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Mayor Bill de Blasio said he has no tolerance for violence after a man was beaten during protests in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn overnight.

Kings Theatre, a cultural and economic cornerstone of the Flatbush community, will serve as an official polling site during the upcoming general election.

Residents of a particularly well-manicured block of E. 25th Street in East Flatbush are hopeful the city's landmarking honchos will designate their stretch of Neo-Renaissance style row houses as a historical district.

Farragut Road near Utica Avenue has become a dumping ground for garbage. Now, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is calling for people to document the culprit(s) and make their streets cleaner. "You know, this is our community.

Click here to view original web page at www.jta.org Orthodox residents of Borough Park burned masks and blocked city buses Tuesday night to protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announcement that he would impose new restrictions on areas with upticks in COVID.

Some teens get an after-school job. Paris McKenzie got an after-school career. The precocious 16-year old opened her own store, Paris Beauty Supplyz , on Church Avenue in Flatbush last month. She even has an employee who is six years older than her.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams yesterday called for a series of neighborhood corridor cleanups and strengthening security around known illegal dumping sites to counter cuts to the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) budget, resulting in reduced st

In the time of coronavirus, many students are more isolated than ever, stuck in their dorms or off-campus apartments with very little opportunity to do what students usually do outside of classes — take part in campus extracurricular activities

Phara Souffrant Forest, 31, is set to become a brand-new New York State assemblymember in November. She's one of a slate of young democratic socialist candidates in New York City who won their Democratic primaries in June.

For years, the NYPD boasted it had well more than 36,000 officers. But now, it's projecting it could have fewer than 34,000 cops for the first time in 25 years. "2,500 less officers than just a few months ago," said NYPD Chief Michael LiPetri.