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State Legislature Mulling NYC Hurricane Sandy Assessment Relief Act

Photo by Erica ShermanState Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced the New York City Hurricane Sandy Assessment Relief Act, legislation intended to provide tax relief to New York City homeowners and businesses severely impacted by Superstorm Sandy. The legislation would allow property owners who suffered damages from Sandy to apply for

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Fidler Leads Fight To Lift Cell Phone Ban In Schools

Source: quinn.anya/FlickrCity Councilman Lew Fidler penned a letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott last week demanding the abolition of the public school cell phone ban, which has been in place since 2006. The letter, backed by 47 of the Council’s 51 members, called the rule “out of

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Pols' Plans To Ban Hookah Bolstered By Recent Study

Restivo (Source: NYDailyNews.com)A Bensonhurst native has put together a study that could fuel the efforts of local politicians to ban hookah sales to minors, and even prohibit them from indoor establishments. The 25-year-old graduate student at New York City College of Technology, Toni-Ann Restivo, has produced research some

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Bicyclist Ticket Blitz Sees Hundreds Fined In February

In yet another installment of the never-ending saga of Brooklyn’s bike lanes and the bicyclists who love them, cyclists all over the borough are gnashing their handlebars over an explosion in the amount of traffic tickets they’ve been slapped with this year versus the same time last year.