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Evacuation Zones Changed, a Gas Bill Strike, Child Predators, and Park Renovation
It's Hurricane Season, And Evacuation Zones Have Been Changed
June also brings the beginning of the Hurricane season, which runs through the end of November, and this year it is promising to be worse than usual. A summary infographic showing hurricane season probability and numbers of named storms predicted from NOAA's 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook.(NOAA)
Ribbon Cut To Celebrate Bensonhurst Park Playground's Renovation
Bensonhurst Park Playground after renovation. June 1, 2021. NYC Parks / Malcolm Pinckney [https://nycparks.photoshelter.com/galleries/C0000LVTPbtHdDJ0/G0000ZHs4f5GOsqE/Media-Bensonhurst-Park-Playground] The Bensonhurst Park Playground has been completely redone [https://bklyner.ghost.io/ghost/#/editor/post/60ab6f57a661ff003bbe797d/], and community has been able to enjoy the park’s new play equipment, swings,
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Preying On Children, Two Deadly Crashes, and Other Deaths
This week brings somewhat unusual crime reports. The NYPD is looking for two men that have been luring children over the last week, reporting three incidents in Brownsville/Ocean Hill and one in Sheepshead Bay. Two men died in deadly crashes on Atlantic Avenue - one was a pedestrian, the
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Disabled People Lived In Squalor for Years In A Dickensian Adult Home in Ditmas Park
Park Manor Home for Adults, 570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK -When the front door of the run-down building that had been home to Park Manor Home for Adults since at least 1983 was suddenly padlocked last April [https://bklyner.com/park-manor-adult-home-closed-good/], it took the
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Remember to Vote in Congressional Primaries Tomorrow
If you live in Bay Ridge (Congressional District 11), Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Brownsville, PLG, Flatbush, Midwood, Sheepshead, Gerritsen Beach, Marine Park – Congressional District 9 – Tuesday, June 26th is Primary Day. Historically very few eligible voters turn up – in D9 only 4% of registered Democrats voted last time
Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst Bean Joins BKLYNER
Dear friends and neighbors, As we welcome 2017, we will be starting a new phase of local news by merging Bensonhurst Bean and our other neighborhood news sites into one, large, Brooklyn-wide site — BKLYNER.com [http://bklyner.com] — under the stewardship of Donny Levit on the editorial and Dina Rabiner
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Sheepshead Bites Joins BKLYNER
Dear friends and neighbors, As we welcome 2017, we will be starting a new phase of local news by merging Sheepshead Bites and our other neighborhood news sites into one, large, Brooklyn-wide site — BKLYNER.com [http://bklyner.com] — under the stewardship of Donny Levit on the editorial and Dina Rabiner
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Sunset Park Voice Joins BKLYNER
Dear friends and neighbors, As we welcome 2017, we will be starting a new phase of local news by merging Sunset Park Voice and our other neighborhood news sites into one, large, Brooklyn-wide site — BKLYNER.com [http://bklyner.com] — under the stewardship of Donny Levit on the editorial and Dina
Central Brooklyn
Ditmas Park Corner Joins BKLYNER
Dear friends and neighbors, As we welcome 2017, we will be starting a new phase of local news by merging Ditmas Park Corner and our other neighborhood news sites into one, large, Brooklyn wide site — BKLYNER.com [http://bklyner.com] — under the stewardship of Donny Levit on the editorial and