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Plaxico Burress picked a club in the wrong borough to dance around with an illegal gun.

Prosecutors in Manhattan have the highest conviction rate among the city’s five boroughs against people collared in second-degree gun possession cases.

About 22% of Manhattan defendants get convicted on that charge, according to a News analysis of state Division of Criminal Justice data from 2003 to 2007. The conviction rate hovered around 10% in three other boroughs: 9% in Staten Island, 10% in the Bronx and 12% in Queens. Brooklyn had the lowest conviction rate at 7%.

Citywide, 11.4% of the 9,729 defendants charged with second-degree gun possession were actually convicted of that charge, which carries a mandatory 3-1/2 year sentence. Read more..

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Raisin in the Sun/A Raisin in the Sun Photography Michelle Koys & Michael Acevedo.

Teachers Michelle, 27, and Michael, 31, met in the summer of 2005 in Florida. “I met him through my best friend - he was living in Florida and teaching there with her, and I went down to visit and we became friends,” said Michelle. “Then he wound up spending the summer in the Bronx teaching English at a camp, and we went out one night together, and then spent every day together until he went back to Florida. Then we did the long-distance thing for two years, until he moved here in 2007.” Read more..

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After months of clanging hammers, coughing cement trucks and shouting construction workers, Tulfan Terrace, a leafy dead-end lane in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, has been quiet since 2006. But it has not been a welcome quiet.

The noise emanated from a condo tower that swallows up the southern half of the cul-de-sac. But after the developers fell into financial trouble that year, work on the project stopped. What remains looks like the cast-off toy of a distracted giant: a 12-story skeleton with no exterior walls and a squat blue plywood fence encircling the rim. Read more..

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