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Protesters slammed pending increases on rent-stabilized apartments Sunday as an attempt to oust the poor from the city.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda accepts his Tony Award for Best Score, Sunday, June 15, 2008, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

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Home : Features : Theater : The Tony Awards Don't Garner High Ratings The Tony Awards Don't Garner High Ratings 17-Jun-2008 Written by: Marie J. Pellegrino Despite more performances this year's Tony Awards ...

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Did the 2008 Tony Awards take a cue from the Grammys? From its opening moments, featuring a scene from Disney 's "The Lion King" to its final minutes, when the soon-to-close "Rent" sang out, entertainment took ...

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June 16, 2008 By E.B. SOLOMONT Inside the orientation packet he received as a first-year resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr.

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'In the Heights,' the little musical that began on Wesleyan University's Middletown campus eight years ago and matured at Waterford's O'Neill Theater Center, captured the top prize at the annual Tony Awards Sunday night, honoring the best of the 2007-08 Broadway season.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who as a student in Middletown created the musical based on the Hispanic neighborhood where he grew up in New York's Washington Heights, also won for best original score.

A visibly thrilled Miranda, 28, accepted his composing award with a special rap that delighted the audience at Radio City Music Hall: 'I used to dream about this moment; now I'm in it. Tell the conductor to hold the baton a minute. ... Mr. Sondheim, look, I made a hat where there never was a hat, and a Latin hat at that.'

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Colleen Jennings-Rogensack, executive director of Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium, is one of about 700 judges from around the country who pick the Tony award winners.

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A 'curiously sanitised' musical take on Manhattan's Washington Heights ... In the Heights Sunday's Tony awards ceremony, Broadway cognoscenti claim, will result in much kudos going to the musical In the Heights ...

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The storms have passed and the massive clean up is now under way in the Big Apple.

Powerful winds uprooted trees and scattered cars and debris along Riverside Drive.

After four long days of stifling heat, a storm broke through, cooling the air with strong winds and lightning that lit up the sky.

When it was over scaffolding was torn apart and littering Audobon Avenue in Washington Heights.

In Jamaica, Queens winds toppled a tree onto a car, cracking its windshield, side, and putting enough weight that it forced the air out of the tires.

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My father's name was Edelmiro Torres, a name he hated, so everyone called him Eddie.

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