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Max Rose. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Congressman Jerry Nadler (Brooklyn/Manhattan) who Chairs the House Judiciary Committee may be best known for theArticles of Impeachment [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/10/us/politics/articles-impeachment-document-pdf.html] that were approved this morning by the committee along partisan lines with 23
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Credit: Alloy DevelopmentForget gas, they’re going electric! Alloy Development announced yesterday that 100 Flatbush, the first tower of its planned massive [/save-our-sunlight-protesters-rally-against-alloys-shadow-casting-towers/] 80 Flatbush project [/demolition-permits-80-flatbush/] in Downtown Brooklyn, will be 100% electric – the first of its kind in the city. And it’s developer says it’s time
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CAMPLooking for something to do with the little ones on a blistery cold day? Check out CAMP at City Point [https://camp.com/locations/5-brooklyn] in downtown Brooklyn. CAMP started in Manhattan last year as a seasonally rotating magical toy store and has since expanded to a few new locations,
Education
In response to our reporting from last week on how local high school students have been wreaking havoc in the neighborhood [/lincoln-high-school-students-brighton-beach/], Councilmember Mark Treyger shared today that he met with the leadership at the schools, as well as the 60th Precinct this morning and that there is both, an
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Thankful for the kindness and generosity of strangers. Liena Zagare/BklynerFall is the season to celebrate, to share kindness, to be grateful for what we have. I wanted to say Thank You to our readers and especially our subscribers, who make our work possible. We at Bklyner are impressed daily
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SJ Baren [https://unsplash.com/@sjbaren?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=photographer-credit&utm_content=creditBadge] Happy almost Thanksgiving! We are so close! Every year for the past 7, with the help of our readers we have raised $10,000+ for CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Food Pantry [https://www.
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SJ Baren [https://unsplash.com/@sjbaren?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=photographer-credit&utm_content=creditBadge] Somewhere out there is a turkey hoping President Trump will be in a kind, forgiving mood this week.What else is happening: * * * * Yasiin Bey’s ‘Negus’ Exhibit Championed By Q-Tip, Dave Chappelle And
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Brooklyn bread line, or – 300 stories to be told. Liena Zagare/Bklyner“School board and city council meetings are going uncovered. Overstretched reporters receive promising tips about stories but have no time to follow up,” Julie Bosman wrote in the New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/
Announcements
Dr. Melony Samuels, the executive director of The Campaign Against Hunger, center with supporters.This holiday season, Brooklyn Community Foundation wants to prove that Brooklyn isn’t just New York City’s largest or hippest borough, it is also its most generous. The Foundation’s #BrooklynGives campaign [http://www.brooklyngives.
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One South towers over Williamsburg. Liena Zagare/BklynerOne South First/10 Grand is a building designed to play in the sun. The interlocking towers play with shadows, using architectural treatments resembling sugar cubes, and they play with uses, residential and commercial towers sharing co-working amenities and meeting spaces. Developed by
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CAMBA volunteersEvery November we have been asking you, our readers, to open your hearts and your wallets and to give as much as you can to help those less fortunate in Brooklyn. This year, as for the last 6 years, we are raising money for CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Emergency
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Giorgi Koguashvili at FIAO in Bensonhurst. Photo by Eli Smith/BklynerWhen Giorgi Koguashvili was a six-year-old in post-Soviet Georgia, his uncle bought him a copy of Space Jam, now best-remembered by everyone else as the cringeworthy crossover of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. For Koguashvili, the movie was life-changing: “I