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Posted Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:18 pm ET

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Five New Yorkers won the prestigious awards from the MacArthur Foundation.

Some witnesses to the kidnapping helped stop the woman before she could escape.

It's how the 1 percent sees shows.

Free preschool classes will be offered to every 3-year-old in eight school districts by 2021.

The Special Victims Unit is seeking evidence in a 2004 incident, a police spokeswoman said.

Waldiman Thompson and his 100-year-old wife were tied up by robbers who broke into their Decatur Street home, police said.

The suspect, a 61-year-old man, was seen masturbating in two Midtown Manhattan subway stations this month.

Queens and the Bronx also claimed spots on StreetEasy and TaylorMade's ranking.

Funeral services will be held for Our Lady of Loreto, a century-old church that is being torn down in Brownsville, on Saturday.

Salvatore DeMeo, an alleged Genovese crime family member once named on America's Most Wanted, was charged with tax fraud, prosecutors said.

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