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Meredith Phillips Almeida, executive director of the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership Photo: myrtleavenue.org The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership on Monday announced Meredith Phillips Almeida as the organization's new executive director.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton In the wake of the death of Staten Island father Eric Garner and St. Louis area teen Michael Brown, some are arguing that both of their lives could have been saved had they not resisted arrest or obeyed police orders.

Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Arizona Photo: fronterasdesk.org Public Advocate Letitia James is calling on New York City lawyers to help represent unaccompanied children in federal immigration cases pro bono, or for free, the Observer reports.

For those of us "mature" enough to remember the early days of Hip Hop-- looong before the birth of the World Wide Web-- there were two movies of the genre that sent Hip Hop culture viral, turning it into a national phenomenon: Breakin' and Beat Stree

After nearly two years of fighting for federal and state dollars to keep its doors open , Interfaith Medical Center seems to be in good health.

Marvel fans, get ready as beginning this Wednesday, Barclays Center will present Marvel Universe LIVE! The show, which runs from August 13 - 17, brings the action-packed adventures of the Marvel characters you know and love to life with a mind-blowin

Beginning August 10 through August 24, FiveMyles Gallery presents "UNFRAMED" The exhibition presents particular visions of our daily environment through photographs, drawings and a sculpture that stand on their own, without frames or pedestals.

NYPD Police in the 71st Precinct are looking for a man who, in two back-to-back incidents, harassed two women on the street Sunday night in Crown Heights. The first incident took place at around 3:00pm near Rogers Avenue and President Street.

The Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center will celebrate this year's National Health Center Week (August 11 -16) with an open house at the center's two locations, 1456 Fulton Street and 1238 Broadway in Brooklyn, joined by State Assemblymember Anne

As more proof that Brooklyn is fast gaining on the heels of Manhattan as the place to be for media, politics and culture, the Democratic National Committee scouting team will be in town today and tomorrow scouting out Barclays Center as a potential h