While the TV and still cameras crowded in, the chairman of the committee, Ike Skelton, allowed all the members of the committee with the least seniority to ask their questions first, perhaps a tip of the hat to the wave of new Democratic lawmakers elected last fall.

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The residential buildings use the same materials as the arena, and their lower levels have the same copper hue, a hat-tip to the brownstones of nearby Prospect Heights and Fort Greene.

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