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Also on the 2017 ballot: A makeover for the school auditorium at P.S. 67 on St. Edwards Street.
Also on the 2017 ballot: Pothole fillers, security cams for the Nostrand station and street signs guiding visitors to historic local spots.
Also on the 2017 ballot: Neighborhood signage pointing to historic spots, pothole fillers, sidewalk extensions and 3D printers for students.
Also on the 2017 ballot: A fleet of brand-new laptops for autistic students in Downtown Brooklyn.
Also on the 2017 ballot: Various high-tech arts facilities proposed for public schools nearby.
Also on the 2017 ballot: Fancy new library signage, park lighting, real-time clocks for the B62 and B32 buses and a 1-mile road resurfacing.
Weiwei's mock security fences will pop up in the East Village, the Lower East Side, Flushing Meadows Park, Brooklyn bus shelters and more.
See the snazzy interior renovations that pushed 1 Verona Place past the standing $3 million record.
Alleged serial masturbator Robert Francis, 46, has been working as an NYPD detective in Crown Heights and Lefferts Gardens for 17 years.
An underground electrical fire wreaked havoc in Ditmas Park on Monday morning.
A shocking ICE detention downtown; a murder victim and a cat wrapped in a bed sheet; another public library stacked in apartments; and more.
The owner of Stoop Juice said he recently got three calls from a man who sounded exactly like Trump. Days later, his website was hacked.
Video from the scene showed firefighters entering the burning warehouse through a hole they apparently knocked through the brick.
Week in review: A city paramedic is tragically killed; Manhattan's "ink cartridge kingpin" is taken down after a 20 year reign; and more.
Information about Hillary Clinton's emails and other data related to national security was also reportedly stored on the stolen laptop.
The president can't seem to write an anti-immigration order capable of holding up in federal court.
Plus: What the government chose not to tell you before Stella hit, and what happens when you try to pay for someone's burger in Brooklyn.
Winter Storm Stella may have passed, but NYC isn't done with snow just yet.
Because our grandchildren deserve to know what New York City really looked like on March 14, 2017.
Also: A Queens cop is found dead in her car, an Upper East Side mansion burns for hours and a snowball fight takes shape in Central Park.
