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A 75-year-old woman leaving Macy’s Herald Square was confronted by a shirtless attacker who shoved her to the ground and repeatedly kicked her before getting away, police said Thursday. The unprovoked assault happened just past 3:10 p.m. on June 10 as the victim left the department store’s flagship location and was about to cross the street at W. 34th St and Sixth Ave. The suspect made a comment to her then knocked her to the ground, according to cops, then started kicking her. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai West Hospital to be treated for bruises to her legs. Anyone with information abou......

NEW YORK — Lori Ellis had a front row seat to the horrors of 9/11. As senior manager for operations and merchandising at the Century 21 on Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan — mere feet from the twin towers — she saw desperate people jumping from windows after the planes hit. She can’t forget stepping over dead bodies, trying to keep her panicked employees away from the store windows, evacuating everyone and escaping through the smoke and a layer of white dust that covered everything like new fallen snow. She also remembers what happened five months later, when she and her co-workers proudly ......