Expensive lessons after senior loses $68K in gift card scam
The FTC says more than $230 million is lost per year to gift card scams and that number is on the rise. As part of Consumer Fraud Protection week, Nina
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Bicyclist found dead after apparent hit-and-run in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn identified
A bicyclist was found fatally struck in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn late Thursday night. The man, identified by police as 56-year-old Eugene Schroeder, was the apparent victim of
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Community leaders call on Governor Hochul to rescind MSG property tax break
Madison Square Garden has made a healthy profit for forty years as the home of the Knicks and Rangers but has not paid a penny in property taxes. James Dolan
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Death penalty deliberations paused in case of convicted bike path terrorist
Death penalty deliberations in the case against convicted ISIS terrorist Sayfullo Saipov were held up indefinitely Thursday by a juror issue. Juror #4 informed the court of a family emergency
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Perth Amboy to hold first school board meeting since 11-year-old boy’s stabbing
The Perth Amboy Public Schools District will hold its first board of education meeting since an 11-year-old student was stabbed. Last week, the school district sent a letter to parents,
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Letters sent to Forest Hills address featured in Spider-Man comic now in NYC museum
The stories of Spider-Man live in comic books, on movie screens, and at a house in Forest Hills, Queens. A family that lived at 20 Ingram St. for over 30
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Watch group of 17 teens wanted for ransacking Queens restaurant squeeze into elevator
There is new video of a group of teens wanted for ransacking a Queens restaurant over the weekend. Surveillance video shows the group squeezing into an elevator – all 17
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GOP leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized after fall, spokesperson says
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tripped and fell Wednesday at a hotel and was hospitalized, a spokesman for the senator said. McConnell, 81, was attending a private dinner at a
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Transformer fire leads to high carbon monoxide readings, some Sheepshead Bay homes evacuated
Some residents of a Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, block were temporarily evacuated from their homes. An early morning transformer vault fire on Thursday sparked high carbon monoxide readings. The underground fire
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Julia Fox’s brother arrested in ghost gun raid at Upper East Side apartment
The NYPD’s Ghost Gun Team says it recovered several illegal, untraceable gun parts, as well as equipment for pressing narcotic pills in a raid. It happened Wednesday on East 84th
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