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  Woman jumps to death from UWS building

  A woman jumped to her death on the Upper West Side in an apparent suicide this morning, cops said. The 34-year-old leapt from the sixteenth floor of her building on 60th Street, near Amsterdam Avenue, about 7 a.m., authorities said....  
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  Waldorf Astoria collects stolen hotel property

  Three small, silver spoons elegantly engraved with the words "Waldorf Astoria" have come full circle: Stolen eight decades ago by an employee of the famed hotel, they passed through two Brooklyn homes and another three in New Jersey....  
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  E. Side home a ‘steel’

  The 83-year-old Rothschild Mansion on the Upper East Side was snapped up yesterday by a steel magnate for $25 million, sources told The Post. Buyer Leroy Schecter, 85, who owns Marino/Ware Industries, is planning a multimillion-dollar...  

• Testi-killer struts psych ward

  Good thing he didn’t try this at Rikers. Killer boy-toy Renato Seabra strolled the floors of Bellevue Hospital’s jail ward naked, invited psych nurses into his...  

• Dancer: Inn tutu unsafe

  “Holland’s Sexiest Ballet Dancer Ever” doesn’t have a leg to stand on after partying at The Standard hotel’s pool. Rubinald Pronk cut open his foot on Sept. 28...  
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  'Jacked up' Seabra given anti-psychotics immediately after appearing at Roosevelt Hospital: testimony

  He was "jacked up," laughing bizarrely, and promising to save the world. Killer boy toy Renato Seabra appeared so immediately and obviously crazy, that doctors quickly dosed him with anti-psychotics and diagnosed him with bipolar...  
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  Cops return empty-handed in Mexico hunt for suspect in soccer coach slay

  Three NYPD detectives have returned empty-handed from Mexico, where they were sent to aid in the search for a man suspected of savagely killing a soccer coach in the West Village. Mexican authorities are fully aiding the NYPD’s search...  
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  Family of alleged Federal Reserve terrorist speaks out

   Not only did a Bangladeshi man plan to kill Americans, officials said, he wreaked havoc back at home — breaking the heart and bank account of his devastated family. Loved ones of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, can’t fathom...  
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  Man who tried to blow up Federal Reserve Bank had associate in San Diego

  The Bangladeshi terrorist who tried to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank yesterday in Manhattan had an associate in San Diego whom feds arrested on kiddie porn charges, a source told the Post. Howard Willie Carter II was busted...  
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  Ann Romney says 'absolutely' no more campaigns if Mitt loses

  WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's wife says her husband will not run again if this race doesn't turn out the way they hope. Ann Romney told ABC's "The View" Thursday that it was "a very hard thing" to put...  
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  Jury-duty dope busted for bringing heroin to court

  Leave the junk at home. That's a court officer's advice after busting a city high school teacher yesterday for possessing 20 single-use bags of heroin while going through the magnetometers of Manhattan Criminal Court. Murder trial...  
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  NYC exhibition celebrates Katharine Hepburn as fashion icon

  A new exhibition is hailing the fashion sense of Katharine Hepburn, whose trademark khakis and open-collar shirts were decidedly unconventional in the 1930s and 40s, when girdles and stockings were the order of the day. The fiercely...  
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  Park dedicated to FDR on Roosevelt Island finally opens

  It took nearly four decades, but there’s finally a Roosevelt residing on Roosevelt Island.  A spectacular memorial to the nation’s 32nd president was dedicated yesterday at the southern tip of the East River island after more than 39...  

• Terror ‘boom’ turns to bust

  A young Bangladeshi on a mission to “destroy America” tried to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhattan yesterday with what he thought was a 1,000...  

• Catwalker ‘poach’ suit

  Hands off our models! Ford Models has filed a $4 million lawsuit against competitor Men Women NY Model Management, accusing the rival firm of brazenly poaching...  
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  Manhattan woman to file lawsuit against alleged pizza delivery boy rapist, his employer and doorman company

  The Manhattan woman viciously raped by a pizza-delivery boy as her young daughter lay in bed next to her is filing suit Thursday against her alleged attacker, along with his employer and the company that operates her doorman luxury...  

• East Village ‘house’ band uproar

  It’s only rock ’n’ roll — but they still don’t like it. Members of an East Village band have been using their apartment for practice daily, infuriating...  

• Teacher drug bust at court

  What a dope! A city teacher was busted yesterday trying to smuggle drugs into the Manhattan State Supreme Court building, cops said. Damian Esteban, 33, a...  

• No bail in B’way con

  A Manhattan federal judge yesterday ordered that Mark Hotten, the alleged con man accused of derailing the planned $14 million Broadway production of “Rebecca,...  

• Prison just what doctor ordered for hosp-scam execs

  Now they get to kick back in prison for a few years. Two former execs at New York Presbyterian Hospital yesterday got hit with multiyear prison terms for...  
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  NYU’s musical ‘Roots’

  The Roots’ drummer Questlove will likely be the most popular professor this spring at NYU — he’ll be teaching a course on classic albums. The musician — whose Grammy award-winning group is the house band for “Late Night with Jimmy...  
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  Accused murderer Renato Seabra doesn't flinch when shown grotesque photos of victim

   He can still look his sugar daddy in the eye. Killer boy toy Renato Seabra didn't even flinch today as a medical examiner walked a Manhattan murder jury through the autopsied aftermath of a lover's quarrel in a Times Square hotel...  

• 'Rebecca' con man ordered held without bail

  The con man accused of derailing the planned $14 million Broadway production of “Rebecca: The Musical” was hit with additional charges in Manhattan federal...  
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  Ford Models files $4M anti-poaching lawsuit

  Hands off our models! Ford Models has filed a $4 million anti-poaching lawsuit against competitor Men Women NY Model Management, alleging the brazen theft of two of its top models. "Women," as the agency is commonly known, knew full...  

• Two ex-hospital workers sentenced for roles in NY Presbyterian kickback scam

  Now they get to kick back in prison for a few years. Two former executives at New York Presbyterian Hospital yesterday got hit with multi-year prison terms for...  

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