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Serial arsonist susp🌠ected in string of Queens fires
Authorities say a spate of suspicious fires in Queens may be the work of a serial arsonist. Securit𒆙y footage caught the unidentified firebug scaling the wall of an empty𝔉 house...
NYPD keeps Macy's Parade safe with record police presence
It was a sea of blue at the 89th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday as a record numberও of police officers patrolled the st🧸reets and kept an eye...
Manhattan ♊DA pushes for new law on smartphoneღ encryption
New encryption on Google and Apple phones makes it impossible for even the manufacturers to retrieve data from them without the user’s password, officials warned on Wednesday. “They 🔜have designed...
Pope Francis' chair for MSG Mass revealed
A simple oak chair built by immigrant laborers and devoid of the ornate trappings of power was unveiled Wednesday as the one Pope Francis will use later thi𒈔s month when...
3🍨1 injured after buses collide in Lincoln T🧸unnel
Two pregnant women – one going into labor - were stuck on a bus behind two other buses that collided inside the Lin🎃coln Tunnel on Wednesday morning, leaving 31 people...
'The Fantasticks' to end off-Broadway run after 51 years
The world’s longest-running musical — off-Broadway’s classic꧑ “The Fantasticks” — is packing up its hand-tossed confetti and cardboard moon. The beloved show will close on May 3 after a total...
Cꦗharter school parentsꦿ, teachers, students rally in Albany
The battle over charter schools raged in Albany on Wednesday, with a♛dvocates rallying by the thousands on the statehouse steps for additional schools and more funding. “School choice matterไs!” shouted...
City's most dangerous intersections targeted for improvements
The city will target several dozen Manhattan intersections and corridors that account for a majority of pede🉐strian traffic deaths and severe injuries, officials said Wedne𝐆sday. Department of Transportation researchers have...
Madm🌺an randomly assaults 4 in Manhattan ♛
A madman assaulted at least four people 🐈in Manhattan early Wednesday in what appears to be a series of unprovoked attacks, police said.
Ticket-fixing cop invokes 'chokehold' in defense
The crooked Bronx cop whose criminal investigation exposed the massive NYPD ticket-fixing scandal appealed for leniency Wednesday by blatantly invoking the Eric Garner case♉ — saying that at least his...
Man who fired inꦇto crowd killing woman gets 25 years
A Bronx man convicted of firing into 𒅌a crowd and fatally shooting a woman shielding her 9-year-old son was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in jail. Joseph Diaz was found...
Uber denies ignoring TLC summons for🍰 customer data
Uber denies claims that it is ignoring summon✤ses from the city to hand over Uber denies claims that it is ignoring summonses from the city to hand over trip data,...
Eatery Il Mulino temporarily closed aft♐er electrical fire
This may be the most elegant fire ever. Customers at the posh Upper Eas𝔉t Side restaurant Il Mulino jumped up from their saltimbocca 🐠and dry-aged porterhouse to run for the...
Drug-dealing drifter arrested for 203rd tim🙈e ❀
A d✱rug-dealing drifter was busted for turnstile jumping in The Bronx — his 203rd arrest across 15 states, authorities said Steven Wright, 45, earned his seventh arrest in New York...
Winklevoss twﷺins help🌟ed thwart scammer: officials
They may not have started Facebook, but they know how to stand up to crime. Internet en💎trepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — who once sued former Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg...
'Project Runway' model charged with lying about robbery was actually telling truth: DA
Prosecutors Wednesday admitted in Manhattan court that the stunning former "Project Runway" model charged with lying to cops about being robbed was ac🅘tually telling the truth. "We believe that property... ♕
NYU ⛦embroiled in turf war over $6B expansion
NYU brought the turf war against its Greenwich Village neighbors to a Manhattan appeals court Wednesday seeking to overturn a lo💦wer court decision that blocked the uni🎐versity’s $6 billion expansion,...
NYPD bags a nest f൲ull ▨of hornets in the Bronx
Cops walked into a hornet’s nest𝔉 Wednesday when they responded to a call of a large, menacing hive in The Bronx — just weeks after the retirement of longtime NYPD...
Suspect in gay man's death won't get plea deal: prosecutors
Manhattan prosecutors are playing hardball with a bigoted ex-con accused of fatally shooting a gay man in the West Village last 🎃year, saying the hater has no chance of getting...
Taxi bigs rip Uber — and its 'upper-middle-class' clientele
Tax⭕i-industry leaders ripped the Uber cab app Wednesday — with one yellow-cab mog𓂃ul even claiming that only rich Jews could afford the car service’s surge-pricing program. “We’re here to serve...