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NY Senate Plans Statewide Hearings On Elections With Voters Taking Center Stage

NY Senate Plans Statewide Hearings On Elections With Voters Taking Center Stage

After a tumultuous primary election season in New York City that is renewing perennial calls to overhaul how the state runs its elections, the head of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, State Senator Zellnor Myrie of Brooklyn, announced p
Shadow Group Backs Towers That Would Shade Botanic Garden

Shadow Group Backs Towers That Would Shade Botanic Garden

It's just an abandoned spice factory — a beat-up, vandalized, forgotten plant in Crown Heights that hasn't made a strand of saffron in 20 years. Next door, barbed-wire walls frame an empty square of gravel.
Bikes Still Flying Off the Racks in NYC as Cycling Numbers Remain High

Bikes Still Flying Off the Racks in NYC as Cycling Numbers Remain High

New York City bicycle shops continue to face a strong demand for bikes and repairs as pandemic supply chain issues persist and the number of cyclists remains high in the Five Boroughs.
A Black American Designer Disrupts the French Couture

A Black American Designer Disrupts the French Couture

Villa Lewaro , the Palladian estate built in Irvington, N.Y., by Madam C.J.
NYPD Officer Struck In BB Gun Shooting In Brooklyn

NYPD Officer Struck In BB Gun Shooting In Brooklyn

NYPD officers were targeted with BB guns at two different locations in Brooklyn this weekend. Sunday evening, an officer was hit with a BB while getting out of their patrol car. It happened on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant .
Police Shoot and Kill Gunman Who Struck 3 People Inside Brooklyn Liquor Store: Cops

Police Shoot and Kill Gunman Who Struck 3 People Inside Brooklyn Liquor Store: Cops

Police in Brooklyn shot and killed a man who opened fire at three people inside a liquor store in Bushwick , said the NYPD. Cops responded to 1195A Halsey Street on Thursday at about 10:30 p.m.
Diaspora Laments Assassination, Calls for Answers and Direction

Diaspora Laments Assassination, Calls for Answers and Direction

Yves Masse lamented Haiti's continued deteriorating as he picked up lunch at Bebe Fritay on Church Avenue July 7, hours after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
De Blasio Cha-Cha Slides in Flatbush to Promote ‘Summer Rising’ Amid Teacher’s Union Concerns

De Blasio Cha-Cha Slides in Flatbush to Promote ‘Summer Rising’ Amid Teacher’s Union Concerns

Mayor Bill de Blasio saw how low he and a group of elementary school kids could go to Mr. C's 2000 hit, "The Slide Man." The act was done in part to promote New York City's "Summer Rising" summer school program at P.S.
Bombarding Rainfall Turns NYC Subway Stations, Highways Into Gushing Waterways

Bombarding Rainfall Turns NYC Subway Stations, Highways Into Gushing Waterways

An ocean of flooding woe confounded commuters Thursday afternoon as pouring rain inundated city streets and turned an uptown Manhattan subway station into an underground river. The water was waist-deep at the W. 157th St.
New York City's Haitian Community Reacts to President's Assassination

New York City's Haitian Community Reacts to President's Assassination

There is stunned reaction to the assassination in Flatbush, considered 'Little Haiti' with 20% of its residents from the Caribbean island. "We're getting a number of calls into our offices, in terms of direction.