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  • NYPD Officer Rosa Rodriguez, who was injured in a Coney Island fire, is wheeled from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center on Monday, May 19, 2014, with two of her kids by her side. Her partner, Officer Dennis Guerra, was killed in the April public housing complex blaze, which authorities said was an act of arson. Rodriguez suffered a burned esophagus and was in the hospital for weeks.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • A person dressed as Woody from
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Sylvia Palmer, the mother of a man killed by an NYPD officer, speaks about her son at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Akai Gurley was fatally shot in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing complex after the officer's gun discharged -- an event the NYPD has called an accident. Palmer is comforted by her husband Ken Palmer, the father of Gurley. At right is family adviser Kevin Powell.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Esaw Garner, center, the wife of Eric Garner, speaks at a news conference at the National Action Network in Manhattan on Dec. 3, 2014, hours after a grand jury decided against indicting the NYPD officer involved in her husband's death on Staten Island during the summer. Eric Garner, 43, was put in an apparent chokehold by the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, as seen in a widely distributed bystander video. Police said Garner was selling loose, untaxed cigarettes and refused to be arrested, which led to the fatal confrontation.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • A man is arrested during the Black Out Black Friday protests in Herald Square in Manhattan on Nov. 28, 2014. The protests were in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Protesters react in Manhattan Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, after a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson, Missouri, Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed an unarmed Michael Brown in August.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Protesters stage a
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa
  • Daniel Skelton of Rahway, New Jersey, holds cigarettes Dec. 3, 2014, near the spot where Eric Garner died during a fatal tussle with NYPD officers in July. Police had accused Garner of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Protesters shut down traffic on the West Side Highway in Manhattan Nov. 25, 2014. Protests continued throughout New York City after the announcement that a grand jury in Missouri had not indicted the police officer who killed Michael Brown.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Protesters shut down traffic on the West Side Highway in Manhattan Nov. 25, 2014, after the announcement that a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict the police officer who killed unarmed Michael Brown.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • President Barack Obama walks through Memorial Hall at the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, Thursday, May 15, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • People protest in Times Square on Nov. 24, 2014, after a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict the police officer who killed Michael Brown.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • A member of the security team stands in the lobby of One World Trade Center as a beam of sunlight enters the building Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. It was move-in day for the first tenants of the building, from Conde Nast.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Smoke rises from the East Harlem scene where an explosion brought down two apartment buildings, killing eight people, on March 12, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • A fireman searches for survivors at a building explosion Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at 116th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan.
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • Workers use a crane to clear debris from the site of the East Harlem building explosion, Friday, March 14, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Bryan Smith
  • Members of the Hasidic community gather at a Jan. 5, 2014 news conference decrying a New York Post story that painted slaying victim Menachem Stark as a slumlord. Stark's body was found in a Great Neck trash bin after he was abducted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • A man stands with a beer at Ruby's Bar and Grill in Coney Island on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The boardwalk staple celebrated its 80th birthday that Saturday.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Dr. Craig Spencer reaches for Dr. Laura Evans, his chief caregiver, on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, during a news conference at Bellevue Hospital Center as he was released from the facility after being treated for an Ebola virus infection.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with his parents, former Gov. Mario Cuomo and Matilda Cuomo, at election headquarters after delivering his victory speech in Manhattan on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Chirlane McCray and her husband Mayor Bill de Blasio kiss near the Cyclone roller coaster as they march in the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade Saturday, June 21, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Mayor Bill DeBlasio, left, walks with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo as they attend the 88th annual Feast of San Gennaro parade in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • From left seated in the front row: Sen. Charles Schumer, Diana Taylor, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sandra Lee, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on the dais before former President Bill Clinton administers the oath of office to new Mayor Bill de Blasio outside of City Hall in Manhattan on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. De Blasio, the city's first Democratic mayor in two decades, has promised a new era of progressive leadership.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Nerone rides on a toy car in the 57th annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan on Sunday, June 08, 2014. The parade aims to honor the nearly 4 million inhabitants of Puerto Rico and the more than 4 million people of Puerto Rican birth or heritage living in the United States.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • The graduating class celebrates under a hail of confetti at a Police Academy graduation at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on June 30, 2014.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote

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