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Mayor Michael Bloomberg won re-election to a third term yesterday, defeating city Comptroller William Thompson Jr., according to unofficial and incomplete returns. All other results reported in this story are also based on incomplete and unofficial returns. More...

The USS New York, a San Antonio-class amphibious dock vessel with 7.5 tons of steel taken from the ruins of the World Trade Center Twin Towers making up part of her bow, sailed into New York Harbor on Monday morning. More...

Police in Astoria are hunting for a suspect (see sketch) who allegedly tried to snatch an eight-year-old boy off a crowded street on October 28. Investigators are also trying to determine if the suspect is the same man who tried to grab an eight-year-old girl off a street in Long Island City last November. More...

Veterans’ Day Nov. 11, 11 a.m., Whitestone Veterans Memorial Assn., Veterans’ Day ceremony, 149th Street/15th Avenue. Community Meetings Date & time subject to change, call to confirm. Associations More...
Queens Democratic Leader Joseph Crowley was the first of many to call for state Senator Hiram Monserrate to give up his senate seat after he was found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend in mid-October. More...
24-28 Jackson Avenue • Long Island City 718.937.1890
for a taste of old New York with a solid menu and bar, visit Brooks 1890 Restaurant in Long Island City. As the name suggests, this landmark building, on the corner of Court Square and 45th Road, was built in 1890, and if its walls could talk, they would speak of the long history it has seen. Brooks 1890 has been running as a saloon since 1920 and the original Tiffany More...
On Monday morning, the USS New York, a San Antonio-class amphibious dock vessel, sailed into New York Harbor, her ship’s company lining her rails. She paused in the Hudson River opposite the site where the World Trade Center Towers once stood and her gunners fired a 21-gun salute to the fallen innocent victims of the Sept. More...
Police Officers Demetrios Kekatos and Crystal George knew something was awry when a man came running down the block, closely followed by a second man, also running. The 114th precinct officers, on an anticrime tour of duty in plainclothes and in an unmarked car, watched the two individuals come barreling down Broadway at 43rd Street on October 6. More...