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TIL that at 12:00 a.m. on New Years Eve 2017, three men pulled off a 6 MILLION dollar jewelry heist only a half mile from Times Square and 7,000 NYPD officers. Police said the men waited till midnight, when the officers would be the most busy, to break into KGK Holding Jewelry.

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