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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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• Hochul leads Blakeman in two new polls as Trump, Mamdani loom over governor’s race

  23-09-2026 23:00 via amny.com
  
  Gov. Kathy Hochul leads Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman in two polls released Wednesday, though the surveys differ sharply on the size of her advantage less than six weeks before Election Day.A Siena poll found Hochul leading Blakeman 50% to 41% among likely voters, little changed from her 49% to 39% lead in August. A Quinnipiac University poll, also released Wednesday, put Hochul ahead 58% to 39%.The polls come as Blakeman seeks to tie Hochul to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, while the governor&rsq
  
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• Green-Wood invites Brooklynites to process grief, one stitch at a time

  23-09-2026 18:15 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  At Green-Wood Cemetery, knitting and crocheting are becoming a way to make space for conversations that can be difficult to have.
  The local cemetery is bringing back its “Grieving and Weaving” program, a series that combined fiber arts, reflection and community to create an approachable setting for people to engage with grief and loss.
  [caption id="attachment_249132" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Grieving and Weaving offers Brooklynites a way to talk openly about grief.Photo court
  
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• Bay Ridge’s Ragamuffin Parade turns 60 — and the tradition runs deep

  23-09-2026 16:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The Bay Ridge Ragamuffin Parade is turning 60 — and the longtime neighborhood tradition is celebrating the milestone year by honoring the community that has maintained it.
  Ragamuffin Inc. hosted its annual kickoff brunch on Sept. 20 at Bay Ridge Manor, bringing supporters together ahead of the 60th annual Ragamuffin Parade this Saturday, which will once again transform Bay Ridge into a colorful procession of costumed children.
  The organization’s president, Allison Greaker, told Brook
  
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• Bay Ridge’s beloved Ragamuffin Parade turns 60, celebrating generations of community

  23-09-2026 16:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The Bay Ridge Ragamuffin Parade is turning 60 — and the longtime neighborhood tradition is celebrating the milestone year by honoring the community that has maintained it.
  Ragamuffin Inc. hosted its annual kickoff brunch on Sept. 20 at Bay Ridge Manor, bringing supporters together ahead of the 60th annual Ragamuffin Parade this Saturday, which will once again transform Bay Ridge into a colorful procession of costumed children.
  The organization’s president, Allison Greaker, told Brook
  
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• MTA to launch campaign educating riders on OMNY use, amid continued fare cap complaints

  23-09-2026 14:00 via amny.com
  
  The MTA will soon launch a public information campaign aimed at informing riders on how best to employ the relatively new OMNY tap-and-pay system, in response to some straphanger complaints specifically surrounding its fare-capping feature, a top agency official said on Tuesday.MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, during a Sept. 22 Citizens Budget Commission breakfast event in Manhattan, said the agency is gearing up to inform riders on the optimal ways to use OMNY. He said the information will be di
  
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• Signal issues: Council presses City Hall over influencer records as key officials decline to testify

  22-09-2026 23:45 via amny.com
  
  The messages were set to disappear, but the questions surrounding them have not.Less than three weeks after City Hall acknowledged that disappearing messages had been enabled in a Signal group used to communicate with social media influencers, City Council members pressed the Mamdani administration on Tuesday over whether government records should have been preserved from the chat.But the communications officials with firsthand knowledge of how the group operated did not testify.Instead, the adm
  
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• Signal issues: Council presses City Hall over influencer records as admin declines to send key official

  22-09-2026 23:45 via amny.com
  The messages were set to disappear, but the questions surrounding them have not.Less than three weeks after City Hall acknowledged that disappearing messages had been enabled in a Signal group used to communicate with social media influencers, City Council members pressed the Mamdani administration on Tuesday over whether government records should have been preserved from the chat.But the communications officials with firsthand knowledge of how the group operated did not testify.Instead, the adm
  
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• Immersive installation ‘Aqua Cosmos: The Hudson Canyon’ brings marine life to the Brooklyn Bridge

  22-09-2026 23:26 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  An immersive art installation will plunge the Brooklyn Bridge deep below the surface of the sea and into a critical marine ecosystem on Sept. 25 and 26. Artist Anita Glesta’s piece “AQUA COSMOS: The Hudson Canyon,” an 18-minute “hybrid documentary” projection, will bathe the bridge with the sights and sounds of the canyon, as captured by artists and scientists over the last century. “I’ve spent much of my life exploring what lies beneath the su
  
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• MTA boss Lieber says agency’s targeting ‘kooky’ work rules, health insurance contributions in labor talks with transit union

  22-09-2026 21:45 via amny.com
  
  In the MTA's contract negotiations with the union representing nearly 40,000 New York City Transit workers — Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 — the authority is pushing to ensure that some workers show up to the job more often while also increasing all health care contributions, agency Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said on Tuesday.The MTA is pursuing both changes possibly in exchange for the wage increases that Local 100 is seeking, Lieber said during a Sept. 22 Citizens Budget C
  
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• ‘Awkward Sex… and the City’ comedy show returns to Prospect Heights Sept. 25

  22-09-2026 19:43 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Bad dates, awkward hookups and the stories you’d only tell your closest friends are getting their moment on stage in Prospect Heights this week.Awkward Sex… and the City, a long-running comedy and storytelling show hosted by local comedian and podcaster Natalie Wall, returns to Friends and Lovers in Prospect Heights on Sept. 25 — marking Wall’s first show since becoming a mom.The show, which began in 2013, brings comedians together to share sex stories, dating and relati
  
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• DoorDash to pay at least $131.5M after NYC finds it underpaid 260,000 workers

  22-09-2026 17:30 via amny.com
  
  DoorDash will pay at least $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation that found the delivery giant failed to properly pay more than 260,000 workers, a record enforcement action that will also force changes to how the company tracks and pays delivery workers in the five boroughs.Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) announced the settlement Tuesday, calling it the largest labor enforcement action in city history and the largest U.S. municipa
  
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• Yom Kippur vigil in Brooklyn see hundreds mourn lives lost in Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

  22-09-2026 17:15 via amny.com
  
  Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers gathered in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Monday afternoon on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, to remember the lives lost in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Organized by progressive groups Jews For Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and Rabbis for Ceasefire, the Yizkor Ritual of Remembrance is the third annual event of its kind held in the location since the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel and the subsequent war escalations between Israel and Palesti
  
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• Advocates detail alleged medical neglect, violence and poor conditions at Brooklyn’s troubled MDC

  22-09-2026 17:06 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  For years, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) has been a troubled neighbor in Sunset Park, with a record of violence, staff shortages, prolonged lockdowns and other dangerous conditions behind its walls.Plagued by serious issues, including staff shortages, stabbings, killings, limited access to health care and prolonged lockdowns, the facility — a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) pretrial detention center and the only federal jail in New York City — drew national outrage after a
  
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• Bronx-based cannabis dispensary Hibernica opens new store in Harlem

  22-09-2026 14:00 via amny.com
  
  A Bronx-based cannabis dispensary is broadening its reach with a new location in Harlem. This past summer, Hibernica opened its new Central Park North store, located at 111 W. 110th St. The first store, located at 3220 Westchester Ave. in Pelham Bay, opened on April 20, 2024, with the goal of bringing sustainable, locally sourced products to the market while weaving hospitality into the customer experience.Like the Pelham Bay store, the Central Park North Hibernica offers a robust lineup of
  
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• At Gracie Mansion, Trump says it ‘feels like a home’ as Mamdani advances Sunnyside Yard talks

  22-09-2026 00:44 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump held their latest meeting Monday, this time at Gracie Mansion, to open technical talks between City Hall and the White House over the mayor’s $21 billion federal funding pitch to build 12,000 homes above Sunnyside Yard in Queens.The mayor initially pitched the idea to Trump during a trip to Washington back in February, and while Monday's conversation on the Upper East Side advanced the massive Queens proposal, it stopped well short of a feder
  
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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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• 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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• Explosion rocks Williamsburg restaurant during fire; 6 firefighters injured

  20-09-2026 18:21 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Firefighters miraculously survived an explosion and collapse during a four-alarm fire inside a commercial building in Brooklyn on Saturday.Officials said the fire erupted at 135 North 5th St. in Williamsburg, which housed three restaurants, including Juliette's, at around 5:30 p.m. Firefighters were forced to issue a Mayday for possibly trapped members. [caption id="attachment_137870431" align="alignnone" width="700"] FDNY members working on a fire in Williamsburg.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell[/c
  
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• Brooklyn woman charged for stabbing boyfriend to death during domestic dispute

  20-09-2026 16:52 via amny.com
  
  Authorities and sources say they have arrested and charged a woman for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death inside her Brooklyn home Saturday in what she claims was self-defense.According to police sources, 36-year-old Jennifer Ayala was charged during the early hours of Sunday with two counts of assault, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon. She had allegedly stabbed her boyfriend Pedersin Pelissier of Fort Greene, also 36, following an argument.The pair had been inside Ayala&
  
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• Prospect Park rape attempt: Creep who choked, then assaulted woman, inside Brooklyn park still at large

  19-09-2026 15:30 via amny.com
  
  Special victims detectives are looking for the violent creep who tried to rape a woman in Brooklyn's Prospect Park earlier this week.The NYPD released on Friday night a sketch of the male suspect wanted for the attack, which occurred inside a wooded area of the park in the vicinity of Wellhouse Drive and the Terrace Bridge, at about 9:35 p.m. on Sept. 16.Based on a preliminary investigation, police reported that the suspect approached the victim, a 41-year-old woman, and grabbed hold of her neck
  
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• East New York fire leaves victim in critical condition

  18-09-2026 20:57 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A victim is reportedly still in critical condition Friday after being pulled from a fourth-floor fire in East New York last week, according to the FDNY.Firefighters responded to 155 Wortman Ave. just after 5:15 p.m. on Sept. 10 following several calls reporting a fire on the fourth floor.Members of Ladder Company 103 forced their way into the apartment and found a resident semi-conscious amid burning materials, according to the FDNY.[caption id="attachment_248924" align="alignnone" width="1200"]
  
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