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Mayor Bill de Blasio gives remarks at the Supportive Housing Visit with Housing Preservation Development Commissioner Vicki Been City Hall and HRA Commissioner Steve Banks at Bishop Sullivan Residence in Brooklyn, New York. Tuesday January 12, 2016.

Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy with a weekend of events designed to explore Dr. King's message as well as his lasting effect! Special Screenings, Eyes on the Prize January 12-14, 7:30pm.

Statistics show that the number of men of color who are incarcerated in New York State prisons has tripled in the last three years.

They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they could walk up on the air like climbin' on a gate. And they fly like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin' against the blue up there.

NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, joined by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) held a press conference Monday calling on the city and the NYPD to use smart guns. Photo: Office of Comptroller Scott M.

Cumberland Packing Corp. Cumberland Packing Corp, the maker of sugar-substitute Sweet'N Low and also Sugar in the Raw, will be closing up shop and leaving Brooklyn, reported The Wall Street Journal .

539 Macon Street Police in the 81st Precinct are seeking information that will lead to the arrest of the men responsible for a shooting early Sunday morning on Macon St that left two men injured and one dead.

SPONSORED Abena Sidibe, a Crown Heights resident and teacher in Brownsville, said it was only a few years ago when her sisters would tease her about how she "loved to open her mail and pay bills.

By Vanessa Penberg Love at First Bite There is a substantial body of research proving that regularly consuming large quantities of sugar negatively affects people's health and contributes to increased rates of diabetes, hypertension, and heart diseas

According to the NYPD, of the 166 rapes reported in the City of New York last year, 14 or 8.4 percent were committed by strangers in a taxi, livery cab, or for-hire vehicle. Additionally, the police investigated 1,439 reports of rape in 2015, a 6.