I.S. 285 Mural Honors Brooklyn Dodgers And Jackie Robinson
By Neil S. Friedman
      Former Brooklyn Dodgers hurler Ralph Branca was a special guest Tuesday morning to help unveil a student-designed mural, at Meyer Levin Intermediate School 285, inspired by baseball and Dodger legend Jackie Robinson.
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Old Mill Basin Residents Balk At Home-Based House Of Worship
Charles Rogers
      Some homeowners in the Old Mill Basin area have complained that a synagogue has recently been located in a private home on East 64th Street and it is affecting their quality of life.
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Veteran School Crossing Guard Retires After 22 Years
      By Neil S. Friedman For more than 22 years, Dorothy Helmes worked outdoors in all kinds of weather. In fact the unofficial postal worker's creed - neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds - is also aprop...
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