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Norwood: Two Sought for Slashing of Teen

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the two people seen in the attached photos who they say are wanted in connection with a robbery that occurred in Norwood.

Kingsbridge Heights: Man Sought for Slashing Incident

By by SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the person seen in the attached photos and video who they say is sought in connection to an assault that occurred in Kingsbridge Heights. 

NYS Assembly Passes Legislation to Restrict the Use of Harmful Chemicals in Menstrual Products

By SÍLE MOLONEY
NYS Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (A.D. 83) and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal (A.D. 67) announced on Thursday, March 27, the passage of a new law (A.1502, Rosenthal) earlier this week that makes menstrual products safer by restricting the inclusion of certain chemicals like lead, mercury and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), among others, in their production.

UPDATE Danielle Guggenheim Petitions to Run in Council District 11

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Petitioning is underway for those seeking to get on the electoral ballot to become candidates in the upcoming June primaries in New York City, and Danielle Herbert Guggenheim, a self-described, single mother, Black and Caribbean American who has served 25 years with the City’s Board of Education, and has tutored children with special needs, is among them.

UPDATE Norwood: Second Ceiling Collapse reported on Dekalb Avenue

By DAVID GREENE
For the second time in two months, firefighters were called to a second Dekalb Avenue building in Norwood for a report of a ceiling collapse. In the latest incident, Jumratan Inshanali, a 33-year resident of 3561 Dekalb Avenue, said she was sitting in her bedroom with her home health aide on Monday, March 10, when water started to pour out of her ceiling and into her first-floor apartment.