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Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz claims Bklyn got shortchanged.

Don’t count out Brooklyn! Borough leaders were slamming the US Census Bureau on Thursday after the agency claimed that Brooklyn grew by only 40,000 people over the past decade.

Markowitz: CH and Willyburg Increased by 40,000 Alone

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz claims Bklyn got shortchanged.

Don’t count out Brooklyn! Borough leaders were slamming the US Census Bureau on Thursday after the agency claimed that Brooklyn grew by only 40,000 people over the past decade.

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Shalom Assouline (Paris, France) to Bracha Labi (Milan, Italy)
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Yossi and Mushky (nee Parnes) Teleshevsky from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Mendel and Esther (nee Fajnland) Scharf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Chaim and Chaya Pape from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
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Moshe and Sarah Spalter from Lake Forest, IL had a baby boy!
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Levi Itshak Cohen (Versailles, France) to Hanni Sitruk (Paris, France)
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Meir Yabra (Crown Heights) to Chaya Spritzer (Monroe Township, NJ) L’Chaim: Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 8:30pm at The Shull 481 Albany Ave
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David and Elka (nee Boymelgreen) New from Miami, FL had a baby boy!
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Mechy and Dini (nee Riechman) Weiss from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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Srulik Perlman (Canadensis, PA) to Shoshi Wertheimer (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at the JCM Upper Level
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Mendel Kopf (Nice, France) to Haya Touitou (Yerres,France)
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Levi Sudak (Edgware, UK) to Muka Sandhaus (Thornhill, Ontario) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana
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NY Daily News

Now you can fight a parking ticket from your laptop. A new function on the city website lets you dispute parking violations - and health and sanitation tickets - by submitting pictures and paperwork online in your defense.

New Finance Dept. Service Lets You Fight Violations Online

NY Daily News

Now you can fight a parking ticket from your laptop. A new function on the city website lets you dispute parking violations – and health and sanitation tickets – by submitting pictures and paperwork online in your defense.

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MTA board members want straphangers to clean up their act - one of them calling a ban on food and drinks on subways “a swell idea.”

MTA Mulls Banning Food and Drink Aboard Subways

NY Daily News
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MTA board members want straphangers to clean up their act – one of them calling a ban on food and drinks on subways “a swell idea.”

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Lawsuit Seeks to Erase Bike Lane in New York City

NY Times

A bike lane along Prospect Park West in Brooklyn is the focus of a lawsuit filed Monday against the Transportation Department.

Well-connected New Yorkers have taken the unusual step of suing the city to remove a controversial bicycle lane in a wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn, the most potent sign yet of opposition to the Bloomberg administration’s marquee campaign to remake the city’s streets.

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NY Daily News

It's a heart-breaking bird's eye view of New York's worst tragedy. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, a shocking and powerful 17-minute video taken by an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced Monday on the web.

Haunting 9/11 Video Captured by NYPD Helicopter Shows World Trade Center’s Twin Towers Collapse

NY Daily News

It’s a heart-breaking bird’s eye view of New York’s worst tragedy. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, a shocking and powerful 17-minute video taken by an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced Monday on the web.

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NY Times

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, shown touring a new city data center, is adding opinion journalism to his media company.

Over the last year, representatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg quietly reached out to a handful of the country’s top journalists with an intriguing job offer: Divine and distill his unique brand of political philosophy and disseminate it around the globe for an annual salary of close to $500,000.

After Business and Politics, Mayor Tests Opinion

NY Times

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, shown touring a new city data center, is adding opinion journalism to his media company.

Over the last year, representatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg quietly reached out to a handful of the country’s top journalists with an intriguing job offer: Divine and distill his unique brand of political philosophy and disseminate it around the globe for an annual salary of close to $500,000.

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Hustlers Wreak Havoc in Subway Stations

by Ginger Adams Otis and Heather Haddon – New York Post

NEW YORK — MetroCard mayhem has hit the MTA. Vandals and swipe-selling scammers are increasingly wreaking havoc with subway MetroCard machines, and the criminals — some of whom are gang members — have become more menacing, according to MTA statistics and transit workers.

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Over 1 Million Cars Ticketed for Running Red Lights

NY Post

Red lights mean green for New York City. For the first time ever, the city ticketed more than 1 million vehicles for running a red light and getting caught on camera. The city’s 150 secret cameras — 50 were installed in 2009 — nabbed an average of 2,741 drivers a day in 2010, according to figures obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request.

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