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Do you have a story you think we should tell? Call us at (212) 210-NEWS. This is your paper, and we are committed to covering the issues that matter to you. Here are some of our top stories from the last week:
Jailhouse justice? The man accused of killing Mafia boss Frank Cali may get a death sentence, but not from the criminal justice system. Suspect Anthony Comello (photo) “must know his life is worth nothing,” said one-time Bonanno family associate Joe Barone. Comello, in pleading not guilty, said he was influenced by incendiary speech from the White House and the internet. Shelter to Ivy League: Athena Capo-Battaglia of Queens was living in a homeless shelter two years ago, but now she has a new address: a dorm at Harvard. The 18-year-old credits her stint as an auxiliary NYPD officer for helping get her into one of the nation’s top colleges. Taking us for a ride: Many bus riders — 21.9 % — don’t pay their “fare” share, a new MTA report says. Those who DO pay their fare have to pay more because of the people along for an unauthorized free ride, the agency says. Yes, there’s a new one: Another week brings yet another racial controversy at a city school. This time it’s Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Manhattan, where, sources say, two female students gave an African-American ninth-grader a tampon with the words “n——s don’t have rights” scrawled on it. Students responded by staging a sit-in. Behind the FDNY tragedy: A year after one of New York’s Bravest lost his life in a blaze on a film set in Harlem, The News reported exclusively that the FDNY concluded he didn’t have to die. Combustible materials and confusion on the scene led to the death of Firefighter Michael Davidson, 37, on the set of “Motherless Brooklyn,” a starstudded project directed by Edward Norton. City’s slumlord saga: Controller Scott Stringer is demanding Mayor de Blasio turn over “all appraisals” of 17 buildings the city plans to convert from homeless apartments into permanent affordable housing — after cutting a deal with two notorious landlords who pleaded guilty to multiple felonies in the 1980s.