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New COVID-19 Screening & Testing Program For MTA Employees

The MTA Mask Force handing out masks. (Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)NEW YORK – The MTA has begun a voluntary COVID-19 screening program for frontline employees, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this morning. Under this new initiative, free COVID -19 testing will be offered at rotating field

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Juneteenth Is Now An Official NYS Public Holiday

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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NYC Public Schools Plan To Reopen On Part-Time Basis

(Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)BROOKLYN – NYC public schools are planning on reopening on a part-time basis in the fall with in-person classes two to threes times a week, the Mayor announced. The decision won’t be final until the Governor says so, and that can take until August.

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State Orders National Grid to Immediately Connect 1,157 Customers with Gas Service, Alleges Company Violated Law

National grid working by a hotel in Gowanus that will become a homeless shelter this fall. Liena Zagare/BklynerNational Grid must immediately grant gas connections to 1,157 customers in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island previously denied over the course of a five-month moratorium, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.

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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: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—Local lawmakers are urging the governor to sign a bill that will add Medgar Evers College to the names of two central Brooklyn subway stops.

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Brooklyn BP Tells Albany to Put Prevailing Wage Law on Ice

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams speaks at the press conference outside City Hall (Photo by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CITY HALL—Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Tuesday called on Albany to pump the brakes on a measure that would increase the number of developments subject to prevailing wage requirements, putting

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Brooklyn Residents Rally in Flatbush Ahead of Rent Law Deadline

A Flatbush Tenant Coalition-led rally in Flatbush (Image via Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)FLATBUSH—A crowd of advocates filled the streets of Flatbush Sunday to spread the word about the ongoing rent-law battle, seven days before the laws applying to the city’s rent-regulated apartments expire. As legislators and Gov. Andrew

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Anti-Semitic Incident At Jewish Children’s Museum

Photo: Mordechai LightstoneCROWN HEIGHTS – Another act of anti-Semitism. Last night, a note saying “Hitler is coming” was on a billboard at the Jewish Children’s Museum (JCM). The hateful note was placed on an interactive billboard at the Jewish Children’s Museum. It’s a billboard where people are encouraged

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A Musical Theater Nerd’s Fight For Progress

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – When Corrinne Greene was in kindergarten, she asked her principal to add “This Land Is Your Land” to the school’s patriotic selections list, which the principal did. Nearly two decades later, Greene has organized and participated in many protests. She has chanted outside Governor Andrew

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Cynthia Nixon, Jumaane Williams Endorse Each Other

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN – Cynthia Nixon endorsed Council Member Jumaane Williams for Lieutenant Governor and Williams endorsed Nixon for the next Governor of New York yesterday. “Cynthia is the leader we need right now,” Williams said. “She’s been a fighter and I have been a fighter. That’

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Antonio Reynoso Endorses Cynthia Nixon For Governor

Photo via Cynthia Nixon’s office.WILLIAMSBURG – District 34 Council Member Antonio Reynoso [https://council.nyc.gov/district-34/] publicly endorsed Cynthia Nixon for governor Thursday morning in front of J.H.S. 50 John D. Wells Middle School in Williamsburg. “Today, I proudly endorse Cynthia Nixon for governor of New

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Jumaane Williams On Running For Lieutenant Governor And Being a Powerful Activist

Photo: NY City CouncilFLATBUSH – Jumaane Williams [http://jumaanewilliams.com/], representing the 45th City Council district, is quite hopeful that he’ll become the next lieutenant governor of New York. Williams officially announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor in the last week of February [/williams-lieutenant-governor/], confirming all speculations [/councilmember-jumaane-williams-eyes-position-of-lieutenant-governor/]. Williams was

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Cynthia Nixon Comes To Brownsville To Speak Her Mind

Cynthia Nixon by Kadia Goba/BKLYNERBROWNSVILLE – A day after officially announcing her New York State gubernatorial run, Cynthia Nixon [http://cynthiafornewyork.com/] delivered a fiery speech in front of almost 100 local residents and reporters in Brownsville yesterday. Following months of a rumored gubernatorial run, Nixon, best known for her

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Senate Candidate Proposes Tax Plan To Benefit Small Businesses

The Bookmark Shoppe in Bay Ridge is one example of a local small business. (Photo: The Bookmark Shoppe)In an effort to improve on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “Internet Fairness Conformity Tax” [https://www1.avalara.com/us/en/blog/2018/01/cuomo-proposes-internet-fairness-tax-online-sales-new-york.html] proposal, which would make sites like Amazon

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Raise The Age Lobby In Albany Tomorrow

New York and North Carolina are the remaining two states to prosecute [https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/03/03/the-17-year-old-adults#.u2iVYIzpw] 16- and 17-year-old criminal offenders as adults, regardless of the level of the offense. The cut-off age for Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin is 17.

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Assemblymember Hikind Speaks To The Powers That Be Regarding The Ocean Parkway Changes

Assemblymember Dov Hikind. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.Assemblymember Dov Hikind is not messing around [/hikind-asks-cuomo-stop-ocean-parkway-changes-comes-see-road/] in his attempt to stop the traffic changes to Ocean Parkway. He had a meeting yesterday with the NYS Department of Transportation (NYS DOT), an official from the city DOT (NYC DOT), a

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Hikind Asks Cuomo To Stop Ocean Parkway Changes Until He Comes To See The Road Himself

Assemblymember Dov Hikind. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.State Assemblymember Dov Hikind sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a letter earlier this week asking him to stop his planned traffic changes for Ocean Parkway and to come observe the busy Brooklyn road himself and discuss ways to make it safer. Hikind

Animals

Save The Swans! Mute Swan’s ‘Death Sentence’ Reversed

Photo via Flickr/Caroline Granycome. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cgranycome/13199335103/in/photolist-m7o3ta-bwTbZM-GNk65h-ekaj6K-kYKLNN-mkD6WL-7qrpYW-e1tTP6-qr7GsY-e1tTPF-8iBFFX-pLFGPo-9YULm2-84FVf9-9YULBP-n8wvLB-61diqi-qr8o6h-eGqUFx-4ukLgN-5SeeSX-5LGWLa-8iBGpr-ePkwiz-7pu9po-qcXcTk-aEwHXS-FqHnYw-m9cKFa-9Kv2HQ-avF5j2-ocW5YU-9Ks4Qg-bAuxVH-qrgb1X-HTVqBv-bXhjeY-bnzwAb-aFGhXc-i8gq2z-bTGKC8-bAuAL4-bAuvSi-bnzHJd-5LGUYr-bnzDuJ-bAuwPB-2mdsni-aFt8rZ-m2rVex] Mute swans have a new look on life now that a

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“Full Force of Law” Will Be Used To Address Spike In Hate Crimes, Say Brooklyn DA & Gov

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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Three Indicted In Carey Gabay Murder: ‘They Turned A Celebration Into A Killing Field’

The defendants. (Courtesy Brooklyn District Attorney.)Three Brooklyn men who police allege were engaged in gang warfare have been indicted in the murder of Carey Gabay [/?s=carey+gabay], announced Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton during a press conference today at 350

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Fort Greene Park Gets $5 Million, Doulas, CSA’s, And More In The Week That Was.

The weather has finally turned warm, and that means rhubarb. (Photo Liga Bite) Here’s a recap of what went down this week. Follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/ftgfocus], like us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], and check out our Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and

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New York Moves To E-Prescriptions To Curb Drug Abuse

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/

Animals

Conservationists Say Plan To Eliminate Sheepshead Bay’s Swans Is Based On ‘Weak’ Science

Swans, geese, and ducks in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Sheepshead Bay’s swans have long been a target for extermination [/and-now-they-want-to-murder-sheepshead-bays-swans/] by the state. But a growing body of prominent environmentalists and conservationists say the evidence against these snow-white waterfowl – an indelible part of the neighborhood’s

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Cuomo Announces $20 Billion Affordable Housing Plan At State Of The State Speech

Governor Andrew Cuomo at his 2016 State of the State speech. (Photo: PROgovernorandrewcuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/23994415209/] / Flickr) Governor Andrew Cuomo rolled out a five-year, $20 billion housing plan during his State of the State speech [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-outlines-2016-agenda-signature-proposals-ensuring-new-york-and-will-continue-be] on Wednesday that promised

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Cymbrowitz, Golden Push Insurance Reforms Through Albany To Protect Sandy-Affected Homeowners

Photo by Leon LipkovichGovernor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-legislation-support-homeowners-impacted-superstorm-sandy] Thursday, the third anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, designed to regulate insurance claims related to sewer backups that occur during storms. The law requires the Department of Financial Services to examine and make