New York/ Community & Society
Published on October 21, 2019
Top NYC news: Mother, 27, dies during operation; Central Park monument to honor black family; morePhoto: Tuan Nguyen/Unsplash

Here's the most recent top news you may have missed in New York City.

27-year-old New York City mom dies after going into hospital to have cyst removed

Rosemary Abreu, 27, went to Lincoln Hospital, in the Bronx, to have a cyst in her left thigh removed on Sept. 21, attorney Sanford Rubenstein told ABC News on Saturday. However, the procedure at some point went awry, and Abreu went into cardiac arrest, according to Rubenstein, who noted that he believes she went into cardiac arrest on the operating table.

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Beaten and left in solitary confinement, he thought he would die

Transferred off Rikers Island, Davon Washington was among four young men who won a $980,000 settlement after a lawsuit described brutal beatings at an Albany jail.

Read the full story on The New York Times.

Their land became part of Central Park. They’re coming back in a monument.

A new sculpture will honor the Lyons family, black activists and property owners who once lived in Seneca Village, a community destroyed by the creation of the park.

Read the full story on The New York Times.

I went blind. I still owned Manhattan.

After a lifetime of poor vision, a woman learned to navigate the blur of New York City by memory and mental tricks. Then things got worse. And then, miraculously, better.

Read the full story on The New York Times.


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