Days after an especially bloody weekend in the city, during which four teenage boys were shot, three of them fatally, Governor Cuomo traveled to an east Brooklyn neighborhood long bedeviled by lethal violence to unveil jobs and community-service programs intended to quell the gunplay.
The centerpiece initiative envisions the creation of about 4,400 jobs, nearly 2,400 of them long-term opportunities, all of them designed to engage young people most at risk of contending with violent crime.
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