The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens has opened to traffic.
The span opened early Thursday.
A ceremony on Wednesday night included a light show with music from Billy Joel via satellite from Madison Square Garden.
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New York City’s largest police union says the mayor and police commissioner should lose their jobs over the firing last week of an officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner.
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The Facebook page of the Republican Party in Rockland County caught the attention of New York’s top prosecutor with a video message against a multi-family development that has been deemed as anti-Semitic by members of the Jewish community and others.

New York softened penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and created a process for erasing certain past offenses in a state law that went into place Wednesday.
The maximum penalty for possessing less than an ounce of pot has been lowered to $50.
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Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is dropping out of the presidential race as a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability was instead plagued by low polling and major fundraising struggles.
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As YWN reported on Tuesday, the NYPD are looking for the man that attacked 63-year-old Rabbi Abraham Gopin at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights around 8:00AM, Tuesday morning.
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A civil rights lawyer representing parents opposed to vaccines for their children said Monday he will appeal a judge’s decision upholding a New York state law that ended religious exemptions from vaccinations required to attend schools and day care programs.
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Two Muslim correctional officers in New York are being reinstated to their positions after being suspended for refusing to shave their beards.
The move comes one day after correctional officers Brian Sughrim and David Feliciano filed a federal lawsuit Monday against New York’s prison agency.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Binyomin Asher Brief of Bnai Brak. He was 21.
Binyomin battled cancer for the past three years until his Petira on Tuesday.
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Members of Eric Garner’s family want a court to force New York City’s mayor and police commissioner to answer questions under oath about their relative’s 2014 chokehold death.
A petition being filed Tuesday in state court seeks a proceeding at which city officials can be questioned under penalty of perjury about matters involving alleged official misconduct.