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Council Member Laurie Cumbo spoke briefly about the new New York City budget. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)Community Board 2 [/?s=community+board+2]‘s most recent meeting was focused heavily on the future of Downtown Brooklyn given the massive development of its recent past. The meeting took
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The DOT makes its presentation in favor of the bike lane.“You want to keep going?” asked the exasperated Department of Transit official advocating the Clinton Avenue bike lane [/?s=bike+lane]. “NO!” shouted the crowd in near-unison. The DOT presented its plan [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/
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(Courtesy Brooklyn Borough President Adams)“A baby does not arrive in the delivery room with an instruction manual,” said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Adams, as part of his recent initiative to encourage breastfeeding in New York City, was speaking at the Brooklyn Hospital Center [/?s=brooklyn+hospital+center] on
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Council Member Cumbo speaks to part of the panel.Council Member Laurie Cumbo had to grab the mic as she urged last night’s town hall to keep it “calm and cool” as tensions rose. The councilwoman a town hall discussion on Tuesday at the Ingersoll Community Center (177 Myrtle
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Allen “Pike” Cooper is wanted for shooting and killing three people at the Ingersoll Houses in September 2015. (Photo via NYPD)Community leaders have rallied around the families of the residents of the Ingersoll Houses following the arrest [/blog/2016/04/25/suspect-ingersoll-triple-homicide-apprehended/] of the suspect in last fall’s
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(People were hanging out the windows to be a part of Spike Lee’s block party. Courtesy Justin Fox/Instagram)The celebration of Prince’s life [/blog/2016/04/22/spike-lee-right-thing-prince-block-party/] will continue this Friday at Fort Greene Park [/?s=fort+greene+park] with a concert in his honor. The
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Councilmember Laurie Cumbo knows where to go for news.Gentrification and affordable housing dominated the discussion Monday night at Council Member Laurie Cumbo [http://council.nyc.gov/d35/html/members/home.shtml]‘s second annual [/blog/2015/03/02/cumbo-emphasizes-community-teamwork-state-district-address/] “State of the District” address. Cumbo updated her constituents in
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Photo via via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6848153,-73.9781373,3a,75y,173.58h,82.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPfyF9HVUMn3y1G0EHnS8rA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] Local street safety advocates and politicians are not wasting any time in keeping up the pressure on the city Department of Transportation
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State Senator Diane Savino. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)State Senator Diane Savino has no plans to abandon her longtime consulting firm, The Advance Group, even though the company was fined tens of thousands of dollars last week for violating New York’s campaign finance laws, the Daily News Reports
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As dusk fell over Brooklyn on the longest day of the year, candlelight began to flicker and voices rose in unison, filling the plaza in front of Barclays Center with the refrains of “We Shall Overcome.” The song capped a 90-minute-long interfaith vigil and name-reading on Sunday, June 21, which
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Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, signed Councilman Jumaane Williams’, right of de Blasio, catch basin bill into law Tuesday. Photo courtesy Councilman Jumaane Williams’ officeFor neighbors who have long dealt with flooding in our area [/blog/sanitation/rain-rain-go-away], a new law could bring some relief to our waterlogged streets [/blog/
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Here’s another State of the District address to come out of winter hibernation for: Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s this Sunday, March 1 from 3-5pm at the Brooklyn Museum’s Cantor Auditorium. This is her first annual SOTD address about her “progress and vision for the 35th Council District.” Besides