Weather, route, celebrities, defending champions set for chilly weather
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Weather, route, celebrities, defending champions set for chilly weather

ByNews Polite

More than 50,000 runners from around the world have converged on the Big Apple and are set to take on NYC’s rough asphalt streets for the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday. Forecasts indicate that competitors will be treated with sunny skies during the race and experience temperatures…

NYers joined by ex-Israeli hostage, parents of current captive in Central Park: ‘Hell on Earth’
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NYers joined by ex-Israeli hostage, parents of current captive in Central Park: ‘Hell on Earth’

ByNews Polite

Hundreds of people — including a former Israeli hostage and the parents of one still held — flocked to Central Park on Sunday to call on Hamas to free the remaining captives as a cease-fire deal remains elusive. The “Bring Them Home Now” rally saw protesters demand the freedom of…

NYPD on the hunt for babyfaced robbers who viciously attacked woman in Central Park: cops
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NYPD on the hunt for babyfaced robbers who viciously attacked woman in Central Park: cops

ByNews Polite

The NYPD is on the hunt for a trio of teen muggers who viciously roughed up a woman inside Central Park earlier this month – as stick-ups in the greenspace continue to surge. Cops released images of the three babyfaced robbers – believed to range in age from 15 to…

RFK Jr.’s journo cousin says she had no idea he was behind dead bear in 2014
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RFK Jr.’s journo cousin says she had no idea he was behind dead bear in 2014

ByNews Polite

One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cousins says she had no idea he was behind the dead bear cub dumped in Central Park in 2014 when she reported on its discovery while working for the New York Times. Former Times reporter Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of RFK Jr.’s cousin Caroline Kennedy, wrote about the…

Advocates call for Central Park carriage horse ban ahead of driver’s animal abuse trial
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Advocates call for Central Park carriage horse ban ahead of driver’s animal abuse trial

ByNews Polite

Neigh-sayers galloped outside Manhattan Criminal Court Monday afternoon to call for a shutdown of the city’s carriage horse industry as a handler of a horse that died two years ago faced his first day of trial — or so they thought. Ian McKeever, who is facing animal abuse charges in…