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Nov
12
Pitch In To Help Our Neighbors

Pitch In To Help Our Neighbors

CAMBA volunteersEvery November we have been asking you, our readers, to open your hearts and your wallets and to give
2 min read
Nov
08
Coach Gio’s Unlikely Basketball Journey From Tbilisi To Brooklyn

Coach Gio’s Unlikely Basketball Journey From Tbilisi To Brooklyn

Giorgi Koguashvili at FIAO in Bensonhurst. Photo by Eli Smith/BklynerWhen Giorgi Koguashvili was a six-year-old in post-Soviet Georgia, his
4 min read
Nov
08
Retaining Walls: A Case Of Mistaken Ownership For DOB?

Retaining Walls: A Case Of Mistaken Ownership For DOB?

Retaining wall along tracks. Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATED: As of Monday morning, it seems DOB had no idea that the walls
2 min read
Nov
01
New York Marathon Is This Weekend

New York Marathon Is This Weekend

Marathon signage Atlantic Mall. Liena Zagare/BklynerGet ready for the 49th New York Marathon on Sunday, November 3. The marathon
1 min read
Nov
01
Never Forget: 101 Years After The Worst Subway Crash in NYC History, Malbone Wreck Finally Gets Memorialized

Never Forget: 101 Years After The Worst Subway Crash in NYC History, Malbone Wreck Finally Gets Memorialized

Unveiling of the Malbone Centennial Way. Liena Zagare/BklynerOn November 1, 1918, an accident so horrific took place in Central
3 min read
Nov
01
Remember to Reset Clocks, Change Batteries in Smoke Detectors, Get LED Lights for Your Bicycle

Remember to Reset Clocks, Change Batteries in Smoke Detectors, Get LED Lights for Your Bicycle

Photo bySamantha Gades [https://unsplash.com/@srosinger3997?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https:
1 min read
Oct
30
Questioning Patriotism, Peter Luger’s Worth, Fairway For Sale, Streets, Garbage, and other stories

Questioning Patriotism, Peter Luger’s Worth, Fairway For Sale, Streets, Garbage, and other stories

* Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and the Questioning of an American Jew’s Patriotism. [https://www.gq.com/story/alexander-vindman-immigrants-america] Julia
1 min read
Oct
25
Others’ News: Hasidim Are Not Aliens, Plans To Ban Chopper Traffic, Who Slowed The Bus, Assaults At A Flatbush Bar and more

Others’ News: Hasidim Are Not Aliens, Plans To Ban Chopper Traffic, Who Slowed The Bus, Assaults At A Flatbush Bar and more

Downtown Brooklyn is Booming. Liena Zagare/Bklyner * Pix 11 reports one woman says she suffered a serious assault at the
1 min read
Oct
24
Artist Stabbed To Death On East 19th Street

Artist Stabbed To Death On East 19th Street

Police car parked at the crime scene on E19th.FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – Wednesday lunchtime, October 23, around 12:30 pm,
1 min read
Oct
24
Angry, Random, Subway Attack Last Night At DeKalb Station

Angry, Random, Subway Attack Last Night At DeKalb Station

Warning: video is hard to watch. It shows an altercation on a platform at the DeKalb stop last night around
1 min read