Author: Yermi Brenner (Yirmiah Brenner)

City Councilman Domenic Recchia is dropping his bid, making state Sen. Eric Adams (D-Crown Heights) the overwhelming frontrunner. If elected, Adams would be the first ever African-American Brooklyn Borough President.

SUNY Chairman Carl McCall, in charge of deciding the fate of Long Island College Hospital, sees it as a money loser many locals don’t use. He suggested LICH is sucking the life out of SUNY Downstate Medical Center which it’s part of — and Downstate could run out of money as soon as March. Read more...

The expensive and lengthy cleanup of the Gowanus Canal will rid the waterway of dangerous contaminants, but it won’t make it clean enough for fishing. That was one of the takeaways at the EPA’s first public presentation of its proposal to clean the site, which is expected to cost roughly $500 million and be finished around 2022....

A dolphin became confused and ended up in probably one of the worst places in New York for an aquatic animal: the Gowanus Canal. The animal was spotted in the heavily polluted waterway on Friday morning, bringing curious onlookers from their homes out into the cold to watch the dolphin try to find it’s way...

The New York City Police Department has implemented its own form of gun control: high-tech scanners. The new technology will allow the NYPD to detect whether or not an individual is in possession of a concealed weapon. Read more at Brooklyn Daily Eagle

In the wake of new flood elevation maps released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday, the mayor’s office plans to issue an executive order later this week that will determine what homeowners will be required to do during rebuilding. Read more at NY1