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New York City High Schools Stock Up On Plan B For Students

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In an effort to combat teenage pregnancy, the New York City Department of Health has launched a new program that would provide emergency contraception for high school students. Under the citywide health  initiative CATCH — Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health — schools are supplied with Plan B, the so-called Morning After pill, to give to students who
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Cast of The Princess Bride Will Reunite In Lincoln Center Next Month

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The cast of The Princess Bride will reunite to make an appearance at the New York Film Festival for the festival’s 50th anniversary. The film showing will take place at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on October 2nd. The film will also be released on Blu-ray on the same date. The reunion is bringing together
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Lawsuits Against NYPD Could “Bankrupt” the City

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The New York Police Department has received several lawsuits in the past year that could threaten the city. The city paid over $186.3 million in judgements related to lawsuits involving the NYPD just last year, Gothamist reports. Council member Peter Vallone fears that the number could reach $1 billion and “would bankrupt the city,” Vallone
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9/11 Zadroga Act Will Now Compensate Cancer Patients Too

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President signing the Zadroga Act. Photo courtesy of Wiki Commons by Nora Bosworth On the cusp of the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the federal government has at last decided that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act should also cover cancer—about 50 different types, in fact. The act, according to the NYPost, already grants medical checkups and/or treatment to around 40,000 people; but up
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Tornado Hit Queens and Brooklyn on Saturday

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Damage from the 2007 tornado in Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of Wiki Commons by Nora Bosworth While Saturday felt like just another—very—rainy day to most New Yorkers, for residents of Breezy Point, Queens it was an unexpected encounter with a cinematic twister. While the tornado was relatively weak, (the National Weather Service gave it a zero out of five on the Fujita scale), it still managed to terrify
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Tribeca Film Acquires Ed Burns’s The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

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Tribeca Film has acquired rights to Director Edward Burns’s The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, which will premiere this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Tribeca Film anticipates a late-November release of the film, to coincide with the holiday season. Burns’s last release was the 2011 Newlyweds, a top selling title, according to a statement
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Districting Commission Releases First Draft of Citywide Districting Map

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The City Districting Commission released an initial draft of the City Council district map at a City Hall meeting today. The map is based on census data and also adjusted for City prison populations. The new map is available online and a hard copy will soon be available to the public in main library branches
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Racism & Hate Speech on the Unofficial NYPD Message Board Following West Indian Day Parade

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(by Alissa Fleck) Various unofficial online NYPD discussion forums—including Facebook and the message board Thee Rant—have been an outlet for intense racism by NYPD officers in recent years. Gothamist reports last year numerous officers faced disciplinary action for hateful comments posted on Facebook following the West Indian Day Parade. The recent dismissal of Fishel Litzman,
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Chelsea Market Upzoning Passes City Planning Commission, Moves to City Council

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The City Planning Commission voted today to approve an amended proposition by Jamestown Properties to upzone Chelsea Market. This plan allows for new structures to be built atop the 9th and 10th Ave ends of the complex, a modification zoning regulations currently prohibit, according to a statement by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
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