Former Politics Reporter for Bklyner, covering Brooklyn politics and Crown Heights/PLG/Bed Stuy. @kadiagoba
Borough Park
BROOKLYN – Voters were in a well-deserved tizzy this morning around 9:30 am when all of the scanners at one Crown Heights polling site went down. A long line of voters was instructed to drop their ballots into boxes at PS 22 inside 443 St. Marks Ave. this morning because
News
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Dozens of voters looking to cast their ballot Downtown Brooklyn were met with shut doors this morning at one of the boroughs most active voting sites. Brooklyn resident Faiza Chowderman said she and her husband arrived to the closed polling site at Urban Assembly School of Law and
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Election time is here! The General Election will be held tomorrow, November 6. Doors will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. If you are registered and eligible to vote, please do! Find out where your polling site is with this locator [https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search]
Downtown Brooklyn
Congress members Joe Crowley, Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clarke, Assemblymember Walter Mosley and Congresswoman Carolyn MaloneyDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN— Members of the congressional delegation announced Monday, November 5, a bill to honor Shirley Chisholm, who 50 years ago was elected to Congress on this day. U.S. Representatives Hakeem Jeffries introduced bill H.
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via FBBAY RIDge – Andrew Gournardes is looking to unseat long-time State Sen. Marty Golden of the 22nd State Senate District in Southern Brooklyn. The area includes the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend and parts of Sheepshead Bay, Borough Park and Midwood. Gounardes was
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State Sen. Marty Golden and Andrew GounardesBAY RIDGE – Nearing the home stretch of the election cycle and things couldn’t be more entertaining in the race for the District 22 State Senate seat in Southern Brooklyn. A Twitter account posing as State Sen. Marty Golden (@Marty4Senate is not his official
Neighbors
Police at the Union Temple of BrooklynPROSPECT HEIGHTS — Someone wrote anti-semitic messages, inside the Union Temple of Brooklyn at 17 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights near Grand Army Plaza. The temple was about to host a political event by Ilana Glazer of “Broad City”, which was canceled as the result.
Central Brooklyn
Subway car from the 1918 Malbone wreck.CreditNew York Transit MuseumPROSPECT HEIGHTS—Lawmakers and transit officials gathered outside the Willink Plaza Entrance of Prospect Park Thursday to remember the worst subway accident in New York’s history-the Malbone Street wreck [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/nyregion/100-years-after-new-yorks-deadliest-subway-crash.html]
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State Sen. Marty Golden Photo credit: Campaign office of Marty GoldenBAY RIDGE – State Sen. Marty Golden is looking to serve a ninth consecutive term as state senator of the 22nd Senate District in Southern Brooklyn. The area includes the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach,
Bed Stuy
The New York City Campaign Finance Board posted regrets Wednesday after not updating their Voter Guide to reflect an executive order restoring the voting rights of some previously incarcerated voters. On page 15 of the 2018 Voter Guide (English), a response to whether a convicted felon can vote reads, “If
Animals
Meadow Brooks and her 3-year-old chihuahua-terrier mix at the dog park at a new shelter for domestic violence survivors in Brooklyn.BROOKLYN – When Meadow Brooks* left her abusive partner in Houston, she found refuge for all but one of her family members — Honey*, a 14-pound Chihuahua-terrier mix. With few pet-friendly
Announcements
No Electioneering. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe city announced they’ll provide language interpreters at 86 polling sites throughout Brooklyn, but the translators will be left out in the cold again this year. Voters whose native language is Russian, Haitian Creole, Italian, Arabic, Polish, and Yiddish will have to seek interpreter services