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The city’s parks commissioner dismissed reports that racial and economic tensions were the cause of the recent violence at the newly opened McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg.

The mother of one of the three children who died when a yacht capsized off of Long Island earlier this week defended the 12-year old’s father who was responsible for taking the girl on the fatal Fourth of July boat ride.

A rite of passage for many teens is the summer job. New York City is helping youths in the city with this milestone through employment and learning programs.

POLITICS
Gov. Christie Says He Plans to Submit New Supreme Court Nominee This Month (Star-Ledger)
Matt Friedman reports: “Gov. Chris Christie said this morning he will try to put forward a new state Supreme Court nominee this month. In a friendly phone interview with South Jersey radio host Harry Hurley, Christie — who is spending the holiday weekend at the governor’s beach house at Island Beach State Park — turned up the political rhetoric against Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee who had rejected his last two nominees, First Assistant Attorney General Phil Kwon and Chatham Borough Mayor Bruce Harris.”

An NYPD officer wearing a bullet-proof vest is in stable condition after he was shot in the chest early Thursday morning on the Lower East Side.

Three children were killed when a yacht capsized off Long Island on the Fourth of July, sending 24 others into the Long Island Sound, where many were rescued by fellow boaters, police said Thursday.

Take a five-cent trip on the Staten Island ferry. Take a Fifth Avenue bus to Fort Tryon Park. Watch the planes take off and land at LaGuardia field.

A man who stabbed an MTA police officer in Jamaica, Queens this morning died of gunshot wounds. MTA police officer John Barnett shot and killed Edgar Owens of the Bronx, after the man stabbed him in the left eye and ignored repeated warnings to drop a knife.

A New York appeals court has reversed the conviction of a 14-year-old boy arrested after a street search turned up a weapon in his backpack.

Utility Workers Local 1-2 are picketing at Consolidated Edison job sites where managers are filing in for union workers in Day 3 of a labor dispute affecting 8,000 Con Ed workers.

Demolition was underway Tuesday on the four-story brownstone in Brooklyn where workers are removing pieces of the masonry from the top floor of the building that collapsed a day earlier. 

State Senator Adriano Espaillat is temporarily withdrawing his request that the courts supervise the recount in his race to unseat Congressman Charles Rangel.

Union leaders and Consolidated Edison have scheduled talks for Thursday to see if a solution can be reached following failed contract talks and a lockout on Sunday.

A day after its grand reopening, McCarren Park pool had to close early after a melee broke out.

The Roundabout Theatre Company is currently hosting a revival of “Harvey” — a play about a man and his best friend, who happens to be a tall, invisible, (presumably imaginary), rabbit...

New York University President John Sexton defended plans to increase the school's footprint in its Greenwich Village neighborhood. He spoke at a City Council public hearing on Friday that was packed with critics and supporters of NYU’s proposed expansion plans.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the City’s Council’s overriding of his living wage bill veto “predictable” – saying Friday he plans to sue.

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner applauded the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act in an exclusive interview on Friday.  

The House has approved a historic resolution to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress — the first time a sitting Cabinet member has been held in contempt.