KAREN MATTHEWS

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NY lawsuit faults hotel chain for assault on guest

A former New York City investment banker is suing the Starwood hotel chain over a sexual assault she says happened in her locked hotel room in Finland.

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Fred Milano of Dion and the Belmonts dies at 72

Fred Milano, who made rock and roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s and continued to perform while starting a late-in-life career with the New York City Department of Correction, has died. He was 72.

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AP source: Funding dispute will delay 9/11 museum

The 2012 opening of the Sept. 11 museum at the World Trade Center will be delayed by disputes over redevelopment costs, a person familiar with the construction project said Monday.

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Prison for wife in ex-NYC officer's shooting death

A school secretary who was acquitted of murder was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday on a weapons charge for fatally shooting her husband — a retired police sergeant — 11 times with his own gun in a sensational case that cast a spotlight on domestic violence.

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Storm makes Central Park a mess before NY Marathon

Workers cleaning up after a freak snowstorm raced Monday to clear fallen branches and splintered trees from paths and roads in Central Park in time for this weekend's New York City Marathon, which winds through the park.

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Southern food is hot as Zagat releases NYC guide

The South will rise again — at least on the New York City restaurant scene.

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After bloodshed, some in NYC question parade

Some city residents wondered Tuesday if it's time to pull the plug on the gaudy West Indian Day parade, scarred by violence repeatedly in the last few years, after two people were killed in a wild police shootout just blocks from its route.

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The Memorial Architect: Arad's 9/11 moment arrives

Architect Michael Arad first imagined the twin reflecting pools with cascading waterfalls — he calls them voids — as two empty spaces in the Hudson River, west of the smoldering World Trade Center.

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Finally, World Trade Center rises from ground zero

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.

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The Memorial Architect: Arad's 9/11 moment arrives

Architect Michael Arad first imagined the twin reflecting pools with cascading waterfalls — he calls them voids — as two empty spaces in the Hudson River, west of the smoldering World Trade Center.

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Orthodox communities rely on patrols for safety

When an 8-year-old boy from an insulated, ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn failed to make it home from day camp, his parents' first call was not to the police, but to the Shomrim patrol, a local volunteer group whose name means guardians in Hebrew.

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Pa. food bank director would welcome NY goose meat

The director of a Harrisburg, Pa., food bank says he'd be happy to receive meat from Canada geese culled in New York City to promote aviation safety after geese caught in the engines of a jet forced it to land on the Hudson River.

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Playwright Kushner gets NY honor after Israel flap

Urging graduates to repair "the public conversation" and rescue society from "grim careerists and ideologues," playwright Tony Kushner on Friday accepted the honorary degree that had briefly been withheld by the city's university system after a trustee accused him of being anti-Israel.

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Elaine's regulars mourn loss of famous NYC eatery

Everyone went to Elaine's — and now they'll have nowhere to go.

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NY Public Library turns 100, not just with books

At 100, the New York Public Library's landmark Fifth Avenue building has nurtured generations of scholars and boasts treasures like a Gutenberg Bible and an early copy of the Declaration of Independence.

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School founded by Blue Man Group gets new stage

In the 20 years since they became a performance art sensation, the Blue Man Group has taken its men with blue heads on the road to stages in New York, Las Vegas and Europe.

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WTC steel to honor Ariz. shooting victim born 9/11

A piece of World Trade Center steel is being molded into an angel in the memory of a girl who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and died in a barrage of gunfire in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

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100 years after Triangle fire, horror resonates

It was a warm spring Saturday when dozens of immigrant girls and women leapt to their deaths — some with their clothes on fire, some holding hands — as horrified onlookers watched the Triangle Shirtwaist factory burn.

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Crowd in NYC rallies against hearing on US Muslims

Some 300 people gathered in Times Square on Sunday to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslim terrorism, criticizing it as xenophobic and saying that singling out Muslims, rather than extremists, is unfair.

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Will Nets-Knicks become the new Dodgers-Giants?

It's still more than a year before basketball's Nets forsake New Jersey for their new $1 billion home in Brooklyn. But sports fans are already noticing signs of a crosstown rivalry with the New York Knicks that they hope could echo the halcyon days when the Brooklyn Dodgers perennially battled the New York Giants for baseball's National League pennant.

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NYU fellow quits after tweets about Logan assault

A journalist resigned from his New York University fellowship Wednesday, one day after he posted derogatory comments on Twitter about CBS reporter Lara Logan as the news of her assault in Egypt was breaking.

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NYC schools chief weathers rough first 6 weeks

In her first six weeks as head of New York City schools, Cathie Black has been heckled by parent activists — and heckled them back. She joked that birth control was the solution to crowded schools.

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Germany's Dold wins record 6th NY Empire Run-Up

Thomas Dold of Germany won the Empire State Building Run-Up for a record sixth straight year on Tuesday, hustling up 86 flights of stairs in 10 minutes, 10 seconds.

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Remote NYC neighborhoods more isolated by storm

Bill Farrell turned his orange Chevrolet truck down a side street packed with snow in his quiet corner of Queens. Five hours later, he was still there, trying to clear enough snow to back his car out of a drift.

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Rangel's supporters urge 'no' vote on censure

Supporters of Rep. Charles Rangel said Sunday that the Democratic lawmaker has been punished enough by the House ethics committee's two-year investigation and should not by censured by the full Congress.

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