For those who like to combine their celebrity spotting with their spooking, be on the lookout for the ghosts of Thomas Becket, the young Dukes of York, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Jane Grey, a bear and Queen Anne Boleyn.

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"If Mayor Bloomberg is serious about taking this issue on, he cannot single out bodegas who will struggle to adapt and compete with corporate franchises, " Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP New York state branch, said in a statement Friday.

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