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Kensington Dog Run. Liena Zagare/Bklyner“Our paw pals throughout New York City will soon be able to frolic in our reopened dog runs, including the newly constructed Kensington dog run. Dog runs along with other amenities like basketball courts, bocce courts, tennis courts and more will reopen as part
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EAST NEW YORK – A man and woman are both dead after being shot over the weekend. On Saturday, June 27 at around 12:35 p.m., cops found a 23-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman with gunshot wounds on Van Siclen Avenue near Livonia Avenue. The man had a gunshot
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RED HOOK – Earlier this month, 27-year-old Elvin Fernandez was shot in front of Red Hook Houses. On Monday, June 1 at around 5:55 p.m., cops arrived in front of Red Hook Houses on Columbia Street to find Fernandez, a resident of Boerum Hill, with a gunshot wound to
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Mama Falcon visits her baby chicks atop the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Bridge on Wed., May 21, 2020, where Chris Nadareski examines and applies tracking bands to new peregrine falcons that have hatched in a nest built atop the structure for them. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityIt’s Thursday! We took a
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BROOKLYN – Summer is finally here! After months of quarantine, the Mayor announced that beaches will be opening on July 1. He also announced the expansion of Cool It! NYC, a plan to help New Yorkers beat the heat this summer. The Wall Street Journal broke the story [https://www.wsj.
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Hosting family? Planning a business trip? Thinking of a long weekend away from your home state? Starting at midnight tonight anyone arriving in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from states that have high COVID 19 numbers is expected to quarantine for 14 days. That includes residents returning home from
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Starting next Monday, June 29th, residential streets will be cleaned no more than once per week, Mayor de Blasio and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia announced this morning. Commercial and metered streets will be cleaned as before. Streets with multiple Alternate Side Parking (ASP) days will be cleaned on the last
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BROWNSVILLE – A 47-year-old man is dead after being shot multiple times last night. On Wednesday, June 17 at around 9:06 p.m., cops found a 47-year-old man on Osborn Street near Thatford Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital where he was
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Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, April 27, 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gabriel Sandoval, originally published in THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/6/12/21289811/national-park-service-reopens-brooklyns-floyd-bennett-field-after-mta-buses-leave] Parts of Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field will reopen Saturday after closing nearly seven weeks ago to store inactive MTA
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Public Notice New York State Attorney General Letitia James Public Hearing Via Video Conference on Police/Public Interactions During Recent Protests Wednesday, June 17th @ 11:00 AM The Office of the Attorney General has been designated by the Governor to investigate interactions between police officers and the public during recent
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MIDWOOD – There will be free COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody testing inside the Pakistani American Youth Society (PAYS) headquarters on the corner of Newkirk and Coney Island Avenues between 6-8 pm tonight. Neighbor Anthony Finkel saw there was a need in the Midwood, Ditmas Park, Kensington community in terms of access
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General Lee Ave at Fort Hamilton Army Base. GoogleFORT HAMILTON – Three years ago [/congresswoman-continues-to-call-for-fort-hamilton-street-renaiming/], local politicians and community leaders gathered in Fort Hamilton Park to call on the renaming of two street signs named after confederate generals. Now, they have renewed that call. The streets—General Lee Avenue and Stonewall