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Jul
16
DOJ Announces Decision Not to Charge Pantaleo, Sparking Outcry from Garner Family in Brooklyn

DOJ Announces Decision Not to Charge Pantaleo, Sparking Outcry from Garner Family in Brooklyn

DOJ’s Richard Donoghue and FBI special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the New York Field Office,
5 min read
Jul
16
Republican Local Pols, Echoing NY Post Editorial Board, Call for Mayor to be Sent Packing Back to Brooklyn

Republican Local Pols, Echoing NY Post Editorial Board, Call for Mayor to be Sent Packing Back to Brooklyn

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order eliminating plastic from city agencies, mostly utensils and other plastics from school
3 min read
Jul
15
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens For 93 Units at Bedford Arms

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens For 93 Units at Bedford Arms

Rending of Bedford Arms (Image via Housing Partnership Development Corporation) CROWN HEIGHTS— New Yorkers looking for new below-market-rate apartments now
2 min read
Jul
12
Schumer Pushes Bill to Protect Migrants After Facing Heat from Local Activists

Schumer Pushes Bill to Protect Migrants After Facing Heat from Local Activists

Protesters at Prospect Park (Sam Raskin/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE—Senator Chuck Schumer on Thursday proposed a measure aimed at protecting
2 min read
Jul
12
Local Pols Push To Honor Medgar Evers At Central BK Subway Stations

Local Pols Push To Honor Medgar Evers At Central BK Subway Stations

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson embrace during Myrie’s inauguration at SUNY Downstate in East Flatbush (Photo:
2 min read
Jul
12
NYPD’s New Mental Health Task Force Needs to Add Meditation, Brooklyn BP Says

NYPD’s New Mental Health Task Force Needs to Add Meditation, Brooklyn BP Says

Borough President Eric Adams at the press conference standing next to PBA second vice president Joseph Alejandro (Image by Sam
4 min read
Jul
11
BP Adams, Brooklyn Residents Weigh in on Proposed Jail Plan

BP Adams, Brooklyn Residents Weigh in on Proposed Jail Plan

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERBOERUM HILL—As the process for the city’s plan to build borough-based jails to replace Rikers
4 min read
Jul
10
Foreclosures Rose in Brooklyn as they Declined in City: Report

Foreclosures Rose in Brooklyn as they Declined in City: Report

Foreclosures in Brooklyn since 2016 (Image via PropertyShark)Foreclosures have slightly risen in Brooklyn in recent months, a new report
1 min read
Jul
09
21 Alleged Brooklyn Gang Members Indicted, Brooklyn DA Announces

21 Alleged Brooklyn Gang Members Indicted, Brooklyn DA Announces

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez pointing to a video being displayed at the press conference (Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN—
2 min read
Jul
09
Crime Continues to Decline As Shootings Increase in Brooklyn

Crime Continues to Decline As Shootings Increase in Brooklyn

Terence Monahan, Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and James P. O’Neill at a monthly crime briefing in Sugar
2 min read