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Mamdani and supporters feel the Bern in Brooklyn
Less than two months before election day, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani joined his political hero Senator Bernie Sanders at an energetic town hall at Brooklyn College on Saturday, as the senator chided what he sees as the rising threat of oligarchy in the United States.
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Sanders, who was raised in Midwood and attended Brooklyn College for a year, has been hosting his Fighting Oligarchy tours across the nation where he has been supporting and recruiting progressive candidates to run for office.
Brooklyn residents want next clean-up project off taxpayers' tab
As state officials unveiled their plan to clean up a contaminated site in Gowanus, residents agreed on one thing – the state is currently ill-prepared to properly decontaminate the land.
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Representatives from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Department of Health appeared at a public meeting Tuesday to discuss the cleanup of 459 Smith St., a lot that housed a fertilizer and manufactured gas plants. The lot must be remediated before it can be redeveloped to build commercial and residential buildings.
