Here's what you need to know about what's happening in New York City.
300 people attend adoption ceremony for 8-year-old who waited 1,553 days to officially join family
It was standing room only in a north Texas courtroom, where an 8-year-old boy who’d spent half his life in foster care was finally adopted Monday.
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19-year-old Brooklyn stabbing victim asked for his mom in his last breaths
Mamadou Bah, 19, an immigrant from Senegal who dreamt of playing pro basketball, died after he stumbled into Gentlemen’s Quarters Salon on Church Ave. near Ocean Ave. in Flatbush just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
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De Blasio offers to help save Coney Island store from eviction
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that he hopes to save a popular T-shirt shop from being evicted off the Coney Island boardwalk — the same way he helped keep a historic Queens pub from shuttering weeks earlier.
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Desperate woman calls 911 for baby formula, kind cops deliver
Shannon Bird’s milk supply had dried up, and her baby was screaming. After frantically trying neighbors, friends and her brother and getting no answer, the mom dialed 911 as a last resort, hoping cops would watch the house while she ran out to the store. Instead, they delivered the milk.
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