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(Photo via Wikipedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_Transit_snow_removal_(11312274454).jpg] )The New York City Emergency Management Department has issued a hazardous travel advisory for tomorrow, Saturday, December 17. New Yorkers be warned: tomorrow’s forecast predicts slightly warmer weather (a high of 42
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Photo via David Stahl / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/otherdave/12788768/]Have you pulled out your extra warm sweater? Have you found that missing glove? Have you stocked up on hot cocoa? Good. That’s a start. Now let’s keep you, your family, and your neighbors safe and
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Photo via David Stahl / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/otherdave/12788768/]Have you pulled out your extra warm sweater? Have you found that missing glove? Have you stocked up on hot cocoa? Good. That’s a start. Now let’s keep you, your family, and your neighbors safe and
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Photo via David Stahl / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/otherdave/12788768/]Have you pulled out your extra warm sweater? Have you found that missing glove? Have you stocked up on hot cocoa? Good. That’s a start. Now let’s keep you, your family, and your neighbors safe and
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Photo via David Stahl / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/otherdave/12788768/]Have you pulled out your extra warm sweater? Have you found that missing glove? Have you stocked up on hot cocoa? Good. That’s a start. Now let’s keep you, your family, and your neighbors safe and
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Bensonhurst BeanAs colder temperatures descend on our area, reliable heat is absolutely essential. Paying for heat is a serious concern for many working families, senior citizens, and others living on fixed incomes. Fuel costs can break a budget, especially during a long winter. The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
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Photo: Bensonhurst BeanAs colder temperatures descend on our area, reliable heat is absolutely essential. Paying for heat is a serious concern for many working families, senior citizens, and others living on fixed incomes. Fuel costs can break a budget, especially during a long winter. The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
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Photo by Boris Zhukovskiy.Yesterday was a windy day, no doubt. But was it windy enough to blow decades-old trees to the ground? In one incident, a tree fell onto a parked car on East 29 Street between Avenues X and Y. According to the Parks Department, the tree fell
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The project in question is the Jamaica Bay/Rockaway Draft Reformulation Plan [/everything-need-know-new-storm-resiliency-proposal/], and its objective is to enhance storm resiliency efforts on the shorefront areas that were blasted by Superstorm Sandy. The $3.8 billion plan talks of raising bulkheads and sea walls, as well as even larger projects
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Flooding off Emmons Avenue in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. (Photo: Viktor Kravtchenko via Creative Commons)As Brooklyn — and the rest of the U.S. — were transfixed by the presidential elections, U.N. scientists released a new report with direct relevance to our area. According to an analysis released Tuesday
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Photo via Army Corps of Engineers.The deadline to give input to the Army Corps of Engineers is November 17, but local politicians are pushing for it to be extended until the end of the year. Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz and other pols penned a letter to Colonel David A. Caldwell,
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Workers from a contracted oil spill clean-up company sift through an oily debris field in Sheepshead Bay on November 2nd, 2012, days after Superstorm Sandy. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally.)In recognition of the fourth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, we’re taking a