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At the memorial for RBG last month. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – New York Governor Cuomo announced last month that NYS would honor the legacy of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [/remembering-honoring-the-legacy-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-in-brooklyn/] with a statue of her in her hometown of Brooklyn – Ginsburg grew up and attended school
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Photo by Annie Spratt [https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school-test?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BROOKLYN – A month before the new school year begins, Governor Andrew Cuomo
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Assembly Member Mathylde Frontus and volunteers help distribute meals to seniors in Coney Island. (Photo via Rathkopf Photography, [https://www.rathkopf.com/] with permission)SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – On Friday, March 20, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the ‘NYS on PAUSE’ executive order. [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-new-york-state-pause-executive-order] All non-essential businesses
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At a protest in Downtown Brooklyn last month. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Back in June, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that 500 additional cops will be patrolling MTA subway stations throughout the city to combat crime. Local politicians think it unnecessary and have written to the Governor to say so. Recently
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerAfter months of denying gas to new customers and holding them hostage, the National Grid moratorium has been lifted after Governor Andrew Cuomo and the gas company reached a new deal. As part of the deal, National Grid will lift its moratorium immediately. The company has 30
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National grid working by a hotel in Gowanus that will become a homeless shelter this fall. Liena Zagare/BklynerNational Grid must immediately grant gas connections to 1,157 customers in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island previously denied over the course of a five-month moratorium, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.
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Council Speaker Corey Johnson at last Friday’s press conference on BQE repairs (Jeff Reed/NYC Council)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – The debate over BQE repairs heated up last week, as state and local politicians gathered in Brooklyn Heights on Friday, calling on Governor Cuomo to include design-build authorization for the project
News
Today, Governor Cuomo announced a budget amendment that would provide state funding for early voting in New York in the 12 days leading up to elections. The proposal allots $7 million in the FY 2019 Executive Budget for New York Counties to cover the cost of early voting. Cuomo had
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Governor Andrew Cuomo (Source: Philip Kamrass / Times Union)Yesterday, Governor Cuomo announced $664 million in funding for a new, unified healthcare system in Central Brooklyn that would improve access to healthcare and create new jobs in an area of the city that needs it most. The money is part of
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Weather permitting, repaving of Ocean Parkway will start on Monday 5/15, from 9 pm to 5 am, and on weekends they plan to work from 9 pm to 7 am. The work is to be performed in two phases. Resurfacing will begin at Church Avenue to Avenue N first,
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New MTA photo shows a clean 53rd Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. (Courtesy: MTA Renderings [https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/MTA_renderings.pdf] ) The New York City subway might get a much-needed makeover. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Metropolitan Transit Authority announced
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Photo via the Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition/photos/pb.268117579928724.-2207520000.1434997661./851938288213314/?type=3&theater] After legislators and Governor Cuomo allowed rent laws to expire [/blog/real-estate/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-rent-regulation-laws-that-expired-last-night-what-your-rights-are] last Monday, legislators agreed on Friday to temporarily renew [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/assembly-democrats-introduce-bil
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Neighbors traveled to Albany last week to advocate for stronger rent regulations. Photo via the Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition/photos/a.851935758213567.1073741872.268117579928724/851938288213314/?type=3&theater] The state’s laws regulating rent increases and eviction policies for the more than two million New
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Following the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s fifth fare hike in eight years [/transportation/poll-is-the-mta-fare-hike-fair], which left straphangers digging deeper into their pockets to board the city’s subways and buses beginning this past Sunday, March 22, riders in neighborhoods throughout our coverage area issued some choice words for both the
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the preliminary recipients of $340 million in pre-kindergarten funding yesterday [http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/08182014-pre-kindergarten-funding], including a couple in our area – the United Cerebral Palsy of New York City: Brooklyn Children’s Program [http://www.ucpnyc.org/site/c.buIWJcNSKnL6G/b.6605989/] and Sunny