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Today's riddle: I'm a rock group with 4 members; one member was assassinated. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Downtown Brooklyn partnership making transformative changes, creating borough's newest, most vital neighborhood (brooklyneagle.com) — Downtown Brooklyn is getting safer, greener streets and a major shared-street network, plus a revamped Fulton Mall and the new Abolitionist Place park. A long-term public realm plan is reshaping sidewalks, traffic patterns, and public spaces to prioritize pedestrians, stormwater management, and community gathering areas, with several projects already completed or underway in the heart of the neighborhood.
• NYC launches free 2-K program for 2,000 toddlers (chalkbeat.org) — Families in East Flatbush, Brooklyn are among the first to benefit from New York City's new free 2-K program, giving 2-year-olds full-day, year-round care at no cost. Parents describe major financial relief and language support for their kids, while providers still face delayed city contracts and funding, prompting new efforts to speed payments and stabilize childcare centers.
• The shot seen all over the world: How an beginner photographer captured the last word sacrifice of FDNY heroes on 9/11 (fooshya.com) — From a Brooklyn factory window, a young volunteer captured the now-iconic image of Ladder 118 racing over the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning towers, moments before its crew was lost. The story revisits Brooklyn Heights streets blanketed in dust, the Middagh Street firehouse's enduring memorials, and how the photograph has helped families and firefighters honor their fallen neighbors' bravery.
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