Man Hid Dead Body Inside Apartment, NYPD Says | Top 5 NYC Stories

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Here are the top five stories around New York City:

1. A Long Island woman will spend more than 20 years behind bars for killing an NYPD officer during a drunken hit-and-run in Queens, prosecutors said. Read more.

2. A severed leg found along Bronx subway tracks over the weekend could have been dragged from Manhattan, where a man days earlier had been fatally struck by a train, police said. Read more.

3. An employee at a Harlem after-school program was indicted Tuesday on multiple charges of child sexual abuse, prosecutors announced. Read more.

4. A Brooklyn mom was arrested after she left her child alone in a stroller inside a convention center in New Jersey on Valentine's Day, police said. Read more.

5. A Brooklyn man hid a dead body inside an East Flatbush apartment, police said. Read more.