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A classic billboard of a pink cat sat atop an Atlantic Avenue tire shop in 2018.

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The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur

May 19, 2025, 5:01 a.m.May 19, 2025, 12:55 p.m.

The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

Inside the El Paso Operation Busing Thousands of Migrants from Texas to NYC

Sept. 26, 2022, 5:30 a.m.March 14, 2024, 2:22 p.m.

Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, offers asylum-seekers who just crossed the Rio Grande a free bus ride out of town — as long as it’s to New York or Chicago. Police recently evicted an encampment of people who refused.