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Downtown: Former District Attorney Charles Hynes passed away at a hospice-care center in Florida on Tuesday night, his son Sean Hynes told this newspaper. He was 83-years-old.
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Sound Off to the Editor
Speak Out: Our readers submit their thoughts and words of comfort on the heels of three gruesome killings in Sheepshead Bay and more in this week’s Letters to the Editor.
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Editor’s Picks: This week we’ve got warming whiskey, a faulty film, a festival of funny females, and much more! Brooklyn is the place to be!
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Standing O: Our sister publication recognized two Kings County educators for dedicating their lives to the enrichment of local youngsters.
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Downtown: Brooklyn’s new Surrogate’s Court Judge, Harriet Thompson, celebrated the start of her term with peers and politicos during her official swearing-in ceremony at Kings County Supreme Court.
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By Maya Harrison and Natallie Rocha
Downtown: This Kings County Supreme Court justice and his law clerk rule in favor of peaceful coexistence.
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By Bill Roundy
TV: It’s a whole new ball game!
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By Bob Capano
The Right View: Our Courier columnist weighs in on the pool of Republican candidates already jockeying to run against newly elected Democratic Rep. Max Rose, and why anyone seriously considering the Rock-to-Ridge congressional seat must run a solid campaign in Kings County.
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A brightly colored, six-story hotel rising on Dekalb Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant is nearing the finish line, according to a new report from our sister website Brownstoner. Click to read the full story about the newly built lodge, which will feature a fully automated check-in process conducted by a kiosk, and no human staff, when complete.
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Downtown: A plan hatched more than a decade ago to build a new green space above a high-tech parking facility on Willoughby Street Downtown is officially dead, according to city officials, who on Wednesday said they failed to close the deal with the developer they chose for the job back in 2013.
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By Anna Spivak
Bushwick: Police are hunting for the gunman who shot and killed a teen in Bushwick, and another male villain who acted as a lookout during the deadly attack.
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By Julianne Cuba
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Fixing the BQE: The architect who late last year proposed a third way to fix the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway’s triple cantilever unveiled more details for the scheme that proposes sending traffic down a temporary roadway near Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Checkin’ in with: The 61st Precinct’s top cop sat down with us to discuss how he kept crime in his area down overall last year, his command’s response to the recent deadly hammer attack at a Sheepshead Bay restaurant, and more in an exclusive interview.
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Bushwick: A new 10-story, mixed-use building rising above Bushwick will be the neighborhood’s second-tallest building when complete, with only Wyckoff Hospital standing taller, according to a new report from our sister publication QNS. Click to read more about the tower set to dramatically alter the historically low-rise neighborhood’s skyline.
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Mean Streets: A stretch of Ninth Street in Park Slope where a driver hit and killed two children last year is now more dangerous to pedestrians than ever, following a redesign that brought new protected bike lanes to the road, locals alleged.
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Bay Ridge: The man suspected of brutally slaughtering three Sheepshead Bay restaurant workers with a hammer will likely face hate-crime charges in addition to the three counts of murder authorities slapped him with, according to a law-enforcement source.
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River of Tears: It’s L-pocalypse now — the sequel!
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Sunset Park: Sunset Park civic gurus recently kicked off a grass-roots effort to encourage area immigrants to participate in the looming 2020 Census.
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Cleaning Our Waterways: The city may flush millions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet if it moves forward with scrapping a long in-the-works plan to bury two massive sewage tanks beneath land along the Gowanus Canal, and instead build a giant underground tunnel to collect storm-water runoff in the cisterns’ place.
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Roseland Residential Trust
For developers, building luxury rentals on the Jersey City waterfront is a competitive business, so they routinely try to outdo one another in amenity packages.
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Dining: The three restaurateurs who last year announced plans to revive Downtown’s venerable chop house Gage and Tollner plan to open their second-coming of the bistro this fall, after recently inking a lease on the historic dining room.
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By Julianne McShane
Coney Island: The builder planning to redevelop Coney Island’s Shore Theater into a hotel and spa must amend its plans to include a sign that better recalls the majesty of the storied vaudeville theater’s old placard, and more details that honor the history of the iconic site and its home neighborhood, demanded members of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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