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• Inspector general: NYPD body camera program needs changes

  30-07-2015 23:44
  
  A body camera pilot program at the nation's largest police department raised a wide range of questions about how to best monitor police and community interactions, according to a report released Thursday. Inspector General Philip Eure's review of the New York Police Department's program, which includes 54 officers in six high-crime precincts, comes as cities across the country grapple with how to legally and practically implemen...
  
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• New York City homes for under $1 million

  30-07-2015 23:30
  
  Real Estate has gotten so expensive in New York City, that it's often hard to find options under seven figures.So we teamed up with StreetEasy to find the best neighborhoods with the most inventory under a million dollars.The clear winner? Riverdale in the Bronx.
  
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• $1.5 Million Allocated Toward Brooklyn Strand

  30-07-2015 22:28
  Two projects envisioned by the community as part of the Brooklyn Strand just got a major boost from Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams.As part of his FY16 capital budget for parks, the Borough President allocated $1.5 million dollars toward the Brooklyn Strand – a 40-acre series of disconnected parks, plazas, and greenways that stretches between Borough Hall and Brooklyn Bridge Park.“The Brooklyn Strand offers enormous potential to create a world-class promenade and g
  
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• Russian Literary Series: Lyudmilla Ulitskaya

  30-07-2015 21:48
  Saturday, November 21, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAn absorbing novel of dissident life in the Soviet Union, by one of Russia's most popular writers. The Big Green Tent is the kind of book the term “Russian novel” was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three struggle to adulthood in a society whe
  
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• Classical Interludes: Varian Fry Quartett

  30-07-2015 21:48
  Sunday, November 22, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterNamed after the American journalist Varian Fry, who helped save thousands of endangered refugees who were caught in the Vichy French zone escape from Nazi terror during World War II, the Quartet will perform Mozart’s String Quartet in B, KV 458, Brahms’s String Quartet op. 51, No. 1 in c minor and Webern’s Five Movements.
  
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• Mary Gaitskill: The Mare

  30-07-2015 21:33
  Wednesday, November 18, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThe Mare, the long-awaited new novel from the critics’ favorite Mary Gaitskill, is a raw, vital American story. Velveteen Vargas is an 11-year-old, Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, sent to upstate New York. What follows is the story of her ever evolving relationship with her host family--Ginger, a failed artist on the edge of alcoholism, and Paul, a jaded academic--and a stable of horses down the road.read more
  
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• dweck-lec'-tic: Alicia Svigals Klezmer Express

  30-07-2015 21:33
  Thursday, November 19, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAlicia Svigals is the world's leading klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics who she co-led for seventeen years, and a composer who was selected to be a 2014 MacDowell Fellow.   She has played with and composed for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and  Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbi
  
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• Classical interludes: Sofya Mellikyan

  30-07-2015 21:33
  Sunday, November 15, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterArmenian-born pianist Sofya Melikyan is recognized as an artist with a unique voice and enthusiastic zeal for her work. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, she performs compositions by Aram Khachaturian, Komitas Vardapet, Eduard Sadoyan , Alexander Arutunian, Jirayr Shahrimanyan and Arno Babadjanian.
  
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• Amitav Ghosh: Completing the Ibis Trilogy

  30-07-2015 21:33
  Tuesday, November 17, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThe stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy. It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastwar
  
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• Gotham: New York City's Best Writers: Michael Cunningham

  30-07-2015 21:18
  Saturday, November 14, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterIn A Wild Swan and Other Tales, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham transforms the people and talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—into stories of sublime revelation. Curated and hosted by Rob Spillman.
  
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• Classical interludes: Fernando Otero Quartet

  30-07-2015 21:18
  Sunday, November 8, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThe Argentine Grammy winning composer and pianist Fernando Otero returns to BPL. Otero found his voice as writer, musician and bandleader when, at the urging of one of his music teachers, he began to incorporate the indigenous sounds of his native Buenos Aires into his work.read more
  
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• Brooklyn by the Book: Stacy Schiff

  30-07-2015 21:18
  Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:30 pmCongregation Beth ElohimThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials in The Witches: Salem, 1692. The panic began when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and a 75-year-old man crushed to death. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American hist
  
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• Silent Film Series: Pandora’s Box

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWe celebrate Louise Brooks, and her upcoming birthday on November 14th, with her most famous film.  The Kansas-born dancer and actress left an unsatisfying film career in America to go to Germany to portray Lulu in this adaptation of two Frank Wedekind plays. Who is the enigmatic Lulu?  Is she a femme fatale, and a symbol of female sexuality as power, or an innocent victim, and a symbol of man's fear of women?&
  
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• Russian Literary Series: Sergei Gandlevski

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Saturday, November 7, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterGandlevsky is one of the most revered living poets writing in Russian. A co-founder of an influential poetry school "Moscow Time" in the 70s, he has become a recipient of several Russian literary awards. Although "Moscow Times" is now a page of the literature history books, several former members of the group (most notably, Aleksei Tsvetkov and Bahyt Kenzheev) will join Gandlevsky on stage for
  
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• dweck-lec'-tic: Papo Vázquez and his Mighty Pirates Troubadours

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Thursday, November 5, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterVázquez is a visionary composer, trombonist, singer, and percussionist, whose eclectic output includes jazz, Afro-Caribbean, classical, and a wide spectrum of Latin music.  He leads his Mighty Pirates Troubadours band on a journey through Latin dance grooves, extended jazz improvisations, and slow, lushly orchestrated passages.
  
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• dweck-lec'-tic: Kenan Adnawi

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterKenan Adnawi is a well-established Oud virtuoso from Syria. He started playing Oud at the age of 7. Since then, he went through perfecting his performance earning him a long list of awards and an impeccable reputation at an International level. Adnawi performs as a soloist and as part of ensembles and orchestras in some of the major international events and venues and alongside some the world-renowned artists such as Marcel Khal
  
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• Diva Docs: The Girls in the Band

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Wednesday, November 4, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis award-winning documentary recounts the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking, sometimes unglamorous journeys from the late ‘30s to the present day. These incredibly talented women endured sexism, racism and diminished opportunities for decades, yet continued to persevere, inspire and elevate their talents in a field that seldom welcomed them. (2011, 87
  
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• Diva Docs: Shut Up And Sing

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterJoin the Dixie Chicks on a rocking, rousing comeback journey, through three unforgettably turbulent years.  Shut Up & Sing takes you beyond backstage, into the Dixie Chicks’ dressing rooms, homes, and recording studio, where they plan and create the hit album “Taking the Long Way.”  Defying their critics, the Dixie Chicks stick up for themselves, stick together, and rock their way back to the top of t
  
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• Classical Interludes: Importango

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Sunday, October 25, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterNew York based tango trio Importango reprises their debut album highlighting their commitment to authentic Argentinean music. The album is dedicated to the memory of their virtuoso pianist, Octavio Brunetii, who passed away suddenly in the summer of 2014, but leaves behind a rich and influential legacy in the tango community and beyond.
  
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• Classical Interludes: Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival

  30-07-2015 21:03
  Sunday, November 1, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBasia Danilow, Arturo Delmoni and Adela Peña, violins; Kathryn Lockwood and Michael Roth, volas  and Peter Sanders, cello, perform viola quintets Mozart and Brahms.
  
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• Salman Rushdie: Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel

  30-07-2015 20:47
  Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFrom Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the
  
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• Greg Grandin on Henry Kissinger

  30-07-2015 20:47
  Sunday, October 4, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterA new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current geopolitical stance. In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America—its never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home—we have to understand Kissinger.read more
  
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• Diva Docs: What Happened, Miss Simone?

  30-07-2015 20:47
  Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterClassically trained pianist, jazz legend, Black Power icon: Nina Simone is one of the most influential, beloved and yet least understood artists of our time.  Utterly free on stage, Simone struggled to reconcile artistic ambition with a fierce devotion to the Civil Rights movement.  Given intimate access to her family, friends and archives, Garbus explores Simone’s personal, political and artistic battles to reveal a
  
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• 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize: Fiction Finalists

  30-07-2015 20:47
  Thursday, October 22, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBrooklyn Eagles Literary finalists read from their nominated works. This new literary prize recognizes the best fiction book, published in 2014 or early 2015, that most embody Brooklyn’s ideals. The winner will be announced on October 23 at the Brooklyn Classic and will receive a cash prize of $2,500. Hosted by Ashley Mihlebach (?) and Nick Higgins
  
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• “Folk City”: Reviving the Folk Revival, One Banjo String at a Time

  30-07-2015 19:20
  
  A few weeks ago we took a look at current exhibits in museums and other cultural institutions in and around... Read More… Read More
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• 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize: Nonfiction Finalists

  30-07-2015 19:10
  Tuesday, October 20, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThe Brooklyn Eagles Prize finalists in nonfiction read from their nominated works. This new literary prize recognizes the best nonfiction book, published in 2014 or early 2015, that most embody Brooklyn’s ideals. The winner will be announced on October 23 at the Brooklyn Classic and will receive a cash prize of $2,500. Hosted by Charles Duhigg and Amy Mikel.
  
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• dweck-lec'-tic: Sharpe meets Tharpe

  30-07-2015 18:56
  Thursday, October 15, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAvery Sharpe is one of the best known bassists in jazz. In Sharpe Meets Tharpe, his salute to the iconic gospel singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, he brings his long-time jazz ensemble together with gospel singers to honor the singer credited with popularizing gospel among secular audiences in the 20s and 30s. Her unique brand of music is often considered the precursor to rock & roll. Always an original, Tharpe married in 1951 at Gri
  
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• Classical Interludes: Joel Fan

  30-07-2015 18:56
  Sunday, October 18, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterCelebrated for his exuberant virtuosity, and a bold repertoire that embraces piano classics and inspired discoveries of contemporary and world music, Joel Fan re-invents the piano recital by illuminating the rare and unexpected. He will perform Wang Jianzhong’s Five Yunnan Folksongs, Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor.
  
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• Person of interest questioned in cop shooting

  30-07-2015 18:40
  
  The NYPD is questioning a person in connection with the shooting of an off-duty cop in Brooklyn. NYPD Officer Tramaine Oxley,33, was sitting in a vehicle with a family member when he was shot in the left arm and suffered a graze wound to the torso, said police. The shooting occurred Tuesday at about 10:18 p.m. in front of 737 Bradford St. in East New York. Two suspects were attempting to rob the officer when the shooting broke out.
  
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• Diva Docs: Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Godmother of Rock n Roll

  30-07-2015 18:33
  Wednesday, October 14, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterDespite not being a household name today, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Her flamboyance, skill, and showmanship on the newly electrified guitar played a vital role in the conception of ock & roll as a genre of music.read more
  
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• BRIC FLIX Screening: Interactive Media for Social Good

  30-07-2015 18:00
  
  Movies make for great entertainment, but can they change the world? Find out on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 7pm at... Read More… Read More
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• Silent Film Series: Charlie Chaplin Short Comedies

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Sunday, October 11, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBefore transitioning fully to features, Chaplin learned his film craft and created and perfected his “Tramp” character in an evolving series of short comedies. We chart his progress, starting with his first film, Making a Living (1914, 13 min.), as a pre-Tramp con-artist; The Masquerader (1914, 12.5 min), sees him back-stage, in-and-out of his newly created Tramp make-up; The Immigrant (1917, 24 min), finds the T
  
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• Russian Film Series: Koktebel Gems: Documentary

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThe title of the film refers to the famous beach in Crimea where semi-precious stones are known to be found. The film narrates the story of a famous writers' colony in Crimea in the early 20th century. Koktebel, the name of the town in which it thrived, is synonymous with the poet Maximilian Voloshin who lived there permanently and his famous guests who included all the key figures of the Russian Silver A
  
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• Margo Jefferson on Negroland

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Tuesday, October 6, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAt once celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago, Pulitzer Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society.read more
  
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• Documentary: Citizenfour

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Tuesday, October 13, 2015 5:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWith unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s remarkable encounters with Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA). Director Laura Poitras had been working on a film about surveillance fo
  
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• Diva Docs: Amy

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Wednesday, October 7, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterA once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse was a musician that captured the world’s attention. A pure jazz artist in the most authentic sense, she wrote and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to analyze her own problems. The combination of her raw honesty and supreme talent resulted in some of the most unique and adored songs of the modern era. Her huge success, however, resulted in relentless and invasive media atte
  
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• David Talbot on the CIA’s Allen Dulles

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFrom the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers, an explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the agency. Drawing on revelatory
  
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• Classical Interludes: East of the River

  30-07-2015 17:50
  Sunday, October 11, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck Center“East of the River" was founded by internationally renowned recorder players Nina Stern and Daphna Mor. The project explores haunting and virtuosic melodies from the traditional repertoires of the Balkans, Armenia and the Middle East, as well as gems of the Medieval European classical repertory.
  
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• Robert Reich: Saving Capitalism

  30-07-2015 16:35
  Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterFrom the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, President Clinton’s former secretary of labor.
  
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• Documentary Film: Inequality for All

  30-07-2015 16:35
  Wednesday, September 30, 2015 5:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBefore getting your copy of his latest book signed, watch his most recent documentary. Through his singular perspective, Robert Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself.  In this Inconvenient Truth for the economy, Reich uses humor and a wide array of facts to explain how the issue of economic inequality af
  
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• Classical Interludes: Windscape Wind Quintet

  30-07-2015 16:35
  Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterTara Helen O’Connor (flute); Randall Ellis (oboe); Alan R. Kay (clarinet); David Jolley (horn) and Frank Morelli (bassoon) perform their arrangements of compositions by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein as well as pieces by Elliott Carter, Samuel Barber and Irving Fine.
  
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• Brooklyn Book Festival Book End: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  30-07-2015 16:35
  Saturday, September 19, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterYevgeny Yevtushenko is one of the living masters of Russian literature. His larger-than-life personality led him from his childhood in Siberia to become one of the few living poets able to fill the Carnegie Hall to the rafters. He belongs to the generation of so-called "Sixtiers," the group of writers, artists and dissidents who came to prominence during the “Thaw” and who shaped the cultural landscape of the
  
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• Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle

  30-07-2015 16:22
  Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterMainstream coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding stereotypes of Haiti. Aware that this Haiti is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the feminist anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse embarked on a writing spree that lasted over two years. Her trilingual book (English, Kreyòl, and French) contains thirty pieces and includes a foreword by award-winn
  
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• Brooklyn Book Festival Book End: Pitch-a-palooza

  30-07-2015 16:22
  Wednesday, September 16, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterTwenty writers will be selected at random to pitch their book in one minute. Judges will help writers improve their pitches and critique everything from idea to style to potential in the marketplace. Authors come away with concrete advice as well as a greater understanding of the ins and outs of the publishing industry. Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry are co-founders of The Book Doctors, a company dedicated to helping autho
  
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• Catnip for Collectors, Amanda Petrusich on the 78RPM Record and the Obsessives Who Seek Them

  30-07-2015 15:34
  
  The vinyl record has gone through a remarkable resurgence in popularity over the past several years—quite a turnaround from the 1990s... Read More… Read More
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• De Blasio vs. Cuomo

  30-07-2015 14:45
  
  The mayor of New York City and the governor of New York recently spoke again, for the first time, after Cuomo and the NYC Council worked out a deal with ride-sharing service Uber.  After the announcement was made by de Blasio last week, NYC City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said the city council and not the mayor had done the work to reach a temporary operating deal.
  
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• Still hot, but NYC may fall short of heat wave

  30-07-2015 04:32
  
  The heat and humidity will continue Thursday, but New York City may fall short of hitting the 90s again because of cloud cover, showers and thunderstorms. That means NYC will not have had a true heat wave, which requires three days of 90-plus-degree weather.
  
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• New York City's abundant wildlife

  30-07-2015 02:30
  
  Talk a walk down any city block and many are noticing that New York City is becoming increasingly more jungle than concrete. A fuzzy squirrel digging for nuts may be photo worthy for tourists but they're the norm for New Yorkers. And so are at least 75 different species of birds in New York City alone. It's no wonder birds have made themselves home in the most interesting places. And then there's the marine life, too. Whales and dolphins have been spotted in the Rockaways.
  
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• FDNY Calendar of Heroes

  30-07-2015 00:37
  
  Just when you thought it couldn't get any hotter in New York City, the FDNY has launched their 2016 Calendar of Heroes. A sizzling hot search was conducted through fire departments in all five boroughs. Once the smoke cleared, thirteen firefighters were selected to help keep your fire burning all year long.
  
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