"Twenty MPH Is Plenty"

Motivated by recent pedestrian deaths and statistics showing that those deaths could have been prevented by a lower speed limit, a group of safe streets activists, led by the organization Right of Way, changed
the speed limit along Park Slope West this weekend by hanging their own "20 MPH Is Plenty" signs.

One of their signs was posted at the intersection where 12-year-old Sammy Cohen

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A Wedge Opening in Brooklyn's Ultra-Orthodox Community?

Last month, when Democrat Ken Thompson, running to unseat
longtime incumbent Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes, won the endorsement of Democratic State Assembly Member Dov Hikind, who represents the overwhelmingly Orthodox
Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, the Hynes campaign took notice.

Hikind is a power broker
in the Orthodox Jewish community, which has traditionally voted en bloc and has been

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