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NEW YORK — A 3-year-old boy plummeted to his death from the 29th-floor balcony of a Manhattan high-rise on Saturday morning, police said. The child fell from the Taino Towers complex in East Harlem around 11 a.m., landing on the third-floor scaffolding with a sickening thud before he was rushed to Harlem Hospital and pronounced dead, authorities said. “We heard a big bang,” said Richard Linares, 36, who was at the heartbreaking scene on E. 122nd St. “My boy that was here ran to the front. He ran up the scaffold to find the baby. The baby was still crying and breathing when he got there. “By th......

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul fielded thinly veiled political jabs from two of her likely gubernatorial race opponents Monday as they convened for an event in Harlem to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The annual MLK Day commemoration at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters is typically a day of tributes and calls to action — but that couldn’t keep the sparks from flying as Hochul shared the stage with Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and former Mayor Bill de Blasio. Williams, who has positioned himself as the most progressive candidate in the Democr......