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Photo: Zainab IqbalBARCLAYS – The 2018 Brooklyn College commencement at Barclays Center Thursday morning wasn’t a boring one. Pioneering disability rights activist Judith “Judy” Heumann gave a compelling speech on fighting adversity, and Borough President Eric Adams announced that he will be the next mayor of NYC. “I’m a
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PHOTO: Benjamin Kanter/Mayoral Photo OfficeBy Christina Veiga Overhauling admissions at the city’s prestigious specialized high schools could be just the opening salvo in more aggressive efforts to unravel segregation throughout the city’s school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed Sunday. “Changing them sends the message that everything
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The site of yesterday morning’s drug raid in Brownsville (Screenshot via Google Maps)BROWNSVILLE – In the early hours of yesterday morning, police prepared to serve a warrant at an unsuspecting Brownsville address, hoping to find those responsible for last week’s wave of overdoses across Brooklyn. [/k2-od-bed-stuy/] As scores
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FLATBUSH DITMAS PARK – Yesterday, a man was assaulted outside his Flatbush Ditmas Park apartment, seemingly at random. Police said the attack came around 2:00 pm, while the 73-year old man was standing outside his residence, near Avenue H and Ocean Avenue. When his attacker punched him at random, it
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The Empire State building lit up in orange—during National Gun Awareness month, orange is the color worn to honor victims of gun violence (Via Gun Violence Awareness Month [http://www.gunviolenceawarenessmonth.com/])Brooklyn politicians and communities are speaking out and hosting events to kick-off June’s Gun Violence Awareness
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Celebrities are coming and going in Brooklyn, including an Oscar-winner selling a brownstone in Fort Greene, another Oscar-winner returning to the borough with her actor husband, and a television star purchasing a new home in Bed-Stuy. FORT GREENE – Academy Award-winning actress, Holly Hunter [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/bio?
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Roger That Cafe on Roger (Photo by BKLYNER)UPDATE (5/29/18): Today, Starbucks will be closing all their branches early nationwide to conduct a racial bias training for all its employees. The training comes in response to the incident in Philadelphia in early April. Starbucks will close at 2:
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Advocates, plaintiffs and their lawyer, Laura D. Barbieri after the hearing. BEDFORD STUYVESANT – In April of this year, three parents of students at P.S. 25 Eubie Blake elementary school filed a suit against the Department of Education over closure of the school. Yesterday Judge Hon Katherine A Levine extended
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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Fifty years ago, Albert Ayler [https://www.discogs.com/artist/202309-Albert-Ayler] attempted a musical experiment—recording an album combining the spontaneity and iconoclasm of free jazz with more traditional song structures and a strong R&B groove. New Grass [https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/albert-ayler/new-grass-6/] was a
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MIDWOOD – Posing as a Good Samaritan, a man tried to rob a woman at knifepoint on a Midwood street Wednesday. Now, police are asking for the public’s help in finding him. The incident occurred near East 9th Street and Avenue P around 1:40 pm on Wednesday, May 23,
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Majority Leader Cumbo visited Medgar Evers Prep yesterday to announce results and present oversized checks for winning projects (Via @NYC Council [https://twitter.com/NYCCouncil] Twitter)CROWN HEIGHTS – City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo paid a visit to a Crown Heights high school to announce the winning projects from Participatory
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Last June, we told you about Ticket Wiper [/ticketwiper-new-app-help-fight-nyc-parking-tickets/], an app that helps you challenge NYC parking tickets. Since it’s been almost a year, we wanted to follow up and see how things are going. “It’s going great. We’re getting busier and busier. The word is getting