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Neighborhood News

St. John seeks 'divine' intervention

The struggle continues over Morningside Heights’ grand cathedral.

Foot of snow hits NYC, schools staying open

New York, New York: January 21, 2014, in Downtown Manhattan, in and around City Hall and courts. Photo Credit: JB NICHOLAS for the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.

With temps plummeting, it feels brrrr-utal outside.

Gone to pot? Montefiore eyes medical marijuana

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It's part of a state plan to offer weed to sick patients.

Hospital's loud, smoky generator has nabe fuming

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Montefiore is drawing out anger in Westchester.

New plan for shuttered Peninsula Hospital

A nonprofit is eyeing it for senior housing.

Parents blast city plan at PS 11

Sending Woodside students to Astoria? Get off the bus!

Brooklyn's community boards spent $4.1M in 2013

Chairperson Theresa Scavo calms down the crowd during a community meeting to emphasises the importance of renamin Corbin Place due to it being named after anti-semite Austin Corbin

Community Board 10 was the biggest spender of all.

Hot to be on ice at Prospect Park rink

Two men shot dead on Staten Island

Kenrick Gray, left, was shot dead on Staten Island. He had been arrested 22 times, mostly for drugs.

Officials said the men had long criminal records.

Today's Big Stories

'We want to give it a Jewish voice': Rabbi fund-raising to open first synagogue in Inwood

Rabbi Herschel Hartz, founder of Inwood Jews, shows off a sampling of his invitations, which he has dotted around the neighborhood.

Rabbi Herschel Hartz is trying to raise $150,000 in hopes of opening Inwood’s first synagogue, kvetching that Jewish-heavy Washington Heights attracts all the holy action.

Man slashed on both arms after Queens road-rage incident

The scene where a man was slashed on both of his arms in Queens. Seen here is the sidewalk, where a Ford SUV ran up on the curb after a confrontation with the passengers of another vehicle.

A 20-year-old man was slashed in both arms after a road-rage incident that led to a crash on a snow-slicked street in Queens, officials said.

Bernie Madoff recovering from heart attack, battling kidney cancer as he rots in federal prison

Bernard Madoff, seen leaving U.S. Federal Court in 2009, stole $65 billion and is serving an 150-year sentence in North Carolina.

Who knew the Ponzi prince had a heart? The Ponzi prince, who swindled $65 billion from investors, is serving a 150-year sentence.

Soho startup’s little security device has big ambitions to shake up security biz

Canary’s slightly larger than a soda can.

Meet Canary, a device you can buy for $199 that will watch out for what's unusual in your home and send you alerts.

EXCLUSIVE Demand for doormen skyrockets as luxury towers rise in Astoria, Long Island City

Diego Lamboglia, 28, doorman at the Linc in Long Island City, finishes up the last few minutes of an overnight double shift on Friday afternoon.

With new buildings, lobby staffs have spiked borough-wide. The ranks of doormen, porters and supers have bulged by 100 in Queens over the past six months alone.

Airlines gets $2.7B in loans, workers get low-wage jobs

The hugely profitable airlines that benefit from the ragtag army of poorly paid workers at New York’s airports have received about $2.7 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans over the past decade, records show.

Slowdown planned for Brooklyn's Kent Avenue

The site was the site of a horrific hit-and-run crash last year. Now, the Department of Transportation is planning to slow it down.

Driver who crashed into East Village florist held on $1 million bail

Shaun Martin, 32, was taken into custody after Justice Renee White increased his bail from $500,000 following his most recent arrest in December.

EXCLUSIVE BOROUGH OF DEATH: Queens is the deadliest borough for pedestrians last year

Of 173 pedestrians killed last year in traffic accidents across the city, a whopping 46 deaths were recorded in the borough, including along notoriously dangerous Queens Blvd.

Lovett: Statewide pre-K plan is a win-win for Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo presents his 2014-15 executive budget proposal at the Hart Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

The battle over prekindergarten between Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio will make for good political theater the next few months.

Super Diss! Mayor of Big Game's host town left out in the cold

Jim Cassella, mayor of East Rutherford, does not have tickets to the big game, despite MetLife Stadium's location in the borough.

It’s 'bin' a mess: Spike in number of illegal clothing drop-off bins removed by Sanitation Department

This bin in Kensington, Brooklyn was removed by the Sanitation Department last week.

The Sanitation Department has removed 37 massive metal bins illegally placed on city sidewalks — a 23% spike from the 30 trash bins removed all last fiscal year.

New York Video

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Jan 22nd, 2:24PM

Dad confesses to killing his family in Queens

The Queens dad caught on the run in Texas has confessed to slaughtering his wife and baby daughters in their Jamaica home, authorities said Wednesday. Four NYPD detectives traveled South to grill Miguel Mejia, 29, who fled to the Lone Star State after the murders. Cops believe he ...

Jan 22nd, 11:26AM

School custodian slashed while shoveling in Harlem

ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, TOM TRACY AND TINA MOORE A custodian who was shoveling snow outside an East Harlem school was slashed across the face by three teens who asked him for the time in an apparently random attack early Wednesday, police said. Edward Maldonado, 43, was rushed to ...

Jan 21st, 11:53PM

Two men shot and killed on Staten Island

BY MARK MORALES Two men were shot and killed on Staten Island on Monday, police said. Cops raced to a stretch of road along Park Hill Ave. in Clifton around 6:15 p.m. and found two men on the pavement with gunshot wounds, officials said. A 34-year-old man was shot in the head ...