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The head of the city's PBA on Tuesday blasted what he says is anti-police rhetoric in the wake of the death of Eric Garner last month and urged officers out on the street to be cautious.

In the wake of Eric Garner's death, the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board says it's investigating chokehold claims across the city.

Now that the city's Department of Education has been given millions of dollars to re-energize arts education in public schools, Inside City Hall asked Courtney Boddie, Director of Education and School Engagement at The New Victory Theater; Eric Pryor, Executive Director of the Center for Arts Education; and Russell Granet, Executive Director at Lincoln Center Education how they think the money should be spent.

The NY1 Wise Guys, U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman and former Congressman Anthony Weiner discussed the fight between police unions and activists over the deadly confrontation between officers and Eric Garner and if Mayor Bill de Blasio is doing enough to tamp down the outrage on both sides over the incident.

Meanwhile, yet another video has surfaced showing an arrest that turns physical-only in this video, the officer turns his aggression on the cameraman in an episode that highlights the increasing tension between the NYPD and those who seek to record police encounters.

Two months after the de Blasio administration formally submitted its proposal to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn in 2016, details have not been released about what kind of host the city would be, even as representatives from the national committee are scheduled for a site visit next week.

Jazz musician Kenny Garrett came to play at the Montreal Jazzfest recently, and in his latest Sound Advice report, Eric Holland sat down with Garrett as the musician talked about his latest album and reflected on the jazz greats that paved the way for his career.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is known for works like "Our Lady Of 121st Street," "Jesus Hopped the A Train," and the Tony nominated play with an explicit title-we'll just call it, "The [blank] With the Hat." This past week, the Atlantic Theatre Company debuted a new work from Guirgis called, "Between Riverside and Crazy."

Bari Weiss of The Wall Street Journal reports on newly released book titles and the world of publishing in "The Book Reader."

Today's recipe is for fried squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta cheese.

The owner of a defunct Florida clinic accused of providing performance enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez has surrendered to federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents.

Keke Palmer will soon be the first African-American to play Cinderella on Broadway, making her Broadway debut in "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."

Any business, organization or person with an address in one of the five boroughs can apply for a .nyc web domain before the domain goes live on October 8.

The fire department says an overloaded power strip sparked a deadly fire in Brooklyn over the weekend.

The city Health Department says a patient at Mount Sinai being tested for Ebola is doing well while doctors remain confident he does not have the virus as they await official test results.

A worker is dead following a construction accident near the base of the Throgs Neck Bridge.

The city Parks Department on Tuesday cut the ribbon on a $6 million track and field facility in Soundview Park.

A Marist College poll released Tuesday gives Governor Andrew Cuomo 54 percent of the vote, while his Republican challenger, Rob Astorino, has 23 percent.

The head of the city's PBA on Tuesday blasted what he says is anti-police rhetoric in the wake of the death of Eric Garner last month and urged officers out on the street to be cautious.

A Queens neighborhood ravaged by Hurricane Sandy has been awarded a multi-million dollar federal grant to help with the recovery.