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Sliwa Blasted For Times Square 'Migrant' TV Assault | Top NYC Stories

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Here are the top five stories around New York City:

1. A smackdown in an illegal cannabis shop led to charges against a Brooklyn man accused of assaulting a taxman who came to shut down the store, authorities said. Read more.

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2. A Manhattan man was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to making and possessing operable ghost guns in his apartment, as well as threatening to kill his former girlfriend with one of the weapons he made, authorities said. Read more.

An Upper East Side doorman came to the rescue of a 24-year-old woman during a violent robbery in the neighborhood Sunday, authorities said. Read more.

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Seven men have been indicted in a caught-on-video Times Square attack on NYPD officers that has become a flash point in the debate over the city's migrant crisis. Read more.

5. A bombshell report hints about a controversial live Fox News interview Tuesday in which former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa showed a group of his Guardian Angels take down what he said was "one of the migrant guys" sowing disorder in the city. Read more.

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