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Rent Guidelines Board Raises Rents 1.25% For One-Year Leases

Rent Justice Coalition‎ via FacebookDespite protests last week by affordable-housing supporters before the Rent Guidelines Board and NYC City Council Members Jumaane Williams and Carlos Menchaca, rents for New York City’s approximately one million rent-stabilized apartments will increase by 1.25% for one-year leases and 2% for two-year leases

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The Day: Slow Zones, Crime Drama and a One-Woman Show at BAM

Spring has sprung in the nabe – sort of. What are you doing to enjoy the weather? (Photo by Francisco Daum)Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Yesterday’s weather was bone-chilling, but today brings warmer temperatures to the nabe. It’ll hit the mid-40s today, according to the National

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Bensonhurst Resident Raises $37,000+ To Save Young Cancer Patient, But Still Needs Your Help

The Checkmate, Cancer! team with Nancy Parmar (Source: GoFundMe)Way back in March, we told you about Elona Karafin, then a 19-year-old Bensonhurst native and cancer survivor who kicked off “Checkmate, Cancer!”, an initiative to fund research for pediatric cancer. Karafin, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone

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Bensonhurst Resident Forms ”Checkmate, Cancer!” Walkathon Team To Tackle Childhood Cancer

The Checkmate, Cancer! team.Karafin at the 2005 PCF WalkathonChildhood cancer is the number one cause of non-accidental deaths among children, with 12,000 diagnoses each year. Elona Karafin, a 19-year-old Bensonhurst native, has started ”Checkmate, Cancer!”, a team participating in the annual Pediatric Cancer Foundation (PCF) walkathon, in