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Cooper Union Protest (file/credit: CBS 2)

Cooper Union To Start Charging Tuition

In a letter posted on Cooper Union’s website, the board said it voted last week to only offer a 50 percent scholarship for undergraduate students beginning with the class entering in the fall of 2014. The school currently offers all students a full scholarship.

2013/04/23

Citi Bike Docking Station - New York, NY. (credit: Stan Brooks / 1010 WINS)

Some Brooklyn Residents Say Citi Bike Racks Amount To Intrusive Advertising

Some angry neighbors have plastered new Citi Bike stations in Brooklyn with messages saying they amount to intrusive examples of “advertising” and “commercial activity.”

2013/04/22

Kimani Gray, 16, was shot and killed by police on Saturday, March 9. (Credit: CBS 2)

Funeral Services Held For Kimani Gray, Teen Shot Dead By Police

Funeral services were held Saturday for Kimani Gray, the Brooklyn teenager who was shot and killed by police earlier this month in an incident that has sparked heated protests.

2013/03/23

Report: Officers Who Killed Kimani Gray Have History Of Complaints Against Them

Two police officers who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy on a street in East Flatbush Brooklyn have a history of being sued for civil rights violations, according to a published report.

2013/03/16

Carol Gray holds picture of son Kimani (credit: Al Jones/1010 WINS)

Mother Of Kimani Gray, Brooklyn Teen Shot By Police, Speaks Out

Protesters clashed with police during a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for 16-year-old Kimani “Kiki” Gray, who was shot and killed by police Saturday night after they said he pulled a .38 caliber gun on officers.

2013/03/14

Mother falcon circles as her chicks are banded 693-feet atop the Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Fort Hamilton in Bay Ridge is in the background. (credit: MTA)

Staten Island Residents Protest Against Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Toll

Staten Island residents on Saturday protested against the toll on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which has now reached $15.

2013/01/26

Damage inside the burnt US consulate building in Benghazi (Photo credit: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/GettyImages)

Opinion: Obama’s Security Breach In Libya Is Ignored By American Media

As the liberal American press and ultra-liberal bloggers inundate the Internet and newsprints with criticisms of what Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential challenger to President Barack Obama, said about Obama during the Libyan attacks and murders, throngs of foreign press and few American outlets tell the real story involved with the White House’s role in the incidents that we now know could have been prevented.

2012/09/17

Anti-American Protests in the Middle East (Credit: CBS 2)

Man Believed To Have Made Anti-Islamic Film Questioned; Egyptian Police Clear Out Protesters

A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff’s station, but was not arrested or detained, authorities said early on Saturday.

2012/09/15

Trash piles up in the city (credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Upper East Side Residents Rally Against Proposed Trash Terminal On 91st Street

Dozens of residents rallied against the proposed trash terminal on Saturday, wearing T-shirts that read, “Don’t treat New Yorkers like trash!” and chanting, “Dump the dump!”

2012/05/19

Rallies Take Place In Hempstead, Hartford In Support Of Trayvon Martin

Activists in Hartford are holding a rally today to call for justice in the killing of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer. A rally is also taking place in Hempstead on Long Island in support of the victim.

2012/03/31

Protesters demonstrate at a rally for slain teenager Trayvon Martin on March 22, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Al Sharpton: “Wave Of Civil Disobedience” Planned To Protest Fla Teen’s Death

Activists are planning “a wave of civil disobedience” to protest the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday.

2012/03/25

Thousands Gather At Union Square To Voice Concerns Against Wars

Thousands attended an anti-war rally at Union Square on Saturday.

2011/04/09

Activists Call For Indian Point Nuclear Complex’s Closure

The ongoing disaster in Japan has renewed efforts by activists to shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Complex. Activists will gather at Union Square on Saturday to call for the plant to be shut down.

2011/04/02

A protester is arrested by a New York State Police officer at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. More than 100 protesters blocked stairs and corridors protesting proposed cuts in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, and several were arrested. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Protesters Block Stairs, Halls In NY Capitol

More than 100 protesters chanting opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to cut program funding for the poor while giving tax breaks to the rich blocked central stairs and hallways in the Capitol for an hour Wednesday afternoon.

2011/03/02