Central Brooklyn
Retaining wall along tracks. Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATED: As of Monday morning, it seems DOB had no idea that the walls were the property of the NYC TransitAuthority – see the letter here DOB sent to NYC Transit [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6544387-Cid-EF689545-71C2-44F3-9816-DF8CFCEBC6F9-1.html] . Homeowners can sleep easier tonight. Assemblyman William
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Marathon signage Atlantic Mall. Liena Zagare/BklynerGet ready for the 49th New York Marathon on Sunday, November 3. The marathon starts on the other side of the Verrazano bridge (closed 7am -3pm), but the longest stretch of the races goes through Brooklyn, running along 4th Avenue, then Lafayette Avenue before
Central Brooklyn
Unveiling of the Malbone Centennial Way. Liena Zagare/BklynerOn November 1, 1918, an accident so horrific took place in Central Brooklyn, that a street was renamed to wipe it off the memory. A hundred years later, a plaque has been unveiled to tell the story of the event that led
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Photo bySamantha Gades [https://unsplash.com/@srosinger3997?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/clock?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] .Two things on your to-do list this weekend — sleep in on Sunday, as daylight
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* Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and the Questioning of an American Jew’s Patriotism. [https://www.gq.com/story/alexander-vindman-immigrants-america] Julia Ioffe writes for GQ on the immigrant experience of Soviet Jews – Alexander Vindman and his identical twin brother grew up in Brighton Beach [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/
Central Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn is Booming. Liena Zagare/Bklyner * Pix 11 reports one woman says she suffered a serious assault at the Flatbush Zombie House. Now, she’s not the only one coming forward. [https://pix11.com/2019/10/08/woman-says-she-was-brutally-assaulted-at-brooklyn-bar/] * Troubled non-profit gets a payout in the flip of a Bed-Stuy
Central Brooklyn
Police car parked at the crime scene on E19th.FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – Wednesday lunchtime, October 23, around 12:30 pm, police responded to a 911 call, and arrived to find a man in front of 116 East 19th Street with a stab wound on his torso. He was taken to
Police & Fire
Warning: video is hard to watch. It shows an altercation on a platform at the DeKalb stop last night around 7:20pm. A man shoves a random passenger waiting for a train unprovoked into the train. The woman almost flies into the train landing head first with a loud thud.
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Parachute Literary Art from their Coney Island Walt Whitman event. Courtesy of Citizens Committee for New York City.There are so many neighborhood improvement projects that can be done with a handful of folks rolling up their sleeves and getting to work. A bit of hard cash always helps, whether
East New York
On Sunday, October 20 shortly after 9, police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision near Cozine Avenue and Montauk Avenue [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cozine+Ave+%26+Montauk+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11208/@40.6609075,-73.8718894,77a,35y,71.92h,39.61t/data=!3m1!
midwood
Sheryl Augustine, 66, of New Paltz was crossing Ocean Ave. at Emmons Ave. just before 5pm on October 16, when a driver made a right turn from Emmons onto Ocean Ave. and struck her, killing her, and making her the fourth elderly resident to be killed in Sheepshead Bay this
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MoCADA’s ‘Spread Love’ mural [/mocada-mural-reminds-brooklynites-to-take-it-easy/] by Patrick Dougher (Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Brooklynite Maya Wiley [https://twitter.com/mayawiley], most recently MNBC Legal analyst, New School Professor, Former CCRB Chair and head of the Mayor’s School Diversity Panel that came out with suggestions on how to integrate the school