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Smokers Rejoice After State Ban Suspended

Posted 05.30.2012

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Thanks to the work of a NYC-based smokers' rights advocacy group, smokers across the state will after all be able to light up in New York state parks,...

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Lawyers Say Patz Suspect Suffers From Schizophrenia, Hallucinations

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.30.2012

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NEW YORK -- The man who has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases remained in...

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10 Years Since End Of 9/11 Cleanup

AP | Posted 05.30.2012

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NEW YORK -- The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is marking the 10th anniversary of the end of cleanup operations at the site with a tribute ...

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NYPD May Search Landfill For Etan Patz's Body

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

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By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - New York police have requested trash hauling records going back to 1979, the year 6-y...

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NYC The Next Silicon Valley?

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.28.2012

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NEW YORK — Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city...

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Blind Chinese Activist To Speak In NYC

AP | Posted 05.28.2012

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NEW YORK — A blind Chinese activist who was the focus of a nearly monthlong diplomatic standoff has a speaking engagement in New York City this ...

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A Long Road For Prosecutors In Etan Patz Case

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.28.2012

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NEW YORK -- For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-yea...

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Etan Patz Murder Suspect Knew 'Intimate Details,' Sources Say

Posted 05.27.2012

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Pedro Hernandez, the suspect who allegedly admitted to killing Etan Patz more than 30 years ago, knew "intimate details" about the boy that lead polic...

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Hernandez's Family Shocked Over Arrest In Etan Patz Case

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.27.2012

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NEW YORK -- When police dug up a Manhattan basement last month in a fruitless search for the remains of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in...

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PHOTOS: New York City's Other Missing Children

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.25.2012

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Etan Patz's disappearance 33 years ago was perhaps most disturbing, and grabbed the most national headlines, because of its narrative. May 25th, 1979 ...

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Man Who Confessed To Etan Patz Murder Expected In Court

Posted 05.25.2012

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Nearly 33 years after the disappearance of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old Manhattan boy who went missing in 1979, police announced the arrest of a suspect in...

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NJ Muslims Angry After NYPD Surveillance Findings

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.25.2012

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TRENTON, N.J. -- Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found t...

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Union Square Hit-And-Run Kills Young Woman

Posted 05.24.2012

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The NYPD is searching for a dump truck driver implicated in a Thursday morning hit-and-run in Union Square that killed a 21-year-old woman. The un...

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OWS Sues NYC Over 3,000 Confiscated Books

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

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By Joseph Ax NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against New York City, claiming authori...

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City Cracks Down On Overpriced Manicures...For Men

Posted 05.23.2012

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In post-metrosexual America, plenty of dudes (see: Charles Barkley) are getting manicures, pedicures and waxes. And for years in New York, salons ...

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LGBT Sailors Urged To Come Out For Fleet Week

DNAinfo | Posted 05.23.2012

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HELL'S KITCHEN — For the first Fleet Week since Don't Ask, Don't Tell was repealed, New York's gay nightlife scene is encouraging men and women in u...

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Husband Allegedly Attacks Wife's Head With Meat Cleaver

Posted 05.23.2012

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A mentally ill Queens man allegedly hacked his wife with a meat cleaver early Wednesday morning, police sources tell ABC. Liu Huizhen, 52, is in c...

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NY Bill Would Eliminate Anonymous Online Comments

Posted 05.23.2012

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A new bill in Albany has its sights set on anonymous internet trolls. The Internet Protection Act would require sites to have online commenters identi...

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Councilman Slams Stop And Frisk, Says Bloomberg's 'Ass-Backwards' On Gun Violence

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.24.2012

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City Councilman Jumaane Williams thinks Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is "ass-backwards" in its approach to gun violence, and that the mayo...

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WATCH: Bloomberg Breaks Curfew With Helicopter, Upsets Neighbors

Posted 05.24.2012

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Billionaire helicopter pilot and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in trouble with neighbors of the East 34th Street Heliport, who say hizzoner...

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Cab Fares Could Rise 20 Percent

Posted 05.22.2012

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The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has agreed to hear a proposal on May 31 to raise cab fares 20 percent. According to The Times, "Such h...

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Will NJ AG Go After NYPD For Spying On Muslims?

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.22.2012

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NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Muslim leaders who attended a March meeting with the state's attorney general say they've been invited back this week for a...

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WATCH: Cop's Amazingly Vulgar Tirade Caught On Tape

Posted 05.22.2012

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A uniformed NYPD officer in Brooklyn was caught on video giving a vulgar, profanity-laced rant worthy of a Tarantino flick. The foul-mouthed fuzz,...

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Kelly Says Stop And Frisk Critics Have 'Short Memories And Questionable Motives'

Posted 05.21.2012

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New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly lashed out at critics of stop and frisk in a Daily News editorial Monday, defending the program from the claim ...

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For Farmers, Fracking Could Mean Salvation-- Or Ruin

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.21.2012

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ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riche...

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