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Photo: Bentzi Sasson "Shalom, Bruchim Ha-baim (Welcome)," said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Hebrew for in his opening remarks to the room full of teens.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and Ella J.

La Paloma Vintage and the Shamanic Stylist present another installment of A Love Bazaar-- swirling some color into this wintry snowscape, shining sun into your soul, and bringing the heat, as we head into Women's History Month and Carnaval season! Fo

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Photo: BAM This Saturday, February 28 at BAMcafé Live is Brooklyn-bred singer, keyboardist and composer Akie Bermiss. Bermiss possesses a soulful voice that packs an emotional wallop.

City Councilmember Robert Cornegy and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito honored the Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) on Thursday as first responders to the shooting of Officers Ramos and Liu in December.

Photo: www.ktul.com More than 109,000 students are enrolled in one of the 178 New York public schools that are deemed to be failing, according to a report from the governor's office, State of Politics writes.

(l to r): Chair of the Cares Mentoring Movement Queens ; Tammy Samms, Chair of the Cares Mentoring Movement Brooklyn; Susan L.

Join Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis at Weeksville Heritage Center on Friday, February 27, where they will discuss their new book Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century .

Image: tribune.com.pk Three Brooklyn men were taken into custody Wednesday, after their alleged plot was revealed to travel to Syria and join ISIS and if they failed, return to the U.S. to plant bombs in Brooklyn, reported CBS New York .