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Vince Eaton and Sara Valencia at their wedding at Hallockville Museum Farm, on TLC’s “Secret Wedding,” airing Dec. 27. Here comes the bride — and she looks stunned. Brooklyn bride Sara Valencia got the surprise of her life on her wedding day thanks to her husband and a little help from TV host Cat Deeley. Vince Eaton, 29, tricked his ...

Susan Walsh/AP Actor Sean Penn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington May 20 before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing as he advocates for  American Jacob Ostreicher’s Freedom after two years in Bolivian detention. After spending more than two years in prison, a man from Brooklyn who was never charged with any ...

Giancarli, Alfred/Freelance, NYDN An Art-deco Starbucks in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx. According to a new report, no new Starbucks opened in the Bronx in 2012, though four Dunkin Donuts did. It’s the invasion of the chain gang. Corporate franchises have increased their presence throughout the boroughs for the sixth year running, with the largest increases occurring in Brooklyn ...

Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News Michael Bloomberg suits are made especially for him by a father-and-son tailor duo in Brooklyn’s Bushwich district. Hizzoner’s a hipster — sort of. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed Monday he treks all the way to “a dumpy warehouse” in Bushwick for his custom-made power suits. He told Women’s Wear Daily that he ...

Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells; they’ll be a Terminal 5 Friday and Saturday. Hooks hit you from every direction on the new Sleigh Bells single. In the note-perfect “Bitter Rivals,” the sound of dogs barking, girls cooing, a guitar rattling and percussion clicking all vie for your attention. And that’s before the proper song even begins. Twenty ...

Facebook Nicholas Mevoli learned to dive without fins and oxygen tanks when he visited the Florida Keys as a child. A young Brooklyn freediver who died over the weekend while competing for a world record did so much damage to his lungs during his 236-foot plunge that he couldn’t survive, his family told The Daily News Monday. Nicholas Mevoli, 32, ...

Facebook Nicholas Mevoli was killed during a freedive competition in Nassau, Bahamas while going for $ 20,000 prize. A 32-year-old New York City man who broke the U.S. constant weight record for freediving soon after beginning his competitive career last year died Sunday while participating in a tournament in the Bahamas, police said. Nicholas Mevoli, who lived in the city’s ...