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• Poor li’l rich kids: Posh schools scold parents who send nannies

  Wealthy New Yorkers are shunning their parental duties — choosing instead to send nannies to their children’s private schools to take part in everything from “safety patrol” to accompanying the kids on their entrance interviews. “They...  

• Chinese ‘spy’ busts at NYU

  Three Chinese citizens engaged in industrial espionage while conducting federally funded research at NYU Langone Medical Center, authorities charged yesterday. The men — one of whom was called an “innovator” in MRI technology” —...  

• ‘Pic’-a-boo: Stolen phone snaps ‘thief’

  A stolen smartphone was able to do its own detective work — by taking a photo of the man who might have snatched it.  Police want to talk to this “person of interest” (pictured), who was photographed holding a phone stolen from a man...  

• Policing anti-gay violence

  The NYPD will beef up patrols in the West Village, Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea after a spate of violent attacks against gay men there, officials said yesterday. The patrols — which will feature mobile command units — were announced in...  

• NYPD increasing patrols in wake of attacks on gay man

  The NYPD will beef up patrols in several Manhattan neighborhoods following the fatal shooting of a gay man in the West Village and two earlier violent attacks...  

• Wolfgang Puck catering firm slammed for skimming tips: suit

  One of the country’s highest earning chefs is nickel and diming his staff, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday.  A...  

• Barbie eyeing a Manhattan penthouse in search for new dream home

  Move over, Malibu — Barbie’s hunting for a dream house in Manhattan! Barbie is moving from her California mansion and embarking on a quest for new digs that could land her in a posh penthouse with Central Park views, makers of the...  

• Suspect in Greenwich Village ‘gay slay’ was laughing when arrested

  The homophobic ex-con accused of “executing’’ a gay man in Greenwich Village laughed and boasted about the murder, prosecutors said yesterday. “Yeah, I shot him in the head,” Elliot Morales, 33, sneered while “laughing on the ground”...  

• Brooklyn, shmooklyn! Upper E. Side center woos Jews

  A banking billionaire is funding a $50 million, all-inclusive community center on the Upper East Side to lure Sephardic Jewish singles and young couples from...  

• Scientist’s suit: Keep anatomy to yourself

  A respected neuroscientist claims that a dirty dean at the New York Institute of Technology wrecked her career after she rebuffed his sleazy sexual advances,...  

• B’way drama as man falls from theater

  A man survived a fall out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street yesterday after landing on the marquee, fire officials said. Witnesses told The Post the older man was milling around a second-floor hall at 2:50 p...  

• Village 'gay slay' underscores city's hate-crime spike

   A gay man was gunned down in Greenwich Village early yesterday allegedly by a bigot who hurled homophobic slurs at him — a senseless attack that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly called “clearly a hate crime.” Brooklyn resident Mark...  

• Man tumbles out of theater window, but marquee breaks fall

   A theater-goer survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street today — landing on the marquee below, fire officials said. Witnesses told The Post that the older man was milling around a second...  

• Suspect in cold-blooded murder of gay man laughed and boasted, 'Yeah, I shot him in the head,' prosecutors say

   The bigoted ex-con accused with a hate crime for shooting dead a gay man in Greenwich Village laughed and boasted about the murder shortly after he was arrested, prosecutors said yesterday. “Yeah, I shot him in the head,” sneered...  

• Bank bandit tells yelling teller: shhhhhhhhhh!

  A well-dressed bank thief desperately tried to quiet down a freaked-out Midtown teller — who screamed when he slipped her a note saying he’d kill people unless she handed over cash.  The Bank of America worker — described as a “sweet...  

• School ‘project’

   A controversial $100 million charter school will open next month smack in the middle of a rundown, crime-plagued Harlem housing project — a first-of-its-kind arrangement in the nation. The city Department of Education forked out $60...  

• Book buff’s Wilde accusation

  Will the real Earnest please step up? A Soho man claims that he has owned a rare first edition of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest” for...  

• Umbrella ‘bop’ lawsuit

  A Harlem man claims he was seriously hurt in Union Square after he was socked with a large umbrella that came flying off a nearby roof. Adam Woomer, 31, was...  

• Joy emerges amid grief

  The Upper West Side couple whose two children were allegedly butchered by their nanny announced yesterday that they’re expecting a baby boy this fall — roughly a year after their nightmarish loss.  Marina and Kevin Krim posted the...  

• Juror Caroline gets a peek of the crack rock

  Caroline Kennedy got what is presumably her first look at a crack rock yesterday — and she and her fellow jurors on a small-time Harlem buy-and-bust trial didn...  

• Cops search for 3 fake psychics in 'bait-and-switch' scam

  Three middle-aged women posing as psychics stole $2,000 from a superstitious Manhattan resident during a classic “bait-and-switch” – and cops believe they might have committed similar crimes, sources told The Post today.  Two of the...  

• Furor over NYPD’s planned Fort WTC

  The NYPD plans to build a fortress around the World Trade Center site once it’s completed — and the measures have downtown residents up in arms. The $40 million police proposal would limit traffic over a 16-acre swath of the Financial...  

• Tribeca residents furious over being secretly photographed for new Chelsea art exhibit

  Residents of a luxury Tribeca building are furious over a new photo exhibit in a Chelsea art gallery — because they had no idea they were the subjects on display. From his second-floor apartment across the street, artist Arne Svenson...  

• Father & son 'pimps' on tape talk about 'mad cribs'

  He's a CEO, a master of industry, and a real estate mogul with "mad cribs."  Accused sex trafficker Vincent George, Jr. held forth at length on the glories of pimping in a wiretap tape played at his and his father's Manhattan trial...  

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