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Uptown advocates said drastic budget cuts to after school and childcare programs are devestating. 

The Neighborhood School in the East Village is raising $40,000 for its library.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented his preliminary plan for the 2013 fiscal year on Thursday.

The city will lose about 200 programs serving about 27,000 children next fall, officials said.

The East Village's 10009 zip code is no longer ranked as a high-need area, city records show.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said the city schools are not as overcrowded as critics fear.

The City Council voted Tuesday to sue the Bloomberg administration to halt a new homeless intake policy.

Many soup kitchens and food pantries across the city have been struggling to meet "near record level" needs while their budgets are shrinking.  

The city's latest budget revision includes 250 additional layoffs by the end of June, as the city continues to tighten its fiscal belt.

The Department of Education declined a request to ease overcrowding at Kips Bay's P.S. 116, but parents vowed to keep fighting.

Activists braved the blustery rain on Wednesday night to protest budget cuts that they say will deprive the city of much-needed shelter beds for homeless youths.

Many middle schools are struggling to fill a $4,000 gap in funding after the city cut funds for after-school sports coaches' salaries at the last minute.

Six donations of $250,000, including one from Mayor Bloomberg, were collected to restore next January's Regents exams, which had been cut by the state.

Students berated the CUNY Board of Trustees after it voted to approve tuition increases beginning this fall.

More than 1,600 new police recruits - the largest class since 2006 - took the oath of office in Brooklyn Wednesday.