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• Bronx man charged in botched robbery that left Brownsville restaurant worker dead

  21-09-2026 22:02 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A Bronx man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting two employees during an attempted robbery at a Brownsville restaurant last month, killing one of them, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday.Jesus Acosta, 31, of the Bronx, was arraigned on Sept. 21 in Brooklyn Supreme Court on an 11-count indictment stemming from the Aug. 22 shooting at American Best Wings & Pizza on Rockaway Avenue.Acosta is charged with first- and second-degree murder, second-degree atte
  
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• Drivers will face up to $100 fines for speeding in MTA bridge and tunnel work zones starting Sept. 22

  21-09-2026 21:50 via amny.com
  
  Come Tuesday, drivers caught speeding in work zones on or inside MTA-run bridges and tunnels could be hit with fines starting at $50 and escalating to $100 for repeat violations, the transit authority announced this week.The fines will be levied against any drivers caught via speed cameras traveling through MTA-authorized construction zones at least 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. It's part of an effort to reduce traffic crashes and road worker deaths, according to the agency.The
  
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• Wordless wonder: Broken Box Mime Theater brings sci-fi ‘MYTH’ to Clinton Hill

  21-09-2026 21:31 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A local theater company is taking audiences to an alien world this fall — all without saying a word.
  Broken Box Mime Theater will debut “MYTH,” its first evening-length production, at JACK in Clinton Hill from Sept. 25 through Oct. 18. The 65-minute, no-intermission performance uses mime, movement and speculative fiction to explore how people remember, rewrite and forget the histories.
  Directed by Broken Box Artistic Director Becky Baumwoll, “MYTH” follows two unlik
  
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• Hochul floats ‘AI kill switches’ as New York prepares to enforce frontier AI law

  21-09-2026 19:15 via amny.com
  
  Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday floated the possibility of exploring “AI kill switches” as New York prepares to begin registering major artificial intelligence developers this fall ahead of a state safety law taking effect Jan. 1.Hochul said the state will look at additional ways to build on the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, including examining what she called AI "kill switches."“We may even explore safeguards like AI kill switches if they’re deemed feasibl
  
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• MTA cannot leave subway station booths empty when workers call out for emergencies, Manhattan judge rules

  21-09-2026 18:55 via amny.com
  
  A Manhattan state judge handed the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 and a group of disability advocates a legal victory last week when it ruled that the MTA must no longer leave station booths empty when employees miss their eight-hour shifts due to an emergency.New York County Supreme Court Judge Nicholas Moyne issued a restraining order on Sept. 18 barring MTA New York City Transit from continuing its vacant booth policy, which it launched earlier this year, of leaving station booths un
  
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• NYPD, animal advocates find hundreds of live chickens in Brooklyn, sparing them from slaughter

  21-09-2026 17:05 via amny.com
  
  Police, animal advocates and humane group volunteers rescued nearly 300 live chickens from two abandoned U-Haul trucks in Brooklyn over the weekend.An NYPD spokesperson confirmed that an independent group removed “a large number of chickens” apparently condemned to slaughter and brought them to an “undisclosed sanctuary.”John Di Leonardo, president and executive director of Humane Long Island, said the NYPD reached out to animal advocacy volunteers on Friday, asking for a
  
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• From Sheepshead Bay to the ski slopes: How a yacht club launched a ski club

  21-09-2026 16:58 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  When Miramar Yacht Club in Sheepshead Bay member Arthur Berger saw winter coming around in the 1940s, he wanted to hit the ski slopes instead of the water near Southern Brooklyn.Berger reached out to some other members to create a second club, born out of the boating club and known as the Miramar Ski Club.With its own lodge on seven acres in Waitsfield, Vermont, it is a snowball’s throw from Stowe, Sugarbush and Mad River Glen, as well as the home of Ben & Jerry’s, great hikes an
  
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• Inside Government with PoliticsNY: A Q&A with Chair of the New York City Education Committee Senator John C. Liu

  21-09-2026 16:00 via politicsny.com
  
  PoliticsNY’s latest special edition, Inside Government: Public Schools features the government officials shaping New York’s public schools and overall educational landscape. Today’s Q&A is with New York State Senator John C. Liu. Senator Liu is chair of the New York City Education Committee and represents the 16th Senate District in Queens.What are your current education-focused legislative priorities?
  I introduced legislation to require the instruction of Asian American hi
  
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• Straphanger stabbed in the face in unprovoked Brooklyn subway attack

  21-09-2026 15:05 via amny.com
  
  Transit detectives are looking for the man who stabbed a straphanger in the face in an unprovoked attack inside a Brooklyn subway station on Sunday evening.According to police sources, the brutal assault unfolded inside the Rockaway Avenue station just before 6 p.m. on Sept. 20.Law enforcement sources said the victim, a 26-year-old man, was standing on the southbound C train platform when he was stabbed in the face with what was described as a metal object. Police report that the pair did not kn
  
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• Hey Brooklyn! Borough’s influence on “Hey Arnold!” lives on 30 years later

  21-09-2026 14:02 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Thirty years after "football head" first wandered the streets of fictional Hillwood, Brooklyn is still hiding in plain sight all over "Hey Arnold" — in its brownstones, stoops, playgrounds, schoolyards and even its jazz-heavy soundtrack.The Nickelodeon cartoon, which debuted 30 years ago, was technically set in the fictional city of "Hillwood," which the show’s creator, Craig Bartlett, said was based on Brooklyn, Seattle and Portland. But to many viewers and fans, it was always all a
  
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• Hey, Brooklyn! Borough’s influence on “Hey Arnold!” lives on 30 years later

  21-09-2026 14:02 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Thirty years after "football head" first wandered the streets of fictional Hillwood, Brooklyn is still hiding in plain sight all over "Hey Arnold" — in its brownstones, stoops, playgrounds, schoolyards and even its jazz-heavy soundtrack.The Nickelodeon cartoon, which debuted 30 years ago, was technically set in the fictional city of "Hillwood," which the show’s creator, Craig Bartlett, said was based on Brooklyn, Seattle and Portland.But to many viewers and fans, it was always all ab
  
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