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The hell of it was, the kidnappers had taken the wrong brother. Arthur Fried was a 32-year-old sand-and-gravel-company manager living with his wife and son in White Plains.

The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. The victim, 38, and a second man, 45, were both struck by gunfire inside a building on Bergen St. near New York Ave.

Tenants, including Ayanna Dore, center, rally outside their building at 567 Saint John’s Pl. Sunday afternoon. The tenants at 567 Saint John’s Pl. said they are fed up with living in squalor and have had enough.

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The New York City area could get as many as three new casinos as a result of the new budget deal reached by Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders on Thursday. The full deal still needs to be voted on by the full Legislature.

A Brooklyn man kept nearly 30 dogs in abject squalor in a cavern-like Brooklyn home, packing them into tiny, filthy cages, leaving them so neglected that one of the pups died, police said.

An NYPD vehicle struck and killed a man who was begging for change on a Brooklyn street Thursday night, according to reports. The van was traveling on Eastern Parkway when it struck the victim near Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights at about 8:10 p.

A man punched and threatened to kill an MTA worker at Franklin Avenue station on Sunday while she roped off a turnstile, according to police.

Claire Bendiner has had little to no sleep since someone set their Bushwick bar Rash ablaze Sunday night.

Four intruders held two men at gunpoint and stole $200,000 from their Brooklyn apartment this week, cops said. The victims, 41 and 32, were inside their apartment at East 21st Street and Church Avenue in Flatbush around 5:25 p.m.