500 Affordable Units to Rise on Housing Authority Land in Bronx and Brooklyn
The de Blasio administration has selected three private developers for the buildings, which will be erected in parking lots and grasslands of existing housing projects.
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Cement Shoes, Fabled Anchor to Watery Grave, Surface on Body in Brooklyn
After a man’s body was found on the shore in Brooklyn on Monday, his feet encased in concrete, crime historians struggled to point to similar cases.
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CreditNatalie Keyssar for The New York Times Search for Family’s Lost History Leads to Mass Grave in Poland
Michael Pomeranc, a New York hotelier, spent nearly three decades working to uncover the fate of his relatives who died in the Holocaust.
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Stark Underground Space at World Trade Center Will Host a Riot of Ads
Since opening in 2013, the gallery linking the center’s transit hub to Battery Park City has been a spartan space with a wall that was just an expanse of unadorned marble. Not anymore.
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CreditNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times De Blasio Asks State Senate for 7 Years of Control Over Schools
State senators did not aggressively question the mayor on his education policies, but he was asked about the investigations swirling around his administration.
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CreditKathy Kmonicek for The New York Times Pilot in Long Island Plane Crash Had Called for Help
David Berube was flying home to Connecticut after his son’s wedding in South Carolina when he lost control of his plane, relatives and officials said.
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Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Girl, 15, in 2012
Luis Vega, who is expected to be sentenced to 25 years in prison, admitted to the death of Destiny Sanchez, the daughter of his sister’s boyfriend.
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Manhattan Jail Guard Gets 7-Year Sentence for Raping Inmate
A federal judge said he gave the guard a longer sentence than prescribed by guidelines to emphasize the severity of the crime.
