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Slide show: Photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include an annual gathering of Jewish emissaries, smoke-free apartments, and college classes for prison inmates.
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Postal Service officials had announced that they were
considering closing roughly 3,300 post office branches across the
country. Now the number is 241.
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5 Post Offices in City, Not 14, Are Now at Risk of Closing
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Blogtalk: a dispute in TriBeCa over schools and housing; a rally against gun violence; and more links to local blogs.
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Bronx
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - 29 hours ago
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Meeting community leaders, Mayor Bloomberg expressed alarm over
a gang-related shooting that critically injured a 15-year-old bystander.
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At Gracie Mansion, Bloomberg Deplores Youth Violence
A police spokesman said the dolphin was apparently headed to sea, being tracked by air and water by the police.
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Far Rockaway
Queens
The ban has angered many tenants, and animal welfare groups found that more than 100 residents had taken their dogs to animal shelters because they feared losing their apartments for having a prohibited or unregistered dog.
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Under the new rules, the tricycles must be insured and inspected for safety; headlights, seat belts, and hydraulic brakes are all required. Drivers must be licensed; prices must be clearly displayed.
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Manhattan
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - 27 hours ago
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Nine small blazes have been in the last
week during school hours in trash cans, stairwells and
paper towel dispensers. A junior was arrested in connection with one on Thursday, and officials are investigation whether he is connected to the others.
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Student Charged in Fire at Stuyvesant High
New rules would restrict so-called curb cuts -- the sidewalk indentations created to allow cars to move from the street onto the front yards of houses -- and tighten front-yard "planting" requirements.
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Corona
Brooklyn
Bay Ridge
Fort Hamilton
Dyker Heights
Queens
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - 30 hours ago
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A witness at Joseph L. Bruno's federal corruption
trial describes an expensive meeting with Donald J. Trump.
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Meeting Mr. Trump, and Paying the Price
A writer complains about dinner guests whose dietary demands extend well beyond their allergies.
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The Box
Two New York City doctors, the head of the city's largest public hospital and a nationally known geriatrician, gently clashed at a City Council hearing to discuss how to deal with the growing demand for end-of-life care.
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Also in Morning Buzz: a coyote (or other creature) prowling around Queens; oranges heaved by Jude Law ; and other headlines from local papers.
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Queens
A half-dozen women, 75 to 86 years old, gathered at the New Yorker Hotel, across from Pennsylvania Station, to reminisce. Three of them worked there in the 1940s.
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Manhattan
Bensonhurst
Midtown
The future licensee of Tavern on the Green, Dean J. Poll, would like the landmark restaurant in Central Park to be called "Tavern in the Park" if he cannot win the rights to its trademark.
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Sean Green
Manhattan
Also in Blogtalk: How to go about making an "un-concession"; a popular concert series in jeopardy; and more links to local blogs.
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Under a new bill, animal rescue organizations would be allowed to take custody on request of an animal that was scheduled to be euthanized by an animal shelter.
