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RESCHEDULED: Celebrate The Year Of The (Fire) Monkey At Sunset Park’s Lunar New Year Parade Sunday

(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and loveable, with an unruly temper and snotty attitude. This year the moon is in their house. Join the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration this Sunday, February 21st along Eighth Avenue, the borderline between

Celebrate The Year Of The (Fire) Monkey At Sunset Park’s Lunar New Year Parade

(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Update [February 13, 11pm]: The parade has been postponed until Sunday, February 21 because of extreme weather [/blog/announcements/a-weekend-of-sub-zero-wind-chills-tips-to-stay-warm-and-safe/] headed our way. Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and loveable, with an unruly temper and snotty attitude. This year

Celebrate The Year Of The (Fire) Monkey At Sunset Park’s Lunar New Year Parade [Update: Postponed]

(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Update [February 13, 7pm]: The parade has been postponed until Sunday, February 21 because of extreme weather [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/02/31910/#.Vr_EnZMrKT8]headed our way. Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and lovable, with an unruly

Celebrate The Year Of The (Fire) Monkey At Sunset Park’s Lunar New Year Parade [Update: Postponed]

(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Update [February 13, 7pm]: The parade has been postponed until Sunday, February 21 because of extreme weather [/31910/#.Vr_EnZMrKT8]headed our way. Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and loveable, with an unruly temper and snotty attitude. This year

66th Precinct Stats 2015: Arrests Up, Felonies Down, Sexual Assaults Surge

66th Precinct Captain Kenneth Quick (Photo by Jole Carliner)There was good news and bad news to share with residents of Borough Park, Kensington and Midwood at last week’s NYPD 66th Precinct meeting. Last Thursday — at the first Community Council meeting of 2016 — Captain Kenneth Quick crunched recently released

Precinct Crime At Record Low, Cops Celebrate With Italian Sandwich Feast

Capt Kenneth Quick, 66 Precinct Commander, reviewing the meeting’s agenda with Council President Mark Katz, Treasurer Kazi Hossain, and Vice President Felix Burgos, Jr. (Photo by Jole Carliner/Kensington BK)The 66 Precinct Community Council held their last meeting of the year Thursday, December 19 at Community Board 12’

Kensington Awash In Generous Holiday Spirit As The Shelter Hits A Nerve

It‘s the week of Christmas and all through The Kensington, eight families are stirring in their brand, new house. The rooms are freshly painted, though many are still empty. Everything is strange and missing that cozy familiarity of Christmas at home. Along comes the NYPD 66 Precinct, in the

The 66th Precinct Community Council Meeting Is Thursday

Capt. Quick talking with Brooklyn DAs at a recent Precinct Community Council meeting. (Photo by Kensington BK)Get your questions ready for the monthly 66th Precinct Community Council meeting at 7:30pm this Thursday, November 12, at Community Board 12’s office, 5910 13th Avenue. The invitation requests—nay, encourages

Park Designs, Lander Finances, And CB 12 Approves Restoration of Dome Playground’s Courts

Last Wednesday, October 24th, Community Board 12 members unanimously approved NYC Deptartment of Parks and Recreation’s plans for a $1 million Phase 2, [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dome-playground/pressrelease/21300]renovation of Dome Playground’s [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dome-playground/pressrelease/21300] Courts [http://www.nycgovparks.org/

13th Avenue Explosion Fallout, A Crime Update, And More At 66th Precinct Community Council Meeting

PO Dominick Ciaravino, June Cop of the Month. (Photo by Jole Carliner/Kensington BK)The 66th Precinct has reopened 13th Avenue between 42nd and 43rd streets to traffic but the memory of the explosion on October 3 that blew the front off of a three-story building, killing two and injuring