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Six People Were Shot In Crown Heights This Morning. One Of Them Died.

Photo at the scene via Loudlabs.CROWN HEIGHTS – Six people were shot early this morning. Five are in stable condition and one died from her wounds. On Wednesday, July 15 at around 2:11 a.m., a group of people was outside a building on President Street near Franklin Avenue

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Deborah Lauter on Hate Crimes, Segregation and Standing Up Against Threats

Deborah Lauter. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)CITY HALL – Hate crimes have spiked all over the country. They have risen in New York, but more particularly in Brooklyn. A few weeks ago, a young Muslim woman was spat on and harassed on the bus. [/islamophobia-b6-bus-crime/] A few days later, a Jewish

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‘F Train From Hell’ Rider Demands Evacuation Plan From MTA

Photo via nycgo [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJcgh3u03k/?tagged=ftrain&hl=en] “For a city that has 6 million riders a day, it is a travesty that we are not educated by the MTA about basic safety procedures in the event of an emergency,” Michael Sciaraffo said. “And that

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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton Resigns: “It Is Now Time For Me To Move On”

(Courtesy: Policy Exchange / Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/policyexchange/7105974645/in/photolist-bPVYGe-qpeEfU-q7TnU8-qpfhg1-qp7VAr-wgAHcm-qn24sY-q7RZjT-q7LagQ-qpiFjn-q7JVaJ-kbZ99e-q7RLPT-q7JUAs-kbPGrk-q7TrPc-qn2gtG-jeVGzc-kbQh98-qpiHXZ-q7TrYR-q7JZ19-qn2sv1-q7TyrR-q7JUio-kbQ9be-qpi74p-q7K4MU-q7T5Sx-qpeuSW-qn2iAN-q5Yfd1-qpido8-psxaKc-psxty8-qpf8oS-prPXpp-q7Tw3T-qiV8qs-q7JqDf-q65HCi-qpeyYm-kc2p5S-kbQ1hZ-q7Td2H-kcGGxa-qn1T4S-r7P8F1-66R7xQ-k6nqsZ] )Commissioner Bill Bratton will step down a

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Gowanus Film Studio Heads To City Hall, Fighting With Spunk After Canal Sewage Tank Decision

Via the Environmental Protection AgencyThe Gowanus-based film and television studio Eastern Effects [http://easterneffects.com/home/] heads to City Hall tomorrow morning with an important mail delivery that they hope will help spare their space. The company has led a campaign for community members, film and television employees, and local

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Colton’s Anti-Waste Task Force Demands EPA Investigate Garbage Station Work Site

Photo by anonymous tipster to Bensonhurst BeanAssemblyman William Colton’s Anti-Waste Task Force wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week, calling out violations at the construction site of the Gravesend Bay Waste Transfer Station. The letter, which was signed by thousands of community members and delivered

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Asian American Activists Call For Multi-City Rallies In Support Of Indicted NYPD Officer Peter Liang

Photo by Phil GimDenouncing the prosecution of NYPD Officer Peter Liang — whose ricochetting bullet fatally hit unarmed black man Akai Gurley [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/] in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project — a group of Asian American civil rights leaders and activists have announced a national day of protest to be

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Assemblyman Colton Echoes Calls For Fair Trial For Indicted Officer Peter Liang

Source: Assemblyman William Colton’s officeAssemblyman William Colton has added his voice the chorus of concerned community members demanding a fair trial for Officer Peter Liang, who was indicted [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/] in the death of Akai Gurley last month. Speaking to a small crowd at the United Chinese Association senior center

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Councilman Gentile Fights To Give Disabled Vets Access To Carpool Lanes

Yesterday’s press conference. (Courtesy of Vincent Gentile.)Councilman Vincent Gentile held a press conference yesterday on the steps of City Hall, urging Congress to pass a bill allowing states to open lanes reserved for HOVs [/greenfield-proposes-hov-lane-for-prospect-expressway-entrance/] – or high occupancy vehicles – to disabled veterans. “The men and women who sacrificed

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#ThrowbackThursday: The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue

The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue at Lafayette Avenue, built in 1907. (Photo courtesy the Museum of the City of New York [http://www.historypin.com/map/#!/geo:40.68755,-73.969959/zoom:16/dialog:18129/tab:details/] )This week’s #ThrowbackThursday is a 1910 photograph of the Brooklyn Masonic

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Shrinking Library Budgets Cause Problems For Immigrants’ Efforts To Assimilate

Sheepshead Bay LibraryCity Hall’s budget battles and shortfalls are constantly putting a strain on the city’s library system, including Southern Brooklyn’s libraries, where they serve large immigrant populations. The New York Times is reporting [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/nyregion/budgets-challenge-libraries-a-point-of-integration-for-immigrants.html] that the library

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Legislative Package Reforming Restaurant Inspection System Passes City Council

Councilman Vincent Gentile, Source: council.nyc.govCity Councilman Vincent Gentile has announced that the City Council has given its seal of approval to a legislative package reforming the city’s restaurant inspection system that he helped fight for. The system has come under fire in recent years from small business

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58th Street Ferry To Return To Sunset Park – Will You Take It?

Photo By Erica ShermanWith more than 14 months of construction expected on the damaged R train link connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, commuters were expecting a nightmare of overcrowded trains and train-to-train transfers. That expected congestion might lessen a bit now as the city prepares to reopen the blue highway between

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Greenfield: Give Drivers 24 Hours Notice Before Parking Changes

Source: council.nyc.govParking is never easy in New York City, even for those lucky enough to actually find a space. Such is the case when the city enforces temporary, unannounced parking changes, especially when those changes result in motorists finding their cars towed. Councilman David Greenfield, who had his

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Controversial Civic Virtue Statue Moving to Green-Wood

The most traveled statue in NYC will soon be settling down in Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/]. Designed in 1920 by Frederick MacMonnies as an allegory of virtue over vice, the statue, which made its debut at City Hall during the height of the women’s suffrage movement, faced

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Speaker Quinn Seeks To Lower Restaurant Violation Fines

Mayoral candidate and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is making attempts to reduce the fines the city presents to restaurants with health violations, reported the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/council-speaker-christine-quinn-drafting-bill-reduce-fines-restaurants-city-tough-grading-system-article-1.1134968] . Quinn is now in the process of drafting legislation to change New York City’s restaurant-grading

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As City Gets Tough, Recchia Concerned Nonprofits May Suffer

In what the New York Post is calling City Hall’s version of digging through the couch for change, the city is looking to potentially revoke property tax exemptions for thousands of nonprofit groups. This move by the Bloomberg Administration comes after four years of failing to sort out legitimate

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Traffic Alert! Firefighters Marching Over Brooklyn Bridge

(from ufanyc.org)Anyone headed out to Manhattan in a car should be advised that there will be traffic problems on the Brooklyn Bridge starting at around 10 am. According to a source close to the U.S. Marshals Service, members of the FDNY will be demonstrating the closing of