The NYPD will increase its presence in the Manhattan neighborhoods where five anti-gay hate crimes have occurred in the past few weeks, officials announced Monday.

Following a rally for 32-year-old Marc Carson, who was shot and killed in the West Village this past weekend, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced an action plan to keep the city safe for all New Yorkers, which includes beefing up police patrol.

The NYPD has agreed to increase its presence in LGBT neighborhoods, including setting up temporary headquarter command vehicles, according to Quinn’s office. Neighborhoods include the West Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen.

The deployments will continue through at least the end of June, which is LGBT Pride Month.

Carson was killed near the corner of West Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue late Friday night by alleged gunman Elliott Morales, 33, who shouted anti-gay slurs at Carson before shooting him to death.

Another recent anti-gay attack occurred earlier this month near Madison Square Garden, when two men were injured in an attack by a group of men yelling anti-gay remarks.

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A documentary filmmaker is reportedly suing Ariana Huffington, on the grounds that she “trashed” his Chelsea apartment while leasing it, according to AP reports.

The suit was apparently filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday, asking for $275,000 in damages.

Filmmaker Eric Steel reportedly contends “the walls of the apartment were gouged, stained and otherwise damaged,” during Huffington’s two-year stay.

Steel insists the terms of the lease agreement forbade Huffington from using the loft for business or parties.

Huffington has denied the allegations, and said that Steel “happily” renewed the lease twice and visited the apartment.

In the same statement, she reported that Steel had refused to return her $93,000 deposit.

The apartment was reportedly designed by Steel’s stepfather, modernist architect Charles Gwathmey.

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Cops are searching for a man who snatched an iPad mini from a straphanger March 25, but failed to get away with the device when the owner of the iPad chased him down and snatched it back.

The victim was standing on the uptown 1 train platform inside the West 28th Street subway station about 10:10 p.m. when the suspect grabbed his iPad mini from his hand and tried to flee. The victim caught the robber, struggled with him and retrieved the tablet.

The suspect fled the location. He is being described as a white or Hispanic male in his late 30s, about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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Work on the third and final section of Chelsea’s High Line Park is on schedule, according to reports from Crains, set to be finished a year and a half before the first building in the Hudson Yards, the neighborhood being built around it, is completed.

Peter Mullan, Vice President for planning and design at Friends of the High Line, told Crains “the big idea right now is to get to 34th Street as quickly as we possibly can.”

“The big prize here is that the entire length of the High Line is going to be complete much quicker than anyone thought,” Mullan said.

Crains reported that construction crews spent the last two weeks completing sandblasting the steel strestle and applying thick coats of paint in the custom High Line hue “greenblack.”

Nearly 800 gallons of paint have been used on the part extending to 12 Avenue alone.

More than half of the third section is going to be a simple, temporary walkway when it opens, leaving the current, unlandscaped vegetation untouched, Crains reported. Although temporary, the walkway could remain for 15 years, depending on how construction on the Hudson Yards progresses.

Workers are currently busy digging up the “urban fill” that accumulated in the rail yards: 150,000 cubic feet of soil since the last train used it to carry frozen turkeys in 1980, according to Crains.

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