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ADAMS, NYPD SAY OUTSIDE AGITATORS INFLAMED COLUMBIA PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST CITYWIDE — MAYOR ERIC ADAMS AND TOP NYPD OFFICIALS stressed to reporters on Wednesday that professional agitators played a role in

NYC COUNCIL TO GRILL ADAMS ADMIN ABOUT OFF-PUTTING MEETING REQUEST FORMS CITYWIDE — AN UNHAPPY CITY COUNCIL IS HOLDING an oversight hearing at 1 p.m. Wednesday on the Adams administration’s

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GRANT APPLICATION PERIOD OPENS STATEWIDE — THE APPLICATION PERIOD HAS OPENED for those aiming to secure $7.34 million in Environmental Justice Community Impact Grants, Governor Kathy Hochul announced

HEIGHTS’ OWN RABBI LIPPE IS PANELIST AT UPCOMING LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY TALK BROOKLYN HEIGHTS AND MIDTOWN MANHATTAN — RABBI SERGE LIPPE of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue is one of four religious

NEW AIRLINE RULES ON PASSENGER REFUNDS CODIFY MEANING OF ‘SIGNIFICANT DELAY’ NATIONWIDE — AIRLINES SOON MUST COMPLY with a set of finalized new rules, to be implemented over the next

POLICE LOOK FOR SUSPECT WHO FIRED AND MISSED OUTSIDE SUNSET PARK RESTAURANT SUNSET PARK — AN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT FIRED A GUN at another man — but missed — outside a

BOERUM HILL MAN GETS LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT PAROLE IN ARMED ROBBERY CASE DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A BOERUM HILL MAN HAS BEEN SENTENCED to life in prison without parole in the

PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTS SPREAD TO NYU, THE NEW SCHOOL MANHATTAN — PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTS ERUPTED AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY in Manhattan on Monday afternoon, as protesters breached school barricades and behaved in a

GIRL SCOUTS LAUNCH ‘ENCORE WEEK,’ COOKIE SALES TO SUPPORT SPECIAL TROOP 600 CROWN HEIGHTS AND CITYWIDE — THE BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM IS ONE OF THE MANY POPULAR SPOTS hosting Girl

ONE QUEENS-BOUND LANE OF BQE CLOSED UNTIL MAY 10 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — THE RIGHT LANE OF THE QUEENS-BOUND BROOKLYN-QUEENS EXPRESSWAY will continue to be closed from midnight to 5 a.m. from

BREAKING NEWS SENATE DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST MAYORKAS, THUS ABORTING IMPEACHMENT TRIAL CAPITOL HILL — THE U.S. SENATE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 17, DISMISSED all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary

IN MEMORIAM: CARL ERSKINE, 97, CAREER PITCHER WITH BROOKLYN DODGERS EBBETS FIELD TO INDIANAPOLIS — Carl Erskine, whose entire baseball career was with the Brooklyn Dodgers, died on Tuesday, April

LATEST ROUND OF ARTISTS CHOSEN FOR HOSPITALS’ COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT FLATBUSH AND BED-STUY — NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS’ ARTS IN MEDICINE DEPARTMENT TODAY HAS SELECTED SIX ARTISTS to create new

BREAKING NEWS LAWMAKERS WILL INTRODUCE BILL TO REPEAL CONGESTION PRICING BAY RIDGE — AN EFFORT TO REPEAL CONGESTION PRICING WILL BRING TOGETHER SEVERAL elected officials from the local through national

13 CHARGED AFTER SYNAGOGUE TUNNEL SPECTACLE CROWN HEIGHTS — THIRTEEN YOUNG MEN WERE CHARGED on Wednesday in the Brooklyn State Supreme Court over the now-infamous January incident in which fighting

GOVERNOR MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF SUBWAY STATION AGENTS’ ENHANCED ROLE CITYWIDE — GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL ON TUESDAY, APRIL 9, CELEBRATED ONE YEAR SINCE MTA STATION AGENTS BEGAN THEIR ENHANCED ROLE of

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING VOTE OPENS PARK SLOPE — THIS YEAR’S ROUND OF PARTICIPATORY budgeting voting has opened, according to Councilmember Shahana Hanif, giving New Yorkers the opportunity to direct how discretionary

PIMP WHO TORTURED, MURDERED WOMEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN BROOKLYN COURT DOWNTOWN — A MAN WHO TORTURED, RAPED, DISFIGURED AND MURDERED HIS VICTIMS while forcing them into prostitution was sentenced

WILLIAMS ARRESTED DURING REBNY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MIDTOWN — PUBLIC ADVOCATE JUMAANE WILLIAMS AND SEVERAL TENANT activists were arrested on Thursday during a rally outside of the Midtown Manhattan offices of

HOCHUL: DANGEROUS WINDS, RAIN  WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY CITYWIDE — MORE RAIN AND HIGH WINDS ARE FORECAST for New York City through Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned late Wednesday. She

BIKER HIT BY CAR DIES OF INJURIES MIDWOOD — CYCLIST FELIPE VELAZQUEZ, AGE 47, PASSED AWAY on Saturday from injuries sustained in a car crash on March 12, reports the

JEREMY LECHTZIN NAMED NEW PRESIDENT OF BROOKLYN HEIGHTS ASSOCIATION BROOKLYN HEIGHTS —  THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS ASSOCIATION has a new president, the organization announced Thursday. Architectural historian and tech lawyer Jeremy Lechtzin

29 NYC COUNCIL MEMBERS PUSH STATE FOR MORE AUTHORITY TO CRACK DOWN ON WEED SHOPS CITYWIDE — A LETTER TO GOV. KATHY HOCHUL, LEADER STEWART-COUSINS AND SPEAKER HEASTIE — signed

MISSING BOY IN WILLIAMSBURG WILLIAMSBURG — POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR MISSING BOY  Emanuel Rodriguez Dominguez, age 11, who was last seen at the corner of Keap Street and Broadway in

VETS, GOLD STAR FAMILIES GET FREE ACCESS TO STATE PARKS AND LANDS STATEWIDE — GOVERNOR HOCHUL ON WEDNESDAY ANNOUNCED THAT thanks to legislation passed in September 2023, beginning on Monday,

POLICE SEEK STABBING SUSPECT SUNSET PARK — POLICE ARE ASKING FOR HELP IDENTIFYING AN UNKNOWN MAN, WHO, in the early morning hours of Monday, March 18, approached a 27-year-old male

WSJ HOLDS SWIM IN HONOR OF JOURNALIST JAILED IN RUSSIA BRIGHTON BEACH — REPORTERS FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ON MONDAY gathered on the Brighton Beach boardwalk to hold a

FILM CREW WILL RECREATE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT SCENE ALONG STREETS IN BENSONHURST, GRAVESEND BENSONHURST AND GRAVESEND — POLICE, TENT CAMPS AND DRUG USE. These “reality scenes” will be part of a