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SoHo Heist: Thieves smashed through a SoHo gallery’s front door Tuesday in New York and snatched $750,000 worth of art works--including nine oil paintings and drawings by leRoy Neiman--in a lighting-fast pre-dawn heist, police said. The burglars broke through glass panels in the double doors at Dyansen Gallery, hot-wired an electronic operated steel security gate and made off with the artworks in less than five minutes. In addition to the paintings and drawings by Neiman, the thieves made off with six other paintings and four sculptures.