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After months of complaints, police say they have busted an illegal nightclub that had been operatng in Midtown's Garment District.

A 16-year-old was shot in the back Monday near East 116th Street and Lexington Avenue, the NYPD said.

An Amsterdam Avenue bar that police and neighbors said was a neighborhood nuisance has closed amid charges of selling alcohol to under-age drinkers.

Nearly 50 intercity buses were taken off Midtown streets during a massive month-long crackdown, police said.

Dylan Spoelstra, 24, of Canada, spent hours atop the red "Joie de Vivre" statue at Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park camp Saturday morning.

Police are searching for three young girls who jumped a woman at the Eighth Ave. and 50th Street subway station.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned Friday that the city is planning a new crackdown on protesters who march without permits.

The annual awards ceremony honored more than 30 officers from the 9th Precinct.

Francisco Solano, 42, was arrested and charged with a violent attack on cab driver Haroon Rashid.

Police are searching for a suspect in the shooting death of Donovan "Keith" Salgado, who was gunned down in Alphabet City over the weekend.

The Department of Transportation wants to turn two intersections, including one with nearly two dozen parking spaces, into small plazas with green space.

Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna will be docked two weeks pay for using pepper spray on protesters outside of department guidelines.

Donovan "Keith" Salgado, 17, was shot on East 12th Street near Avenue C early Sunday morning, police said.

Residents of East Fourth Street claim visitors to the facility publicly drink, fight, make noise and urinate on their block.

Allowing Brookfield Properties to drive Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park would have been a political miscalculation for Mayor Michael Bloomberg , observers said.