Ditmas Park
FLATBUSH – Mayor de Blasio delivered his big annual State of the City speech at the Kings Theater on Flatbush Avenue last night. He got down to business around 8:00 pm, saying that “there is a point at which extreme inequality makes a mockery of a democratic society”, and that
Announcements
FLATBUSH – The Mayor will deliver his 5th State of the City at the Kings Theater on Flatbush Avenue tonight at 7:00pm, and the theme is “Making New York America’s Fairest Big City”. The Mayor previewed the event on NY1 last night [http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/
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Vic Damone in 1959, By Columbia Records – Public Domain [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16814650]BATH BEACH/BENSONHURST – Singer Vic Damone, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/obituaries/vic-damone-singer-dies.html] aka Vito Farinola of Bensonhurst, died last Sunday in Miami Beach at age 89, various news
Big Story
FLATBUSH – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is denouncing the “insidious practices” that forced an octogenarian, Joy Noel, out of her home — and calling on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate a charity operated by the landlord who evicted Ms. Noel before her death last week. Adams said he is also
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BENSONHURST/BATH BEACH – About three weeks ago, Em [http://www.em-restaurant.com/], a new Vietnamese restaurant quietly opened at 1702 86th Street. The bright, friendly space is the creation of Partick Lin, his wife Thi Ly Nguyen, and Ricky Hu, and showcases Ly’s recipes – a fusion of Chinese and
Big Story
Ms. Joy Noel after a hearing at the Housing Court, fall of 2017. Photo by Aga Troyniak.FLATBUSH – Joy Pearl Noel, 85, died on January 31st at a nursing home in Brighton Beach. Ms. Noel, a beloved resident of East 21st Street, died homeless. In fact, her friends and neighbors
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn School of Inquiry & TAOTS that are co-located at this building both made the list this year.The New York State Education Department has announced its Reward Schools – 155 high achieving and high progress schools across the state. Brooklyn is home to 23 of them. Reward Schools recognize both,
Announcements
If you own a house in Brooklyn, you received this week a notice of your property’s value from the City. It likely went up. Likely, your property taxes did too. The value city assigns to your property forms the basis of tax calculations, which notoriously penalize those living in
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE – Can you tell which was made by a 5th grader, and which by an established local artist? Can you spot emerging talent? This Saturday, a Mystery Art Exhibition & Sale will take place from 12-3 in the PS107 Cafeteria. This unique take on a school fundraiser will display
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MIDWOOD – It was announced at the school yesterday, and a letter from the principal was posted on the school’s website today [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZagicZNLiDNkWqXQ2wNUfqQOvKgcUbk/view] announcing retirement of longtime Principal Susan Schaeffer. Principal Schaeffer in an undated photo from IS234.“My time at this wonderful
Announcements
BRIGHTON BEACH – Rybak Development, the folks behind the Vue on Emmons, have released a rendering of what their proposed new tower at 271 Sea Breeze Avenue, [https://www.google.com/maps/place/271+Sea+Breeze+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11224/@40.5759024,-73.9713877,3a,90y,10.03h,92.9t/data=
Bensonhurst
BENSONHURST – “We have all seen it time and again in our communities: the Department of Transportation resurfaces our streets, only for a utility company to rip up the street a couple of weeks later in order to perform work. The process is inefficient, and residents are left inconvenienced,” Council Member