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Do you have a story you think we should tell? Call us at (212) 210-NEWS or email us at nydntips@nydailynews.com. 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:
Frisk failure: As former Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially launched his 2020 presidential campaign this week, The News told the stories of innocent victims of the NYPD’s overuse of stop-and-frisk who were unimpressed with the billionaire’s recent apology for the divisive police policy that targeted black and Hispanic people for more than a decade. “What epiphany could have happened between then and now,” said Nicholas Peart, who sued the city over several unconstitutional stops. In the days since Bloomberg said he “was wrong” for pushing the tactic, Peart said he heard reactions from elected leaders, community activists and civil liberties lawyers, but not those who were actually stopped and frisked.
Stench or shelter: A Brooklyn woman became so fed up with the smelly conditions in her NYCHA apartment she was ready to move into a homeless shelter with her 10-year-old son. Tiffany Baptiste, 41, told The News they endured the putrid stench of sewage in their first floor apartment at the Howard Houses for six weeks and even made several trips to her son’s doctor. “The whole apartment for the last six weeks smelled like straight sewage,” Baptiste lamented. NYCHA offered to pay for a hotel after The News reported on her plight — though she and her boy were initially turned away.
Pong payout: A federal judge ruled that mobster inmate Thomas “Tommy
Shots” Gioeli shouldn’t keep a $250,000 settlement for a table tennis tumble while behind bars. Instead, the cash should go for restitution to a fur store and a bank robbed by the one-time Colombo crime family street boss in the 1990s, The News exclusively reported on Tuesday.
Grateful gut: A teenage intestinal transplant patient enjoyed his first Thanksgiving turkey in 18 years after a surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital that finally let him enjoy solid food. “It was good. It was nice to be able to actively participate after so many years of not being able to,” Syracuse’s grateful Michael Dotto told The News Friday. “It was nice to be able to have a Thanksgiving, and spend time with the family.”
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