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• Five Summer School Options (For Adults)

  02-06-2015 15:00
  
  Sure, for kids, summer school may feel like an assault on a season of swimming and popsicles; however, as adults... Read More… Read More
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• Residential composting program expanding

  02-06-2015 14:36
  
  New York City is expanding its residential composting program. The Department of Sanitation plans to expand the program to an extra 33,000 households this year. It will include neighborhoods in the Bronx, including the Riverdale, North Riverdale and Fieldston sections. It will also include Brooklyn's Greenpoint and North Williamsburg neighborhoods.
  
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• Woman slashed on neck aboard subway

  02-06-2015 13:34
  
  The NYPD is looking for the suspect who slashed a woman on the neck inside a subway car. It happened in Brooklyn on Monday at 6:15 p.m. on an A train. Police say the 29-year-old victim was aboard a southbound train stopped at the Euclid Avenue station when the suspect approached and slashed her with a sharp object. The suspect then ran out of the train.
  
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• Is New York ready for another big storm?

  02-06-2015 02:46
  
  A lab in Germany is conducting high-impact testing on what are called SPS flood panels. Made of aircraft aluminum, the panels were originally developed for ships' hulls. And now that technology is coming here to New York. Tom Osborne is president of Florida-based Architecture Metals, one of 11 firms selected by New York City's Rise Program designed to help small businesses prepare for the next big storm.
  
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• NYC schools will teach students how to use a condom

  02-06-2015 00:42
  
  New York City public high schools will be able to demonstrate condom usage in health education classes if they choose to, starting this fall. The city's Department of Education says school superintendents were told about the change in policy last month. Condom demonstrations have not previously been permitted in classrooms.
  
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• Vineyard comes to Brooklyn rooftop

  02-06-2015 00:36
  
  It may not look like much now but soon these vines will be part of a rooftop vineyard. After spending two years in upstate New York's Finger Lakes region studying viticulture and wine technology, Devin Shomaker, 31, decided he missed big city life but didn't want to leave wine-making behind. So he decided to bring his trade to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
  
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