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High-profile history: An accused Brooklyn gun runner was once acquitted of a high profile Manhattan murder, The News reported on Monday. Montoun Hart, 49, was charged on Nov.12 with selling guns from suppliers who trafficked the weapons up the Iron Pipeline from southern states. In 1999, Hart (photo) was found not guilty in the robbery, torture and murder of teacher Jonathan Levin. “I’m glad he’s arrested. Maybe this time it’ll stick,” said Carol Levin, the slain man’s 80-year-old mother.
Transit trouble e: The MTA is planning massive layoffs and a 40% cut in weekday subway service, The News exclusively reported on Tuesday. The transit austerit ty plan revealed the job bs of more than 9,00 0 transit workers are on n the chopping block. NYC Transit’s subway and bus workforce, most of whom worked on the front lines in the darkest days of the pandemic in March and April, would be hit hardest — they’d account for 88% of the proposed layoffs, or about 8,238 workers. Along with a hike in fares and tolls, some weekend subway service will be suspended entirely, while weekday train schedules would be pared by 40%, according to the MTA plan.
Blazingly bad idea: “AArt man, art,” rapper Duupree G.O.D gave as hiis reason for jumping onn top of a packed buus and shooting off a flamethrower in Brrooklyn. The enterrtainer, whose real naame is Christopher DDupree, leaped shirtless from an ice cream truck onto a packed B26 bus at Franklin and Putnam Aves. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Nov. 8. Police learned of the flammable feat after it went viral on social media. Dupree was charged Tuesday with reckless endangerment. “De Blasio is already burning this city to the ground — so what’s one more fire?” Cary London, Dupree’s lawyer, wisecracked to The News.
Students sue: The screening system the city uses to admit students to elite public high schools violates federal law by disproportionately keeping Black and Latino students out of the coveted schools, according to complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department on Monday. Student advocacy group Teens Take Charge allege using grades, test scores, attendance records and other criteria is biased. Data from more than a dozen screened high schools shows thousands of Black and Hispanic students applied — but got in at far lower rates than their peers. The group’s complaint asks the federal agency to bar the city from using admissions criteria like grades and attendance records, and instead require every public high school to accept a range of low- and high-scoring students.