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“They’re tired of politics as usual,” Sal Albanese, the best chance the Never de Blasio movement has of electing a new mayor, said last night during the first televised debate of the Democratic primary. “It’s always tough to run as a reformer, but I think this time is different.” This time is probably not different. Albanese, a former five- term city councilmember from Brooklyn who is challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio , jabbed and scraped and lashed out at his bête noire during the debate, drawing his share of applause from a sympathetic Upper West Side audience . For watchers of the political scene, there wasn’t much to learn: De Blasio, in Albanese’s eyes, is corrupt; he’s in the pocket of big developers; he’s allowed the city to degenerate into some kind of carnival of woe, but for rich people. De Blasio, who despite his height advantage over Albanese often struggles to be the bigger man, rebutted plenty. His testy side was showing. A progressive Democrat, the first to govern this ...

A snarling pit bull came to the defense of his drugged-out owner who was fighting with another junkie Friday morning at a luxury high-rise in Midtown, police said. The dog attacked his owner’s antagonist and left him with a bunch of bite wounds and scratches on the ninth floor of The Biltmore on W. 47th near Eighth Ave. just before 9 a.m., fire officials said. The canine’s owner argued bitterly with a 27-year-old man at the ritzy building and then they got physical before the dog jumped into the fray. The combatants trashed Apartment 9J , and the bitten man left smears of blood on the apartment floor, on the outside of a closet, and on the walls of the hallway five feet off the floor. Belts were strewn across the floor and an overturned painting by the front door had bloodstains on it. Brooklyn man fatally stabbed pit bull after it charged at his dog “I heard a man screaming. He was screaming so bad I thought he was mentally ill,” said a woman who liv...