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In this December 2014 file photo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, and NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, center, stand on stage during a New York Police Academy graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden. After months of friction between the NYPD’s sergeants union and de Blasio, the union is signing a new labor contract with City Hall. AP Photo/John Minchillo

NYPD sergeants union signs new labor contract

February 26 | By Jonathan Lemire

New York Police Department’s sergeants union is signing a new...

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A courtroom sketch shows the three Brooklyn men arraigned on Wednesday. One of the men allegedly planned to bomb Coney Island, alarming local politicians that Homeland Security funding could soon decrease. AP Graphic/Jane Rosenberg

Coney Island lawmakers demand homeland security funding

February 26 | By Paula Katinas

Wednesday’s arrest of three terror suspects from Brooklyn, one of whom...

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Theme of Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting: Change vs Preservation

February 26 | By Mary Frost

The theme of the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2015 annual meeting, held...

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The icy Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges were once terror targets. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

This is not the first time Brooklyn targeted for terror

February 25 | By Mary Frost

Wednesday’s terror plot is not the first time Brooklyn...

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In this photo taken June 23, 2014, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. Three Brooklyn men were arrested Wednesday for trying to aid Islamic State. AP Photo/File

3 Brooklyn men arrested in plot to join ISIS

February 25 | By Colleen Long

Three men were arrested Wednesday on charges of plotting to...

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Brooklyn Public Library is among finalists for national award

February 25 | Shlomo Sprung

ROCHESTER— Six institutions in New York state, including the Brooklyn Public Library...

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State Sen. Marty Golden (left), and assembly members Nicole Malliotakis and Alec Brook-Krasny came together on Tuesday to call on the MTA to offer discounts to anyone who drives on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge three or more times a month. Currently, only Staten Island residents receive a discount. Photo courtesy of Golden’s office

Pols demand discount on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll

February 25 | By Paula Katinas

Staten Island residents get a break on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll...

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Union members of the Hotel and Motel Trades Council cheer a speech by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday in New York. The Cuomo administration announced Tuesday that restaurant servers, hotel housekeepers and other tipped workers in New York will soon make $7.50 an hour before tips, a change that will translate into a big raise for thousands of workers throughout the state. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Cuomo administration to raise tipped wage to $7.50

February 24 | By David Klepper

Restaurant servers, hotel housekeepers and other tipped workers in New York will...

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Keeping history alive in revival of key retail blocks of Montague Street: "What we really want," said Calfa brothers," is the Brooklyn Women's Exchange..."


Friday, July 1, 2022

CITY OF WATER DAY IN GOWANUS: A set of events centered around the Gowanus Canal will be part of the 15th annual City of Water Day coming to New York and New Jersey’s shores on July 16. 

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CENTRAL LAWN REOPENS AT FT. GREENE PARK: The Central Lawn at Fort Greene Park has reopened, just in time for the Fourth of July, but with different rules in two sections of the lawn.

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CAFFEINE APP FOR MOVIE SERIES: “Summer Movies Under the Stars,” hosted at Fort Greene Park in July and then in Prospect Park in August, will have a new Brooklyn-born culinary feature for coffee aficionados. 

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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

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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
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Red Winged Blackbird, spotted in Brooklyn Bridge park. Photo by Heather Wolf, text by Joseph Palmer.

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State Senator Andrew Gounardes spoke with the Eagle and mentioned that the Bruen decision indicates the “just cause” or “may issue” doctrines that many states use to regulate firearm licensing are considered too subjective for the Supreme Court, but change requires reform “driven by federal legislation” for significant impact.”

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Lawmakers held a special legislative session Thursday that Gov. Kathy Hochul called primarily to pass an emergency overhaul of the state’s gun permitting rules after they were struck down by a Supreme Court ruling.”

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