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Shortly after midnight on Friday, September 4, police responded to a 911 call of an assault near the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Ditmas Avenue (70th Precinct). They found a 33-year-old man lying on the ground, unconscious and unresponsive, with trauma to the head. He was takend to NYC Health
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NY State Senator Andrew Gounardes at the press conference in Bay Ridge. His office.BAY RIDGE – Standing in front of Chadwicks, State Senator Andrew Gounardes and City Councilman Justin Brannan who represent the area stood with local restaurant owners to call on City and State agencies to immediately issue guidance
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BY PRESS NYC: PARENTS FOR RESPONSIVE, EQUITABLE, SAFE SCHOOLS A day after a 7-hour City Council Education Committee hearing where, as at the August 19th PEP, students, parents, and educators spoke out [http://tiny.cc/delayletters] in unity against the reopening of school buildings, it’s becoming ever clearer that
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Few of us have ever fully explored NYC, and with all the travel restrictions in place this may just be the best time to discover something new. The US Open Tennis Championships are currently taking place in Flushing Meadows, Queens, but you can also playing tennis in the Bronx, take
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J’Ouvert in Brooklyn in 2018. (Bklyner File Photo)Gatherings of more than 50 individuals are still not permitted, and Mayor Bill de Blasio reminded everyone this morning that there is no West Indian Day Parade this year. Large scale J’Ouvert festivities are also not permitted, but that event
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March 16th saw all sit-down dining halt, and with it went the inspections from the Department of Health (DOH). While indoor dining is yet to resume, DOH started inspecting restaurants again on August 17, however, with some very notable caveats, [https://thenycalliance.org/information/nyc-health-dept-modified-inspections-notice-] NYC Hospitality Alliance informed its
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Courtesy of Jamal Jackson, taken by Antoine Tempé“I’m not here anymore for just pretty dance,” Jamal Jackson, the founder of the Brooklyn based Jamal Jackson Dance Company [https://www.jamaljacksondancecompany.org] said, as we talked about how he and his dancers have adapted to the changing times, how
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Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. City Hall. Monday, August 24, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Yesterday’s big announcement was that public school reopening is to be delayed [/nyc-school-re-opening-pushed-back-ten-days/] from September 10 to September 16 for remote, and September 21 for blended cohorts, to allow for school buildings to
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Some of the Vote In or Out members with former Senator Hillary Clinton in 2019. (Photo via Vote In Or Out, with permission)BROOKLYN – A group of neighbors and friends from Brooklyn believe that though it is imperative that people vote in the elections this November, it is even more
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New York City residents are woefully weary of being counted, so it seems, and the consequences will be significant as for the next 10 years Federal funds for things like public education, affordable housing, infrastructure – all of which we desperately need – will be allocated based on who gets counted, and
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Red Pill [https://www.harikunzru.com/] (September 1st) follows a British-Indian author living in Brooklyn who travels to Berlin for an academic fellowship. That also accurately describes Kunzru himself, but the unnamed narrator in the novel has his world tilted askew by his time in Germany. As he procrastinates by
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The site of the fatal shooting early this morning on Howard Avenue. (Photo: Adam Balhetchet/ Loudlabs)BROOKLYN – Six shootings took place across the borough last night; one of them turned deadly. And they all involved young men. Shootings have more than doubled across Brooklyn since last year, according to NYPD