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Parents are split on the return of screened middle school admissions in New York City — some say the process is unfair and discriminatory, while others say the pandemic-era lottery system kept some kids out of their preferred schools.

A doctor, her staff and a group of pharmacists ran a $24 million drug ring out of a Brooklyn medical clinic that doled out more than 1 million oxycodone pills with bogus prescriptions, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

A 25-year-old bicyclist was killed early Wednesday when she fell in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer, police said. The victim was traveling east on Parkside Ave.

A Crown Heights deli was robbed of $200 by a gunman early Wednesday morning, police said. At about 12:10 a.m., police said a man came into a deli at 809 Nostrand [...] Click here to view original web page at patch.com

A Brooklyn federal jury awarded $890,000 to a Brooklyn man who accused NYPD officers of planting cocaine on him and forcing his girlfriend to falsely claim he kidnapped her, lawyers and court papers say.

A gunman held up a Brooklyn store worker at gunpoint in broad daylight, after first pretending to make a purchase, video released by police shows. The robbery happened 1 p.m. on Sept. 23 at the Royal Cloudz Convenience store on Church Ave. near E.

Nichole Zephrin, Ramona Sargeant, Gordon Pierrelus and Givenson Cadet.

Two teenage boys used a hammer to smash their way through a piece of glass protecting CBD products at a Brooklyn smoke shop, police said Tuesday. The duo walked into the shop on Central Ave. near Bleecker St. in Bushwick around 11:45 a.m. on Oct.

Reports show that a pedestrian was seriously injured in a collision in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. It happened at approximately 11:29am on Monday morning, October 10.

A 17-year-old girl was found fatally shot in the lobby of an East New York, Brooklyn, apartment building. Raelynn Cameron was found shot in the chest inside the lobby of the Eldert Lane building at around 10:55 p.m. Monday.