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The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo celebrating the 110th anniversary of its opening Sunday.To honor the parks special milestone, hundreds of visitors were on hand to sing Happy Birthday and cut the cake.

“I like seeing all the animal, because some are cute and there is a lot to learn about animals,” said one zoo goer.

“I think what the zoo does is it gives people that zoo face, you see an animal and it’s fun, your face lights up, you get the zoo face.”

“We make people aware that life is bigger than they themselves are and they are part of something much larger. I think if we do that and we make people want to contribute in efforts to save wildlife and places then we have been successful.”

Zoo officials say since the zoo opened in 1899, more than 236 million people have visited the grounds. Read more..

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Police officers were involved in two shootings Friday, one of a 15-year-old boy the police said was brandishing a fake gun, the other of a man they said was trying to steal an officer’s car.

In the first episode, about 5 p.m., a police officer assigned to a narcotics unit watched an argument between two groups of men near Burke Avenue and Holland Street in the Olinville section of the Bronx. A 15-year-old boy with one group waved what appeared to be a gun, but ran away when he was taunted by men in the other group, the police said.

The officer, whom the police did not identify, joined by another officer, chased the boy and fired one shot, striking the boy in the left cheek, the police said. An imitation gun was recovered at the scene. The boy was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, and was charged with menacing and possessing an imitation pistol.

In the second shooting, about 6:25 in East New York, Brooklyn, an off-duty officer sitting in a parked car was ordered out of the car at gunpoint by Norman Harrison, 25, the police said. The officer, whom the police refused to identify except to say that he had been in the department for less than three years, fired one shot, hitting Mr. Harrison in the right shoulder.

Mr. Harrison fled, and hid out in an apartment for more than an hour before surrendering. He was charged with robbery, the police said. Read more..

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