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Mourning her hero:
When model Marla Hanson’s face was sliced up in 1986, the city was stunned, but Hanson found a hero in the NYPD. After a 9/11-related cancer claimed the life of Detective Joe Roman on Jan. 28, Hanson told The News how Roman saved her by nabbing her attackers — and did so later when Hanson pondered suicide.
Horrific repeat:
On the day the Marla Hanson story appeared, a Queens woman was slashed in the face, left with a wound that required 44 stitches to close. “I felt like I was going to be raped,” Dana Sagona (inset) told The News in recounting the chilling details.
Morbid matricide:
A Tribeca woman’s throat was slit, allegedly at the hands of her polyamorous son, who prosecutors say admitted he dumped her body in New Jersey and got his two girlfriends to help cover up the crime. Days later, a Brooklyn man was accused of stabbing his mother to death and stuffing her in a closet, cops say.
Air of anxiety:
Josue Morales’ home is making him sick. The 12-year-old boy with asthma has made several trips to the hospital because of the sickening mold in his city Housing Authority apartment in East Harlem, his mom told The News exclusively. Once we detailed Josue’s misery, NYCHA vowed to find him and his family another home.
Oooh, that smell:
Something stinks on the L train — besides its on-time performance rate. The News detailed the effort to eliminate the subway stench that made some workers sick — and straphangers hold their breath on their commute. The cause was finally revealed: a forgotten fuel tank.
Hurry up and wait:
New Yorkers who get food stamps and other benefits wait an average of three hours before being helped at city facilities. A day after we reported that exclusively, Jazmine Headley, whose son was ripped from her arms at a Brooklyn benefits office, tearfully shared the details of her ordeal with the City Council.
Opening doors:
Even before Hollie Tubbs’ students walk into her classroom, they’re seeing a work of art. Tubbs decorated the door to her room at Public School 231 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to look like an African-American woman for Black History Month.