People living in a glass house are throwing verbal stones at a photographer and the exhibition he shot through the windows of their upscale Manhattan apartment complex.

Arne Svenson used a telephoto lense to take the pictures from his own apartment window across the street from the upscale Zinc Building in the city’s tony Tribeca section. One photo prominently displays the backside of a woman on all fours apparently picking something up from her floor; another shows someone napping.

The photos, some residents of the Zinc Building complain, are an invasion of privacy.

“I’m upset because a lot of children live in this building,” one male resident told NBC’s Today show. “I have children, young children, in this building. I’m sure there’s a lot we haven’t seen. I don’t know what he has on film and I think that’s what everybody’s big concern is: What else is there and what else is he planning on doing with them?”

The photos are on display at the Julie Saul Gallery in Chelsea, some with asking prices of thousands of dollars. Svenson said he did nothing wrong, noting that no faces can be seen in the pictures and that his subjects live in apartments featuring floor-to-ceiling windows.

“For my subjects there is no question of privacy; they are performing behind a transparent scrim on a stage of their own creation with the curtain raised high,” Svenson says in the gallery notes. “The neighbors don’t know they are being photographed; I carefully shoot from the shadows of my home into theirs.”

The gallery describes it this way:

– Svenson has turned outward from his usual studio based practice to study the daily activities of his downtown Manhattan neighbors as seen through his windows into theirs. Svenson has always combined a highly developed aesthetic sense viewed from the perspective of social anthropology in his eclectic projects with subjects ranging from prisoners to sock monkeys. His projects are almost always instigated by an external or random experience which brings new objects or equipment into his life — in this case he inherited a bird watching telephoto lens from a friend.Local are not impressed.

Michelle Sylvester, who lives in tthe Zinc Building, told the Associated Press there is no legal violation “but in a New York, personal sense there was a line crossed.”

Some gallery patrons were more supportive of art and artist.

“You can’t tell who they are, so I think it’s fine,” one gallery-goer told Today. “That’s mysterious. I love them.”

That explanation has done little to satisfy some residents of the Zinc Building, which houses multimillion-dollar condos. Civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel told the Associated Press that, according to New York civil rights law, there may be a way for Svenson’s subjects to challenge him in court.

“The question for the person who’s suing is, if you’re not identifiable, then where’s the loss of privacy?” he told AP. “These issues are a sign of the times. How do you balance the right of privacy vis-à-vis the right of artistic expression?”

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New Orleans police have arrested Akein Scott, 19, in connection with a shooting spree at an informal Mother’s Day parade that left 19 people wounded.

The police department’s Facebook page included a brief statement leading with “CAPTURED!” Police said they would provide more details on the arrest at a news conference later Thursday.

Surveillance video of the shooting scene Sunday showed the crowd fleeing and some people falling down as a man in a white T-shirt and dark pants fled. Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said Monday that Scott had been identified by multiple people as the possible gunman.

Serpas has said it was too early to say whether Scott is the only suspect. Earlier, police had said that three gunmen were involved and that at least two different weapons were used.

The event was known locally as a “second-line parade” — a loose processions in which people dance down the street, often following behind a brass band. They can be impromptu or planned and are sometimes described as moving block parties.

The parade drew up to 400 people, including police officers and was about two blocks long, police said.

Wounded were 10 men and seven women as well as a boy and a girl, both 10, who suffered graze wounds.

Police offered a $10,000 reward in the case.

Police previously said Scott had an arrest record involving drug and weapon charges. Court records show some had been dropped but he was facing a felony charge of illegally carrying a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Scott was scheduled for a court hearing on motions related to that case Thursday. It was not immediately known whether he would be present for that hearing or whether it would be rescheduled.

Contributing: Doug Stanglin; Associated Press

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Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in a shootout with police days after the blast, has been buried at an undisclosed location, police in Worcester, Mass., said Thursday.

“As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased,” Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said.

The announcement ends a weeklong controversy over where to bury Tsarnaev, 26, who is accused along with his brother, Dzhokhar, 19, of planting the bombs that blew up near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. Three people died in the blasts; more than 200 were wounded.

Some graveyards in the Boston area had refused to accept the body. Hazelhurst said Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body was no longer in Worcester. Reading a statement, Hazelhurst thanked “all of the officers who worked the security detail at the funeral home and acknowledge their professionalism and dedication.”

Tsarnaev’s body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors for a week while funeral home director Peter Stefan and Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, sought a burial sight.

The situation drew a handful of flag-waving protesters to the Worcester funeral home for the last several days. One sign read: “Do not bury him on U.S. soil.”

The Tsarnaevs are Muslims from the Chechen area of Russia. Tsarni has denounced them both, saying they brought shame to their family and to the Chechen community.

Tsarni has said he understood reluctance about accepting the bodies for burial, saying that “no one wants to associate their names with such evil acts” the men are accused of committing.

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev has no other place to be buried. There is no other place to accept this body,” Tsarni said. “He lived in America. He grew up here and for the last 10 years he decided to be in Cambridge. … His home ‘country’ is Cambridge, Mass.”

The funeral director, whom some people have called “un-American” for being willing to handle Tsarnaev’s funeral, has said he has a professional obligation.

“We take an oath to do this. Can I pick and choose? No. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? No,” Stefan said. “We are burying a dead body. That’s what we do.”

The state medical examiner ruled that Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, could face the death penalty if convicted.

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The mother of Michelle Knight, held captive for more than a decade, said Wednesday she has not seen her daughter since police freed her from a Cleveland home two days ago but just wants to “hug her.”

“I was hoping and praying all the time” for her return, Barbara Knight, who now lives in Florida, told WKYC-TV in Cleveland. “I’m thrilled and all I want to do is hug her and tell her I love her.”

Michelle Knight, now 32, vanished Aug 22, 2002. She had been hospitalized since being freed Monday. Deborah Knight, Michelle’s grandmother, told the Plain Dealer of Cleveland that Michelle’s disappearance didn’t draw the kind of attention given the other two women, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, because social workers concluded Knight ran away after losing custody of her son.

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Barbara Knight said she and Michelle were close, and she never believed that her daughter would disappear voluntarily. She told WKYC-TV she never gave up hope that her daughter was alive, but also had been concerned that she was dead and her body would never be found.

Eight months after Michelle Knight disappeared, Berry disappeared — a day before her 17th birthday, after telling her sister she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. DeJesus, then 14, disappeared in 2004 on her way home from school.

All were rescued Monday after Berry’s screams alerted a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, who helped her and her 6-year-old daughter escape by kicking out the lower part of the door.

Berry used a borrowed cellphone to call 911. Police arrived minutes later and rescued Knight and DeJesus.

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Ariel Castro, accused with his brothers of kidnapping and holding three women for a decade in a house he owned, is a local musician, a former school bus driver and had been an outgoing part of the community on Cleveland’s Seymour Avenue.

Castro’s Facebook page lists him as having worked for Grupo Fuego, a “tropical/merengue” band formed in Cleveland in 1999.

However, the band posted a note on Facebook saying that while Castro has been a local bass guitar player for many years, he was never a member of the band.

“For some reason we don’t understand, he decided to list our band as an employer on his Facebook page,” the posting says. “To set the record straight, he is not a member of Grupo Fuego, and in our 14 year span as a band, he performed as a sub twice in the year 2008.”

Miguel Quinones, manager for Grupo Fuego, said the band stopped working with Castro because he was not dependable: “The only thing I remember about him was that he was always late to practice.”

Castro also played with Los Boy’z Del Merengue, performing with Roberto Ocasio in 2003. “I knew Castro as a good bass player and never had any contact with him other than that,” said Ocasio’s former manager, Bev Montie.

Montie currently heads the Roberto Ocasio Foundation, which conducts music camps for kids.

“We’re all horrified to think of all this, especially with our situation with children,” she said. “But Castro was never part of any children’s program we conducted.”

In 2004, officers went to the Seymour Avenue home after Castro, then a school bus driver, left a child unattended on a bus, Safety Director Martin Flask said Tuesday. No one answered the door, and at some point officers talked to Castro and determined there was no criminal intent involving the bus incident, Flask said.

Records show that Castro was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but that a grand jury declined to indict him.

Castro, 52, owned the Seymour Avenue home. Records show the house was in foreclosure because Castro owed thousands in real estate taxes. Cleveland.com reports that Castro bought the house in 1992 for $12,000 from Edwin and Antonia Castro; it’s not clear if Ariel Castro is related to the couple.

Juan Perez told Cleveland’s NewsChannel5 that he grew up two houses down from the Seymour Avenue home and has known Castro since Perez was 5 or 6 years old.

Perez told the TV station that almost everyone on the block knew Castro.

“He was a nice guy, he would come around and say hi. He gave the kids rides up and down the street on his four-wheeler,” Perez said. “He asked me if I wanted a ride. .. He seemed like he was a good guy to the kids that were here. … I didn’t think anything of it.”

Perez said Castro was not shy about attending backyard parties or barbecues. Perez also told NewsChannel5 he would see a bus parked outside of 2207 Seymour Ave., but that later on, he began to think Castro owned another property.

Perez described Castro as stopping at the home sometimes 10 minutes or an hour at a time.

“Now it’s like, red flag, red flag, red flag, somebody should’ve said something,” he said.

Perez told NewsChannel5 there’s a lesson to learned.

“I’m not the only one on the block that feels ashamed to know that we didn’t notice anything,” Perez told the TV station. “I work at a school, I work with kids. … I have a heavy heart right now.”

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Relatives of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev visited the Graham, Putnum & Mahoney Funeral Parlors on Sunday, planning to wash Tsarnaev’s body in the traditional Islamic fashion and make funeral arrangements, The Boston Globe reported.

Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, is overseeing the burial arrangements, although where the burial takes place has not been determined. Some local cemeteries have rejected requests to bury Tsarnaev, the Globe said.

A handful of flag-waving protesters had stood outside the funeral home in Worcester, Mass., on Saturday. One sign read: “Do not bury him on U.S. soil.” Several people drove by the funeral home Sunday and yelled, including one man who shouted, “Throw him off a boat like Osama bin Laden!”

Tsarnaev and his young brother, Dzhokhar, are Muslims from the Chechen area of Russia. Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a gunbattle with police days after the April 15 bombings. Dzhokhar, 19, is being held on charges that could being the death penalty.

Tsarni has denounced them both, saying they brought shame to their family and to the Chechen community.

Tsarni said he appreciated the help of the funeral home’s director, Peter Stefan. He said he understands that “no one wants to associate their names with such evil acts” as the bombings that killed three people and left more than 260 injured.

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev has no other place to be buried. There is no other place to accept this body,” Tsarni said. “He lived in America. He grew up here and for the last 10 years he decided to be in Cambridge. … His home ‘country’ is Cambridge, Mass.”

Stefan said Tsarni told him he is eager to bury his nephew. “They just want to get it over with,” Stefan said.

The funeral director, whom some people have called “un-American” for being willing to handle Tsarnaev’s funeral, said he has a professional obligation.

“We take an oath to do this. Can I pick and choose? No. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? No,” Stefan said. “We are burying a dead body. That’s what we do.”

The state medical examiner ruled that Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, and released the body Friday. Stefan said representatives from the family’s legal team would likely photograph the body before it is washed.

After the body is washed, no further medical examination can be conducted without violating the religious burial tradition, Stefan said.

“Once that body is washed and shrouded, the only place we’re going after that is to the cemetery,” Stefan said.

Contributing: The Associated Press

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Construction crews at the World Trade Center hoisted a flag-bedecked spire to the top of the site’s signature One World Trade Center building Thursday.

Workers raised the spire to a temporary work platform, where ironworkers can permanently attach it to the roof in coming weeks, said Steven Plate, head of construction at the site.

“It’s a 22-ton structure that will house a state of the art lighting facility as well as a beacon that will be seen for miles around,” Plate said. It will “give a tremendous indication to people around the entire region and the world that we are back and we are better than ever.”

When the spire is fully installed, One World Trade Center will stand a symbolic 1,776 feet high, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The 408-foot spire will serve as a broadcast antenna.

The raising of the spire had been scheduled for Monday, but was postponed because of weather issues.

One World Trade Center is the primary building of the new complex at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It is being built at the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, which is deep into reconstruction with the 72-story Four World Trade Center and other buildings.

The 104-story One World Trade Center skyscraper replaces the eight-story Six World Trade Center, which was torn down for the construction.

The work comes just more than a week after a piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the planes destroyed in the 9/11 attacks was discovered wedged between a mosque site and another building. It was found by surveyors inspecting the Lower Manhattan site of a planned Islamic community center about three blocks from Ground Zero.

No human remains were found in a subsequent search of that area, the city medical examiner’s office said.

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer broke his right shoulder Saturday in a fall from his bicycle in downtown Washington, the court said.

Breyer, 74, was taken to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital by ambulance and underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery — similar to standard replacement surgery — court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement.

Breyer was bicycling near the Korean War Veterans Memorial along the Mall when the accident occurred, the statement said. No further details were provided.

“The justice is resting comfortably” and is expected to be released from the hospital within a few days, the announcement said.

Breyer broke his collarbone in 2011 bike accident in Cambridge, Mass., and broke ribs and punctured a lung when he was hit by a car while riding in Boston in 1993.

Last year, he and his wife were robbed by a machete-wielding intruder at their vacation home on the Caribbean island of Nevis. A few months later his Georgetown home was burglarized, although no one was home at the time.

Breyer, a San Francisco native, was appointed to the court in 1994 by President Clinton to replace retiring justice Harry Blackmun.

The Supreme Court has wrapped up hearings for the current term, and is eginning the work on remaining opinions. Summer recess is scheduled to begin in late June.

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The FBI said Saturday it had concluded its search of a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth amid much buzz about the focus of the search.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller told the Associated Press the two-day search ended Friday, but would not say what investigators were looking for or whether any evidence was recovered. However, ABC News and other media outlets, citing law enforcement officials, reported that the investigators in white hazmat suits were searching for a laptop tied to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Tsarnaev, 19, and brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, are the primary suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured more than 260. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police in the early hours of April 19.

The lead emerged as a result of interviews with two men from Kazakhstan who knew the suspects, the sources told ABC News.

Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, were taken into custody a week ago on suspicion that they had violated their student visas by failing to attend classes. They are being held in a Boston jail, although a lawyer for one of the men said they have been interviewed by the FBI and are not considered suspects.

Murat Kadyrbayev, father of Dias, told the Kazakhstan website tengrinews.kz that the men “missed a couple or maybe several classes.

“I hope that American police will look into the facts and make the right decision. Most of the students who came in contact with Tsarnaev are being checked now; my son is not the only one. Nobody is an exception.”

The men lived in an apartment near the campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been enrolled.

ABC reported that Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan were believed to have visited the New Bedford apartment after the bombing, according to three law enforcement sources, who spoke to ABC on the condition they not be named because they were discussing an ongoing investigation.

The police sources told ABC News they traced calls and Russian-language text messages from one of the bombing suspect’s cellphone to the Kazakhstani men.

“These kids are just as shocked and horrified about what happened as everyone else,” Kadyrbayev’s lawyer, Robert Stahl, told AP. “They can’t even fathom something like this from a kid who seemed to be a typical young college student.”

The Kazakh Foreign Ministry said this week U.S. authorities came across the two while searching for “possible links and contacts” to Tsarnaev, a sophomore at UMass.

Murat Kadyrbayev confirmed to tengrinews.kz that the students from Kazakhstan owned a BMW with the vanity plate “terrorista” that was in a photo circulating over the Internet. He said that Dias and Azamat bought the car together some time ago.

Kadyrbayev said that the individualized license plate was a joke gift from their friends in Spain. “This joke led to trouble. But it was just a gag of their Spanish friends, just a gift.”

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