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Brooklyn students learn about earthquakes after Friday's rumble

NEW YORK - Students at a school in Red Hook, Brooklyn are excited to learn more about earthquakes after experiencing one firsthand Friday morning. A strange sound echoed through Brian Bissinger's thi...

April 6, 2024
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Coney Island residents seek long-term solution for subway screeching

NEW YORK - Residents of several housing developments in Coney Island are fighting to find a long-term solution to what they're calling unbearable subway screeching. Natasha Lvovich has lived in her B...

March 30, 2024
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NYC housing development partners with nonprofit to invest in residents

NEW YORK - A troubled housing development in East Flatbush is hoping to make a fresh start after reaching an agreement with the city to keep units rent-stabilized. The owner spoke exclusively to CBS ...

March 24, 2024
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Women's History Month: Exploring Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Brooklyn roots

NEW YORK - Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a daughter of Brooklyn, and she paved her own way to the highest court in the land. "How is it that this unassuming woman from Brooklyn, ...

March 20, 2024
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Study shows Brooklyn led the way in construction worker deaths in 2022

NEW YORK - City officials say there has been a post-pandemic boom in construction activity in New York, but that is a cause of concern for safety advocates who say fatalities among construction worker...

February 27, 2024
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Activists from Canarsie continue their call for NYC Ferry landing

NEW YORK - Residents in Canarsie, Brooklyn have been fighting for an NYC Ferry landing for at least seven years, saying the area is in dire need of more transit options. Lifetime resident Jibreel Jall...

February 23, 2024
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See the diverse faces of South Brooklyn, memorialized in a new art exhibition

NEW YORK - Two hundred portraits of Brooklyn residents now hang in a gallery in Industry City. If you look closely, you might just spot someone you know. "Oh, he lives in my neighborhood," says Dina R...

February 22, 2024
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Exclusive: Unique approach to help those experiencing homelessness

NEW YORK -- A first-of-its-kind program in Coney Island is helping people who are experiencing homelessness. Jenny Medina, a mom of three, recently faced the biggest challenge of her life. "Because o...

February 21, 2024
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New study shows New York, New Jersey seascape is full of fin whales

NEW YORK - The endangered fin whale is the second largest animal on Earth. At 75 feet long and weighing 100,000 pounds, research shows they often live into their 90s. New research released by marine ...

February 17, 2024
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Traffic safety advocates hope for completion of Brooklyn bike boulevard

NEW YORK - Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights was in the process of a redesign project that would bring the community a connected bike lane, running half a mile from Underhill Plaza to Eastern Park...

February 16, 2024
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Therapy dogs comfort Holocaust survivors at Brooklyn community center

NEW YORK - The NYPD Hate Crimes Dashboard shows 26 confirmed antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7, 2023, and the start of this year -- that's more attacks against Jews than any other group. At a comm...

February 16, 2024
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Exclusive: New 7-acre educational campus coming to Floyd Bennett Field

NEW YORK - South Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field has been in the headlines lately as the site of a new controversial migrant shelter, but many people don't know that this lease between the City of New...

December 1, 2023
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A big step towards a brand-new park over the BQE in South Williamsburg

NEW YORK - It's been called a plan to build a park "out of thin air." The 3.5-acre BQ Green park is proposed to sit directly above a portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It's the brainchild of ...

November 17, 2023
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Family mourns 79-year-old mom killed in Brooklyn hit-and-run

NEW YORK - Police are searching for the hit-and-run drivers who struck and killed 79-year-old Yvonne Sandiford on Thursday evening in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. CBS New York's Hannah Kliger spoke w...

November 3, 2023
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Brooklyn doctors head to train medical professionals in Ukraine

NEW YORK - There's a set of skills that only decades in the emergency room can teach you. Dr. Joshua Schiller, Director of Social Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Health, will be leading a team of se...

November 2, 2023