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Sheldon Silver, Photo: Paolo Mastrangelo "I am the speaker," said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday of his decision to step aside in his role, rather than step down. "I'm standing. And I'm going to be standing for a long time." But Gov.

Photo: Meat Market on Facebook The Brooklyn Reader just got wind of this, and we think it's incredible: Every Sunday, from 11:00am - 4:00pm, the vintage clothing haunt known as "Meat Market," located at 380 Tompkins Avenue between Jefferson & Put

Sheldon Silver, Photo: Azi Paybarah Sheldon Silver agreed on Sunday to relinquish his duties as New York State Assembly Speaker on a temporary basis, as he fights federal corruption charges, reported The New York Times .

Police in the 81st Precinct are looking for the gunman who fatally shot a deli owner Sunday evening in Bed-Stuy.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (r) swears in newly elected CB2 officers (l to r) Theresa Ward as secretary and Lenue Singletary as 2nd Vice Chair Brooklyn Borough President Eric L.

Photo: Courtesy Life of Pix/ 23 JANUARY 2015 BY LEEROY 1. Alternate Side Parking (Street Cleaning) regulations are suspended on Monday , January 26 and Tuesday, January 27, due to the expected blizzard and snow.

Photo: www.weather.com Notification issued 1/25/15 at 3:45 PM. The National Weather Service has issued a citywide Blizzard Warning for all of New York City, beginning Monday, 1/26 at 1:00pm until 12:00am Wednesday morning.

Although Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On Gentrification is a remix of Brer Rabbit, the African-American (via Africa) folk story, Greg Tate, Aisha Cousins, the Burnt Sugar Arkestra and cast have turned it into something bigger, longer and

The Coalition for African Peace and Justice, a group of activists, community members, and business owners will gather on Saturday, January 24, from 1:30pm - 2:30pm, at Restoration Plaza for a vigil memorializing the thousands of civilians killed in B

The lives and the works of Langston Hughes and Malcolm X will be highlighted in two engaging literary programs hosted by The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College (MEC) during its 2015 Black History Month Celebration.