Former Politics Reporter for Bklyner, covering Brooklyn politics and Crown Heights/PLG/Bed Stuy. @kadiagoba
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Meyer Junik, Mendy Junik and Errol Webley all helped to apprehend a stick-wielding Shervy Taylor on Monday. Photo Kadia Goba/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS – Several lawmakers came out to Crown Heights Tuesday to speak out against a recent attack on a Jewish man but the man that helped to detain the assailant
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFor the first time, some New York City voters can expect to use two pages when they go to bubble in their ballots for the November 6 election. Twenty days before the general election Board of Elections announced, during a live-streamed meeting on Tuesday, a modification to
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Photo: NYS SenateThe GOP leader who defended his decision to host the far-right group Proud Boys at his political club Friday also works for a Brooklyn Republican lawmaker who will not return calls about the event. The Chairman of the Metropolitan Republican Club, Ian Reilly, received at least 13 payments
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Brooklynites are heading to their local bodegas or liquor stores to pick up a Mega Millions ticket on Tuesday – in hopes of winning the $654 million jackpot — even though the odds are 1 in about 302,575,350 as of the time of publishing. This week’s jackpot is $2
Arts & Culture
Katie Merz mural on Flatbush Avenue and Fenimore (Photo: Kadia Goba/BKLYNER) PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDEN — Katie’s at it, again. The artist, Katie Merz, best known for her 80 Flatbush mural, is tagging all parts of Brooklyn. Less than a week ago, Merz was putting the finishing touches on a gate
community
A Prospect Heights Apartment building in the district the community is looking to landmark. Via Preserve Prospect Heights [https://www.preserveprospectheights.com/the-district]PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Community Board 8 voted in favor at it’s October 11 general meeting, to pursue a new landmark district designation in Prospect Heights they say
Crown Heights
Renditions of 991 St. Johns Pl. Plans provided by PKSB ArchitectsCROWN HEIGHTS — The New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee sent Workable St. Johns LLC and designers PKSB Architects back to the drawing board on Tuesday to revise the development project at St. Greggory the Great Roman Catholic Church. The Committee
News
EAST FLATBUSH — City Councilmen Chaim Deutsch and Jumaane Williams, on Thursday, requested the Department of Transportation take another look at Nostrand Avenue, which they believe could be improved. And they want the cops to get with the program on traffic enforcement. Their first request concerns Kings Highway and Nostrand Avenue
Central Brooklyn
Renderings of 409 Eastern Parkway at Bedford Avenue Credit: CRAFT CGCROWN HEIGHTS – A look at the new luxury apartments springing up seemingly everywhere these days, offers a sobering reality of the new Crown Heights. One of the latest additions is the 11-story building at 409 Eastern Parkway, on the corner
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State Sen. Mart Golden at the Dyker Heights Civic Association debate against Andrew Gounardes. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)DYKER HEIGHTS — This week State Sen. Marty Golden spoke out about the crash that led to the hospitalization of a 74-year-old woman in 2005. During a heated debate on Tuesday, at the
Police & Fire
EAST FLATBUSH — A self-proclaimed spiritual leader is held on several counts of rape and sexual misconduct after allegedly drugging two women during a “religious ceremony,” officials said. Nigel Kennedy, 51 of East Flatbush was arraigned Wednesday on 13 counts of first- and third-degree rape, first- and second degree of sexual
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The audience at a raucous debate between candidates running for state Assembly and Senatorial seats in Southern District. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)DYKER HEIGHTS — Southern Brooklyn residents lead with Child Victims Act at the heated debate between State Sen. Marty Golden and Andrew Gounardes Tuesday in Dyker Heights. The Dyker