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- Cops are looking for a "brazen sexual predator" who attacked three young women in their apartment buildings in the Bronx this week.

- Bloomie likes having horses in the city.

- Pataki is staying in the Hospital an extra day after his appendix was removed.

- The new YMCA on Houston (inside the Avalon Christie) will have a sliding-scale fee based on incomes.

- Hillary Clinton and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez are pushing legislation to prevent foreign companies from buying American port operations.

- Speaking of Jersey, two Postal Union leaders there were busted for embezzling more than $400,000.

- The life of a New York record store clerk: "Like the other week when a woman asked me for our "dog section." Turns out she wanted "Happy Birthday" barked by dogs. I would have laughed but I knew she was totally serious. She had a little dog under each arm."

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i don't get why the government would sell our ports to foreign interests and also why bush wants to build more nuclear power plants. it's like they're inviting trouble.

52nd Precinct - WHY! please try harder..i can imagine how busy you are but please just try a little better..the graffiti gets WORSE every weekend..every day there is something NEW..and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the dealers on the corner..do something!

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