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Family Mourns Jaime Sillart Who Died in Fall from Scaffold at NYU Building

The construction worker who died Friday after falling 70 feet while working on an NYU building was an avid musician and loving family man, according to his family and posts on his social media accounts. Jaime Sillart, 56, of Bergenfield, NJ, fell from scaffolding at 19 University Place on Friday, a construction site where he had been working for

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City Pays $22,500 for False Arrest, Victim Held Under One Hour

Kaylan Pedine was standing outside a Murray Hill bar with her friends one July evening in 2012 when a group of NYPD officers strolled by. Like many New Yorkers, Pedine is critical of the department’s stop and frisk policies, and just as the last officer passed, she remarked, “I wish they would stop stop-and-frisk.” In less

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New York accident kills 2, injures 3

An accident in the Bronx on Hutchinson River Parkway on the morning of Nov. 9 resulted in two deaths and three injuries. The car accident occurred at approximately 7 a.m. near Orchard Beach Road and involved multiple vehicles, the FDNY said. According to police, the accident began when the driver of an SUV lost control

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Olga Rivera Killed in Pedestrian Accident…Who Pays?

Olga Rivera, 65, was killed in East Harlem earlier today when a cab sideswiped a delivery truck causing it to jump the curb and run her down. She was taken to Mt. Sinai hospital, but she could not be saved. The cab was driving west on 102nd Street when it hit a truck traveling south on

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