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Photo: streetsblog.org Cars would be shut out of Central Park for three months next year under a New York City Council bill, a test to see whether banishing cars permanently could work, reported the Daily News .

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On Tuesday, Councilmember Laurie A. Cumbo, joined by citywide elected officials and domestic violence survivors, kicked off Domestic Violence Awareness Month on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall.

A set of proposals in the City Council seeks to expand transgender rights to allow a person's own identity, not anatomy, to be the determining factor in how they define their sex, the New York Times reports.

Family of Eric Garner mourns at his funeral Photo: USAToday The family of Eric Garner has filed a $75 million lawsuit against the NYPD and the City of New York, reports the Observer .

Old piano inside of the abandoned Bethel AME Church, restored for the exhibit "Bynam Cutler," and part of "Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" With all that we have ever read, discussed or debated around the veracity of genetic memo

NYPD The 79th Precinct, covering the western end of Bed-Stuy between Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Classon Avenue, was hit with a rash of burglaries over the summer, wrote the community affairs officer in an email.

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Queen Elizabeth II knighted one of the most successful English horse trainers, Sir Henry Cecil, during an investiture ceremony Photo: theroyalcorrespondent Queen Elizabeth II on Monday made former NYC Mayor and business tycoon Michael Bloomberg an ho

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