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Two hearts, one drum solo: Phil Collins Day returns to Greenpoint

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Caribbean startup redefines feminine care

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Brooklyn mother of missing boy tells cops son never existed despite tattoo with his name

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Suspect questioned for deranged Brooklyn subway assaults on women, including shoving one victim onto tracks

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Malliotakis asks U.S. Supreme Court to stop redistricting of NY-11

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State moves to develop housing, health clinic at long-vacant Clinton Hill site

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Woman found dead in Brooklyn NYCHA building likely crushed in accidental garbage chute fall, police say

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Mayor Mamdani announced the revived projects alongside DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn, MTA CEO Janno Lieber

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MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor revives halted bus, bike lane projects across Bronx, Brooklyn

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‘Standing on the shoulders of legends’: Harlem Globetrotters bring 100 year tour to Barclays Center

By Adelaide Guan

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Brooklyn Diocese to pursue global settlement of child sexual abuse cases, though victims’ lawyers hesitant

By Isabella Gallo

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Fire displaces several people at East New York home cited for illegal conversion

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell

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Fare evasion: MTA boss insists subway riders aren’t agency’s ‘guinea pigs’ in modern fare gate pilot

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