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At Monday’s town hall looking for suggestions to save financially troubled SUNY Downstate Medical Center, many supporters of Long Island Coll … Full Article

Muni-meters will be reprogrammed to fix a few kinks that have frustrated drivers parking on local streets, Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced May 1. … Full Article

Maimonides Medical Center hosted a party for heart patients whose lives doctors saved with a piece of cutting edge technology that has only been in use at the hospital for a year. … Full Article

New York City Council Members Jumaane D. Williams (D-Flatbush) and Lewis A. Fidler (D-Southeast Brooklyn) have set forth to combat illegal gambling in New York City, in general and Brooklyn specifically. … Full Article

The Federation of Italian-American Organizations held its 36th annual fundraising gala at the El Caribe County Club on Sunday, April 7, and the dinner helped raise funds for the federation’s new Italian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. … Full Article

In the spring, a young man’s fancy turns to…allergies? If you find yourself sneezing, wheezing, coughing, and rubbing your itchy eyes during the warm weather months, take heart. You’re not alone in your hay fever hangover. … Full Article

Judges of Brooklyn’s Civil, Criminal, Family, and Housing Courts met members of the Brooklyn community yesterday at the St. Gabriel’s Senior Center on Hawthorne Street, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.  … Full Article

The suspect arrested in the attack on a woman in the F train station on 18th Avenue in Borough Park might have been nabbed sooner if the Police Department had released the video that showed the shocking crime sooner, an angry Assemblyman Dov Hikind said this week. … Full Article

The suspect arrested for a brutal attack on a 56-year-old woman in an F train station in Borough Park was nabbed with help from a person who left on a comment on the Gawker website that led police to the alleged attacker, Councilman David Greenfield said. … Full Article

Brooklyn’s small business owners would be hit with fewer “gotcha” tickets for such things as sidewalk litter if city agencies were required to spell out the regulations, according to City Councilman David Greenfield, who has introduced legislation to put the onus on the city to inform merch … Full Article