THIS LITTLE PIGGY SAVED SOME MONEY

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Students from P.S. 167 pose with the head of what will be a giant piggy bank. The project, organized with members of the Learning Through an Expanded Art Program (LEAP NYC), is meant to stress the importance of staying in school, saving money for college and other goals. When finished and combined with the body
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METRO-NORTH CONSIDERS W. 60s STOP

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Riverside South, the mega development between West 59th and 61st streets along the Hudson River, is being considered by Metro-North as a location for an Upper West Side railway stop. The MTA has long studied the possibility of connecting Metro-North’s New Haven and Hudson lines, which terminate in Grand Central Station, with Penn Station. But
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OLLIES SETTLES WITH WORKERS

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Tsu Yue Wang, owner of nine Asian food restaurants across the city, has agreed to pay $2.3 million to 813 workers after an investigation by the state Department of Labor. The settlement averages out at just over $2,800 per person. The state agency found that the restaurants, which include Ollies Noodle Shop and Grille at
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LOCAL WINS SLOAN AWARD

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Kim Estes-Fradis, an Upper West Side resident, won the Sloan Public Service Award, the highest honor given to a city employee. Estes-Fradis, an employee at the Department of Environmental Protection, was one of seven city workers who won this year’s award. Estes-Fradis joined the department in 1988 as the director of education. Now the deputy
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TOUR HISTORIC ARTIST COLONY

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Landmark West, a preservation group, will host an inaugural Spring House Tour of private homes within the West 67th Street Artists’ Colony Historic District. Visitors will be taken inside the home of an artist, a restaurateur’s kitchen and the art collection of an art historian. The tour will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April
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SCHUMER CRITICIZES FED ON CRANE SAFETY

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Sen. Charles Schumer has asked the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to hold off on moving forward with a proposal that would give the agency, rather than municipalities, the power to approve stop-work orders for unsafe cranes. For New York City, that means taking that power away from the Department of Buildings, whose rules
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SCHOOL BURGLARIZED

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Cops collared a man after he was caught attempting to steal credit cards from P.S. 191’s locker room while basketball players were on the court. Chester Burns, 46, was arrested for burglary on March 5 at 7:30 p.m., shortly after he entered the West 61st Street school, near Amsterdam Avenue. Police said that when spotted
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