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City Council Member Mathieu Eugene at City Council Chambers. (Photo via Dr. Mathieu Eugene [https://twitter.com/cmmathieueugene?lang=en] / twitter)This week, City Council passed a resolution to formally ask the Department of Homeland Security to extend protections for Haitian immigrants and to stop detaining Haitian nationals in the
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Assemblymember Dov Hikind. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.State Assemblymember Dov Hikind sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a letter earlier this week asking him to stop his planned traffic changes for Ocean Parkway and to come observe the busy Brooklyn road himself and discuss ways to make it safer. Hikind
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Assemblymember Dov Hikind. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.State Assemblymember Dov Hikind sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a letter earlier this week asking him to stop his planned traffic changes for Ocean Parkway and to come observe the busy Brooklyn road himself and discuss ways to make it safer. Hikind
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One of Google’s self-driving cars. Photo via Flickr/Smoothgroover22 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/smoothgroover22/15104006386/in/photolist-p1FYTd-eBWbNx-8XUCAY-pehkzt-oQLPXk-cvhYgh-iKrUr5-g4P8w-o7T6qb-ENwDQj-wpZxdf-oSLAA2-qPTpog-9sgehf-hRrw8M-fCyoaC-cHWdgW-diJQue-eFeCPe-o5Zrtr-9o1FrD-9iYZ98-7RcU7D-Asbs1P-zFbgxp-a7mSqE-HwL6zY-df5xw3-HraHQ9-rntpFL-gTzd3u-eb2sof-a4EhoN-raUYJg-48dwvP-2aXF8b-dLznp8-8hr8UZ-6rdujU-99aahD-xgS3j-cDdb3y-pcZ8z-F5Qc1P-8wXj6S-6ECKWu-cnLV8L-cnLVSS-6zjajF-tKXioz/] Imagine hai
Bensonhurst
Vincent Gentile, left, photo via New York City Council. Michael Birstreich, right, photo via LinkedinCity Councilman Vincent Gentile has been charged by a former legislative aide with a $10 million lawsuit claiming Gentile subjugated him to so much humiliation — putting decapitated teddy bears on his office desk and harassing him
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(Sample 2-way bike lane image via Transportation Alternatives petition [https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/two-way-protected-bike-path-flatbush]) [Update 12/7: We spoke to the petition’s founder and added in her story throughout] Local Council Members take note: A petition for a 2-way protected bike lane on Flatbush Avenue [https://campaigns.transalt.
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(Sample 2-way bike lane image via Transportation Alternatives petition [https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/two-way-protected-bike-path-flatbush]) [Updates 12/7 & 12/8: We spoke to the petition’s founders and added in their story throughout] Local Council Members take note: A petition for a 2-way protected bike lane on Flatbush Avenue
![[Updated] Flatbush Avenue Bike Lane Petition Builds Momentum This Week](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screenshot_20161124-093607_0-2.png)
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(Sample 2-way bike lane image via Transportation Alternatives petition [https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/two-way-protected-bike-path-flatbush]) [Updates 12/7 & 12/8: We spoke to the petition’s founders and added in their story throughout] Local Council Members take note: A petition for a 2-way protected bike lane on Flatbush Avenue
Central Brooklyn
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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Nick Klein, CAMBA attorney delivering a ‘Know Your Rights’ training at the Flatbush Library. (Photo by DPC)With deportations of Haitian refugees resuming at full speed and the future of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the hands of a president-elect touting anti-immigrant rhetoric, many Haitian immigrants in Flatbush are worried
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Nick Klein, CAMBA attorney delivering a ‘Know Your Rights’ training at the Flatbush Library. (Photo by DPC)With deportations of Haitian refugees resuming at full speed and the future of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the hands of a president-elect touting anti-immigrant rhetoric, many Haitian immigrants in Flatbush are worried
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> .@bradlander [https://twitter.com/bradlander] arrested while supporting striking McDonald’s workers in NYC #Fightfor15 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fightfor15?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/yv0kQeBZyJ [https://t.co/yv0kQeBZyJ] — Daniel Massey (@masseydaniel) November 29, 2016 [https://twitter.com/masseydaniel/status/803574416693141504] At a rally this morning in Lower