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Teddy Bear Tea Party at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden. Kids get a tour from an actress who plays the proprietor’s wife. TEA FOR TOTS BYOB – bring your own bear! The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden on the Upper East Side hosts a honey of a brunch on Sunday to cure kids’ post-holiday blahs. Children ages ...

SUZANNE PLUNKETT/REUTERS Arsenal ride Theo Walcott’s double to come back from behind against West Ham United. MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Arsenal is on top of the Premier League heading into the second half of the season as Arsene Wenger looks to win the trophy for the first time in a decade. Theo Walcott’s double ensured Liverpool’s stay atop the standings ...

For decades, dozens of New York’s Finest would cram themselves each day into the 122nd Precinct House, a squat concrete box on Staten Island’s Hylan Blvd. With a blank exterior, few windows and low ceilings, it’s the kind of place neither the public nor the public servants wanted to spend much time in — the kind of cheap, bland government ...

Evandro Inetti/ZUMAPRESS.com A 51-year-old man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. VATICAN CITY — A man has doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. The Vatican said Thursday the 51-year-old man was treated at a nearby hospital and transferred to a larger ...

LAS VEGAS – Not really interested in the Army – Navy game (it’s Navy or nothing, but don’t wanna lay a dozen) so we’ll jump across the pond again, where we have won a few bucks this week, and try Hull City over Stoke City in the Premier League matchup. The Tigers from Kingston upon Hull have been exceptional at ...

Paul Warchol The U.S. Mission to the UN by Gwathmey Siegel The work of architects Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel seems ill-suited to New York. Their love of brash geometric buildings mixing sharp angles and swooping curves is at odds with the city’s rigid grid. But Gwathmey Siegel & Associates was, and is, one of the city’s most successful and ...

JOHN TAGGART/JOHN TAGGART FOR NEW YORK DAILY Mike Wolfert has gotten in hot water with the city — first for allegedly bribing a buildings inspector and now for not having proper paperwork for his Long Island City climbing gym, Cliffs. Here, Wolfert tests out his bungee. One of the country’s largest indoor climbing gyms isn’t on the up and up. ...

BSIP/UIG via Getty Images This 2005 scanning electron micrograph sem depicted numerous clumps of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to by the acronym MRSA. A Westchester Village special-education school may not have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria as initially feared, the city Health Department said. “After hearing reports of a possible MRSA case at ...