worked with battered women in the Bronx, is stabbed to death in a botched robbery near her home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Her two assailants were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. June: Debut of the Staten Island Yankees, marking the return of baseball to the Island since the demise in 1887 of the New York Metropolitans. September 20: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit first debuts on NBC October 31: EgyptAir Flight 990 departs Kennedy airport and crashes off the coast of Nantucket. Blackplanet.com website launched. Don Diva magazine headquartered in city. Deaths in New York City from AIDS exceed 75,000 since the onset of the disease. Contemporary history 2000s 2000 January 21: American Psycho, film about a psychopathic serial killing investment banker in Manhattan, is released. March 16: Patrick Dorismond is shot and killed by an NYPD officer in a case of mistaken identity during a drug bust. May 24: Wendy's massacre in Flushing, Queens. October 25: Yankees win Game 5 of the 2000 World Series versus the Mets. Acela Express train begins operating between Washington, D.C. and Boston, stopping at New York Penn Station. Population: 8,008,288. First time population officially reaches this mark, and marks reversal of suburban flight of the 1970s and 1980s with an increase of nearly one million residents over two decades. Over 1.2 million foreign-born residents arrive in New York between 1990 and 2000. Polish Cultural Institute in New York founded. 2001 January 17: an earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Ritcher Scale strikes the city. January 28: the New York Giants lose to the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XXXV. May 10: Actress Jennifer Stahl is killed with two other people in an armed robbery in her apartment above the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan. The victims were bound and shot point-blank in the head. June 25: Baseball returns to Brooklyn for the first time since the 1957 departure of the Dodgers with the first game of the Brooklyn Cyclones in Coney Island. September 11: The two World Trade Center twin towers and several surrounding buildings are destroyed by two jetliners in part of a coordinated terrorist attack by radical terrorists ("9/11"), killing 2,606 people who were in the towers and on the ground. November 4: Yankees lose Game 7 of the 2001 World Series to the Arizona Diamondbacks. November 12: American Airlines Flight 587 crashes into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of