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<news:title>Subway Crimes: Union Square Slashing, 42nd Street Chain Snatching</news:title>
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<image:caption>Subway crimes: wanted for slashing (left); wanted to chain snatching (right).</image:caption>
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<news:title>Prayers Answered: Church of St. Mary Is Landmarked! Parish Bicentennial Coming</news:title>
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<image:caption>Church of St. Mary’s at 440 Grand Street has been landmarked.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Inside the now landmarked Church of St. Mary’s.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Original fieldstone on the sides of the landmarked Church of St. Mary.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>St. Paul in stained glass in the now landmarked Church of St. Mary’s.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>The now landmarked Church of St. Mary’s at 440 Grand Street.</image:caption>
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<news:title>East Village Residents Express Concern Over Homeless Shelter Plans</news:title>
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<image:caption>The Mamdani administration wants to move the Bellevue Shelter (above) from its current E. 30th St. location due to the building’s crumbling infrastructure. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>The Bellevue Shelter, currently on E. 30th St., is facing relocation due to its diminishing infrastructure, according to the Mamdani administration. </image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.otdowntown.com/news/scots-turn-midtown-plaid-for-tartan-day-parade-1000s-strong-AB5751310</loc>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-13T21:46:35-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Scots Turn Midtown Plaid for Tartan Day Parade, 1000s Strong</news:title>
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<image:caption>Tartan Day Parade welcomes dogs who wear plaid too.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Grand Marshal Sam Heughan at the Tartan Day Parade April 11, 2026.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Tartan Day Parade marches up Sixth Avenue, plaid and pipers everywhere.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Tartan Day Parade marchers and spectators, everyone smiling in the sun.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Tartan Day Parade including the Shamrock &amp;amp; Thistle Pipes &amp;amp; Drums.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Tartan Day Parade pipers warm up in Bryant Park.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Scotland is one of the teams that qualified for the World Cup in soccer in June. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>Scottish Marines step off on Tartan Day Parade.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-14T07:09:51-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Grand Central Horror: Machete Madman Attacks 3, Shot Dead by Cops</news:title>
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<image:caption>Anthony Griffin as seen in YouTube interview posted January 2023; machete recovered at Grand Central crime scene [inset].</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-04-14T16:37:45-04:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>It May Be Loverly to Think Women Should Be More Like Men, But It’s Not Healthy</news:title>
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<image:caption>Julie Andrews, as Eliza Doolittle, and Rex Harrison, as Professor Henry Higgins, in the 1957 Broadway production of “My Fair Lady.”</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the movie “My Fair Lady” with cinematographer Harry Stradling, Sr. (c. 1964)</image:caption>
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