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–After winning height reductions and securing various new community amenities, members of the City Council are expected to approve the mayor’s borough-based jail plan today. –The Chinatown jail will now be 29 floors. The city has agreed to grant City Council member Margaret Chin’s request for a new theater as part of…

New York is a city that celebrates the life of the mind. And where better to celebrate than in a bookstore with a special focus on art and art books? At Printed Matter, Inc. not only are the books about art, but many of them are artworks in and of themselves.Located at 231 11th Avenue, Printed Matter is just as much a bookstore as it is an art…

Photos by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photo Office. Mayor de Blasio and his minions yesterday came to Max Fish, the Orchard Street bar, to talk up his new “late night quality of life improvement plan.” The plan, from the New York City Office of Nightlife, is focused on a six-block area between Ludlow and Orchard streets, between East Houston…

A Department of Transportation worker was killed early Tuesday morning while performing road work. The man died after his coworker reversed a dump truck into him, running him over.The DOT crew had been repaving East 88th Street overnight when the tragedy occurred. Police say they responded to a 911 call about a worker struck in…

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A 68-year-old woman was sucker punched outside her home earlier this month in Harlem. Police say the unprovoked attack happened around 5 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12. The victim can be seen on video standing outside her building at 137th Street and Adam Clayton Boulevard. A man walks up and clocks her in the left side of the…