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81st Precinct Crime is up 25 percent for the week of February 10 — 16, 2014, in the 81st Precinct, covering the eastern end of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (r) selects Carmen Farina (l) as chancellor of NYC schools Two weeks ago, February 13 to be exact, newly appointed NYC Chancellor of Schools Carmen Farina and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio made a controversial decision to keep NYC

Photo: Bebeto Matthews/AP Why should I pay for college for prisoners when I can't even pay for my kid. It's absurd! Gov. Andrew M.

Jamie Leanse of www.jamiescookinNYC.com Cuisinartist and Bed-Stuy blogger Jamie Leanse is grateful for many things: her family, her yoga practice, her multi-lingual abilities, her Southwestern upbringing and... her food allergies.

Junior's Restaurant in Brooklyn The owners of Junior's Restaurant, an iconic cheesecake bakery located on the corner of Flatbush and Dekalb avenues in Brooklyn, have sold its building to make way for high-rise condos, reported The Daily News .

1. Alternate Side Parking regulations will be reinstated citywide as of Mon, Feb 24 to facilitate ongoing snow removal and street cleaning. 2. Hope you enjoyed the balmy weather over the past few days, because it will end beginning this week.

Members of the Chabad community in Crown Heights are mourning the untimely death of an out-of-town visitor, after he was struck and killed by a garbage truck Sunday morning.

Photo: Lamplighters Yeshiva Arguing that the traditional Jewish day-school model is outmoded and too clannish for 21st-Century Judaism, a new generation of Jewish parents are flocking to Montessori preschools and elementary schools to educate their c

Advisory: Street Closures The New York City Department of Transportation is advising the following street closures for the weekend of February 21 - 23, 2014: East 12th Street between 5th Avenue and University Place This street will be closed Saturday