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Sam Raskin

Sam Raskin

Sam Raskin has reported for Politico New York, Gotham Gazette, Gothamist and Curbed New York.
Jul
16
Republican Local Pols, Echoing NY Post Editorial Board, Call for Mayor to be Sent Packing Back to Brooklyn

Republican Local Pols, Echoing NY Post Editorial Board, Call for Mayor to be Sent Packing Back to Brooklyn

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order eliminating plastic from city agencies, mostly utensils and other plastics from school
3 min read
Jul
16
Garner Family, Former State Senate Candidate in Brooklyn Call on Pantaleo to Face Charges

Garner Family, Former State Senate Candidate in Brooklyn Call on Pantaleo to Face Charges

Former State Senate candidate Jasmine Robinson speaks at the demonstration alongside Garner family member Jewel Miller and Ph-Je Bethea (Image
4 min read
Jul
15
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens For 93 Units at Bedford Arms

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens For 93 Units at Bedford Arms

Rending of Bedford Arms (Image via Housing Partnership Development Corporation) CROWN HEIGHTS— New Yorkers looking for new below-market-rate apartments now
2 min read
Jul
12
Schumer Pushes Bill to Protect Migrants After Facing Heat from Local Activists

Schumer Pushes Bill to Protect Migrants After Facing Heat from Local Activists

Protesters at Prospect Park (Sam Raskin/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE—Senator Chuck Schumer on Thursday proposed a measure aimed at protecting
2 min read
Jul
12
Local Pols Push To Honor Medgar Evers At Central BK Subway Stations

Local Pols Push To Honor Medgar Evers At Central BK Subway Stations

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson embrace during Myrie’s inauguration at SUNY Downstate in East Flatbush (Photo:
2 min read
Jul
12
NYPD’s New Mental Health Task Force Needs to Add Meditation, Brooklyn BP Says

NYPD’s New Mental Health Task Force Needs to Add Meditation, Brooklyn BP Says

Borough President Eric Adams at the press conference standing next to PBA second vice president Joseph Alejandro (Image by Sam
4 min read
Jul
11
Suspect Arrested in Crown Heights Shooting

Suspect Arrested in Crown Heights Shooting

Site of the crash hours after it occurred (Picture by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS— Police said Thursday they have
1 min read
Jul
11
Day Care Center Replaces Closed Crown Heights Coworking Space

Day Care Center Replaces Closed Crown Heights Coworking Space

The building where the day care center will soon open (Image via Google Maps) CROWN HEIGHTS — The site of a
1 min read
Jul
11
BP Adams, Brooklyn Residents Weigh in on Proposed Jail Plan

BP Adams, Brooklyn Residents Weigh in on Proposed Jail Plan

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERBOERUM HILL—As the process for the city’s plan to build borough-based jails to replace Rikers
4 min read
Jul
11
Two Men Shot Outside Homeless Shelter

Two Men Shot Outside Homeless Shelter

CANARSIE—Two men were shot early Wednesday morning in front of a homeless shelter in Canarsie, according to police. Just
1 min read