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Hunts Point, an isolated and poor neighborhood in New York City’s borough of The Bronx, hosts the largest marketplace for fresh produce, meat, and fish in the northeastern United States. Huge trucks come and go at all hours of the day and night, carrying food to supermarket chains and the region’s finest restaurants.
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But after a fire gutted
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A New York man killed himself exactly 27 years to the day that he and his friends were shot by a man on a Subway train.
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Jay Z looks really angry in the photo. Could he and Russell Simmons pull off an Occupy Wall Street Concert in NYC?
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Three men have been brought in by the NYPD in the shooting death of a mother who saved several children from gunfire that erupted last week in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
The mother, 34-year-old Zurana Horton, died from a shot to the chest.
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Read MorePolice Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that Andrew Lopez, 18, and two others were taken into custody on Monday by detectives at a
Republican Bob Turner defeated Democrat Assemblyman David Weprin in a special election for former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s congressional seat yesterday in New York.
Surprisingly, many voters saw the election as referendum on President Obama rather than an occasion to replace Rep. Wiener, who resigned in june after controversial pictures of him surfaced.
Read More“I said to myself, ‘We need to turn this election into a referendum . And we did!’ ’’ gushed former Mayor
NEW YORK — The NYPD has released video of a shooting in Brooklyn on Labor Day in which an innocent woman was killed bu a stray bullet.
The woman, 56-year-old Denise Gay, was sitting outside her home when she was the unfortunate victim in a hail of gunfire between two men and NYPD officers.
The video shows the shootout between Leroy Webster and Eusi Johnson. The shootout claimed the life of Johnson.
In the
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In a weekend in which 47 people were shot, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he blamed illegal handguns for the rise in violence and a shooting that killed three people and wounded two police officers a few blocks from the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.
Read MoreHe called out federal officials saying they lack the courage to take on this gun problem.
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NEW YORK— New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men.
Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg will kick in $30 million from his foundation and hedge fund manager George Soros will match that amount, according to the mayor’s office. The remaining $67.5 million will be paid by the city.
The Young Men’s Initiative was first reported by The New York Times
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NEW YORK-Sarah Palin’s tour bus, which said “One Nation” and “We The People” was vandalized with a sign that said “I, The Media Whore” on top of the “We The People” slogan.
Palin is on a nationwide tour that many people believe is to start her 2012 Presidential run.
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Jennifer Lopez suffered an identity mix-up recently when she was mistaken for Beyonce while in New York City.
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