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Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man’s face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York’s police commissioner called an “anti-gay” hate crime.

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Documentary is an ode to NYC playground basketball

This film publicity image released by Doin' It In The Park, LLC shows female basketball player Niki Avery, second left, playing basketball in the Spanish Harlem section of New York during filming of the documentary "Doin' It In The Park.” (AP Photo/Doin' It In The Park, LLC)

NEW YORK (AP) — Half-moon hoops, double rims, chain-linked fences for out-of-bounds lines and no net that anyone can recall.

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Plans languish for overhaul of NYC’s Penn Station

This May 9, 2013 photo shows evening rush hour commuters inspecting the train information board inside Penn Station in New York. The busiest passenger train station in the United States, gateway to the biggest city in the nation, is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth built in what is essentially the basement of Madison Square Garden. Two decades after ambitious plans were unveiled to improve Penn Station while expanding it into the massive Beaux Arts post office building across the street, there are few visible signs of change.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NEW YORK (AP) — The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena.

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Judge declines to nix ’79 NYC child-killing case

This undated file image provided by the New York Police Department shows a flyer distributed by the NYPD of Etan Patz, who vanished in New York on May 25, 1979. Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, N.J., charged with murder decades after Patz's disappearance, is due to learn Wednesday, May 15, 2013, whether a New York City judge believes there's enough evidence to bring the case to trial. (AP Photo/Courtesy New York Police Department)  EDITORIAL USE ONLY, FOR USE ONLY IN ILLUSTRATING EDITORIAL STORIES REGARDING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ETAN PATZ OR OTHER MISSING CHILDREN

NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with murder decades after one of the nation’s most infamous child disappearances can be brought to trial, a judge ruled Wednesday, turning down the man’s claim that the case was too thin to proceed.

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Prince Harry arrives in NYC after NJ shore tour

Britain's Prince Harry, center right, shakes hands with a resident while standing next to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, center, during a visit to the area hit by Superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J.  Prince Harry began a tour  of New Jersey’s storm-damaged coastline, inspecting dune construction, walking past destroyed homes and shaking hands with police and other emergency workers.  New Jersey sustained about $37 billion worth of damage from the storm. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, Pool)

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entrepreneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance to play a little baseball.

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