Former Politics Reporter for Bklyner, covering Brooklyn politics and Crown Heights/PLG/Bed Stuy. @kadiagoba
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A 1953 postage stamp for a mere three pennies. Those were the days, my friend. Source: U.S. Embassy The Hague / FlickrBROOKLYN – Forget fair hikes, stamps are increasing a nickel as of January 27, 2019. This increase marks the greatest hike since 1991 [https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/
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Source: Jeff Belmonte via Wikimedia CommonsBROOKLYN — Looking for someone to officiate your wedding? Consider your local state lawmaker. New York State Gov. Cuomo signed legislation to allow state legislatures the authority to officiate weddings. And they have to do it for free. The bill, S8298 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/
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Brooklyn — New York State Supreme Court Justice William C. Thompson Sr., the first African American state senator from Brooklyn died December 24, 2018. He was 94. Thompson served for 20 years on the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court [http://www.courts.state.ny.us/history/legal-history-new-york/history-legal-bench-appellate-02.
Central Brooklyn
Two-alarm fire at 220 Montgomery St. in Ebbets Field Building complex.CROWN HEIGHTS – Three people were injured on Wednesday after a fire scorched an apartment in the Ebbets Field apartment complex. New York City Fire Department responded to a call at 12:06 pm at 220 Montgomery St. Ebbets Field
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Fannie Pettie Watts (Photo: Screenshot Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. website) BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Fannie Pettie Watts, the co-founder of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority [http://zphib1920.org/], Inc., will have a street named for her in Bedford Stuyvesant. Lawmakers voted unanimously to honor the former Brooklynite by co-naming Decatur Street between
community
Renderings used in a presentation for Franklin Avenue Rezoning on 09/26/2018. The Lincoln/Continuum site of the old Spice Factory is to the bottom right with the tall chimney stack.CROWN HEIGHTS – City Council approved the Franklin Avenue Rezoning plan with Cornell Realty [http://cornellrealty.com/] Thursday after
Bay Ridge
8517 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge belongs to the 82nd worst landlord in New York City, according to the NYC Public Advocate’s office. Gounardes’ HQ was located on at the 86th street entrance (Photo: Google Maps screenshot)BAY RIDGE — Negotiating rent laws in Albany could be a problem if
Brooklyn Heights
A packed house for the Brooklyn Heights Public Advocate’s forum at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Candidates for New York City’s Public Advocate [https://advocate.nyc.gov/] position made an appearance in Brooklyn Tuesday night, jockeying for position as
east flatbush
Photo: New York State Senator’s websiteEAST FLATBUSH — State Sen. Parker told a Republican state staffer to “kill yourself!” then apologized and then went onto a tweet rant about the same person he told to die all within 63 minutes. The whole meltdown came after Deputy Communications Director Candice Giove
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An assortment of wood and metal nunchucks (Photo: Wikipedia)Remember nunchucks? Well, they’re legal again. DOWNTOWN — A federal court ruled a decades-old New York State ban on nunchucks is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment [https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment] of the U.S. Constitution. The Court
Central Brooklyn
Franklin Avenue RezoningCROWN HEIGHTS — The City Council Land Use Committee voted to approve the controversial Franklin Avenue Rezoning Plan [/franklin-avenue-rezoning-shadows-and-brooklyn-botanic-gardens-position/] on Thursday, December 13 after more than a year-long stalemate between developers and community activists. In what is now a 3-building project, the committee voted to approval overall 627 residential
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A Microscopic Look at the Measles Virus (Source: Center For Disease Control via Wikimedia Commons)Measles first broke out in Williamsburg back in October, spread to Borough Park in November, and there are recent cases in Bensonhurst and Marine Park, bringing the total to 42 cases. In an effort to
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Lakou Cafe at 195 Utica Avenue. The pastry and coffee shop is adding cocktails to the menu in 2019. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — A neighborhood café in Crown Heights is looking to add cocktails to their assortment of coffee and crepes next year. Lakou Café [https://www.lakoucafe.
Ditmas Park
Public Advocate Candidate Melissa Mark Viverito on the Q train platform at the Newkirk Avenue station in Flatbush (Photo credit: Perri Litton)FLATBUSH – The former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito [https://melissamarkviverito.com/] campaigned at the Newkirk Avenue train station on Friday morning for the New York City Public Advocate’s
Crown Heights
Inside Oholei Torah, a Crown Heights Yeshiva. (Photo credit: Rabbi Yossi Newfield)CROWN HEIGHTS — Young Advocates For Fair Education (YAFFED), a Manhattan organization looking to revise educational standards in ultra-Orthodox schools, celebrated the last day of Hanukkah in Brooklyn on Monday evening with a party and a panel discussion on
Business
Renovations on the way of the new Stocked Burger. (Photo credit: Matthew Fulton) CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After an electrical fire in 2016 shuttered their Vanderbilt Avenue business for 14 months, owners of Stocked Cafe [https://www.stockedbrooklyn.com/], Matthew Fulton and Lesley Covitz were filled with emotion over the