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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.

Since 2006, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (MARP) has served more than 100 neighborhood teens through its Young Entrepreneur Mentorship Program ( YEMP ) by connecting local teens with independently owned businesses for paid summer employment

Mayor Bill de Blasio, First Lady Chirlane McCray, joined by Council Member Laurie A.

Sam Sittenfield volunteering at a community center. Photo by: Becca Suffrin By Sam Sittenfield I have more MLK Weekend volunteering t-shirts than I know what to do with.

In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese "pygmy" arrived from Central Africa to be featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair.