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Fans celebrate the Giants Super Bowl victory at the ticker tape parade on Feb. 7, 2012
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Office workers enjoy the New York Giants ticker tape parade on Feb. 7th, 2012.
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Eli Manning waved to fans from the float for the Giants' ticker tape parade on Feb. 7, 2012.
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The grandmother and mother (l-r) of Ramarley Graham march to the 47th precinct on Feb. 6, 2012.
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NYPD Officer Kevin Brennan headed home Feb. 10, 2012, after recovering from being shot in Bushwick.
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"Lin-sanity," erupts outside Madison Square Garden as Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks beat reigning NBA World champs the Dallas Mavs on Feb. 19th, 2012.
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A band member casts a shadow on 5th Ave during the annual St. Patrick's day Parade in Manhattan on Mar. 17th, 2012.
DNAinfo/Paul Lomax
Anna Gristina, 44, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court to face a charge of promoting prostitution on Mar. 6th , 2012.
DNAinfo/Paul Lomax
Tony Planakis, the NYPD's go-to guy for bees, removes a hive from a tree at the corner of 188th Street and Melrose Avenue in the South Bronx, May, 2012.
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Investigators finished removing the concrete floor of 127 Prince St. in the search for Etan Patz's body as an allegation surfaced that suspect Othniel Miller, who used that basement as a workshop, had raped his 10-year-old niece in the 1980s, April 12, 2012.
DNAinfo/Paul Lomax
Occupy Wall Street protesters march down Broadway from Union Square in celebration of May Day on May 1, 2012.
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Julius Chase, 23, from the Upper West Side, try to tan himself at Coney Island Beach on June 21, 2012, while attending a rehearsal of a music video filming.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
Meredith, 6, visiting New York from Massachusetts, waits patiently for a drink from a water cannon at J.J. Byrne playground on Fifth Avenue, June 20, 2012.
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President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama shared a quiet moment looking out over the 9/11 Memorial June 14, 2012.
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Harley Flanagan, Cro-Mags former bassist, outside of Manhattan Criminal Court after he was charged with assaulting two of his band mates at a Webster Hall show, July 12, 2012.
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Matthew Swaye, 35, and Christina Gonzalez, anti stop and frisk advocates, say they were shocked to see their face on a poster calling them professional agitators when they entered the 30th Precinct in Harlem last week, July 2, 2012.
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A white coffin was carried out of the church during the funeral for 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan, who was killed by a stray bullet in a Bronx playground, Aug. 1, 2012.
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Mourners held hands during the funeral for 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012.
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Tiffany Orr, 13-year-old Ronald Wallace's mother, mourned at her son, who was shot in the back in Brooklyn, at his funeral, Aug. 31, 2012.
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Friends mourn the death of Reynaldo Cuevas, a Bronx bodega worker mistakenly shot by a police officer while he tried to flee a robbery, Sept. 7, 2012.
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Firefighters stood at attention six times at the entrance of the Engine 202/Ladder 101 firehouse Sept. 11, 2012, marking the times that planes struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field, and when the Twin Towers collapsed. Seven firefighters from Ladder 101 died in the attacks.
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Ken Corrigan, 45, a volunteer fire fighter and first responder on Sept. 11, 2001, visits Ground Zero on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.
DNAinfo/Chelsia Rose Marcius
Occupy Wall Street protesters approach Foley Square on Sept. 16th, 2012, leading up the one-year anniversary of the movement.
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Cops arrested a protester on Sept. 17, the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
Specialist Corr paid her last tribute to Noel Polanco, am unarmed National Guardsman shot and killed by NYPD detective during a traffic stop, who was promoted posthumous to a sergeant, Oct. 12, 2012.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
A woman overcome by emotion at the vigil at Hippo Park for six-year-old Lucia and 2-year-old Leo Krim, who were allegedly stabbed and killed by their nanny in their Upper West Side home, Oct. 26, 2012.
DNAinfo/Jeff Mays
Officials were working to assess the situation after a crane collapsed in Midtown Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
DNAinfo/Alan Neuhauser
Cars sit partially submerged near 17 South William St. in Lower Manhattan on Oct. 30, 2012 after Hurricane Sandy ripped through the city.
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Rescue workers search for people in homes on Grimsby Avenue, Midland Beach, where two elderly women were found dead in their home after Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 31, 2012.
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A house on Cedar Grove Avenue in New Dorp Beach, Staten Island is completely destroyed during Hurricane Sandy.
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A man rows to his home on Hunter Avenue in Midland Beach after Hurricane Sandy hit, Oct. 31, 2012.
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Grieving neighbors embraced while Jack Paterno's body was removed from his Nugent Avenue home in Staten Island on Oct. 31, 2012.
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Patrick Casalaspro, 51, watches a helicopter fly near his New Dorp Beach home in Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy, Nov. 1, 2012.
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Wheel-chair bound Felix Baez is stranded in his apartment without running water or access to elevators after Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 31, 2012.
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More than 80 houses burnt down in Breezy Point during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 31, 2012.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
Breezy Point neighbors embrace each other on October 31, 2012 after surveying the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
Carmen Nunoz (R), 59, was looking for some warm clothes by Beach 94th street on Nov. 5, 2012 after Hurricane Sandy. Nunoz had to wear five light jackets and a puffy coat to keep warm.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
Volunteers on Staten Island had to work in the dark and cold on Election Day on Nov. 6, 2012.
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People enter the Far Rockaway High School on Election Day to vote on Nov. 6th, 2012.
DNAinfo/Paul Lomax
James Lauala, 42, celebrates in Times Square after Barack Obama is declared the winner of the 2012 Presidential Election.
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The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade begins on Central Park West on Nov. 22nd, 2012.
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The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lit up Nov. 28, 2012.
DNAinfo/Ben Fractenberg
Brooklyn Supreme Court officers confiscated phones and used metal detector wands to search attendees at the sex assault trial of Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, Nov. 22, 2012.
DNAinfo/Tuan Nguyen
Relatives held a wake for Ki-Suck Han, 58, Dec. 5, 2012, two days after he was pushed in front of a train and killed at a Midtown subway station.
DNAinfo/Ben Fractenberg
Police released footage of the alleged suspect in the murder of Brandon Woodard, seen on the left, who was shot and killed in Midtown on Dec. 10, 2012.
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Cee Lo Green performed at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting Nov. 28, 2012, starting the end of the year holiday season in the city.
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The Whale was found beached on the Bay side in Breezy Point near Beach 216th Street on Wednesday December 26th, 2012.
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The endangered Fin Whale was found beached again on the Bay side in Breezy Point on Thursday December 27th, 2012, approximately a half mile west of its position the day before.
DNAinfo/Theodore Parisienne
Fans celebrate the Giants Super Bowl victory at the ticker tape parade on Feb. 7, 2012
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NEW YORK CITY — From the agony of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath to the ecstasy of the Giants Super Bowl victory, 2012 took New Yorkers on an emotional roller-coaster ride.
DNAinfo.com New York looks back at some of the year's most dramatic photos to remember the highs and lows of the year.
JANUARY
After barely making it into the playoffs, Big Blue started 2012 with a bang by once again earning an improbable Super Bowl title by defeating the New England Patriots for the second time in four years. It set the stage for a jubilant February homecoming parade in the Canyon of Heroes, followed by a ceremony in which Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the team the keys to the city.
FEBRUARY
NYPD officer Kevin Brennan, who survived being shot in the head in Bushwick by a man wanted for questioning in a murder, received a standing ovation from fellow officers as he left Bellevue Hospital. Brennan was later promoted to sergeant during a NYPD ceremony in June.
Hundreds of Bronx residents protested the killing of unarmed teen Ramarley Graham, who was shot to death inside his own home. Police said they believed Graham was part of a drug buy and feared Graham was hiding a weapon in his waistband. Narcotics officer Richard Haste was later charged with two counts of manslaughter for shooting Graham in the chest.
MARCH
Throngs of paradegoers marched down Fifth Avenue in celebration of the 251st anniversary of the St. Patrick's Day parade.
DNAinfo.com New York broke the story about "Millionaire Madam" Anna Gristina, who was accused of running an escort service out of an Upper East Side apartment.
Gristina later pleaded guilty and has said she will pen a tell-all book, possibly outing moguls, sports stars and celebrities who used her services.
APRIL
Warm early-spring weather brought an unusually large number of bee swarms to the city. NYPD bee expert Anthony "Tony Bees" Planakis responded to many of them, bringing some swarms back to his Queens home.
The legendary unsolved case of missing child Etan Patz, who disappeared in 1979 after walking to his SoHo school bus stop for the first time alone, was reopened when investigators searched a basement on Prince Street looking for clues in his disappearance.
While the search did not yield any new evidence, police later arrested New Jersey resident Pedro Hernandez, who worked near the bus stop when Patz went missing, after he confessed to kidnapping and murdering the child.
His defense attorney, Harvey Fishbein, said Hernandez suffers from schizophrenia and that is statements are "not reliable."
MAY
Occupy Wall Street celebrated May Day — an international celebration of workers rights on May 1 — by organizing a march with labor unions that stretched from Union Square to lower Manhattan.
JUNE
Temperatures soared into the upper 90s during the first official day of summer, sending New Yorkers in search of ways to try and cool down.
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama visited the World Trade Center to thank construction crews working to rebuild it.
Obama later looked over the 9/11 Memorial from the 22nd floor of One World Trade Center, sharing a quiet moment with his wife.
JULY
A Harlem couple who filmed police performing stop-and-frisks were dubbed "professional agitators" on an NYPD wanted poster that included their photos, names and home address in Harlem's 28th Precinct.
The NYPD later said it would remove all posters of Matthew Swaye, 35, and his partner Christina Gonzalez, 26. They were later acquitted or had all of the charges against them dropped, including felony assault and disorderly conduct charges stemming from confrontations with the NYPD.
Harley Flanagan, a founding member of the influential hardcore band Cro-Mags, was arrested and charged with stabbing and biting two members of the band backstage during a CMJ event at Webster Hall.
Flanagan claimed he was the one who was attacked and the charges against him were later dropped.
AUGUST
Mourners of 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan, who was shot and killed by a stay bullet in a Bronx playground, gathered for his funeral in Harlem.
Speaking passionately during the service, Rev. Al Sharpton called for community leaders to "Occupy the Corner" by being out in public to help make their neighborhoods safer.
Less than a month after Morgan's funeral, 13-year-old Ronald Wallace was gunned down in Brownsville.
SEPTEMBER
Firefighters and family members gathered at their Red Hook firehouse to remember seven of their colleagues killed 11 years before on Sept. 11, 2001.
Family and friends gathered across the street from a Bronx bodega to protest the accidental killing of 20-year-old Reynaldo Cuevas, who was shot by a police officer while fleeing armed men robbing the store where he worked.
Occupy Wall Street marked the one-year anniversary of their movement through marches and acts of civil disobedience around Zuccotti Park.
OCTOBER
Hurricane Sandy slammed the city, flooding low-lying areas from lower Manhattan and Red Hook to Staten Island and the Rockaways.
Dozens of New Yorkers died in the hurricane, including those who drowned in their homes in Midland Beach and New Dorp. Emergency workers found the bodies of people who tried to ride out the storm for weeks after the hurricane.
Scores of homes in Breezy Point were destroyed by a fire that ripped through the beachfront community during the hurricane. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of residents were left in the cold and dark due to power outages.
NOVEMBER
Despite many buildings still being without power, relocated polling stations and long lines, New Yorkers still turned out to vote in large numbers, sending President Barack Obama back to the White House for a second term.
An 80-foot Norway spruce sparkled with 30,000 multicolored LED lights during the annual Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center.
A Brooklyn Supreme Court jury convicted Hasidic Jewish counselor Nechemya Weberman of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl starting when she was 12, sending shockwaves through the insular Orthodox Satmar sect. The trial was riddled with alleged attempts to intimidate the victim in the case. Several men were arrested in advance of the trial after allegedly trying to pay her $50,000 to drop her allegations, and several more were arrested during the victim's testimony after taking photos of her on the stand, at least one of which ended up on Twitter.
DECEMBER
More than 100 people packed into a Queens funeral home to mourn the death of 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han, who was pushed into the subway tracks at 49th Street and Seventh Avenue and then crushed by an oncoming train while he tried to climb back on the platform.
Shocking surveillance footage showed 31-year-old Brandon Lincoln Woodard seconds before an assassin shot him in the back of the head on a busy midtown street in broad daylight.
A 60-foot finback whale that was found beached in Breezy Point later died and will be buried on the same beach it was discovered.
