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Emails obtained by the New York Times revealed that a conservative writer is alarmed by the sight of "nannies of color" in the neighborhood.
The university says the attack on a student demonstrators on Friday was a "possible hate crime."
"As I close this chapter of my life, the story is not over," Dickens said. But the story of who will replace her is just heating up.
The driver smashed his car into another vehicle when he was exiting the West Side Highway early Monday, then fled the scene, police said.
A nephew killed his 74-year-old grand-uncle during a fight caused by access to the bathroom, according to officials.
The 421a incentive program, which costs the city nearly $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue, has expired, but still brings pricy units online.
Before her election to City Council, Julie Menin was the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection from 2014-2016.
Officials said that a worker was injured and that two people of interest were in custody.
A man went from nice to naughty when a person simply exiting the building said he had no money on him, police said.
When a man tried to stop a shoplifter inside of a neighborhood CVS, the crook pulled out a knife, saying "don't touch me."
"This is how it starts," said a grandchild of Holocaust survivors outside of the Bohemian Hall Thursday night.
Mice, flies and unclean surfaces were all found inside one high-end Brooklyn sandwich shop.
A truck caught fire Thursday on Second Avenue, filling the neighborhood with acrid smoke, officials and residents said.
A man grabbed a young teen in East Harlem as he pleasured himself, officials say.
Police said a Brooklyn woman deliberately hit an officer on Park Avenue and later called the violence "a lesson."
A 74-year-old was found dead inside a Sugar Hill apartment building early Friday morning, police said.
The home goods and hardware store is having a major closing sale until the doors shut for good after 13 years of business.
A new intimate Mexican restaurant from Chef Medina is now open in Yorkville.
Yusef Salaam, newly elected and a member of the exonerated Central Park Five, will now chair the council's Public Safety Committee.
The stabber was arrested by officers Thursday morning, and had stabbed another person on a Bronx train, police said.
