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Occupy Wall Street's security team is in close communication with the NYPD when necessary, members said.

The three suspects tied up their victims inside an apartment at the Wagner Houses in East Harlem, the NYPD said.

Both doors had to be cut out from the driver's side of a police cruiser Monday night after an accident that sent at least one officer to the hospital.

A sexual assault occurred on Morningside Park's upper path at around 6 p.m. Sunday, police said.

A well-dressed bank robber struck a Downtown branch Friday, two weeks after robbing another bank in Midtown, authorities said. 

Zuleica Tejada, 16, went missing from her Madison Street home Monday, police said.

Cops released footage of a burglary at a Midtown jewelry store Thursday and linked the incident to an earlier heist in Chelsea.

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer says she was mistreated by "belligerent" police at the Gay Pride parade this summer.

Police are hunting two suspects after a home invasion burglary in Turtle Bay.

The man robbed a bank in Chelsea last week but failed in another attempt in Midtown, police said.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg questioned the logic of the continuing protests at Wall Street Friday, and left open the possibility that the city will shut them down.

Police say a suspect cloaked in a hat, dark glasses and long, dark hair robbed a Bank of America branch in Washington Heights.

The new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises" has an open casting call in Chelsea on Saturday.

An 18-year-old was shot in the neck and two bystanders wounded on Third Avenue near 122nd Street Wednesday, authorities said.

Manuel Pinero, 41, is suspected of fatally stabbing 23-year-old Christopher Adames on West 21st Street.