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“If the United Nations does not adhere to these deadlines, the city will be forced to direct the cessation of all public school visits to the United Nations”

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says he won't let city schoolchildren visit the United Nations building if it doesn't fix fire safety hazards by March. via Political Gateway

“They fought. It was like a continuous thing, like a buildup.”

A Manhattan personal assistant fatally bludgeoned her boss, the well-connected real-estate agent Linda Stein, in the woman's opulent Fifth Avenue apartment because Stein "just kept yelling at her," a law ... via Houston Chronicle

Police say a 25-year-old man has been arrested on charges of DWI and vehicular manslaughter after a fatal three-car accident last night. via WINS-AM New York

“While this is a private labor matter, the economic impact is very public and will be felt far beyond the theaters closed today.”

The protestors, who are responsible for moving scenery and equipment, set up picket lines in front of theaters in New York on Saturday. via Hollywood.com

“Finally we have a voice and a place to go for support”

Jennie Rivera works 10-hour days taking care of children in her lower Manhattan apartment and has never had a paid vacation or earned more than $13,000 a year.

Rivera hopes that will change now that she's cast her lot, along with thousands of other child-care providers here, with the powerful New York City chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.

New York is one of 11 states where workers like Rivera _ not day-care center employees or nannies but child-care providers working out of their own homes _ are permitted to unionize. Organizers argue improving conditions for these poorly paid workers will translate into better child care options for working parents. Read more

A driver who drunkenly mistook a bike path for the West Side Highway last December and fatally struck a cyclist pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree manslaughter in State Supreme Court. via New York Times

“The city continues to stand ready to help in any way we can.”

From 'Wicked' to 'The Phantom of the Opera,' from 'Mamma Mia!' to 'Rent,' most shows did not go on as Broadway stagehands walked off the job, shutting down more than two dozen plays and musicals.

It was a dramatic, uncertain day in the Times Square area for disappointed theatergoers, who mingled on the streets Saturday while striking Local One stagehands picketed in an orderly fashion behind barricades and declined to talk to reporters. The union had no official comment on the walkout.

No new negotiations have been scheduled between Local One and the League of American Theatres and Producers, so the outlook for a quick settlement looks murky. Read more

“Today was a big decision because the child is going to be in A.C.S. care for at least a few months”

A woman whose estranged husband was killed in an unexplained shooting on a Queens playground last month was denied temporary custody of the couple's 4-year-old daughter yesterday. via New York Times

Police say a former employee at a jewelry store on Manhattan's Upper East Side has been arrested in the stabbing death of the shop's bookkeeper. via WCBS Newsradio 880

' The personal assistant to a multimillionaire real estate agent whose circle of friends included Sting and Madonna was arrested Friday after confessing that she fatally bludgeoned her boss when a barrage of ... via The Toronto Star

“Obviously, he was a great American voice.”

Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead," died Saturday, his literary executor ... via CBS News

“I'm not an assassin, or a killer.”

The armed robber who burst into a Queens bodega leaves scene slashed and on a stretcher Wednesday night. via NY Daily News

“We have not heard from Local One regarding a strike and it would be shocking if they would hurt the theatergoing public by shutting down Broadway without notice.”

Stagehands will go on strike Saturday, a move expected to darken most of the plays and musicals on Broadway, according to a person close to contract negotiations. via New York Post

“Which means [Brooklyn Administrative Judge Neil Firetog] will have to go private.”

Brooklyn officials have run into a wall as they try to find a special prosecutor to probe a discredited star witness in a murder case against a former FBI agent, sources say. via New York Daily News

NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg. Photo / Reuters New York City's real-life Mr Big - Mayor Michael Bloomberg - is set to star as himself in Sex and the City: The Movie . via The New Zealand Herald

The personal assistant of "Realtor to the Stars" Linda Stein has been arrested by New York police in her murder. via Fox News

“I asked him please find other different ways to show your affection.”

The mother of a 4-year-old who witnessed the slaying of her father in a Queens playground last month testified Thursday that she had stayed married to the the father, despite allegedly seeing him molest the ... via Newsday.com

“It is an addition to what we have.”

The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday.

The parchment, about 'the size of a credit card,' is believed to be part of the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex, said Michael Glatzer, academic secretary of the Yad Ben Zvi institute. It contains verses from the Book of Exodus describing the plagues in Egypt, including the words of Moses to Pharaoh, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.' Read more

“But rather than focus on the faded glory of Coney Island's past, or the unfulfilled potential of its future, let's look at how we can create a better future.”

A Coney Island for the new millennium, combining $2.5 billion in private investment with flourishes from its storied past, was unveiled Thursday as the city released its plan to convert the fading beachfront into a world-class, year-round attraction.

The much-anticipated proposal includes zoning for business, residential and parkland areas, while ensuring an 11-block stretch along its famous boardwalk will remain 'the world's most famous urban amusement park in perpetuity,' Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. Read more