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The great-grandson of one of an early owner of Macy's is being accused by a 52-year-old jewelry designer of imprisoning the woman and torturing her with, of all things, a lobster trap. Bette Marchek claims that William Straus kept her captive on his Westchester estate, starved her, beat her, and eventually attacked her with a lobster trap while the pair were on City Island in the Bronx. That was the figurative straw that broke the...

Tired of that cramped studio? Dying to have a view other than a brick wall to look at? Has public urination gotten you down?

An NYU senior with a major in math was arrested in his family Pound Ridge, NY home when bank and postal officials discovered he had been shuffling about $43 million in fake, certified check between banks in Greenwich, CT, and Switzerland, where there are many, many banks. Hakan Yalincak opened up a number of fake corporations and deposited fake checks into the bank accounts here and overseas. With millions in "phantom money" in each, he then transferred $2.5 million to a new account in Greenwich. It was when he tried to withdraw $1.7 million that Yalincak was caught, with bank officials wise to his scheme. At the court hearing, where his mother was weeping, the judge said that Yalincak had to stay in a Providence detention center until a hearing on Thursday, and Yalincak wailed, "I have a graduation on Wednesday." The Daily News had this comment from a twentysomething NYU alum: "Obviously, they're teaching them something at NYU."