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State Sen.Zellnor Myrie at his in-district inauguration with his mother Marcelina Cummings and State Sen. Michael Gianaris (Screenshot: Myrie’s live Twitter stream)EAST FLATBUSH – State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, who along with several other freshman senators defeated former Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) incumbents, celebrated his inauguration in East Flatbush
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UPDATE- as of 9:30 am, thanks to the quick intervention by the Public Advocate’s office, water will no longer be shut off at 250 Parkville Avenue today. “This is outrageous. It should not be happening,“ Francisca Montaña from the Public Advocate’s office said upon reading our story.
Central Brooklyn
> DA Gonzalez, standing next to @MMViverito [https://twitter.com/MMViverito] @TishJames [https://twitter.com/TishJames] @LegalAidNYC [https://twitter.com/LegalAidNYC] is moving to dismiss over 143,500 summons warrants. #CJreform [https://twitter.com/hashtag/CJreform?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/ETGFUEsVIk [https://t.co/ETGFUEsVIk] — Eric Gonzalez (@BrooklynDA) August
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Sirens Women’s Motorcycle Club, one of the 21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade’s Grand MarshalsSirens Women’s Motorcycle Club, one of the 21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade’s Grand Marshals21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade, Photo by Nathan Haselby21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade, Grand Marshal Ron BBrooklyn Pride Parade, Grand
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Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.It was a brisk morning on Sunday when a crowd of outraged Brooklynites rallied on the corner of Avenue J against the new prohibition of right turns at certain key intersections on Ocean Parkway. The “Save Ocean Parkway” protest was organized by State Assemblymember
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Worst buildings in southern Brooklyn. Screenshot from Google Maps.Public Advocate Letitia James [http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/] released the latest interactive map of the 100 worst landlords in New York City and 20 worst buildings, based on data from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the Department
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l. to r., Officer Sargent, Public Advocate James, Officer Brathwaite, Council Member Cumbo, 88th Precinct Council President Delia M. Hunley-Adossa, 88th Precinct Council Vice President John Harrison (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Michael Randazzo)After two decades of faithful service to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Officer Varlos Brathwaite is retiring
Central Brooklyn
Thousands packed surrounding areas of the iconic Stonewall Inn in the West Village on Monday, June 13. (Photo via francis_ellen [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGoppKSnTZ9/?tagged=stonewall&hl=en])Public Advocate Letitia James will join several other politicians and advocacy groups tonight at Grand Army Plaza [https:
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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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Leonid Rozenberg, president of the American Association of Invalids and Veterans of World War II, speaking a Sunday’s Rally. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Responding to reports of a string of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City, hundreds gathered for a rally at Holocaust Memorial Park Sunday to call
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Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus.“Change the law so that people who are sober and take lives are prosecuted like the drunks.” Those words were the first out of Elsa Nicodemus’ mouth at the vigil held Tuesday night (December 22) for her daughter Victoria at the spot where
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The building at 2630 Ocean Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)A busted elevator, garbage piling in the halls, leaking pipes, crumbling ceilings and days without heat and hot water. These are some of the complaints made by tenants living at 2630 Ocean Avenue, a six-story apartment building located at
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Public Advocate Letitia James (Courtesy of CWA Local 1109)How did a Verizon Wireless employee who advocated for a bullied colleague end up with a pink slip? That question was on the tongues of many at a protest in front of an 86th Street cellphone shop last week. Hundreds of
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Photo via albinoflea [https://www.flickr.com/photos/albinoflea/244335987/] via FlickrCity Council will consider a new law that would require landlords to provide tenants with “reasonable accommodations” during non-emergency elevator repairs. Under the new legislation, proposed by Councilman Mark Treyger, Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, and Public Advocate Letitia James, building
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At first glance, it looked like a real-life representation of those “We Are The World”-like cartoon pictures: colorfully-dressed children holding hands and forming a circle around the globe, showing unity while protecting the Earth. In reality, that visual turns out to be pretty accurate. The human chain formed by
Letitia James
Courtesy of Councilman Treyger’s OfficePublic Advocate Letitia James, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, and Comptroller Scott Stringer joined local politicians, community members, and activists Sunday to express their outrage at the Parks Department’s concrete makeover of the Coney Island Riegelmann Boardwalk [/construction-begins-coney-island-boardwalk/]. Despite the heavy rain and winds,