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New York Trims Law Banning Barbers From Cutting Hair on Sundays

New York Trims Law Banning Barbers From Cutting Hair on Sundays

Gov. Cuomo signed legislation Tuesday repealing an outdated and rarely enforced Empire State law prohibiting barbers and salons from operating on Sundays.
NYC's Small Landlords Say They're Suffering, Too

NYC's Small Landlords Say They're Suffering, Too

New York's ban on evictions, which was implemented earlier in the pandemic , is set to expire at the end of August. But some smaller landlords say it can't come soon enough.
Residents Of Crown Heights Apartment Building Protest What They Call Deplorable Conditions

Residents Of Crown Heights Apartment Building Protest What They Call Deplorable Conditions

Residents in a Crown Heights apartment building protested what they call deplorable conditions. The management company says they're committed to making repairs.
NYC Mayoral Candidate Adams Calls Out DC Dems for 'Misplaced' Focus on Assault Weapons

NYC Mayoral Candidate Adams Calls Out DC Dems for 'Misplaced' Focus on Assault Weapons

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams wants to decrease gun violence, but he believes Democrats are going about it the wrong way on a national level. While much of the talk about guns in Washington, D.C.
The Brooklyn Way: How A Billionaire Couple’s Philanthropy Evolved to Support Social Justice

The Brooklyn Way: How A Billionaire Couple’s Philanthropy Evolved to Support Social Justice

Launched last decade, the low-profile Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation channels the fortune of billionaire couple Joe and Clara Wu Tsai, worth more than $11 billion as of this writing.
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 .