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Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York City on Jan 1.
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Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York City on Jan 1.
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Contractors helped clean sand out of a pool in the Rockaways in Queens, an area of New York that is still struggling after Hurricane Sandy.
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Hajrudin Pupovic leaned over the edge of the fountains at the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City on Friday as he cleaned the panels containing names of the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks. More than a million people have visited since it opened Sept. 12.
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Firefighters react in Times Square after President Barack Obama announced that the United States has the body of Osama bin Laden, in New York, May 1, 2011. Bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced.
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Servicemen hang off a lamp post cheering in celebration as thousands of people celebrate in the streets at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center, waving American flags and honking horns to celebrate the death of Al Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, in New York City.
A police officer at Madison Avenue and 62nd Street, near the smouldering remains of a building that exploded and collapsed. July 2006.
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Ella Sciulli, 4, the daughter of a New York Stock Exchange specialist, played on the trading floor Friday.
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Shoes which belonged to disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, are displayed during a press preview of items from Madoff to be auctioned, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, November 10, 2010. Hundreds of items once belonging to Madoff will be auctioned off on November 13, 2010, running the gamut from a massive emerald-cut diamond to his black bedroom slippers, US officials said. Proceeds from the auction will compensate the victims of his multibillion USD Ponzi scheme.
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Jay-Z stands on stage during a concert performance, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, at Yankee Stadium in New York.
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A sign opposing the Islamic center near ground zero is left behind after a rally in New York, Aug. 22, 2010.
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A policeman stands near a mannequin dressed in an Arab-style head scarf and perched atop a model of a missile, a display built by opponents of an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned near Ground Zero on August 22, 2010 in New York City.
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Fans cheer on the Mets from section 510 during their afternoon game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Citifield in Queens on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
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Fedora Dorato, 90, walks down the steps of her West Village apartment to the restaurant she has owned for the last 58 years. At the end of this week, Fedora is transferring ownership of her restaurant and bar. Friday, July 23, 2010.
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Donning a respirator mask, Sous Chef Wahid Baig displays the famous Phaal Curry at a Brick Lane Curry in Little India, NYC on July 20th, 2010. Getting a whiff of fumes as the curry is heated up is enough to make your insides burn.
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A police officer photographed a Bronx tower from which a woman was reportedly thrown to her death.
