Courts
James Lomma was indicted on manslaughter and other charges Monday.
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Courts, Upper East Side
Courts
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Midtown West
Marvell Scott invoked disgraced golfer Tiger Woods as he defended himself against charges he raped an underage prostitute.
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Courts, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Health
An Upper West Side mom has had a lonely, exhausting and expensive journey to help her son live with a form of autism.
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Health, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Crime
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Manhattan
The NYPD has been putting all its recruits through a new training program in the wake of the Sean Bell police shooting — including a mandatory panel with outspoken police critic Al Sharpton, it was revealed Tuesday.
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Crime, Manhattan
Crime
The body of 8-year-old Jude Michael Mirra lies in a refrigerated room in the city morgue, zipped inside a tagged body bag, atop a three-tiered gurney.
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Crime, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Crime
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Chelsea
A transformer exploded in Chelsea Thursday, blowing out the windows of a seven-story building as fire engulfed it.
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Crime, Chelsea and Meatpacking District
Crime
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Midtown East
Jude Michael Mirra's body has been removed from the city morgue after lying there for four days, officials said.
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Crime, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Crime
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Midtown East
The pressures of being a single mother caring for an acutely autistic child can drive a person mad, say experts.
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Crime, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Crime
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Midtown West
An eight-year-old autistic boy was found dead in a luxury hotel room on Fifth Avenue Friday, possibly murdered at the hands of his devoted mother who was discovered unconscious next to him, police said.
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Crime, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Real Estate
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Midtown East
The 82-year-old hotel will close its doors in May.
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Real Estate, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Science & Technology
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Manhattan
A skydiver will try to break the speed of sound with his body, in a mission to free-fall from 124,000 feet above the earth.
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Science & Technology, Manhattan
Arts & Entertainment
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Manhattan
After a round of escalating on-air confrontations, NBC has officially released Conan O’Brien from “The Tonight Show.”
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Arts & Entertainment, Manhattan
Courts
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Manhattan
A female neuroscientist accused of terrorism and a wild shootout with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was tossed from a federal courtroom Tuesday after she interrupted a witness.
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Courts, Manhattan
Courts
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Manhattan
Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed to fight a federal judge's ruling that found the FDNY discriminates against blacks, saying the "real problem" is that not enough minorities apply.
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Courts, Manhattan
Crime
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Morningside Hts.
Police have released a second disturbing video showing an animal abuser in the Grant Houses, in Morningside Heights, beating a dog in an elevator.
• NYPD Catches Man Brutally Kicking a Dog on Video
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Crime, Morningside Heights
Education
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Upper East Side
Parents, students and teachers outraged by the mayor’s decision to close schools around the city are demanding the right to voice their concerns with a protest on the steps of his Upper East Side home.
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Education, Upper East Side
Business & Economy
Comedian Conan O'Brien released a statement Tuesday saying he will not host NBC's "Tonight Show" if the starting time is moved back to 12:05 a.m.
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Business & Economy, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Only In New York
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Manhattan
A Manhattan taxicab driver who discovered a purse in his backseat Christmas Eve with $10,000 inside drove hundreds of miles round trip to return it, according news reports.
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Only In New York, Manhattan
Sports
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Upper East Side
Can steel-cage fighting save Manhattan’s economy? A push by Upper East Side assemblyman Jonathan Bing to legalize the controversial but profitable sport of mixed martial arts in New York has garnered the support of Gov. David Paterson.
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Sports, Upper East Side
Real Estate
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Upper East Side
The Duke Mansion, sold four years ago for $40 million, is back on the market again. This time, the owner wants $50 million.
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Real Estate, Upper East Side
Arts & Entertainment
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Manhattan
Late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien isn’t laughing at plans to hand his timeslot over to the floundering Jay Leno – and he reportedly could be getting ready to walk away from NBC.
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Arts & Entertainment, Manhattan
Crime
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Morningside Hts.
New Yorkers outraged by a disturbing surveillance video that shows a Morningside Heights man brutally beating a defenseless dog have demonstrated their anger across the Internet.
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Crime, Morningside Heights
Real Estate
It's goodbye free baseball fields, and hello $180-an-hour tennis court rentals after the city turned over parkland under the Queensboro Bridge to an exclusive tennis club all year round.
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Real Estate, Upper East Side
Arts & Entertainment
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Manhattan
From bull riding to blowing out the birthday candles for Alexander Hamilton's big day, DNAinfo has all your weekend events across the neighborhoods.
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Arts & Entertainment, Manhattan
Crime
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Morningside Hts.
The NYPD arrested a man for brutally attacking a dog named "Chuvi-Duvi" in an elevator, seen here in this disturbing video released Wednesday.
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Crime, Morningside Heights
Arts & Entertainment
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Midtown West
President Barack Obama became an unwitting billboard model Wednesday, when a clothing company posted a massive ad showing him wearing one of their jackets during a recent diplomatic tour.
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Arts & Entertainment, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Politics
When civil rights titan and radio mogul Percy Sutton is laid to rest at Riverside Church Wednesday, it will be the latest in a long line of solemn farewells for influential black New Yorkers at the Morningside Heights landmark.
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Politics, Central Harlem
Courts
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Manhattan
A coalition of parents, teachers and student advocacy groups have sued the city's Department of Education, claiming they violated state law by misusing state funds earmarked to shrink class sizes.
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Courts, Manhattan
Crime
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Manhattan
Crime rates fell to an historic low in 2009, with the numbers in Manhattan continuing to plummet. The number of major crimes in the borough is half what it was 20 years ago. Follow DNAinfo's interactive map.
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Crime, Manhattan
Crime
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Morningside Hts.
Police are searching for a man suspected of robbing an Upper West Side bank.
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Crime, Morningside Heights
Only In New York
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Midtown West
Happy New Year! Hundreds of thousands of revelers watched the ball drop in Times Square at the world's largest — and most famous — New Year's Eve party.
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Only In New York, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Crime
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Midtown West
The owner of the suspicious-looking van that triggered a mass evacuation of Times Square the day before New Year's Eve celebrations has been arrested and charged with a felony, police said.
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Crime, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Business & Economy
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Midtown East
Rapper, designer and TV reality show mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’s flagship clothing store is suing its Midtown landlord over scaffolding they say has blocked shop windows for the past three years.
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Business & Economy, Midtown East & Kips Bay
Arts & Entertainment
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Midtown West
Twelve high school students, including four from Manhattan, will join Mayor Michael Bloomberg to drop the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square Thursday night to tout that 12 city high schools are among the best in the nation.
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Arts & Entertainment, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Crime
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Central Harlem
Police are searching for a man who they say gunned down a parking attendant inside a Harlem garage last week.
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Crime, Central Harlem
Arts & Entertainment
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Manhattan
New Years Eve partiers have another reason to celebrate tonight, as a rare blue moon fills up the night sky.
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Arts & Entertainment, Manhattan
Politics
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Manhattan
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo doesn’t have enough support from the black community to take on the governor, according to David Paterson's dad.
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Politics, Manhattan
Politics
Despite his narrow victory in last month’s election, Mayor Michael Bloomberg handed out a Christmas-worthy round of bonuses — to the tune of approximately 20 percent of his campaign staffers’ salaries, a source told the Daily News.
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Politics, Municipal District
Real Estate
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Manhattan
The city has slashed 3,000 needy New Yorkers off the housing subsidy rolls and is closing the program off to new applications because of federal budget cuts.
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Real Estate, Manhattan
Crime
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Midtown West
Police have discovered a dead body lying on the roof of the landmark Argonaut building in Midtown West.
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Crime, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
Business & Economy
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Manhattan
Many BlackBerry-addicted New Yorkers were thrust into involuntary e-mail withdrawal Thursday morning when a company server went down.
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Business & Economy, Manhattan
Crime
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Midtown West
A day after a deadly shootout in Times Square pitted an NYPD sergeant against a street peddler armed with a MAC-10 machine gun, Mayor Michael Bloomberg renewed his call for an end to illegal weapons.
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Crime, Midtown West & Hells Kitchen
