Day: August 23, 2024

Grocery store clerk shot during Brooklyn stickup  New York Daily News

Election 2024: New York DNC delegates speak out about 2 historic moments in politics  ABC7 New York

A New York judge said Friday he won’t force state election officials to tell voters that a proposed antidiscrimination amendment to the state’s constitution would protect abortion rights, dealing a blow to Democrats who pushed for the change. The decision from Judge David A. Weinstein came in a lawsuit over the language that voters will […]

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The gunman barged into Royal Supermarket on Eighth Avenue near 15th Street — down the block from Prospect Park in South Slope — around 3 p.m., flashed a gun and demanded cash, police said. 

Man, 50, shot in leg during broad-daylight botched robbery at NYC grocery store: cops  New York Post

The New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn held a graduation ceremony for its summer interns on Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the Supreme Court building on 320 Jay St. The event marked the culmination of the Izetta Johnson Internship Program, a key component of the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program, named after the late court […]

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BENSONHURST — BENSONHURST MUNICIPAL FIELD, at 1763 86th St., will be the location of one of the new fast-charging stations for electric vehicles coming to New York City, DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced Thursday. Construction will soon begin on the Bensonhurst location and at another DOT parking field located in the Bronx. Each location will […]

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Local elected leader makes community cleanups a popular tradition  Brooklyn Daily Eagle

STATEWIDE — AFTER A DAMNING REPORT showed deep inefficiencies within New York’s  Office of Cannabis Management, a new interim head of the agency has started to impose changes, NY1 reports. This past spring, Gov. Kathy Hochul had ordered an agency study after calling the weed industry rollout a “disaster.” The May 10 report found the […]

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