Controversial hi-rise near Brooklyn Botanic Garden OK’d by NYC Council — with plans for more sunlight after outcry
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Controversial hi-rise near Brooklyn Botanic Garden OK’d by NYC Council — with plans for more sunlight after outcry

ByNews Polite

Let the sun shine in. A controversial hi-rise development that neighbors feared would cast a harmful shadow over the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has gotten the OK from the City Council — with changes that would bring more necessary sunlight to the beloved greenspace. The Crown Heights hi-rise development once poised…

NYC masked man attempts to kidnap Hassidic Jewish boy from father in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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NYC masked man attempts to kidnap Hassidic Jewish boy from father in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

ByNews Polite

A horrifying video shows a masked man attempting to rip a six-year-old Hassidic Jewish boy out of the arms of his father in broad daylight as they walked down the sidewalk together Saturday. The boy’s father was holding hands and walking down the sidewalk with his two sons at around…

Revised high-rise plans will still cast shadow over BK Botanic Garden, cause ‘existential harm’ for ‘generations to come’
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Revised high-rise plans will still cast shadow over BK Botanic Garden, cause ‘existential harm’ for ‘generations to come’

ByNews Polite

A battle over a proposed high-rise near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is still blooming — despite the developer behind the project claiming it amended its plans to avoid casting shadows on the green space. Dozens of critics gathered at a public hearing Wednesday to disavow developer Continuum’s pruned proposal, which…