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Borough President Eric Adams announces his $6.92 million capital budget investment in libraries and cultural institutions at a press conference at Bay Ridge Library

Adams pumps $6.9 million into borough’s cultural institutions

September 2 | By Paula Katinas

Brooklyn’s libraries and cultural institutions are part of what makes Kings...

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An emotional relative is embraced by Councilmember Mathieu Eugene.

Grieving Flatbush family needs financial help for funeral

August 29 | By Matthew Taub

The grieving relatives of a Flatbush family that died in a ...

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Democratic district leader-elect Nancy Tong, Councilmember Mark Treyger (center) and Assemblymember Bill Colton stand with concerned residents.

Officials demand that MTA notify public of bedbug outbreaks on trains, buses

August 28 | By Matthew Taub

On Monday, a train conductor suffered multiple bed bug bites while...

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Bill de Blasio's administration agreed to a new labor contract with the union that represents school safety agents on Tuesday.

NYC strikes labor deal, settles equal pay suit

August 27 | By Jonathan Lemire

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration agreed to...

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Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams announces the parks funding component of his FY15 capital budget plan at a press conference he held in Heckscher Playground in Bushwick. He's joined by (pictured, from left to right) Ed Janoff, Regina Myer, representatives from Los Sures, Carlos Menchaca, Rafael Espinal, Diana Reyna and Kevin Jeffrey. Photo Credit: Stefan Ringel/Brooklyn BP’s Office

Brooklyn BP Adams announced $5M to improve city parks in 2015

August 27 | Shlomo Sprung

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams unveiled the parks funding component of...

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Bed bugs found on subway. Photo by Paula Katinas

Brooklyn N train fumigated after bedbugs bite conductor

August 26 | Mary Frost

Another New York City subway train has been pulled out of service...

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Brooklyn Tech High School, courtesy of Google Streetview 2014

Brooklyn Tech teacher indicted for sexting obscene selfies to student

August 26 | By Mary Frost

A math and physics teacher at Brooklyn Tech High School in Fort...

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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. AP photo

NY state overtime costs on pace for record high

August 26 | By David Klepper

ALBANY— New York state agencies racked up more than $316 million...

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U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer escorts Democratic National Committee CEO Amy Dacey, center, as they arrive at the Barclays Center on Aug. 11. One NYC police union opposes having the convention in Brooklyn

One NYC police union opposes Brooklyn’s DNC bid

August 26 | By Jonathan Lemire

One of New York City’s police unions announced its opposition...

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HOSPITAL PROGRAM PROVES EARLIER DETECTION OF COVID: Wastewater data can detect COVID and flu 10 to 14 days before those results are seen clinically at the hospital, thanks to new technology that the NYC Health and Hospitals system is using.

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MTA LAUNCHES REVAMPED TRAINTIME APP: Nearly 50,000 New Yorkers have downloaded the MTA’s new TrainTime one-stop app within the first 15 hours of its launch on Wednesday. 

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SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE IN NEW UTRECHT: Another backpack and supply giveaway for low-income children will take place a week from Saturday, on August 27, in southwest Brooklyn. 

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Brooklyn Bird Watch

The Double Crested Cormorant, spotted in Brooklyn Bridge park. Photo by Heather Wolf, text by Joseph Palmer.

On Buddy Scotto

If Buddy Scotto had his way, there would be gondolas plying the waters of the Gowanus Canal...

— Helen Klein, opening remarks in a remembrance of Buddy Scotto, at the recent renaming of a Carroll Gardens Street

Ice Ages & Climate Change

Could humans live through another ice age? Probably. But like the frog in the frying pan, they may have more trouble with the man-made,  incremental warming of oceans and the LOSS of ice in glaciers.

— Environmentalist, commenting on a
discussion of ice age cycles.

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“They may be political rivals, but four candidat “They may be political rivals, but four candidates for the same office joined others on Tuesday at a press conference in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where they asked the federal government to improve conditions at Brooklyn’s federal jail. The four are Councilmember Carlina Rivera, former federal impeachment counsel Dan Goldman, U.S. Rep. for the Hudson Valley region Mondaire Jones, and Assemblymember Yuh-Line Nion.” Read the rest of our “Need to reform conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center unites rivals for congressional post” article, which is linked in our bio.
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