Controversial hi-rise near Brooklyn Botanic Garden OK’d by NYC Council — with plans for more sunlight after outcry
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Controversial hi-rise near Brooklyn Botanic Garden OK’d by NYC Council — with plans for more sunlight after outcry

Let the sun shine in. A controversial hi-rise development that neighbors feared would cast a harmful shadow over the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has gotten the OK from the City Council — with changes that would bring more necessary sunlight to the beloved greenspace. The Crown Heights hi-rise development once poised…

Ct. mom left 4 young kids home alone with moldy food and human feces on floors: arrest warrant
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Ct. mom left 4 young kids home alone with moldy food and human feces on floors: arrest warrant

A Connecticut mother was arrested after she left her children – all under the age of 12 – alone in their putrid-smelling home overrun with human feces and moldy food, according to police. Lindsey Powell allegedly subjected her three daughters and one son to horrendous conditions inside their Vernon apartment…

NYPD cop injured, robbery suspect dead after exchanging gunfire in NYC: sources
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NYPD cop injured, robbery suspect dead after exchanging gunfire in NYC: sources

A NYPD officer was shot and wounded and a robbery suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire at a Queens shopping mall Tuesday night, according to police sources. The officer was responding to a robbery in progress at the Jamaica Center, on 161st Street, when gunfire erupted between the…

Northeast to see significant rain amid NYC drought warning and NJ wildfires
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Northeast to see significant rain amid NYC drought warning and NJ wildfires

Significant rain is forecast to arrive in the Northeast towards the end of the workweek amid what, for many cities in the area, has been the driest fall on record. A major storm system will develop over the Great Lakes starting Wednesday and track east that night, with rain expected over the Interstate 95…

Man arrested for threatening to ‘blow up’ NY Sen. Cordell Cleare’s NYC office: sources
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Man arrested for threatening to ‘blow up’ NY Sen. Cordell Cleare’s NYC office: sources

An unhinged man was arrested Monday morning after he allegedly walked into a state senator’s Harlem office and threatened to “blow up this place up,” cops and law enforcement sources said. The suspect, identified as Vadim Dergachev, allegedly leveled a series of disturbing threats against Sen. Cordell Cleare’s staff around…

Exiled NYC school staffers rake in fat paychecks as human trafficking probe drags on
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Exiled NYC school staffers rake in fat paychecks as human trafficking probe drags on

An NYC principal and his wife, accused masterminds behind a bilingual teacher scandal exposed by The Post, have raked in more than $500,000 in salary for the past two years — while the foreign educators they recruited are forbidden to visit their families back home if they want to keep…