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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The searing TV series on the plight of the Central Park Five created a memorable Emmy moment Sunday when the five exonerated men stood and were honored at the awards show. The four-part Netflix series explores the true story of five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were coerced into confessing to a rape they…

This year’s Brooklyn Heights Association Designer Show House will be 13 Pineapple Street (photo by your correspondent, taken in the afternoon when shadows are bad, and while some pre-show gussie-ing up was going on). The BHA sez:This is a rare opportunity to visit a historic home on a quiet, tree-lined street in Brooklyn Heights while…

EAST SETAUKET, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — There was a dangerous rescue on Saturday in Suffolk County. A deer got its antlers caught in a lacrosse net in an East Setauket backyard. Neighbor Rose Velez was next door during the afternoon, when she heard the buck struggling. “When I looked at it I saw that it was in distress, because its neck was tilted…

Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he’d seen it all. But he’s never met a cricket before, which really isn’t surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City?the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he…

From unearthing archaeological treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to biking through Central Park to strolling the streets of the artsy Soho and East and West Village neighborhoods, experience all that New York City has to offer. Plus, check out the best of the boroughs with suggested highlights for Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the…