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Harlem shootings show NYC still has gun problem

The Harlem of 2008 is gentrified, moneyed and decidedly less violent than it was a generation ago. But New York City still has a gun problem, and as Memorial Day wound down to a close, gunfire rang out on Lenox Avenue as people ran for their lives, police said Tuesday.

Six teens were struck and wounded in that Monday shooting, police said, but that told only half the story of violence in...

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