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NYC touts porous pavement installations to mitigate flooding

NEW YORK -- It might not look like much if you are driving by, but the city's Department of Environmental Protection says a narrow stretch of porous pavement on 37th Street and 12th Avenue in Borough ...

July 15, 2024
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Trauma Recovery Center in Coney Island hopes to expand after grand opening

NEW YORK - It's been several months since a new Trauma Recovery Center opened in Coney Island, and leaders say the community has responded in droves. In a discreet building on Mermaid Avenue, a new sp...

July 5, 2024
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Residents in Brooklyn divided over new historic district in Bed-Stuy

NEW YORK -- There's a new Historic District in Brooklyn, located in the two-block radius of Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street, between Nostrand and Marcy avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant. By unanimous vo...

June 25, 2024
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Why a traffic safety project is at the forefront of the primaries in Brooklyn

NEW YORK - A hot-button issue in Brooklyn has candidates divided ahead of New York's Primary Election -- the McGuinness Boulevard Redesign Project. Not everyone agrees on the best way to make the road...

June 14, 2024
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A new art parade is coming to Gowanus this weekend

NEW YORK - Brooklyn's getting a new weird, artsy parade. The Gowanus Art Parade will dance along the historically polluted canal Saturday, the first of what organizers hope will become an annual trad...

May 31, 2024
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An inside look at NYC's small, busy community of wildlife rehabilitators

NEW YORK - New Yorkers share the city with the hundreds of species of wildlife that also call it home, and among those New Yorkers are different groups who work to help injured animals. Amina Martin ...

May 28, 2024
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How a Brooklyn hospital is working to represent the community's growing Asian population

NEW YORK - One Brooklyn hospital is making an effort to represent the growing Asian community it serves. Maimonides Medical Center is at the doorstep of one of the city's fastest growing Asian populat...

May 15, 2024
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Brooklyn mom who lost daughter to cancer advocates for children's health care

NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn woman who lost her daughter to cancer is on a mission to support other mom's weathering the same storm. This month marks seven years since Jalissa Nadine Carson died. Every few ...

May 10, 2024
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NYC homeowners dealing with squatters may have new options

NEW YORK - A new piece of legislation passed in the New York State Budget clarifies the distinction between squatters and tenants, offering new options for homeowners dealing with squatters. A bill pa...

May 9, 2024
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Meet the Brooklyn artist who designed a new USPS Forever stamp

NEW YORK - Millions of stamps designed by a celebrated New York City artist are decorating postage envelopes circulating across the United States. A spring stroll through the brownstone-lined streets ...

May 3, 2024
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Meet the man organizing a fundraiser for the Brooklyn Public Library

NEW YORK - In light of budget cuts to New York City's public library systems, a Park Slope man decided to launch a fundraiser to support the Brooklyn Public Library. Park Slope resident Peter Goldwas...

May 2, 2024
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Lawmakers pushing for NYC Ferry route connecting S.I., Brooklyn

NEW YORK -- Two New York City Council members are proposing a ferry connection between Staten Island and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. At the American Veterans Memorial Pier, dozens of passengers climb on and ...

April 29, 2024
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How students at one Brooklyn school feel about 12-hour school days

NEW YORK - A charter school in Brooklyn is trying out a 12-hour school day. Brooklyn Charter School in Bedford-Stuyvesant is making the experimental move to try to alleviate parent concerns over the c...

April 19, 2024
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Coney Island residents push MTA to reconsider bus redesign proposal

NEW YORK - Residents in Coney Island and Gravesend are worried about proposed bus route changes in their neighbors, saying parts of the MTA's plan just don't make sense. On any given day, the B36 bus ...

April 17, 2024
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Congregants mourn demolition of historic Brooklyn synagogue

NEW YORK - The sight of demolition crews pulling down the historic sanctuary at 1006 Greene Ave. in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, was hard to watch for Rabbi Baruch Yehudah, leader of B'nei Adath Kol Beth Yisr...

April 10, 2024