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Dismiss them as a vestige of an analog era, but few neighborhood institutions inspire protective pride in New Yorkers like their post offices.

As news trickled out this week that some as-yet-unknown number of the city’s roughly 250 post offices are to be closed — after reports that 53 might be shuttered, officials reached by phone amended the list on Tuesday to a more modest 14 — confused and angry residents and politicians from around the city have been rallying in defense of their local branches. Read more..

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Two-year-old Jonaih McKinney’s leg is covered in rat bites

  The mother of a 2-year-old girl attacked by rats in her crib has sued her landlord, blaming him for the rodents that terrorized her family.

Jonnique McKinney claims she had complained about rats and mice since moving into the Clay Ave. apartment building in the Bronx in July 2007.

An exterminator plugged up her radiator with steel wool, but that didn’t stop rats from feasting on her daughter on July 3, 2008, said her lawyer, Charles Green.

“She was sleeping in her bed and she woke up screaming,” Green said.

Little Jonaih was taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered five rodent bites, he said.

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