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Man in top hat stabs and wounds 3 men on Lower East Side in fight over food (opens the original)
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A man in a top hat stabbed and wounded three men on the Lower East Side early Wednesday during an argument over food, police said. The attacker got into an argument outside a deli near Delancey St. and the Bowery with one of the victims, a 26-year-old man, over the food that victim was eating, police said. As the clash escalated, the attacker stabbed that victim in the abdomen about 1:10 a.m., police said. When the other victims, a 21- and 19-year-old man, intervened they were also stabbed, the
Man in top hat stabs and wounds 3 men on Lower East Side after stealing homeless man’s food (opens the original)
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A man sporting a black stovepipe top hat stabbed and wounded three men on the Lower East Side early Wednesday during a bizarre clash over food involving clubgoers and a neighborhood homeless man who does push-ups for spare change, police and witnesses said. Cops released a surveillance photo of the stabber and are asking the public’s help in finding him. The attacker, who was also sporting dreadlocks and a baseball cap under his fancy hat, got into an argument with the group near Delancey St. an
Two teens arrested for smuggling firearms into schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx (opens the original)
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Two teenage boys were arrested in separate incidents for smuggling firearms into schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx Tuesday, cops said. The Bronx bust saw police recover a 9-mm Glock from the backpack of a 15-year-old student at Eximius Preparatory Academy on Fulton St. near E. 170th St. in Morrisania around 2:07 p.m., police said. The weapon, along with 20 rounds of ammunition, was discovered after the teen was captured by an NYPD warrants squad, sources said. It was not immediately clear why th
New details revealed about killing of homeless artist Elise Bainbridge Hill in Central Park (opens the original)
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A man accused of killing a homeless artist, Elise Bainbridge Hill, in Central Park may have slammed her head against a tree, according to cops, who said the suspect and the victim had been beefing for some time. Investigators found blood on a tree near the park gazebo where Hill, 63, lived and died Sunday morning, officials said. While it was unclear what the source of the conflict was, cops said the bird-loving artist and the murder suspect had been living in or near the same homeless encampmen
NYPD reviewing department’s use of controversial AI license plate readers owned by Flock Safety (opens the original)
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The NYPD is reviewing hundreds of instances in which officers used Flock Safety, a controversial nationwide license plate reader network that uses artificial intelligence, the department said Tuesday. The department has also enacted new rules about officers using outside vendors without approval, but a department spokesman said the guidelines are unrelated to a recent disclosure by two advocacy groups that at least two dozen officers used Flock’s database 1,710 times — even though the department
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