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The 47 Best Private High Schools in New York City, Ranked
Niche.com's latest rankings show NYC is No. 1 in the country for private schools. Most are in Manhattan, but 10 are in Brooklyn and Queens.

I was born and raised in Healdsburg, CA, where I was the editor of the Healdsburg High School Hound's Bark. I have since worked as a local journalist for publications in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City and the Middle East — and most recently, as a senior product manager for Patch
Niche.com's latest rankings show NYC is No. 1 in the country for private schools. Most are in Manhattan, but 10 are in Brooklyn and Queens.

The hoverboards' "counterfeit and potentially dangerous batteries" may have caused them to burst into flames, U.S. Customs officials say.
A city employee was caught throwing objects at a Jesus statue while in full uniform, police say. And that was just the beginning.
The student activists crashed a Tuesday-afternoon faculty meeting to fire off a list of demands.
First responders "followed sounds of distress to locate her," according to the FDNY.
Torey Branch of Crown Heights allegedly googled "can being hit in the stomach cause a miscarriage" on his cell phone beforehand.
One passenger said he saw smoke and got caught in a "stampede" of people trying to exit the Vernon Boulevard station in Queens.
Happy belated Valentine's Day.
Another day of New York winter, another weird weather emergency.
And from Greenpoint to DUMBO in just under half an hour.
One in Fort Greene and another in Greenpoint.
The Bed-Stuy teenager reportedly worried her family with a text message saying she'd been raped.
After the Times uploaded a video of a teacher at the charter school network's Cobble Hill campus screaming at a young girl in the classroom.
"It will not be rescheduled."
It's the second big media scandal in the past few months for the Success Academy Charter Schools network in Brooklyn.
"We used to play with what we called a Spaldeen rubber ball."
And of "official misconduct" for not seeking out immediate medical help for Gurley, a Brooklyn jury ruled Thursday.
Valentine's Day in NYC won't be snowy and whimsical. Just cold. Really, really cold.
Tom Rayfiel has written seven novels. Now, he'll be memorializing fallen members of the Park Slope Food Coop.