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City Council committee peppers Schools Chancellor Banks with questions on state of NYC public schools

Posted on March 21, 2022

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Ryder Kessler Challenges Deborah Glick Over Progressive Momentum in Albany

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Petitioning for state office: what it is and how it works

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Midtown Manhattan

Decarceration advocates furious over third Rikers Island death, call out Governor for ‘mass incarceration’ agenda

Posted on March 21, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

New York Embroidery Studio to bring 500 jobs to Sunset Park with new lease at Brooklyn Army Terminal

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New York ranks fifth in the country’s most math-loving states

Posted on March 21, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

Feds designate Greenpoint’s Meeker Avenue Plume a Superfund site

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Midtown Manhattan

Christie’s Auction House set to sell Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portrait

Posted on March 21, 2022

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Radio City Rockettes announce auditions for 2022 Christmas Spectacular

Posted on March 21, 2022

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Small boat sinks into Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Brooklyn

Man injured in Brooklyn subway shooting on platform: NYPD

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Steinbrenner focused on the Yankees, denies spending war with Cohen’s Mets

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Chinatown

Hundreds march against new Chinatown jail plan, hoping to avoid ‘mistakes of the past’

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Brooklyn

Verrazzano Bridge overnight closures for repairs start this week

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Bronx Times

Adams signs executive order beefing up fire safety inspections, communications between FDNY and HPD

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Queens

GHOST GUN HUNTERS: An exclusive look at how the NYPD is working to stop 3D-printed illegal guns across the city

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Crunching the COVID-19 Numbers: Infections tick upward as new concerns emerge over Omicron subvariant

Posted on March 20, 2022

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Here are some restaurant openings to look out for this spring in New York City

Posted on March 19, 2022

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Omicron sub-variant accounts for ‘around 30 percent’ of NYC COVID cases

Posted on March 18, 2022

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Public Advocate lays out ways to re-imagine NYC’s public school system in new report

Posted on March 18, 2022

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Pratt students create oral history project to recognize first Black settlement

Posted on March 18, 2022

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Five-alarm fire leads to ‘severe damage’ to building on Flushing’s Main Street

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Midtown Manhattan

SEE IT: St. Patrick’s Day parade is back in NYC

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Port Authority waives fees on humanitarian goods for Ukraine

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man pleads guilty to 2020 armed attack against three NYPD officers

FILE PHOTO: A “For Sale” sign is posted outside a residential home in Seattle

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U.S. economy flexes muscle with jobless benefit rolls at 52-year low; factories humming

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Two Queens lawmakers champion initiative to combat gender-based violence in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities

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Bronx Times

Mayor’s Fund releases $3M, relocation housing available for tenants impacted by deadly Bronx fire

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Queens

Crooks posed as Con Edison workers in armed Queens home invasion: cops

Posted on March 17, 2022

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Chinatown

Police seek man who vandalized shrine to murdered Chinatown resident Christina Yuna Lee

Posted on March 16, 2022

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Flushing woman arraigned on murder charge in fatal stabbing of immigration attorney: DA

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NYC families, educators and students rally for more public charter seats

Posted on March 16, 2022

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‘I want to throw in the towel:’ NYC eateries continue to struggle two years into the pandemic

Posted on March 16, 2022

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Broad Channel man pleads guilty in multimillion-dollar prize notice fraud scheme

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Two-alarm fire at Maspeth jewelry store injures three: FDNY

Bronx

KIPP charter college prep school students aim for college, and see results

Posted on March 16, 2022

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‘Let’s close the loophole once and for all’: Hochul signs anti-sexual harassment laws

Posted on March 16, 2022

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Police searching for pair connected with stabbing near John Adams High School in Ozone Park

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Charter school leaders reflect on two years of COVID

Posted on March 16, 2022

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‘Year of 5G’ falls flat as DOT stalls node approvals

Posted on March 16, 2022

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Nation

Trains, tips and teamwork: How police in New York and Washington caught suspected serial shooter of homeless men

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Brooklyn Paper

AG releases body-cam footage from fatal police shooting of Eudes Pierre in Brooklyn

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Brooklyn

Legal Aid Society sues its own Brooklyn landlord for moldy office

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Bronx Times

A COVID task force cancelled a fire inspection at Twins Park North West a year prior to fire, union president reveals

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Brooklyn is Africa’ exhibit displayed at Brooklyn Borough Hall through March 21

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Two teens stabbed near John Adams High School in Ozone Park

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Councilmember Julie Menin calls for more funding for NYC’s small business agency

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Celebrate the coming of spring at Hudson River Pier 46

Posted on March 15, 2022

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Mayor Eric Adams emphasized Wednesday the city's commitment to keeping the commercial corridor in the South Bronx, known as the Hub, clean and free of drugs and illegal activity.

Mayor Adams tours The Hub after open drug market cleared out, but residents skeptical changes will hold

González-Rojas files to run against Ramos for western Queens state Senate seat, touts ‘bold leadership’

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After 10 years, Our Wicked Lady to close permanently on July 21

Lee Soulja-Simmons delivers remarks during NYC Black Pride's 2022 Heritage Image Awards.

NYC Black Pride, slated for mid-August, presses on despite budget cuts