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• Brooklyn bus lanes: Mamdani admin breaks ground on project to boost bus speeds on pair of vital roadways

  06-10-2026 20:15 via amny.com
  
  The city Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday that it started construction on a sizable redesign of Brooklyn's Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue — adding bus lanes to the two roadways that the agency says will hasten trips for 85,000 daily riders.The undertaking will see the DOT paint a combination of offset and curbside bus lanes on Bay Parkway between Avenue J and Shore Parkway, covering nearly all of the thoroughfare that runs through the southern Brooklyn neighborhoods of
  
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• 50,000 to rally in Central Park for iconic Making Strides breast cancer awareness walk this month

  06-10-2026 18:57 via amny.com
  
  Tens of thousands of breast cancer survivors, families and supporters will gather in Central Park on Oct. 18 for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk as the fundraiser returns for its 33rd year in New York.The annual fundraiser is hosted by the American Cancer Society and features approximately 50,000 survivors every year as one of the largest Making Strides walks in the country. It brings the city together to raise money and honor those affected by breast cancer.The event will be held
  
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• PHOTOS | Lenape/Lunáapeew roots take center stage at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Pow Wow

  06-10-2026 17:38 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The third annual United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow returned to Prospect Park on Saturday and Sunday, bringing together members of the Native American community for a two-day celebration of Indigenous culture and Brooklyn’s Native roots.Families and participants traveled from as far as South Dakota, North Carolina and Wisconsin to take part in the event at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside. The Pow Wow featured traditional dance, song and drumming, as well as Native artists, vendor
  
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• At Barclays Center, Latin music is bringing Brooklyn together

  06-10-2026 17:23 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  From Bad Bunny taking over the Super Bowl to Latin music generating more than $1 billion in U.S. revenue, the genre is making waves across the country. In Brooklyn, Barclays Center has become a major stage for that growing popularity, drawing hundreds of thousands of fans to performances by some of Latin music’s biggest stars.Since 2022, Barclays has hosted nearly 10 Latin shows a year on average and has continued growing its Latino audience. Latin shows alone have generated more than $100
  
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• AARP New York hosts panel on the future of Social Security

  06-10-2026 14:31 via amny.com
  
  Concerned that Social Security could soon turn into “Social Insecurity” amid declining funds, older residents recently united to say no to cuts.Schneps Media, PoliticsNY and the Bay Ridge Courier presented on Sept. 29 “Protecting the Promise: A Social Security Forum” sponsored by AARP New York, at the Greenhouse Cafe in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, during which federal officials discussed the perilous future of Social Security.According to the officials, Social Security will no l
  
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• Early-morning fire at Bushwick apartment building displaces 11 people

  06-10-2026 01:19 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A two-alarm fire at a Bushwick apartment building displaced 11 people early on Monday morning. Brooklyn dispatchers began receiving calls about a fire at 987 Hancock St. shortly after midnight on Oct. 5, per the FDNY. Flames quickly spread to all four floors and the cockloft of the four-story building as well as two adjoining buildings, and firefighters called a second alarm at 1:17 a.m. Residents fled to the street with only the clothes on their backs, clutching their pets and childre
  
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• AI giants give few clear answers to key safety questions at NYC Council hearing amid whistleblower warnings

  06-10-2026 00:30 via amny.com
  
  Four leading artificial intelligence companies were questioned under oath at City Hall Monday, but repeatedly stopped short of giving lawmakers clear answers on some of the central safety questions driving New York City’s push to regulate the industry.Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google did not put a number on the risk of catastrophic harm from increasingly powerful AI systems, did not give a blanket commitment that failing an independent safety test would automatically
  
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• NYC Ferry fare hikes coming Oct. 19, as system gives middle schoolers discounted trips

  06-10-2026 00:15 via amny.com
  
  New York City Ferry riders will soon have to cough up an additional 50 cents per ride and $1 per 10-trip pass come Oct. 19, when a new fare hike takes effect.The fare for a single one-way NYC Ferry trip will increase from $4.90 to $5, while a 10-trip bundle will now cost $30 — up from $29. The ferry service, which is overseen by the quasi-governmental Economic Development Corporation (EDC), emphasized that the per-trip price of the bundle would be $3, equal to the cost of a subway or bus t
  
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