroin dealer named Julio Bello according to the New York Post , who was willing to go in on his coke-for-...
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Dan Sandler in action
Remember antisemitic Elmo--the guy who spewed antisemitic tirades in Times Square and Central Park dressed as a fuzzy red muppet? The same guy who ran a website called "Rape Camp"--ring any bells yet?
Well, he may finally be...
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R.I.P. Ken Norton, one of the greatest fighters of his generation.
On September 28, 1976, Ken Norton and Muhammad Ali fought for the third time. More than 30,000 spectators filed into Yankee Stadium that night.
The crowd would have been even lar...
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The U.S. Census Bureau released its 2012 report on housing, education, and income. The findings show that poverty in New York City increased in 2012, up to 14.8 percent from 14.1 percent the year before. Despite the steady clime in the number of peop...
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We pause now from our usual duties to acknowledge the passing of legendary Village Voice art director George Delmerico, who died of a heart attack at the age of 67 on Sunday, Aug. 11 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Delmerico, born in 1945, was an award-win...
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One of the law professors named to an advisory council in connection with the independent federal monitor of the police department's stop and frisk strategy says she laughed out loud when she saw today's New York Post story which dubbed the panel a b...
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New York is full of wonderful things. That's why you live here, right? Out-of-towners see a very crowded place, but we know that this city is crowded with amazing restaurants, parks, bars, concerts, stores, and theaters. Because it's so jam-packed an...
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Celebrities putting the screws to the Russian government is becoming a popular tool in the push-back against the country's "homosexual propaganda" law. Actress/Singer/Disney invention Selena Gomez might have added her name to the list of A-list agita...
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Officers Roberto Espinal, 44, of the 110th Precinct in Queens, and Danny Cano, 37, of the 115th Precinct in Queens, were charged with receiving bribes as a public servant and official misconduct. They were off-duty when they were arrested.
Espinal an...
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Earlier this week, we went down to Occupy Wall Street's second anniversary, where things were a little quiet. Sure, there were a couple of arrests, some shouting, some ludicrous attempts by the cops to make protesters stand on some "First Amendment ...
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Banking on kids' dreams of becoming famous, four people have been charged for scamming families with promises of landing their children acting and modelling jobs through their bogus modelling agency. Between 2010 and 2012, James Muniz, Jennifer Santi...
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On Wednesday, Apple's new operating system, iOS 7, was released. Among iOS 7's bells and whistles is a new feature called Activation Lock that will make it more difficult for thieves to resell stolen iPhones--and it comes to users thanks in large par...
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Update: This post has been updated throughout.
A Long island driver allegedly high on drugs crashed into a bus carrying disabled children this morning. The driver's Jeep crossed over the yellow line at 1345 Connetquot Avenue in Central Islip just af...
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You've either never read the Phantom Tollbooth, or it's your favorite book. The first time you met Milo, you were probably his age, around 10, and Tollbooth seemed like a sweet little chapter book about a boy who's always bored and aimless. One day, ...
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The boy died on Monday.
It's the sort of tragedy that pulls the common refrain of questions to the front--Can this be prevented? Should I let my kid play football? Are we watching the last days of football as we know it?
With each collision-relat...
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Yesterday three Staten Island teenagers impersonated cops to cut the line at a video game store. Arriving in blue at the Staten Island Mall, the three were apparently in a hurry to get their copies of the newest Grand Theft Auto game. Genuine cops ar...
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Anthony Weiner went on NY1's Road To City Hall Tuesday night, where the former mayoral candidate sat alongside Mark Green, former public advocate, and Alfonse D'Amato, former senator, for the show's political analysis segment, "WiseGuys."
We'll say ...
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After a relatively peaceful opening march yesterday, Occupy Wall Street's second anniversary got slightly rowdier, as State Senator Brad Hoylman and 16 HIV/AIDS activists took part in a planned arrest near the U.N. building on 47th and 2nd. The demon...
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