Filled with traffic and camera-toting tourists, until recently the 350-year-old streets of Old Montreal resembled a Canadian Times Square.

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Among the highlights for Stefanie Gray, a 24-year-old of Sheepshead Bay, was the Times Square bathroom, spotless with a private security guard (which she assumes must be privately sponsored, given its condition).

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Have you ever tried to stuff a 9 year-old and 12 year-old into bed when the alternative is to watch the New Year Ball descend at Times Square (even if on TV)?

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Laura Vanegas, a 45-year-old native of Ecuador, changes into her Liberty robes and applies copper-green face paint behind the Times Square military recruiting station.

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Christopher Mackin, a 31-year-old known to police, is thought to have been shot up to four times during the incident at College Square North on Thursday night.

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The unlikely pair met amid the neon lights of New York City's Times Square over the weekend and headed back to the squat brick home of 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. on a quiet cul-de-sac in suburban Clark, N.

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