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James Madison High School students and teachers celebrate creating the borough’s longest chain of plastic bags, 2016. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a moratorium on the controversial plastic bag fee [/albany-legislators-working-block-nycs-plastic-bag-fee-sheepshead-bay/] set to begin today, effectively killing the bill after a long battle in
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The scene outside the Atlantic Terminal after the derailment. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)A Long Island Rail Road train carrying approximately 430 passengers at rush hour slammed into the end of the platform at Atlantic Terminal Wednesday morning. More than 100 commuters were injured, although Governor Andrew Cuomo said
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(Photo by evalamming / instagram)[Update 12/14 11am: This article has been lightly edited] Yesterday morning, a 17-year-old student set his classmate’s hair on fire at Midwood High School on Bedford Avenue. While sitting in class, a 17-year-old boy reached over and set a girl’s hair on fire
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Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
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Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
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New MTA photo shows a clean 53rd Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. (Courtesy: MTA Renderings [https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/MTA_renderings.pdf] ) The New York City subway might get a much-needed makeover. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transit Authority announced
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New MTA photo shows a clean 53rd Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. (Courtesy: MTA Renderings [https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/MTA_renderings.pdf] )The New York City subway might get a much-needed makeover. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transit Authority announced
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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz holding the signed bill. (Photo provided by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s office)Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz joined Governor Andrew Cuomo and other state lawmakers in Staten Island last week for the signing of a package of legislation to combat the state’s heroin and opioid crisis [/gun-busts-rise-cops-escalate-drug-raids-sheepshead-bay/]. Cymbrowitz,
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Trash piles up behind the wooden walls around the property. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Legislation introduced by Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein to address so-called “zombie homes” — abandoned and foreclosed properties — was signed into law [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-sweeping-legislation-combat-blight-vacant-and-abandoned-properties] last week. The bill, passed as part of the
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Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz announced his third attempt at legislation to protect Sheepshead Bay’s swans from eradication passed the Assembly last week. Cymbrowitz has doggedly tried to place a moratorium on the state’s plan to cull New York’s
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(Photo: Doug Kerr [:https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/4331582100/"] / Flickr)Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week that work has begun on an $8.5 million project to improve safety and traffic flow on Ocean Parkway. “Creating a safer Ocean Parkway will benefit neighborhoods and families throughout Brooklyn – and
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Photo by Park Slope StoopA key component of New York’s effort to bring down opioid abuse — which requires doctors to file prescriptions electronically [http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/1098.pdf] rather than with handwritten notes — takes affect next week, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.gov/
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Image via Park Slope Stoop.A key component of New York’s effort to bring down opioid abuse — which requires doctors to file prescriptions electronically [http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/1098.pdf] rather than with handwritten notes — takes affect next week, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.
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Photo by Park Slope StoopA key component of New York’s effort to bring down opioid abuse — which requires doctors to file prescriptions electronically [http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/1098.pdf] rather than with handwritten notes — takes affect next week, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.gov/
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Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is not backing down from his effort to protect Sheepshead Bay’s beloved swans. Cymbrowitz announced this week he has reintroduced a bill [http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A09289&
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Governor Andrew Cuomo at his 2016 State of the State speech. (Photo: PROgovernorandrewcuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/23994415209/] / Flickr) Several Albany Legislators called out Governor Andrew Cuomo for stripping a law from his executive budget that protects seniors from losing their savings when a spouse falls ill. They