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How To Camp In New York When The Campgrounds Are Crowded
New York has millions of acres of land and wild forests that belong to the public.
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JB Nicholas
News
Plan To Close Rikers And Build New Jails Faces Significant Delays
It was a financial calamity of the magnitude the City is now facing that thwarted an earlier effort to sell Rikers Island to the state in the late 1970s.
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JB Nicholas
News
The NYPD’s New Rules For Journalists Are Actually A Huge Step Forward
In this opinion piece, freelance journalist JB Nicholas argues that controversial new proposed rules for press credentials are actually an improvement.
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JB Nicholas
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Man Who Tried To Escape Rikers Twice In Four Days ‘Has No Other Choice,’ Fellow Inmate Says
The Rikers Island inmate who tried and failed to escape Thursday tried to escape again on Sunday.
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JB Nicholas
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Candidate For District Leader In Brooklyn Sent Names, Photos Of Black Lives Matter Protesters To NYPD
Robert Berrios told the NYPD he would attend the protest personally and feed details about it to the NYPD in real time.
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JB Nicholas
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Live Protest Updates: Jon Batiste Leads Musical Black Lives Matter Rally At Barclays Center
"We didn't intentionally start all this—before all this happened, I was just a normal biker," said one of the teen organizers of today's solidarity bike run.
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Christopher Robbins
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Jen Chung
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David Cruz
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Jake Offenhartz
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JB Nicholas
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Ben Yakas
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Live Protest Updates: Cops Back Down & Allow Over A Thousand Marchers To Walk Brooklyn Bridge Roadway
Also, Kalief Browder's brother spoke at a Black Lives Matter vigil in The Bronx, and the families of victims of police violence led marchers through lower Manhattan.
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Elizabeth Kim
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Gwynne Hogan
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Ben Yakas
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JB Nicholas
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David Cruz
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Sydney Pereira
News
NYPD Officer Charged With Assault For Shoving Protester To Street
The officer, Vincent D'Andraia, was seen on video shoving a female protester seemingly without provocation.
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John Del Signore
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JB Nicholas
News
Live Protest Updates: Over A Thousand Cyclists Take Over City Streets On Solidarity Protest Ride
"These people are standing up for unjust things going on in the country," one man said of the protesters.
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Elizabeth Kim
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Caroline Lewis
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Ben Yakas
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JB Nicholas
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Jake Offenhartz
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Karen Yi
News
Report: NY's Parole System Rife With "Structural Racism"
"New York's entire parole system is drawing in black and brown people at a wildly disparate rate."
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JB Nicholas
News
Detective Who Obtained Tessa Majors Confession Has A History Of Misconduct Accusations, Attorney Says
At least some of the complaints were substantiated by the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board, the attorney for one of the defendants said.
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JB Nicholas
News
Third Suspect Arrested In Tessa Majors Murder Case
The 14-year-old is being charged as an adult, sources said.
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JB Nicholas
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