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Also: Hollywood brings modern civil warfare to the streets of Brooklyn, and cops say this weirdly warm weather is inspiring local burglars.
"Say hi to your Neo-Nazi neighbor, Mike Peinovich!" says a flyer posted to a pole on East 82nd Street.
Also: Upper East Side police say they received a strange letter from two local parents, thanking cops for stopping and frisking their son.
Forecasters are predicting more rollercoaster winter weather through the end of January in NYC. Here's what they think they know so far.
Sampson is the third New York state politician jailed for corruption in less than a year.
A comprehensive ranking of street crappiness, neighborhood by neighborhood, from the NYC Independent Budget Office.
"Rebels against immigration police," the sign says in Spanish. "Fight against the racism of Trump."
Also: A breakthrough in the T.I. concert murder investigation, and a renewed search for a Brooklyn boy who went missing 7 years ago today.
Najja Plowden is suing the city after a nightmare ordeal in Crown Heights. The officer who allegedly tormented him is still on duty.
Also: Meet the Brooklyn landlords busted in gas meter-fixing scheme, and the Inwood landlords accused of nearly killing 17 tenants.
The young woman was in serious condition Friday. She "ran out of building on fire and strangers managed to put her out," one witness said.
Also: A Harlem graffiti artist who thinks white people suck, and a U.S. jail guard who's been smuggling that nasty "K2" drug to prisoners.
The previous record, 64 degrees, was set in 1890, weather officials say.
Pulled from 86 pages of insights into "one of the nation's most extensively contaminated water bodies."
The fire began in a garage on Beatrice Court and burned through three alarms on an unseasonably warm Thursday morning, fire officials say.
"I don't think he's going to come back again," the restaurant owner says.
Also: Inside the major heroin and Xanax drug bust in Bushwick this morning, and the Grand Theft Auto-style car chase in Bed-Stuy last night.
At least 20 suspects were arrested at the Hope Gardens housing complex Wednesday — the climax of a yearlong, undercover NYPD investigation.
R train service was interrupted in South Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon after a man jumped in front of a train, according to the MTA.
Widespread commuter rage over delays on multiple lines Monday got especially real on a C train heading through Fort Greene, cops say.