Pictures of 2013 - B
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November 6 - Gabriella Fortunet, 9, carefully reads each plaque in the Van Cortlandt Park Memorial Grove on Memorial Day.
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September 9 - Lisa Hoti, comforts her son Elton, 5, as she sends him off to kindergarden at PS 24.
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February 7 - Kylia Easter, a nurse with Jacobi Medical Center, prepares a flu shot at the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative.
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November 6 - Lora Juncaj, 24, granddaughter of Drane Nikac, cries in the hallway at the sentencing of former NYPD detective Kevin Spellman, who hit and killed her grandmother with his car.
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March 7 - Raysette Mercedes, looks at a leaky hole in her Creston Avenue apartment’s bathroom ceiling. Rats and roaches invaded the premises.
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October 6 - Cecilia Flores and Georgia Corless, protest on the corner of West 254th Street and Broadway.
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December 1 - Rescue workers, rush to free passengers from the wreckage of a derailed Metro-North train.
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July 10 - Restoration workers, remove debris in Victor Marrero’s apartment on the 6th floor of 3840 Orloff Ave. a day after a fire struck the building.
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April 22 - Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents 25 alleged sexual abuse victims from Horace Mann School, speaks at a press conference.
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January 17 - Union 1181 bus drivers and bus matrons march on strike along Zerega Avenue.
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September 12 - Maria Capellan, and her neighbors spoke at a 50th Precinct Community Council meeting against early morning commercial deliveries that keep them awake.
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Moments of poignancy and passion, some hopeless, some
nearly so — all were part of the story during the year.
