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If predictions hold, it will start snowing lightly in just about an hour or two, and by the end of the evening, there could be anywhere from 1-3″ of snow on the ground. So get those shovels ready! The City has issued warnings for the evening rush hour, saying that
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Our Attorney General Eric Schneiderman does not mess around. In response to today’s FCC vote, he just announced that he will lead a multistate lawsuit to stop the rollback of net neutrality: “The FCC’s vote to rip apart net neutrality is a blow to New York consumers, and
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Wheated, bar in the front, dining room in the back.Photo by Linda McKeeDITMAS PARK – Some super local food news. Starting this Friday, December 15th, the bar at Wheated [http://wheatedbrooklyn.com/] (905 Church Ave), which features an excellent and quite possibly – largest whiskey collection in Brooklyn will open at
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Tonight at sundown we marked the first of 8 nights of Hannukah. This festival of lights celebrates a miracle [http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102911/jewish/What-Is-Hanukkah.htm] , a day’s supply of oil that lasted seven more. It is celebrated by a special prayer, lighting
Central Brooklyn
Councilmember Mark Treyger (D, 47th) has been busy making our schools better and more equal for the kids. Today, the council approved his anti-bullying bill Intro 1757-A requiring Department of Education (DOE) to collect and report bullying data – student-to-student bullying, harassment, intimidation, or discrimination, bullying complaints – every six months, including
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Patty Suarez of Badlands with a client.PARK SLOPE – “Helping straight white men look less fascist was the last thing I thought I’d be doing when I started cutting hair at a queer-owned salon in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2014,” Patty Suarez [https://www.instagram.com/mrjulianray/] writes
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Dear neighbor, Over the years, you’ve come to rely on the reporting of BKLYNER, and so many of the neighborhood news sites we published before it – Ditmas Park Corner, Sheepshead Bites, Bensonhurst Bean, Park Slope Stoop, South Slope News, KensingtonBK, Sunset Park Voice, Fort Greene Focus. No one covers
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SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – Two Brooklyn men, Ruslan Reizin (50) and Mark Krivoi (54) were charged with extortion conspiracy this afternoon, in a case that reads like straight out of a crime novel. According to the court filings, after Reizin learned back in May of this year that a teenager who used
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LAS lawsuit supportersCROWN HEIGHTS – Ahead of tomorrow’s City Council vote on the Bedford-Union Armory [/cumbo-announces-bedford-union-armory-plans-drop-condos-gain-affordable-units/] land use application, the Legal Aid Society (LAS) filed a lawsuit today in New York County Supreme Court contesting the City’s development plans for the Armory and challenging the methodology used to evaluate
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. (Photo: Eric T. Schneiderman [https://www.facebook.com/eric.schneiderman/photos/a.438189636273087.1073741826.289949387763780/631569633601752/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released an open letter today [https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a] addressed to the Federal Communications Commission
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“Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announced her decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Haiti with a delayed effective date of 18 months to allow for an orderly transition before the designation terminates on July 22, 2019. This decision follows then-Secretary Kelly’s announcement in