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The Down-Low: Simcha Felder’s Bold Request & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Carly Miller

May 24, 2017 — 1 min read

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

-Simcha Felder Tells Fellow Rogue Democrats to Rejoin the Party Fold. [New York Times]

-In Fight Against Opioids in Hasidic Crown Heights, ‘Nobody’s Immune’ [DNAinfo]

-A walking tour of 1767 New York [Curbed]

-Cuomo Announces ‘Genius’ Contest To Fix The NYC Subway. [Gothamist]

-New York Focus this week (Photo Gallery) [NY Daily News]

-12-year-old arrested for violent crime spree in southern Brooklyn [NY Post]

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