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Governor Hochul Attends Parade in Celebration of 79 years of Pakistani Independence.

Brooklyn hosts a celebration in honor of Jamaica’s 64th anniversary of independence.

Visitors will have the opportunity to discover tea traditions from multiple cultures at a free festival taking place in Williamsburg and Prospect Park.

Expect a month packed with live jazz, artist talks, family activities and community gatherings.

“I have not heard of anybody seeing rays in the creek before,” Willis Elkins, executive director of nonprofit the Newtown Creek Alliance, told Gothamist.

After the Jamaica Bay Riding Academy closed in May, a handful of the older horses are now enjoying their final years at a horse sanctuary in upstate New York.

More than two decades after his passing, Russell “Ol' Dirty Bastard” Jones was honored with street co-naming ceremony on Saturday.

Kingsborough Community College Lecturer Christopher L. Thompson is the winner of the San Francisco Symphony’s Emerging Black Composers Project Michael Morgan Prize.

In the fiction category, a novelist introduces us to a New Yorker just evicted from her apartment, while a philosopher pays tribute to Black women who combined their ancestral spiritual beliefs from West Africa with local herbal rituals and remedies still in use today.

The annual event on July 25 will bring thousands to the waterfront for recreational and educational activities in NYC’s largest natural area.