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<p>During the "humanitarian crisis" that immediately developed when 50 illegal aliens showed up in the exclusive, mostly Democratic enclave of multi-million-dollar seasonal mansions, a question arose in my mind.</p><p>Why would anyone be surprised that the exclusivists – Our other home is in the Tribeca or Upper East Side or Battery Park section of New York – got upset when illegal aliens without DEWALT 20V MAX* XR Leaf Blowers or household staff uniforms showed up in their neighborhoods? They're not welcome as pool cleaners; after all, we can’t have illegals looking at the mothers and daughters wearing bikinis.</p>

A “living statue” of Donald Trump has been unveiled in New York City’s Battery Park showing the gold-clad president riding a golf buggy over tombstones of coronavirus and dead soldiers while being followed by Fox News hosts. The brash installation, dubbed “The Final Push”, was revealed Tuesday morning in Trump’s city of birth, taking pride of place along the Hudson River near Pier A. It was set up by a collective of artists called The Trump Statue Initiative who said they aim to showcase “our 45th President’s most notoriously self-serving, narcissistic and racist moments”. […] Pushing the president’s golf cart...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two Iranian nationals seen by a New York police officer photographing city landmarks were just tourists nearing the end of their stay in the United States, Iran's mission to the United Nations said on Friday."It was these two guys on Saturday, June 22, taking pictures of themselves in Battery Park" at the southern end of Manhattan, said Mohammad Hossein Nosrat, mission spokesman. The two, who work as security guards at the mission and do not have diplomatic immunity, took 1 minute 40 seconds of videotape of the park and environs, Nosrat said. At that point, a...

New development in mysterious death of John Wheeler David Henry reportingJanuary 15, 2011NEW CASTLE, Del. - January 14, 2011 (WPVI) -- New details continue to emerge about the mysterious death of a former White House advisor from Delaware.... ...Wheeler sent an e-mail to friends and neighbors just before Christmas.In it, he vents his growing anger over the new house, that it blocks his view of the river and Battery Park. In the e-mail Wheeler wrote, "The core of Battery Park is dying, because as can now be seen, the huge mansion will dominate the site....In the very large picture, over...

For the first time since a pre-Revolutionary stone wall was discovered in Lower Manhattan last fall, part of it went on display to the public today in Battery Park. An exhibition about the discovery, titled "Walls Within Walls," was unveiled Tuesday evening before a dinner for the Battery Conservancy, which raises money to maintain and improve the 23-acre park. The display, at the Castle Clinton monument, includes just a piece of the first of three large sections of wall that were found during excavation for a new South Ferry subway station. Some archaeologists who have studied parts of the wall...

APPLE-BUZZ: MOM SUES OVER DRUNK KID By DAVID HAFETZ January 8, 2006 -- He ordered apple juice at Applebee's — but the restaurant allegedly put so much yippee in his kiddie cup, the Manhattan 5-year-old ended up in the emergency room after a bizarre boozy bender of clowning, shouting and stumbling. Now the boy's mom, Cynthia Pereles, is suing the chain eatery and a downtown franchise for serving her son, Seth, a Long Island Iced Tea — a walloping cocktail of white rum, gin, vodka, triple sec, coke and sweet-and-sour mix.... Seth, meanwhile, was getting an early taste of...