Company Owner Sentenced After Child Crushed To Death | NYC Top Stories

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Here are the top five stories around New York City:

1. The owner of a construction company will serve six months in prison after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a 5-year-old child. (Read more on Patch.)

2. Two people snuck onto an empty subway train and took it down the tracks for some time before crashing it, New York City police said. (Read more on Patch.)

3. Part of a long-vacant city block in East Harlem has been sold to an unknown buyer for $70 million, a report said. (Read more on Patch.)

4. Eighteen people were arrested Tuesday while protesting a police shooting that happened as officers were trying to subdue a fare evader; four people, including an NYPD officer, were injured in that shooting. (Read more on Patch.)

5. City Council members began an ethics probe into one of their colleagues, who is accused of biting a cop in the arm during a protest this summer. (Read more on Patch.)