Events
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Announcements
CENTRAL BROOKLYN – Parents across Brooklyn have been working for years with local schools to make school lunches available to their children [/after-hundreds-of-petition-signatures-lobbying-for-community-support-parents-win-battle-for-a-healthier-menu-at-ps-217-ditmas-park/] who follow kosher or halal diets at home. We wrote back in 2015, about parents at PS217, a large, diverse elementary school on Coney Island Avenue, who won
Announcements
The mob drama called “The Kitchen” is filming around Avenue U, 86th, West 12th – a number of blocks have been blocked off by the cones in the area. Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss, play the wives of jailed Irish gangsters. After their husbands get locked up, the wives
Announcements
Gravesend – Another grocery store is opening this week – this one at 1949 Stillwell Avenue [https://www.google.com/search?q=1949+Stillwell+Avenue&oq=1949+Stillwell+Avenue&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.390j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8] between Avenues S and T on June 22nd, bringing back a
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Sheepshead Bay – The much-anticipated NetCost Market on Ocean Avenue just south of Voorhies opened yesterday. This is the first 24/7 grocery store concept for NetCost Market chain, which has a number of stores across southern Brooklyn and beyond, serving mostly the large Eastern European and former Soviet Union diaspora
Announcements
FLATBUSH, CROWN HEIGHTS, PARK SLOPE – we have a congressional race this year in District 9, currently represented by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, and the only election date that matters is next week, June 26th. The winner of the Democratic Primary is almost guaranteed victory in November in this heavily Democratic district.
Announcements
FLATBUSH – This past Saturday, June 16th, Sears and Kmart unveiled a new “store-in-a-store” format—a Kmart Convenience store located inside the Sears’ landmarked Brooklyn location [/sears-is-now-a-landmark-ditmas-park/] at 2307 Beverley Road (behind Kings Theater). At 10,000 square feet, the new Kmart convenience store is small for the retailer and focuses
Animals
MARINE PARK – Infant mosquito killing will commence in select areas across the city on Tuesday, June 19, and continue through Thursday, June 21 between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., weather permitting. The city will apply a larvicide called VectoMax® FG, which contains naturally occurring bacteria
Downtown Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN – Around 6 pm yesterday, hundreds of residents were gathered outside the city hall to oppose President Trump’s recent policy [https://actionnetwork.org/events/families-belong-together-brooklyn-2] separating children from parents who have entered the country without proper papers, pending immigration hearings. > Big crowd our at Brooklyn Borough Hall to
Announcements
Michael Grimm (Left) and Dan Donovan (Right)BAY RIDGE – Tonight at 7 pm tune in to watch Congressman Dan Donovan and convicted felon Michael Grimm debate at College of Staten Island – broadcast live on NY1. It should be interesting. Congressional primaries are on June 26th. We are just hours from
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FLATBUSH/CROWN HEIGHTS/SHEEPSHEAD – If you live in the 9th Congressional District, currently represented by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, whether she will remain your congresswoman will be decided on June 26th at the Democratic Primaries. Yes, the general election is not until November 6, but in this heavily Democratic area, whoever
Big Story
FLATBUSH – The job representing residents in the New York City Council comes with a paycheck of $148,500 annually, up from $112,500 before it was last raised in February 2016, in exchange for council members giving up all outside income. Now that may not be much in Manhattan, but