How they handle crises in Brownsville, often without police
At least twice a year, nonprofit workers from the neighborhood spend a week calming disputes and responding to most 311 and 911 calls on certain blocks in the neighborhood.
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Century-old bridges deteriorate over busy Brooklyn subway
The bridges that support Newkirk and Foster avenues above the B and Q subway lines were built in 1907. They haven't undergone any major rehabilitation since.
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Is learning to read in NYC schools getting in the way of reading whole books?
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Where to find frozen treats in NYC
Summer is on the way and we're ready for ice cream.
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Shakespeare in the Park opens for the season this month
The free series is back in Central Park for another summer.
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Early voting begins this month in New Jersey's congressional primaries
In person early voting begins May 26 in New Jersey's congressional party primaries.
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Bronx sees air quality drop as drivers toll shop around congestion pricing
A new study from researchers at Columbia University, which is still undergoing peer review, shows for the first time that the tolls may be harming some of the city’s poorest communities.
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In Season: asparagus
You can find asparagus at market for just a short while.
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In the shadow of NYC, 'the cradle of American soccer' prepares for the World Cup
The World Cup's kickoff at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium next month marks a kind of homecoming for American soccer. The sport gained one of its first U.S. footholds over 150 years ago in this industrial Hudson County town of 40,000 on the edge of the swampy Meadowlands.
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Belleville, NJ Mayor Michael Melham on the massive industrial fire in his town
The fire closed down schools and some local roads.
