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Photo: FlickrProperty tax relief is now on the way for senior and disabled homeowners, as per a bill signed by Governor Cuomo yesterday, July 25. As long as the citizens are living on a fixed income, Senator Diane Savino’s [/tag/diane-savino/]legislation to expand the Senior Homeowners’ Exemption (SCHE)
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Photo: Carly MillerSoon, there may be a law that would alert tenants if they’re about to rent an illegally converted apartment — before they sign the lease. Yesterday, the NY State Assembly passed a bill [http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/A8249] authored by southern Brooklyn Assemblymember Pamela Harris,
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Photo by BKLYNERLast Thursday, President Trump announced [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/01/530748899/watch-live-trump-announces-decision-on-paris-climate-agreement] his withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a 2015 climate deal made by 195 countries around the world with a goal to reduce greenhouse gas
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Atlantic Avenue rendering via NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2015-06-15-atlantic-ave-cb5.pdf] Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-1122-million-funding-support-transportation-enhancements-across-new] last week that he will award $112.2 million to 81 projects that support bicycle and pedestrian safety enhancements and improve air quality
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Brownsville Academy High School via Google MapsGovernor Andrew Cuomo’s $1.4 billion dollar plan to help revitalize long-neglected parts of Central Brooklyn is raising concerns for some of the residents of the targeted areas. Released on March 9, the plan, called “Vital Brooklyn,” targets the Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Crown Heights,
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Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
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Photo via Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office.A 24-year-old Queens man has been arrested and charged in the murder of Carey Gabay, a top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo who lived in Clinton Hill. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/nyregion/arrest-in-killing-of-carey-gabay-cuomo-aide.html?_r=0] Micah Alleyne was arrested
Central Brooklyn
(Photo: Doug Kerr [:https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/4331582100/"] / Flickr)Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that work has begun on an $8.5 million project to improve safety and traffic flow on Ocean Parkway. “Creating a safer Ocean Parkway will benefit neighborhoods and families throughout Brooklyn – and
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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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Robert Newman addresses Community Board 14, which he is leaving after serving for 20 years.Community Board 14 [/blog/politics/tonight-address-concerns-learn-about-our-neighborhood-at-the-community-board-14-meeting] held its final meeting before the summer break at Edward R. Murrow High School [http://www.ermurrowhs.org/]on Monday, June 8. Here’s what happened this month: * Community
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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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Newly inaugurated Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson [http://www.brooklynda.org/] first announced back in October his intention [http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304069604579155723777051460] to decriminalize up to 15 grams of marijuana “in public view” (as opposed to in one’s apartment, for instance [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/