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Jeff Strabone, former Cobble Hill Association president and newly elected corresponding secretary of the association, has alerted us to an ambitious mission conceived by a former student of his at New York University. It is a project that, if successful, would benefit the entire borough.

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes on Thursday announced the arrest of six drug dealers who reportedly operated in the Red Hook housing developments, and the arrest of six more people whom police found in possession of narcotics in the targeted locations.  

The mission of Poly Prep Country Day School is to prepare and inspire the next diverse generation of leaders and global citizens to act with intelligence, imagination and — above all — character.

The city’s Department of Sanitation is easing alternate side of the street parking regulations Greenpoint to accommodate motorists who are finding a hard time finding parking due to the ongoing reconstruction of Nassau Avenue, Assemblyman Joe Lentol said.

The First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn has called the Reverend Ana Levy-Lyons to be its first woman Senior Minister, effective Aug. 1. She will preach her first sermon this Sunday, Sept.

Brooklyn will mark the 11th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, with the annual “Tribute in Light” visible from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park. In Bay Ridge, people will gather on the 69th Street pier at 7:30 p.m.