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Christopher Hedges and other Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in front of Goldman Sachs on Thursday.

More than a dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested outside Goldman Sachs 

At least 15 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Thursday after marching on Goldman Sachs to deliver an “indictment” of the financial giant.

New York City Marathon may become a two-day event 

Under a new proposal, it's possible the Verrazano Bridge could be closed for two days as organizers toy with the idea of turning the New York City Marathon into a two-day event.

Organizers of the New York City Marathon, already the largest such race in the world, are considering the possibility of a two-day event that might embrace as many as 100,000 runners.

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Workers at the Church Avenue supermarket had toiled for as little as $3.93 an hour 

Nepali filmmaker host fund-raiser for his movie ‘Highway’

Bloomberg gets tough on Occupy Wall Street 

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Kevin Sheehan announced today NY will be home to new state-of-the-art 4,000 passenger cruise ship painted by artist Peter Max at Pier 88 on the Hudson River and West. 48th. St. in Manhattan.

Mayor Bloomberg turned up the tough talk on the Occupy Wall Street protesters: Treat the neighborhood with respect or a crackdown is coming.

Resident-only parking zones coming to NYC?

It’s the baseball off-season now, and it still looks like no picnic finding a spot around Yankee Stadium. But under new plan, parking in some residential areas of the city would be by paid permit only.

City Council is set to vote on bill, which would allow 80% of parking in residential areas to be set aside for locals with permits.

Syms and Filene’s Basement file for bankruptcy and will close all stores by January  

New Yorkers stroll by a former Syms location on Park Ave.

The discount clothing chain, for more than 50 years a staple of New York City’s retail scene, will close its nationwide stores, including its subsidiary Filene’s Basement, by January.

Queens woman suffers miscarriage during deportation attempt

(L. to r.) Carlos Casares, Fernando Guartan, Marco Guartan, and Marco Jr., in their Corona, Queens, apartment. Marco Guartan’s partner, Julia Casares (below), suffered a miscarriage during deportation attempt by ICE agents.

Her pregnancy was two months along when she collapsed on Oct. 22 aboard a plane that had yet to depart for Ecuador.

Going once, going twice ... Bidders gather at Coney Island

The famous Cha Cha's Bar and Cafe on the Coney Island Boardwalk is being forced to auction off most of its property after failing to get a new lease. Todd Maisel, Photographer/New York Daily News

Piece by piece, bits of the Coney Island Boardwalk’s storied past were put on the auction block this week.

Toxic Bronx school recorded hundreds of cases of sick students since 2005 

Bronx New School students suffered nauseau, headaches, abnormal gaits and even seizures, the nurse’s office reported.

Students at a Bronx elementary school suffered from ailments including headaches, nausea, vomiting, abnormal gaits and seizures before the building was closed because of toxic contamination, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Law.

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These three girls dressed as Playboy Bunnies.

Halloween Parade 2011

Greenwich Village Halloween Parade 2011

The Statue of Liberty 125th Birthday Celebration

Lady Liberty turns 125-years-old.

OAKLAND, CA - NOVEMBER 2: A demonstrator with the Occupy movement holds a sign November 2, 2011 in Oakland, California. The group called for a general strike today, and planned to march on the city's port later in the day. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Occupy Wall Street: Anti-capitalist protesters demonstrate against Wall St., corporate greed

Hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters have flooded the area around Wa...

Pow! New York Comic Con is here

Holy, costumed fans, Batman! The 6th annual New York Comic Con opened...

East River helicopter crash

Tragedy struck on the East River Tuesday when a helicopter carrying a...

Tony Bennett's 85th Birthday Celebration

Tony Bennett celebrates his 85th birthday in Lincoln Center.

9/11 anniversary: Ceremony at WTC

Ten years after the darkest day in American history, the families of t...

9/11 ten years later: Newspaper front pages

On the tenth anniversary, newspapers across the nation and around the...

National September 11 Memorial unveiled

Built on the exact site where the Twin Towers once stood, the newly op...

West Indian Day Parade 2011

New Yorkers with Caribbean heritage have been packing Brooklyn's stree...

Earthquake shakes East Coast

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake sent shivers up and down the Eastern Seaboa...

Top beer gardens in NYC

Cheers! Check out the top beer gardens in and around NYC.

Adopted family of C.J. Turner

In 1993, Rosemary Holmstrom became the public face of AIDS when the Da...

New York's record rainfall

New York broke an all-time record for a one-day rainfall on August 14...

Fidel Does New York

Fidel Castro came to New York, hired a public relations firm, ate hot...

Gay Marriage legal in New York

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn greeted couples who lined up Sund...

Religious sightings

A South Carolina couple claims to possess one heckuva of a saintly sal...

Weirdest stuff stopped at customs

We've investigated the slew of weird and wacky things to pass through...

2011 Fourth of July fireworks

What's red, white and blue all over the New York City skyline? Macy's...

Hot Dog Eating Contest 2011

The hot dogs will be piled high and the contestants will be piling the...

Gay Pride Parade 2011

Crowds gathered for the 42nd Annual LGBT Pride March on Christopher St...

Wayne Sosin, the president of Worksman Cycles, shows off one of his company's bikes.

Inside Queens' Worksman Cycles shop

Worksman Cycles in Ozone Park is one of the last bicycle manufacturing...

Mermaid Parade 2011

The 2011 Mermaid Parade took place on Saturday, June 18 in Coney Islan...

Miss New York Pageant 2011

22 beautiful women will be competing for the title of Miss New York 20...

Puerto Rican Day Parade 2011

The Puerto Rican Day Parade danced, twirled and marched its way down F...

Only in New York...

It's never boring in the City That Never Sleeps and Daily News photogr...

Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk 2011

New Yorkers from all five boroughs joined in to participate in the Out...

Ida the polar bear euthanized

Ida, one of the Central Park Zoo's two beloved polar bears, was euthan...

John Motley dead at age 89

DAILY NEWS ALL CITY H,S. ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS, JOHN MOTLEY AND SAMUEL...

The Fifth Annual NYC Dance Parade

The Fifth Annual NYC Dance Parade took place May 21, 2011. It started...

New York's saddest day: 9-year anniversary of 9/11

President Obama visited Ground Zero on May 5, 2011, just five days aft...

NYC's political leaders visit Citizenship NOW!

A who's who of New York's political leaders stopped by to lend volunte...

See bios of all the CITIZENSHIP NOW! 2011 volunteers answering your calls.

Citizenship Now 2011: Volunteers

See bios of all the CITIZENSHIP NOW! 2011 volunteers answering your ca...

Brooklyn Beauty Brutally Murdered

Beautiful 28-year-old Larisa Prikhodko was viciously murdered in Brook...

Palm Sunday in New York

Hundreds of parishioners join Trinity Church's Clergy and Choir to wal...

Racial changes in Queens neighborhoods

The 2011 Census shows how much Queens has changed in the last ten year...

Erica Simone's nude works of art

A Parisian-born shutterbug who likes to flash her camera has turned da...

Teachers go through boot camp

New York educators from New York City and Buffalo participated in the...

NY Press Photographer Awards

The New York Press Photographers Association is the oldest press organ...

Deadly Brooklyn Blaze

A wind-whipped five-alarm blaze killed a woman and injured four reside...

Westminster Dog Show 2011

Doggone it! The Westminster Dog Show has come to the Big Apple - and i...

New York Firsts in Black History

New York boasts many firsts in Black History - not only in sports, but...

Hot New York Kisses

Kissing in public is one of New York's delights. Here is a valentine t...

Snow day!

NYC got socked with another round of snow. NYDN readers show us snow s...

Knitting artist gives NYC a little warmth

Always thirsting for color, a whimsical knitting artist from Brooklyn...

Mourners wept and embraced Saturday at the funeral of a retired FDNY firefighter who contracted lung disease after working for months at Ground Zero after 9/11.

A hero's farewell

Funeral for Firefighter William Quick,55, who died as a direct result...

NYC Prohibition

On Jan. 16, 1920, the feds outlawed alcohol - completely. As Prohibiti...

Three Queens dock in NYC

Break out the fancy frills and fireworks! The three Queens have hit th...

Tuesday night, New York City was hit by the first big snowstorm of 2011, just a few weeks after the post-Christmas blizzard walloped the five boroughs and tri-state area with nearly two feet of snow. Here are the many sights from the powerful storm that turned the city into a winter wonderland, yet again.Follow our galleries on Twitter @NYDNPhotos.

2011's Winter Wonderland

New York City got hit by the first big snowstorm of 2011, just a few w...

No Pants Day

Subway riders strip down on city subways for No Pants Day.

   
Brooklyn

Workers at the Church Avenue supermarket had toiled for as little as $3.93 an hour 

Workers at Flatbush supermarket Master Food celebrate their

Workers at a Flatbush supermarket who charged they were illegally stiffed on their wages for years settled a lawsuit for $300,000 - and a union contract.

Teaching young men discipline through dance  

Jamel Gaines, the director and founder of Dance Theater of Brooklyn, poses in his office, Brooklyn NY, November 2, 2011. Nicholas Fevelo for News

Jamel Gaines founder of the Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn, knows how to get young men to embrace the athletic challenge.

Landmark Fort Greene theater in desperate need of repair

The historic Paul Robeson Theater was landmarked recently — but its future is far from certain.

Bronx

Teaching young men discipline through dance  

Jamel Gaines, the director and founder of Dance Theater of Brooklyn, poses in his office, Brooklyn NY, November 2, 2011. Nicholas Fevelo for News

Jamel Gaines founder of the Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn, knows how to get young men to embrace the athletic challenge.

Undocumented need a family sponsor

Lady Liberty stands tall in the harbor.

Q. Is there any hope for legal status for someone who has overstayed other than through a relative petition? Val Lewis, New York A. If an undocumented immigrant does not have a fami...

Bronx Pit Bull owners push back against dogs' bad reputation

Nearly 200 pups pranced through the snow on last Sunday at Crotona Park for the Best Friends Animal Society event, celebrating a breed of dog that is popular in the Bronx.

Queens

Nepali filmmaker host fund-raiser for his movie ‘Highway’

Nepali filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar (l.) and Ang Chhiring Sherpa, editor of the Nepali newspaper Everest Times, outside Sagarmatha Restaurant in Woodside.

A Nepali filmmaker who wants to publicize highway rallies that cripple his South Asian homeland will host a fund-raiser in Queens on Friday in a push to finance the movie.

Teaching young men discipline through dance  

Jamel Gaines, the director and founder of Dance Theater of Brooklyn, poses in his office, Brooklyn NY, November 2, 2011. Nicholas Fevelo for News

Jamel Gaines founder of the Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn, knows how to get young men to embrace the athletic challenge.

Queens woman pleads guilty to killing her sister - on victim's birthday

A Long Island City woman pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally shooting her sister on the victim’s 27th birthday. Melanie Webb, 25, also shot Tara Webb's boyfriend, Terrell Carmichael, on March 26 in the...

Uptown

Teaching young men discipline through dance  

Jamel Gaines, the director and founder of Dance Theater of Brooklyn, poses in his office, Brooklyn NY, November 2, 2011. Nicholas Fevelo for News

Jamel Gaines founder of the Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn, knows how to get young men to embrace the athletic challenge.

Paralyzed architect Robert Woo walks with ‘exoskeleton’  

Physical therapists Melissa Pulli and Cynthia Cressaty help paraplegic architect Robert Woo walk with the "Ekso 1" robotic exoskeletal while Darrell Musick of Ekso Bionics stands by at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

After a crane accident near Ground Zero, architect Robert Woo was sure he would never use his legs to walk again. The 43-year-old paraplegic was thrilled to be proved wrong this week as he tried out a...

Business booms at Lenox Avenue flower shop

Bright blooms convey more than just color when they come from Katrina Parris Flowers. “It’s the original instant message,” said Katrina Parris, who co-owns the Harlem shop with her husband.

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Occupy Wall Street

A civil war in Zuccotti Park?

Siegel: The Wall Street protesters determined to “Occupy Everything” now find themselves, in a sense, occupied.

Voices from Zuccotti Park: Daniel Zetah

Daniel Zetah, 35, a native of Minnesota who has been living in Tasmania for the past 10 years came to New York to participate in the Occupy Wall Street movement a month ago and has been helping a number of the working groups at Zuccotti Park in their organizational efforts.

Watch the video: OWS protester Daniel Zetah says he's "been waiting for something like this all of my life."

PHOTOS: Life in Zuccotti Park

Take a look inside the encampment that's been making headlines around the world.

OWS vs. Tea Party

PHOTOS: A sign of the times? Occupy Wall St. protesters & Tea Party supporters may be making the same argument.

Daily Politics

Nov 3th, 4:23PM

Cuomo: I Don't Need The Occupy Movement To Tell Me People Are Scared (UPDATED X2)

Gov. Cuomo dissed the Occupy movements while saying he feels no more pressure about the millionaires tax than he did last session. Cuomo said that

Nov 3th, 4:22PM

Gov. Cuomo: “Cooler Heads Prevailed” on PEF Contract Vote

Gov. Cuomo said the lesson he takes from the successful do-over of the Public Employees Federation contract vote is that collaboration works. “Today

Nov 3th, 4:07PM

Taxi Summit Not Likely To Yield Final Result

Gov. Cuomo said getting all the interested parties in the same room to discuss a bill to allow livery drivers to pick up street hails in the outer

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