Body of a woman, 19, is found wrapped in plastic in abandoned fish market in Manhattan
The body of the woman, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was found around 9.20am on Saturday by her boyfriend and another friend
The boyfriend and friend called 911 when they found her on the second-floor staircase of the New Market Building, a part of the former Fulton Fish Market
The woman may have been dead for several days before her body was found
Cops did not consider her boyfriend a suspect as of Saturday evening and no arrests have been made
Local residents said the homeless have taken over the building for years now
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What Is NYCHA? Your Questions Answered About New York City Public Housing
If the population were a state, it’d be as big as Wyoming, or Vermont. Figuring out how to repair the crumbling, enormous housing system has stymied leaders for years as tenants suffer.
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Officially, just under 400,000 people live in New York City Housing Authority buildings. But that’s the on-the-books tally.
The total population is likely much higher: According to sanitation department figures cited by NYCHA’s federal monitor in 2019, the real number may be as high as 600,000.
Cuomo stares down the third-term curse
New York’s history books are replete with tales from other third-term crypts.
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Hugh Leo Carey was the 51st governor of New York state and arguably was among the smartest of the bunch. That’s not to suggest he had better grades than, say, noted polymath Theodore Roosevelt, or that he could match credentials with the likes of John Jay. But on a cold January day in Albany in 1982, Carey showed just how smart he was by announcing that he would retire after two remarkable terms as the state’s chief executive.
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GLOBETROTTING FROM HOME After four weeks of moving to control the pandemic, watching a second impeachment rise and fall, and conducting a flurry of executive action to unwind the Trump era, Joe Biden finally got to take his first international trip. Like for the rest of us not named Ted Cruz, it was only by Zoom.