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More Than Half a Million Customers Have Lost Power on East Coast The outages were mostly caused by problems with local power lines, and coastal Massachusetts was particularly hard hit.

Widespread outages across several states on the East Coast left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity as power lines and poles succumbed to wind, snow and falling trees and branches. nyti.ms/4b4Hz86

biggest creep

Name them
shame them

From Cleaning Our Streets to Feeding the Hungry 🦃
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See you soon!

The Steering Committee

Zohran and AOC, smiling together in a restaurant.

Zohran and AOC sitting together at a table.

Nepalese food at Laliguras Bistro, including chili chicken with tingmo bread and aloo dum

A busy first day as your Mayor-elect: early morning interviews, transition announcements and meetings. More to say on all of it tomorrow.

But a highlight was lunch with my Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social at Laliguras Bistro in Jackson Heights.

“Fall Clean Our Blocks” Event. Meet your neighbors, & let’s roll up our sleeves to make our blocks shine!
When: 10/25/2025 - Start 2 PM - Where: At 139 ST. Johns Place. RSVP in the form: forms.gle/YErjY9GgiTFn...
See you very soon! #fallcleanup #cleanourstreets #communityfìrst #stjohnscommunity

Hannity is willing and ready.

Thank You for Supporting Barnes & Noble in Park Slope! 📢
More than 380 of you signed our petition to help save our beloved Barnes & Noble Park Slope—and today, we officially sent it to B&N leadership! 🙌
#SaveOurBookstore #ParkSlope #CommunityMatters #sjpca #stjohnscommunity #barnesandnoble

I don't think it's the only one that aged badly.

15 Lessons Scientists Learned About Us When the World Stood Still The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more.

The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more. Here are some takeaways.

Raging fire in Queens sends black smoke plume into sky A giant plume of black smoke covered a neighborhood in Queens as firefighters rushed to put out an afternoon fire. The fire triggered a 3-alarm response from the FDNY, which responded to an auto body ...

Between the #fire in #Queens, #particulatematter and #NO2 #car #pollution, air is dangerously unbreathable today in #Brooklyn we need a movement to protect #airquality www.nbcnewyork.com/queens/queen... @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @transalt.org @xrnyc.bsky.social @sjcommunity.bsky.social #parkslope

Full Board Meeting this Wednesday, March 12th, 6:30 PM at @vanalen.bsky.social & Zoom.

More @ bit.ly/bkcb6march12

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Cities with nature, adding joy and value to society
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Leading us there on purpose. He's just very, very bored.

Make the country a joke one nomination after the other.

Can you lead the new opposition?
There is nobody as bright now who understands how hypocritical and full of shit the MAGA tech bros are.

We are releasing our proposal based on our survey on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety in April.
This could be a base for further studies and initiatives.

Let's talk about it in our next meeting. This is not a problem only in Park Slope. This is citywide.

We are noticing an improvement in rush hours here.
A little less of trucks double parking etc on 7th and 6th Ave. Could it be linked to
congestion pricing?

Cut-through driving: the bad habit clogging up your residential street — Open Plans Think the traffic outside your window is from your neighborhoods? Actually, up to 90% of drivers in NYC neighborhoods are just using local streets as a shortcut. 'Cut-through driving' is turning resid...

Crazy !

"So just how much traffic in your area is cut-through traffic? A whopping 76% if you’re in Brooklyn’s Community Board 6, which includes Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, and the Columbia Street Waterfront. "

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A 'trial' after all? Here’s how Gov. Hochul could remove Mayor Adams. The governor isn’t closing the door on giving the mayor the boot. State and city law lay out a process for doing so.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is not closing the door on removing New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office as a growing coalition in their party presses her to act.

If she decides to try to remove the mayor it would kick off removal proceedings that no governor has even attempted since 1974.

Plant-covered walls can combat urban heat and help biodiversity Plant-covered facades help cool urban areas and provide habitats for plants, birds, insects and other organisms. An international team of researchers has drawn this conclusion after systematically com...

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Sign the Petition Keep Barnes & Noble open !

Keep Barnes & Noble open! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/gKpj9GNF6z via
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It reminds me of Masha Gessen’s recent article, “The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump,” where she points to all the big tech CEOs who acquiesced in advance to Trump's extreme ideological shift without even being forced to take any action.
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Blue and white graphic for CB6 FY2026 statement of district needs, highlighting housing, climate resilience, transportation, and social services.

Check out our needs assessment at bit.ly/cb6fy2026

Screenshot of first page of PDF. Auto posted so can't describe, sorry.

34th Street
Enhanced Bus Priority - presented to Manhattan Community Board 6 in February 2025

😍😍😍 Bedford Ave’s protected bike lane rocks! When the pedestrian islands can be kept clear of cars with granite blocks or other impermeable objects, the street is safer for everyone, incl drivers. Thank you @nyc-dot.bsky.social @chiosse.bsky.social 📸: Zack

More granite blocks everywhere, please!🪨

Tell Metro Vancouver: keep climate action in the budget! Tell the Metro Vancouver board members keep climate action in the budget! #bcpoli

🚨 ALERT: Some directors on the Metro Vancouver board want to quietly scrap climate action from the budget. If you send a letter to Metro Van directors before TOMORROW, Feb 11th, at 12 a.m., your voice will be added to the budget agenda. Send a letter: https://buff.ly/4hNVIHl?