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Pols Urge Cuomo to End MTA’s ‘Dangerous Policing Policy’

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

#ThrowbackThursday: Outside Fort Greene Park in 1974

A street scene outside Fort Greene Park in 1974. (Photo by Danny Lyon, courtesy the National Archives and Records Administration [http://www.archives.gov/])This week’s #ThrowbackThursday photograph shows a street bordering Fort Greene Park in 1974. Brooklyn native Danny Lyon photographed street scenes around New York City for