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BREAKING: Body Was Found Stuffed Inside a Trash Bag on a Brooklyn Street Corner.
A man searching through trash for scrap metal opened a bag at East 93rd Street and Avenue L in Canarsie at about 9:30 a.m. Friday and found a body inside, police said.
Sanitation workers called police, body, believed to be 50s or 60s, has not been identified.
Surveillance video obtained by the nypost, shows the bag had been left outside a nearby church overnight before it was moved down the block.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. No arrests have been made.
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The death toll from the e-bike battery fire at Patterson Houses, 320 Morris Ave in Mott Haven, is now four.
NEW: E-Bike Battery Blocked the Way Out: Two boys have died after a fire at the Patterson Houses in Mott Haven early Wednesday, FOX 5 NY reported Friday.
The fire started in the kitchen of an 11th-floor apartment at 320 Morris Avenue, fire officials said the cause was a lithium-ion battery from an e-bike that had been placed near the apartment's exit door.
Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said its location made it impossible for the residents to leave safely. Firefighters arrived in less than four minutes and removed five members of the same family from the apartment, officials said.
An 11-year-old boy, identified by family members as Zion Maine, died Wednesday. Other family members remained hospitalized in critical condition. The FDNY said there have been 401 lithium-ion battery fires in the city so far this year.
Video: Diego Luzuriaga | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv
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WATCH: RAT Costume Competition Inside Subway Station - NYC
"Rats in the City," a Halloween rat costume competition featuring rat enthusiasts and experts, organized by Data Vandals inside a subway station on the Downtown 6 train platform, East 51st Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, NYC.
Video by Ken Lopez | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv
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Flames Rip Through Brush Right Next to the Van Wyck. A brush fire burned near Willow Lake by the Van Wyck Expressway and Jewel Avenue in Queens on Friday afternoon.
First reports came in just after 5 p.m., and an All Hands was soon declared. Smoke reached the area of the highway as firefighters worked the fire.
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NEW: E-Bike Battery Blocked the Way Out: Two boys have died after a fire at the Patterson Houses in Mott Haven early Wednesday, FOX 5 NY reported Friday.
The fire started in the kitchen of an 11th-floor apartment at 320 Morris Avenue, fire officials said the cause was a lithium-ion battery from an e-bike that had been placed near the apartment's exit door.
Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said its location made it impossible for the residents to leave safely. Firefighters arrived in less than four minutes and removed five members of the same family from the apartment, officials said.
An 11-year-old boy, identified by family members as Zion Maine, died Wednesday. Other family members remained hospitalized in critical condition. The FDNY said there have been 401 lithium-ion battery fires in the city so far this year.
Video: Diego Luzuriaga | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv
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The father of a teen killed in a shooting in the Bronx spoke through tears as he remembered his son.
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NEW: "We Consider This a Victory": Jewish Supporters Cheer in Court as Diamond District Stabbing Case Goes Federal.
"End Jew Hatred"celebrated inside Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday as the man held up federal papers.
Federal prosecutors charged Anna Mochalova, 32, with two hate crimes on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Outside the courthouse, supporter said the move "sends a message" to anyone thinking about Jew hatred.
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NEW: Manhattan Residents enraged over delivery bikes flooding their street.
East Village neighbors spoke on 1st Avenue and East 11th Street on Thursday afternoon, saying their block has been taken over by parked delivery e-bikes.
Speakers said the street holds about 40 parked cars but roughly 400 e-bikes, and one resident said rats crawl in and out of the delivery bags. "Why are 400 e-bikes on this one block?" an organizer asked the crowd. Longtime resident Michael Anton said the bikes keep multiplying every time he steps outside.
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We tracked down Graham Platner in Sullivan, Maine, where heโs returned to harvesting oysters.
โWhat the f-k does it look like Iโm up to? Iโm being an oyster farmer,โ he said a week before the midterm election.
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NOW: ICE Detainees Loaded Up on Airplane at Newark Airport for Deportation Flight
Video by Wali Khan | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv
WATCH: Drivers stuck behind an anti-ICE sit-in on the Brooklyn Bridge pleaded with protesters to let them through on Wednesday, with one man saying he needed to pick up his daughter from school. Several said they backed the cause but did not want to be the ones paying for it. "I'm not the one shooting people," one driver told the group.
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Eleven people were arrested after protesters sat across the Brooklyn-bound lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday behind a "Stop Shooting Our Neighbors" banner, with NYPD officers carrying them off the roadway and handcuffing them. Organizers said the blockade was a response to the ICE shooting in Marble Hill earlier this month and a call for ICE to leave New York City.
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"It's Just Inhumane": Stuck car rider Explains why she supports Brooklyn Bridge Anti-ICE Blockade
Drivers were stuck in massive traffic at the Brooklyn Bridge sit-in, this car rider says deportations are tearing people away and the message against ICE should spread everywhere.
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NOW: Drivers REACT as Anti-ICE Protesters block ALL Entrances to the Brooklyn Bridge on Manhattan side.
WATCH: Woman steps out of the car to applaud and speak in support of Anti-ICE protesters as they blocked Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan
BREAKING: MASS ARRESTS on Brooklyn Bridge after Anti-ICE protesters SHUT DOWN all entrances on Manhattan side, backing up traffic for miles.
NOW: Drivers REACT as Anti-ICE Protesters block ALL Entrances to the Brooklyn Bridge on Manhattan side.
BREAKING: "Free Oscar Belgal Nl!" chants as protesters BLOCK Brooklyn Bridge ALL Manhattan entrances to protest against ICE and Detainement and shooting of Oscar Belgal
BREAKING: "Fire Jessica Tish Now!" chants as protesters BLOCK Brooklyn Bridge entrance to protest against ICE and Detainement and shooting of Oscar Belgal
BREAKING: A boy is dead and Four others are in critical condition, after a fire in an 11th-floor apartment at 320 Morris Avenue in the Bronx early Wednesday.
Firefighters pulled five people out of the unit at the Patterson Houses in Mott Haven as more than 100 fire and EMS personnel responded. The cause is under investigation.
Video: Diego Luzuriaga | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv
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