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Photo: David TanAnother sign of Fall — the City’s 2016-2017 “heat season” began on Saturday and continues through May 31, 2017. Mayor de Blasio and Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Vicki Been issued a statement today reminding residential building owners of their “legal obligation” to provide tenants
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Park Slope Rowhouses. (Photo: Park Slope Stoop)Another sign of Fall — the City’s 2016-2017 “heat season” began on Saturday and continues through May 31, 2017. Mayor de Blasio and Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Vicki Been issued a statement today reminding residential building owners of their
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The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man wanted in connection with a homicide that occurred last week in Owl’s Head Park. /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2803-16-68-PDU-Homicide-09-29-16-video-1.mp4Photo: NYPDJennifer Cohen, 35, was found unconscious and unresponsive, with head and face trauma, around 9am Thursday
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Along the Shore Parkway bike path in Bensonhurst/Bath Beach. (Photo by Warren Tang)After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the more interesting recent stories from our sister sites.
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Photo via the New York African Restaurant Week Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/NYAfricanRestaurantWeek/].Come on out and sample the cuisines of the African continent and diaspora. Restaurants across Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island are participating in the fourth annual New York African Restaurant Week [http://nyarw.com], which
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Our lives are shaped by the infrastructure around us, and that’s shaped by our choices. Speaking of, today is the deadline for participatory budgeting submissions [/blog/2016/09/29/tomorrow-deadline-submit-ideas-participatory-budgeting/] and, by the way, voter registration deadlines [http://turbovote.org] are fast approaching! So what’s this mean for
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Photo via Owl’s Head Park Volunteers Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/owlsheadvolunteers/].NYPD officers from the 68th Precinct report they discovered an unidentified woman in her twenties, unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to her head, on Thursday morning in Owl’s Head Park. Police said they responded at
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Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City
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Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City
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NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit sponsored by UPROSE in 2010. (Photo via UPROSE Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/Uprose-133979383320121/].)Long-time environmental justice advocacy organization UPROSE [http://uprose.org] will celebrate its 50th anniversary at a gala in Fort Greene this evening. UPROSE, which is based in Sunset Park, on
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Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City
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Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City