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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that despite the rising death toll, there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in New York City and the city is uniquely prepared if there are any, the Daily News reports.

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Tohma Y. Faulkner passed away on September 6, 2008-- a transition that rocked her entire community of Bedford-Stuyvesant. "The World has lost a great voice, Delta Sigma Theta Sororority, Inc.

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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.