Bed Stuy
BED-STUY – Last week, the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, Gregory Calliste, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the hospital’s first comprehensive health center dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients. L-R: Edward Fishkin, MD, Chief Medical Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull; NYS
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After months of waiting and repeated calls to action from the community [/politicians-demand-information-action-from-mta-and-dot-regarding-l-train-closure/] , the New York City DOT and the MTA have finally released information about mitigation efforts for 2019’s closure of the L train tunnel into Manhattan. First and foremost, the DOT says that “Most L train riders
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Bushwick
The 200-block of Starr Street, near where the attack took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – Police have released video showing a suspect fleeing after a violent and dramatic armed robbery near the Jefferson L stop in Bushwick. The attack came on the morning of Wednesday, October 4, around 8:
Bed Stuy
EAST NEW YORK – Yesterday evening, an 80-year old man was shot and killed in the bodega he owned on Stanley Avenue. [/80-year-old-shot-killed-east-new-york-bodega/] WILLIAMSBURG – Just after 7:00 pm on Monday, December 11, a man was slashed in the face by an unknown assailant outside the new Supreme store at 152
Bushwick
Upstairs in City Councilmember Antonio Reynoso’s Union Avenue office, staffers sat with constituents, conversing in Spanish, helping them with the day to day concerns of their lives. From one of their computers, a Drake track played quietly. Another staff member popped in with a small Christmas tree to put
Bushwick
WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking the man who stole a Blue Quaker bird from the Petland store at 92 Graham Avenue and Seigel Street. Around 5:00 pm on Tuesday, December 5, the bird thief entered the exotic bird cage at the pet store, using a paper towel wrapped around his
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A rendering of proposed development in the Broadway Triangle (Image via Dept of City Planning)WILLIAMSBURG – A court settlement in the discrimination case against the Broadway Triangle housing development was announced earlier this week, stipulating changes to the planned housing that critics decried as racially biased. Two-thirds of planned apartments
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BROOKLYN – The New York City Council passed a bill on Thursday that will protect tenants from harassment from “unscrupulous” landlords looking to drive them out and cash in on their apartments. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/brad.lander.7/posts/10213673536047920?pnref=story] “Unfortunately, for some unscrupulous landlords in
Arts & Culture
Ezra Gale has spent the past several years auditioning to replace James Brown as the hardest working man in show business, serving as founder, bandleader, and sideman in a series of genre-splitting projects (start with Afrobeat, jazz, classic country, dub reggae, and you’re just scratching the surface). Somehow along
Bushwick
The check cashing spot on Broadway where Shaheem Bernard was killed last Friday (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – A Williamsburg man was arrested and charged in the shooting death of a 20-year old from Bed-Stuy last Friday. Just before 1:00 pm on Friday, November 24, police responded to a