The deal would avoid a nurses’ strike and would allow both sides to claim victory.

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City Room: Tentative Deal May Avert Nurses’ Strike at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals

In the Rockaways, on the 10th anniversary of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, a bell tolled, and the names of 265 victims were read.

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City Room: Remembering Crash of Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, Queens

Three police officers face discipline for their involvement in the detention and handcuffing of two city officials after a parade in Brooklyn.

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City Room: 3 Officers to Face Discipline for Detaining City Officials at Parade

The 1,018 places the London 2012 Olympic torch will visit and the highlights on its journey are revealed.

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Torch path and key visits set out

Everyone agreed that St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church would rise again. But it took 10 years to agree on exactly where and how.

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City Room: Smaller St. Nicholas Is Not Expected to Interfere With World Trade Center Development

Agencies will be asked to cut 2 percent from their budgets for the current fiscal year, which ends in June 2012, and 6 percent from proposed budgets for next year, saving a total of $2 billion.

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City Room: New York City Agencies to Be Told to Cut Costs

Mr. Bloomberg, who is known to bristle when his actions come under scrutiny, may be forced to answer, under oath, tough questions about his campaign spending.

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City Room: Bloomberg to Testify at Trial of John Haggerty

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the highlights in the skygazers’ calendar, is set to peak in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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Skygazers set for meteor shower

The state’s largest public employee union accepted furloughs and no raises for three years.

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City Room: Cuomo Reaches Deal With Union to Avert Layoffs

Biologists said that the seal, lying on the sand at the western end of Dyckman Street, would return to the water on its own.

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City Room: Seal Hits the Beach in Upper Manhattan

The former world champion boxer shares the reasons he loves New Yorkers’ winged nemeses.

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City Room: A Defense of the Pigeon

Dennis M. Walcott, who has been selected to lead New York City’s schools system, was far more comfortable in Albany than was his predecessor.

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City Room: New Schools Chief at Ease in Albany

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo managed to get through the budget season and retain his popularity among voters, a new poll shows.

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City Room: Poll Finds Strong Support for Cuomo

Live video streams from the 12th floor of a library at New York University where a pair of red-tailed hawks has a nest.

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City Room: Hawk Cam | Live From the Nest

A personal escape harness inspired by the victims who jumped from the World Trade Center will be available in time for the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks, its inventor announced.

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City Room: Escape Device Inspired by 9/11 Victims