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Opponents of the skate park Mount Prospect Park -- backed by Hawk's nonprofit -- will gather outside the skateboarder’s Beacon Theater event Thursday night.

Five investigative journalists will receive hands-on training working with major nonprofit media outlets as part of the Scripps Howard Fund’s Roy W. Howard Fellowship program.

NetsGC is the "other team" in the BSE Global network, part of the NBA2K League. Not much was expected from them until a Brooklyn rookie nicknamed "Greens" showed up.

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ADVERTISEMENT Interior Secretary Deb Haaland recommended fully restoring protections to three national monuments that former President Trump She reportedly recommended the changes to the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in Utah, as well as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of Massachusetts.  Trump reduced the size of Bears Ears, designated by former President Obama, by about 85 percent, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, designated by form...

How Candidates for East New York’s 42nd Council District Would Re-Think Policing and Safety Amidst the well-documented increase in gun violence across New York City last year, one area stood out: the NYPD’s 75th Precinct, which includes the neighborhoods of East New York and Cypress Hills, had both the most shooting incidents and the highest number of police misconduct complaints of anywhere in the city. The precinct had 102 shootings last year, up from 51 the year before. At the same time,...