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Evicted Church Finds A New Home | LL Cool J Honored At Queens Stadium | Man Arrested In 1996 Cold-Case | Hit-And-Run Video

Advocates say a planned Safe Haven shelter on East 91st Street (left) is being stymied by the restaurateur Eli Zabar, owner of Eli's Market (right) as well as nearly a dozen other Upper East Side businesses.
Advocates say a planned Safe Haven shelter on East 91st Street (left) is being stymied by the restaurateur Eli Zabar, owner of Eli's Market (right) as well as nearly a dozen other Upper East Side businesses. ((Courtesy of Goddard Riverside; Google Maps))

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Stop Blocking UES Shelter, Neighborhood Leaders Tell Eli Zabar

The famed restaurateur is accused of blocking a long-planned Yorkville Safe Haven shelter. Neighbors want him to let it proceed.

Evicted Harlem Church Finds A New Home: 'We Didn't Have Any Choice'

Three years after the city began evicting it, Harlem's last Ethiopian Orthodox church has a new home. But members say they got little help.

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Hollis Native LL Cool J Honored At Forest Hills Stadium

During the Rock The Bells Festival, the hip hop icon received proclamation and the Key to Queens, according to officials.

Bronx Man Charged In 1996 Cold-Case Murder After DNA Link: Reports

Gregory Fleetwood, 66, is accused of murdering Jasmine Porter, a 36-year-old woman found dead in 1996, police said.

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Video: Hit-And-Run Driver Slams Into Forest Hills Complex Wall

"Somebody could have been walking on the street at the moment and he could have hit and killed them, " a local said. "Thank God, he didn't."

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