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“The Hunger Games” star

sated her appetite for culture by checking out a performanc­e of New World Stages’ “Church & State.” She stuck around afterwords for a discussion about gun control hosted by the President of Everytown for Gun Safety. The organizati­on was founded by former Mayor

who kicked in $50 million to get things started. Politico reported Monday that the organizati­on could pony up another $25 million fighting pro-gun candidates in the 2018 midterm elections.

Sare near an end. Historic Sunny’s bar is in danger of being booted out of the Red Hook, Brooklyn, locale it’s called home for more than 110 years if it can’t raise $50,000 by the end of July, according to Daily News columnist The salty saloon (photo) was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy and is being further threatened by the sort of real estate woes that have killed many a New York City bar. The bar’s owner, Sunny Balzano, died last year, and now his widow, fighting to keep the bar alive. Sunny’s has served the Red Hook neighborho­od under different names since the late 1800s and weathered every wave of New York gentrifica­tion, starting with longshorem­en and leading up to the mix of artists, locals and hipsters it draws today. To say the bar barely survived Sandy is an understate­ment. Johansen herself was trapped in the basement when the storm hit Oct. 29, 2012, causing $100,000 KEVIN HAGEN , is

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