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On his first day as a city-wide elected official Public Advocate Jumaane Williams stopped by the Community Board 17’s General Meeting on Thursday night. Williams announced he’d release his full transition team on Thursday. He did: > Thanks @IfyWorks [https://twitter.com/IfyWorks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]! Excited
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Update March 20: New York State Liquor Authority [https://sla.ny.gov/] (SLA) confirmed owners surrendered their license one day before they were to go before the board for a disciplinary review. CROWN HEIGHTS — After less than two years, the controversial Crown Heights bar Summerhill (currently named OBK), plagued by
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NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (Photo: Bklyner) * Following months of stalled contract negotiations, the New York State Nurses Association gave notice to three city hospital systems that it intends to strike, Crain’s New York Business [http://l.e.crainalerts.com/rts/go2.aspx?h=602900&tp=i-H43-E7-530-6fgPq-1n-1zkS-1c-6fi5P-5tiYr] reports. * De
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Umber Nisar (middle) speaks about what happened to her. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – Umber Nisar, the Muslim woman who was assaulted three days ago [/muslim-woman-hate-crime/], sat on a chair facing the cameras. She was fidgeting with her hands and occasionally looked up, her eyes were filled with tears, but
Boerum Hill
COBBLE HILL/BOERUM HILL – The NYPD closed the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street to pedestrians and drivers Tuesday morning after receiving reports of an armed individual in the vicinity. According to a tweet posted by the 76th Precinct at approximately 9:30am, some locals believed there was a
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BROOKLYN – New York courts institute a “cross-race identification” rule after a wrongfully convicted Brooklyn man serves seven years in prison, partially because witnesses misidentified the then-19-year-old. Otis Boone and Lavonda Allen Photo compliments of The Legal Aid Society.At his second trial, a jury found African-American Otis Boone, 27, not
Bed Stuy
BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Police are looking for suspects involved in a shooting that resulted in a dead body behind Marcy Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant. Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] NYPD officers found Deshawn Smart, 47, after responding to
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerUPDATE: While the NYPD still has not released photos or video of the assailant, it seems it is now being investigated by the Hate Crimes Unit, though the cops won’t tell us when that switch happened. MIDWOOD – Umber Nisar usually drives everywhere. But, the weather was
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SUNSET PARK – A second body was discovered floating in the water by the Brooklyn Army Terminal over the weekend, just days after an unidentified man’s body was found in the vicinity. At approximately 7am on Saturday, March 16, police responded to a call of a woman spotted in the
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Jumaane Williams and others hold hands and chant as a sign of unity. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – “No hate, no fear, Muslims are welcome here. No hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here,” people chanted outside Makki Masjid this afternoon. Last night, a white supremacist [https://www.theguardian.com/
Business
CONEY ISLAND – At its Tuesday, March 12, meeting, the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission greenlighted the way to the redevelopment of the long boarded up Shore Theater. The commission had sent the developer back after initial hearing to revise a number of elements [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/lpc/downloads/
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GOWANUS – A man was stabbed on the G train at the Smith-9th Street Subway Station this afternoon after intervening in a fight. According to cops, after a fight broke out inside the G train at around 3:55 p.m., a 48-year-old man intervened and ended up getting stabbed once