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Photo: NY Daily News As part of its upcoming capital plan, the MTA announced on Wednesday it will buy 940 new subway cars for its lettered lines and install cameras beginning in 2015, the Post reports.

Emotions ran high and tempers flared at the Community Board 9 meeting in Crown Heights last Tuesday over a resolution to request a review of the neighborhood's current zoning, reported DNAinfo .

Jimena Martinez, co-director of Cumbe Center for African and Disapora Dance Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance is scrambling to find a new home. Cumbe, located at 558 Fulton Street in Fort Greene, opened in January 2012.

Bed-Stuy Fly clothing store, located at 287 Ralph Avenue Police in the 81st Precinct are looking for two men who attempted an armed robbery of a store last Friday on Ralph Avenue in Bed-Stuy.

BAMcinématek presents Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman, A complete retrospective of Jarman's feature films, the most comprehensive New York series in nearly two decades Beginning Thursday, October 30, through Tuesday, November 11, BAMciném

On WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly shared a warning to the mayor and the city against the use of NYPD body cameras and the elimination of stop-and-frisk, reported The Wall Street Journal reports.

Gold medalist winners from Boys and Girls High School at a competition in Irvington, NJ (l to r): Coach Thomas Paisley; studenet debater Mr.

City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo Today, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law Intro. 187-A, a new bill by Councilmember Laurie A. Cumbo calling for further insight into and reporting of the graduation rates of youth in the foster care.

Solar panels installed on rooftop of Kennedy High School in the Bronx Photo: autoworldnews.

A group of New York City police are speaking loudly against a recent 120-page report by the Civilian Complaint Review Board that says the police department doesn't discipline enough of its members over chokeholds, reported the Post .