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Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BOERUM HILL – A 58-year-old man from Queens was shot and killed
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Greenpoint Library. (Photo via Brooklyn Public Library)GREENPOINT – The new Greenpoint Library, which is also the Environmental Education Center, opened its doors today after the original library was demolished three years ago. The library, located at 107 Norman Ave, was closed in 2017 to make way for a $15 million
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MTA distributes pink masks for Breast Cancer Awareness month. (Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)Worried about a second wave of the coronavirus? Well, Mayor de Blasio assured New Yorkers yesterday that it won’t happen. [/todays-covid-19-updates-from-the-mayor/]“The numbers suggest we are stopping a second wave,” he
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Andres Fernandez. (Photo via Brooklyn DA office)DYKER HEIGHTS – A man has been sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for shooting and killing the owner of L&B Spumoni Gardens in Gravesend in 2016. On June 30, 2016, 61-year-old Louis Barbati, the owner of L&B
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GREENPOINT – This morning, people who wanted to get the ferry at the Greenpoint pier were left stranded as it sailed by informing that the stop had been suspended indefinitely. > Greenpoint @NYCferry [https://twitter.com/NYCferry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] stop out of commission ‘indefinitely’ bc the developer sold the
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Photo by Christopher Vega [https://unsplash.com/@vegaguy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/plastic-bag?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] New York State began to enforce the ban on plastic bags today
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The citywide daily number of people admitted to NYC hospitals for suspected COVID-19 threshold is 200 patients; today’s report is 76 patients with a confirmed positivity level of 16.4% for the coronavirus. The number of newly reported cases on a seven-day average threshold is 550 cases; today’s
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A person passing by David Kutz’s art. (Photo via Arts Gowanus on Atlantic Ave, with permission)BROOKLYN – Beginning tomorrow, all sorts of artwork including paintings, drawings, prints, photography, installation, and sculptures, will be displayed on storefronts, roll down gates, and dining fences in a socially-distanced art exhibit called Arts
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Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] CANARSIE – A 19-year-old boy was shot and killed as he was
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It’s not too late to complete the census! (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – It’s official. The deadline for completing the 2020 census online [https://my2020census.gov/] is tomorrow, Friday, October 16, at 6 a.m. For those who have yet to submit the census, you have just a
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Unite NY Rally on Juneteenth 2020. (Photo: Adrian Childress/Bklyner)NEW YORK – Juneteenth is now an official public holiday in New York State after Governor Cuomo signed it into legislation yesterday. In June, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Juneteenth would be an official city and school holiday next year.
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At the memorial for RBG last month. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – New York Governor Cuomo announced last month that NYS would honor the legacy of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [/remembering-honoring-the-legacy-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-in-brooklyn/] with a statue of her in her hometown of Brooklyn – Ginsburg grew up and attended school