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A teen runs for his life moments before he is shot in a Crown Heights doorway, video released by police Wednesday night shows.

An Ernest Hemingway quote that celebrates the “hunting of man” is plastered on the wall of a Brooklyn police precinct house, according to a photo obtained by Gothamist — and the NYPD is dismissing calls by local officials and advocates to remove it.

City Comptroller Brad Lander and a group of local leaders gathered in front of a Brooklyn luxury development Wednesday and called on Albany to end the controversial property tax break program known as 421-a, citing the need for a broader property tax

The Lewis Avenue Open Street would span four blocks and run eight Saturdays this summer from 12:00pm to 6:00pm.

A new building permit was filed earlier this year, and renderings have been released for the new development

A Flatbush man has pleaded guilty to stabbing a police officer in the neck and taking the injured officer’s gun to shoot two other officers, while firing at many more, in a “terrorist inspired” attack, the Department of Justice and Brooklyn District

The Legal Aid Society, an organization famous for suing other people’s bad landlords, is now suing its own.

To the Citizens Budget Commission, the controversial property tax break called 421-a for developers of new rental buildings, including affordable apartments, is essential to increase the city’s too-small housing supply.

A man was fatally stabbed in a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday after paying a visit to a man who was on house arrest, possibly looking for trouble, police sources said.

Former Brooklyn City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo, who has stirred controversy for remarks decried as anti-immigrant, is set to take over the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, multiple people familiar with the move told THE CITY.