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Council Member selfie (Photo via Jumaane Williams/Twitter [https://twitter.com/JumaaneWilliams])Yesterday, local City Council Members celebrated a handshake deal for the city’s budget for fiscal year 2017, which includes 60,000 slots for the Youth Summer Employment Program. City Council and Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced the $82.
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Photo by Jeff BushSometimes, friends in high places don’t always help you out — especially when your spelling is suspect. Neighbor Jeff Bush sent us a photo of this moped at 12th Street and 5th Avenue. “De Blazzio’s Pal: Don’t Ticket” is written in black ink on the
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Photo via citi bike [https://instagram.com/p/5NusM5xiYP/?taken-by=citibike]More spokes are wheeling their way into the Park Slope and surrounding neighborhoods — even more than what was originally planned. The Department of Transportation announced that 73 new Citi Bike docking stations will be added to the neighborhoods covered
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Video via YouTube [“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22XH4-nNjlA”] In an effort to gain approval for the proposed streetcar line intended to link the waterfront from booming Sunset Park [/blog/business/swift-massive-renovations-industry-city-now-attracting-general-public/] to Astoria, the Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector [http://www.bqx.nyc/] have announced a coalition
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City Councilman Mark Treyger joined with Coney Island residents to demand the city purchase the former F.E.G.S. building. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)They want a community center, not condos! City Councilman Mark Treyger joined with scores of Coney Island residents Saturday to demand the city purchase
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275 4th Avenue, rendering by Moso Studio/ODA Architecture. (Courtesy of Moso Studio/ODA Architecture)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/
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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zoning-qa/presentation_0915.pdf] (ZQA) and Mandatory
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Photo by Leon LipkovichThe City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached an agreement on two zoning changes meant to spur construction of affordable housing [http://www.nyc.gov/html/housing/assets/downloads/pdf/housing_plan.pdf] in the New York City. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability
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City Councilman Chaim Deutsch speaking to Community Board 15. (Photo: NHSatSheepshead [https://twitter.com/NHSatSheepshead/status/702297626574598144] / Twitter)City Councilman Chaim Deutsch told the Community Board Tuesday that he will stand with his colleagues in passing two controversial pieces of the mayor’s affordable housing plan so long as he
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Courtesy of the Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens ConnectorMayor Bill de Blasio and his administration have been engaged in building significant momentum behind the planning and construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar (BQX), which would link Sunset Park’s burgeoning economic hub [/blog/business/swift-massive-renovations-industry-city-now-attracting-general-public/] with northern Brooklyn, terminating at Astoria,
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Rendering of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar, via Friends of the Brooklyn-Queens ConnectorAs Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to throw his support behind the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens streetcar (BQX), the administration has begun to discuss more details and logistics for the massive undertaking. According to the New York Times
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Practice Court at the Brooklyn Nets’ Hospital for Special Surgery Training Center. (Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Nets)It wasn’t Dorothy and Toto who were ascending the podium. But if they had, Dorothy surely would have looked down and said, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in New