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A Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade Welcomes L.G.B.T.Q. Marchers

This year, for the first time, every New York City borough will host a St. Patrick’s Day Parade that allows L.G.B.T.Q. groups, bringing a decades-long conflict to an end. That milestone will be celebrated on Sunday with a new parade on Staten Island, part of a deal brokered by Mayor Eric Adams. It’s the result […]

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William Casey, Who Uncovered Police Corruption, Dies at 78

William M. Casey, a former New York City deputy police chief who was the unheralded hero of the “Dirty 30” corruption investigation that ensnared one-sixth of the officers assigned to a West Harlem precinct, died on Nov. 9 at his home in Pleasantville, N.Y. He was 78. The cause was complications of a stroke and […]

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