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Hunts Point, an isolated and poor neighborhood in New York City’s borough of The Bronx, hosts the largest marketplace for fresh produce, meat, and fish in the northeastern United States. Huge trucks come and go at all hours of the day and night, carrying food to supermarket chains and the region’s finest restaurants.
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But after a fire gutted
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The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of New York City police officers who claim that they’ve been barred from receiving promotions to the department’s Intelligence Division because they’re black.
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The black officers allege that there is a “secret list” from which white officers in the department are selected. The
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A New York man killed himself exactly 27 years to the day that he and his friends were shot by a man on a Subway train.
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A New York City hedge fund manager will pay for the funeral of the Brooklyn woman who was set on fire and killed in her building’s elevator last week.
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Darren Weingrow did not know the deceased grandmother, Delores Gillespie, but decided to donate after hearing her story.
Read MoreHedge fund manager Darren Weingrow made the generous offer after hearing how Delores
A 12-year-old New York City girl who survived being abducted and pimped out by men in May has gone missing once again.
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NEW YORK — Members of the Occupy Wall St. movement protested at the New York Stock Exchange this morning on the two month anniversary of the start of the movement.
Hundreds of members protested and more than 50 were arrested. The protest failed to delay the opening of the Stock Exchange.
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CBS New York reports:
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NEW YORK — An accused rapist who is currently on trial for sexually assaulting five women in New York was accused of plagiarism by prosecutors.
Prosecutors claimed that Hugues Akassy used quotes that were really from PBS talk show host, Charlie Rose.
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The New York Daily News reports:
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NEW YORK — NAACP President Ben Jealous has vowed to fight for a living wage in New York City where the cost of living is higher than most of the rest of the country.
Jealous is in support of a city council bill that would raise the minimum wage in New York to $10 an hour.
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An HIV/AIDS prevention agency in Harlem has launched a new campaign concentrating on a demographic that is not normally targeted: black heterosexual men. Its campaign posters can be seen throughout Central Harlem, East Harlem and the South Bronx, where its other branches are located. The poster, illustrating a brawn, black male standing poised is currently stationed at several bus shelters in the city.
The campaign is sponsored by the
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Three men have been brought in by the NYPD in the shooting death of a mother who saved several children from gunfire that erupted last week in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
The mother, 34-year-old Zurana Horton, died from a shot to the chest.
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Read MorePolice Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that Andrew Lopez, 18, and two others were taken into custody on Monday by detectives at a
