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Amira Hunter, 23, was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on assault charges for bashing cellist Iain S. Forrest in the head while he performed in the Herald Square subway station on Feb. 19.

Amira Hunter, 23, was arrested on Wednesday in connection to the February 13 attack on Iain Forrest, 29, a medical student who was playing his electric cello at the 34th Street Herald Square Station.

The Clean Slate Act is projected to boost the state’s economy by $12.6 billion; be an effective tool to reduce recidivism.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7, but voters in Brooklyn and throughout the city can participate in early voting, which kicks off Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 5.

Yamil Speight-Miller and Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, are trying to inch the county a little further into the right direction.

Demonstrators gathered outside the federal courthouse in Foley Square, calling for the jail to be shut down or for a federal receiver to be appointed to take over.

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The Brooklyn Democratic Party hosted their first-ever Community Forum for Civil Court Judicial Candidates last week, marking a significant move towards transparency in the election of Brooklyn judges. 

“This is the second annual giveaway hosted by the church in collaboration with St. Rose’s Alumni Association, President’s College Alumni Inc., Guyanese in the

Her neighbours live next door to a soldier, teacher, dental hygienist and licensed practical nurse. Thirty-one-year-old Petricia-Kaye Soman is like a tree with many branches. Whether Soman's ne...