VERENA DOBNIK

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NY indoor park a 'rebellion against winter'

Birds are chirping, the grass is green and tea is being served amid blossoming bushes.

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Martha Graham Dance Company pitches cybercontest

The Martha Graham Dance Company wants to know: What are you thinking — or feeling?

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Moving evicted tenants is big business

Property owners across the country bear a burden from the recession: paying a fortune in moving and storage costs to evict tenants who fail to pay their rent.

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Family: NY woman's generosity led to burning death

The weeping, cash-strapped relatives of a woman torched in the elevator of her apartment building said Thursday that she was kindhearted and helped a homeless man and paid with her life.

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Riders stuck on snow-trapped train sue NY agency

Subway riders stuck all night in a train trapped by snow after a blizzard sued a transportation agency on Tuesday, saying officials told them it was simply "an act of God."

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American scores in role that made Pavarotti famous

In the role that shot Luciano Pavarotti to superstardom, tenor Lawrence Brownlee tossed nine high Cs to a Metropolitan Opera audience — in less than one minute.

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16,000 Holocaust victims to get German pensions

After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide — mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.

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Marchers protest burned cars in NYC Jewish enclave

Peaceful marchers sent a clear message Sunday to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where Woody Allen was raised: Don't repeat the kind of attacks that once led to the Holocaust.

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US military veterans heed Occupy rallying cry

U.S. military veterans are heeding the rallying cry of Occupy Wall Street, saying corporate contractors in Iraq made big money while the troops defending them came home — and can't make a living now.

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Military vets march with Occupy Wall Street

About 100 military veterans are joining the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan.

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Protest drummers seen as both poisonous, inspired

To some, the drummers in the Manhattan park that's become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street are the protest's energizing force.

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Occupy Wall Street becomes NYC tourist stop

Shawn Lahey, a ruler factory worker from Poughkeepsie, was watching the show. A dancing man held a pole marked "corporation," attached to a noose marked "financial system" — from which another dancing man was "hanging." Masked drummers provided a thumping soundtrack.

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Occupy Wall Street reaches 1-month birthday

The month-old Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, with nearly $300,000 in the bank and participants finding satisfaction in the widening impact they hope will counter the influence on society by those who hold the purse strings of the world's economies.

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Protesters march past millionaires' NYC homes

Now it's personal: Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a "Millionaires March" on Tuesday past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer "Tax the rich!" and "Where's my bailout?"

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For some protesters, Jobs was an exception

For weeks, a cluster of computerized protesters have camped in a park near Wall Street, telling the world how they believe America's billionaires destroyed the economy.

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Strauss-Kahn NY townhouse up for rent again

The $50,000-a-month Manhattan townhouse that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife rented while he fought sexual assault charges is on the market again.

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NY firefighter thinks of 9/11 dead 'every day'

Every day, Michael Simon is reminded of 11 men he worked alongside as a rookie firefighter, in the lessons of the craft they taught him, by their photos hanging on the walls of his Manhattan firehouse.

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Met's James Levine cancels fall shows after injury

Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine has canceled his fall conducting engagements after reinjuring his back, and Italian conductor Fabio Luisi has been named principal conductor.

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Violence amid revelry at NY West Indian Day Parade

A shooting on a street corner a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left two police officers wounded and three people dead Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

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Violence amid revelry at NY West Indian Day Parade

A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left two police officers wounded and three people dead Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

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Violence amid revelry at NY West Indian Day Parade

A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day parade on Monday left a police officer wounded and three people dead, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

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Violence amid revelry at NY West Indian Day Parade

New York City police say a shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day parade has left an officer wounded and two people dead.

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Violence amid revelry at NY West Indian Day Parade

A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left a police officer wounded and a person dead.

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Violence amid revelry at NY West Indian Day Parade

A shooting a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade on Monday night left a police officer wounded and a person dead.

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NYC West Indian parade features dancing, singing

The city's West Indian Day Parade thundered down a thoroughfare Monday with its usual colorful, musical energy, but gun violence shocked the festivities to a stop in spots.

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