There she is. But where she is — that's the real story.
For the third consecutive time, a Miss New York has won the Miss America pageant.
Kira Kazantsev, 22, a daughter of Russian immigrants whose ambition is to be a diplomat and whose pageant platform promotes domestic violence awareness, took the title tonight at Boardwalk Hall. Kazantsev said she plans to use her $50,000 in scholarship money from the win to help pay for law school — she deferred from the University of Notre Dame.