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  Chiquita Drayton was last seen Tuesday near Broadway and 131st Street, police said.

The "Bouquet Bandit," Edward Pemberton, 55, was sentenced to up to 12 years in state prison on Wednesday.

Derrick Harris, 41, was arrested for a brutal sex attack but fled from police custody while awaiting his arraignment on Wednesday.

Makever Brown, 22, who had a warrant for his arrest, died after being struck by a livery cab on the FDR Drive on Sept. 13, 2011.

Fashion Week attendees said the NYPD officers stationed at Lincoln Center looked catwalk-ready.

  Zakyyah Copeland-Taylor was last seen near East 113th Street and Second Avenue Monday.

Steven Reese, 58, had been crossing East 125th Street near Lexington Avenue when he was fatally struck by an oncoming car, according to the NYPD.

Two teenage boys are suspected in a robbery that left a victim in the hospital.

Officer Sherman Abrams died Monday after collapsing during a run with classmates along the East River.

The amount of DWI arrests in the East Village jumped more than 140 percent last year, and 600 percent since 2001, bucking a downward trend elsewhere.

The city marked the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 with a solemn ceremony at the flourishing World Trade Center site.

While some residents and shop owners were annoyed by street closures and detours from the 9/11 Anniversary, most took it in stride.

Police descended on Midtown Friday morning in response to a "credible, but not corroborated" terrorist threat against New York.

Rangel Batista, 23, was charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest in the Inwood drug bust where John Collado was killed on Sept. 6.

DNAinfo.com's new Crime & Safety Report found the neighborhoods struggling with property crime, particularly grand larcenies.