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NYC choir to give Russian premiere of secret choral work

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This 1910 photo shows a Syrian pastry counter in the Little Syria neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York. Little Syria was a neighborhood that existed between the 1880s and 1940s in Lower Manhattan and was composed of Arab-Americans, both Christians and Muslims, who arrived from what is now Syria and surrounding countries. (Bain News Service/Library of Congress via AP)

Ellis Island exhibit revives New York’s lost Little Syria

By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press

Breast Cancer Awareness Month celebrated by New York hotel with ‘Pink Package’

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 28, 2013 file photo, big-cat trainer Alexander Lacey works with his lion Masai on stage during training for a Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey circus performance in Mexico City. Two New York City Council members are pushing a bill that would make it illegal to use “wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement.” Ringling Bros. did decide to retire its elephants last May, heeding rising opposition in various jurisdictions, and if the NYC bill passes, the circus will be allowed to perform in the city only if it cuts out acts featuring exotic animals. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Animal advocates push ban in NYC on exotic circus animals

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

A screen shows an internal design drawings of Samsung Electronics Galaxy S7 smartphone at its shop in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. The fiasco of Samsung's fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones - and Samsung's stumbling response to the problem - has left consumers from Shanghai to New York reconsidering how they feel about the South Korean tech giant and its products. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Note 7 fiasco leaves Samsung’s smartphone brand in question

By YOUKYUNG LEE and BRANDON BAILEY - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown’

By Paul Davis

In this aerial photo, crews work the scene of a train derailment Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, along Hwy. 26 south of Brownsville, Minn. Authorities say two of six derailed train cars have broken through the ice on the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota. (Erik Daily/La Crosse Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Train derails east of NYC; dozens suffer injuries

By KAREN MATTHEWS and RACHELLE BLIDNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, Green Bay Packers cornerback Damarious Randall, left, celebrates an interception with teammate Green Bay Datone Jones (95) during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the Oakland Raiders in Green Bay, Wis. In studying Odell Beckham Jr., Packers cornerback Damarious Randall is focusing only on what the New York Giants’ mercurial receiver is doing on the field. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke, File)

AP Interview: Giants’ Mara discusses Beckham Jr. at Vatican

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Editorials from around New York

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Glassware is displayed in front of boxes containing archeological finds at the New York City Archaeological Repository in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. Nearly one million antiquities have been unearthed at construction sites in New York City, artifacts that help shed light on the history of the city and people who once lived there. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYC launches archaeological repository and digital archive

By ULA ILNYTZKY - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants' Joe Panik hits an RBI-triple off Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Alex Wood in the fifth inning of their baseball game Thursday, April 7, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

A capsule look at the Giants-Mets playoff game

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, photo in Tucson, Ariz., an employee of the Tucson Botanical Gardens plants marigolds for the upcoming exhibit “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life” is shown under construction. The exhibit, which broke attendance records in New York City during its six-month run there last year, will debut in Tucson on Oct. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Astrid Galvan)

Frida Kahlo exhibit from NYC headed for Tucson

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

San Francisco Giants' Joe Panik hits an RBI-triple off Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Alex Wood in the fifth inning of their baseball game Thursday, April 7, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

A capsule look at the Giants-Mets playoff game

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In this Sept. 27, 2016, photo, Abraham Chaparro, holds a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood, N.Y. The remains of Garcia-Moran, who was reported missing in February, were found in September. Multiple teenagers from the same Long Island high school have been found dead and while police suspect all the deaths are related to gang violence, they are releasing few details. (AP Photo/Claudia Torrens)

4 students from same N.Y. high school are found dead in a month

By Frank Eltman and Claudia Torrens - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2016 photo, Dan Dolgin, left, and Mark Justh examine seeds from hemp plants on their JD Farms in Eaton, N.Y. JD Farms in central New York harvested the state’s first legal hemp this fall under a university research partnership. (AP Photo/Mary Esch)

Not pot: US hemp farms take root under state pilot programs

By MARY ESCH - Associated Press

In this Sept. 27, 2016, photo, Abraham Chaparro, holds a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood, N.Y. The remains of Garcia-Moran, who was reported missing in February, were found in September. Multiple teenagers from the same Long Island high school have been found dead and while police suspect all the deaths are related to gang violence, they are releasing few details. (AP Photo/Claudia Torrens)

4 students from same high school are found dead in a month

By FRANK ELTMAN and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

New York Mets' David Wright returns to high fives in the dugout after his solo homerun during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies Monday, April 18, 2016 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)

Mets beat Phillies 5-3 to clinch top NL wild card

By CHUCK GORMLEY - Associated Press

In a photo provided by William Sun, people examine the wreckage of a New Jersey Transit commuter train that crashed into the train station during the morning rush hour in Hoboken,, N.J., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. The crash caused an unknown number of injuries and witnesses reported seeing one woman trapped under concrete and many people bleeding. (William Sun via AP)

After fatal train crash in New Jersey, investigators seek answers

By Dake Kang and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Bail reduced for 2 arrested at Holland Tunnel with weapons

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The skyline of New York's borough of Manhattan is seen behind the Hoboken, N.J. rail station after a train crash at the facility on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. A commuter train plowed into the bustling terminal during the morning rush hour. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)

The Latest: Investigators say train crew ‘very cooperative’

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