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Commuters will have to keep paying more to drive into town from New Jersey, at least for now. A federal judge said Monday that steep toll hikes implemented by the

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Nearly a million New Yorkers crowded downtown Manhattan today for the New York Giants’ Super Bowl XLVI victory parade – – the team’s second in the last four years, and

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