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THE LEDE: Happy Friday! Amazon ditches its plans to open a headquarters in Long Island City and L-Train repairs could still cause a traffic nightmare. Plus, a councilmember introduces a bill to ban plastic and social media is being used as evidence in court. Finally, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s new leader looks back on his first 100 days in office and eight of the city’s best dive bars are in Brooklyn.

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