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The U.S. Department of Education honored schools from every borough.

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The U.S. Department of Education honored schools from every borough.

Locals railed against plans to replace the St. Denis Hotel with a 12-story office building and demanded land use protections for the nabe.
Police suspect Joshua Stuart of a Monday morning gunpoint-robbery in Bay Ridge.
Police are searching for one other suspect in the Downtown Brooklyn mugging of a teenage.
Joshua Stuart was last spotted in the Sunset Park and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn.
The tense 75-minute standoff ended with detectives lowering the man to safety in a harness.
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“The demands of this business are increasing dramatically. It’s time,” the owner wrote in a letter posted at the bistro.
Pols and residents will rally in front of the Boys' Club of New York's Harriman Clubhouse on Saturday.
Livid locals came out in force to oppose a jail proposed for 80 Centre Street.
The mom blocked the man from driving off with her 16-month-old daughter, police said.
Police arrested a 20-year-old for pummeling a man with a cane and slicing his arm open, authorities said.
City sanitation trucks may use three residential streets as an impromptu parking lot for up to 3 years, according to a local leader.
Cops are searching for three men for questioning about the shooting death of 26-year-old Kenneth Ballou.
The council voted down a developer's zoning change to build beside the landmarked Merchant's House Museum.
The City Council passed a controversial bill that expands an existing no-vending zone near the World Trade Center.
Livid locals say the foul fleet is wreaking havoc on their neighborhoods.
The literary haunt will reopen Wednesday — a week after it was shuttered by the state for unpaid taxes.
Emergency responders pulled one worker into the building through a window, FDNY said.