Last night marked the start of the Muslim month-long holy festival of Ramadan. On this holiday, observing Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, ending each day with a glorious feast. However, the ill and those traveling are exempt from fasting, especially if it poses health risks. During Ramada, Muslims pray
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Adeeart, a local home-based business, makes custom-order dolls.As New York City’s unemployment rate rises to 10 percent [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444330904577537451724418184.html?mod=googlenews_wsj] , Southern Brooklyn’s residents are using whatever means necessary to carve out a career path in this rough economy. And many
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Source: Popular Mechanics Magazine, July 1922 via Wikimedia CommonsA century-old statue once called sexist by former congressman Anthony Weiner and an eyesore by other political figures, may be moving to Green-Wood cemetery. The “Civic Virtue” statue has been standing along Queens Boulevard, left to weather with no one in caring
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Source: Library of Congress via Wikimedia CommonsSaturday, July 14 visitors to Coney Island may have been having too much fun on the Cyclone or eating Nathan’s to notice the motley crew of seven that came there for a very special purpose. Perhaps, this is what they wanted, an unnoticed
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Source: Otto Yamamoto via Wikimedia CommonsThough the fight to lower the toll costs of Brooklynites crossing the Verrazano may be an important one, another fight has broken out between Senator Martin Golden and Andrew Gounardes, the Democrat vying for his seat. In a June 28 release from Gounardes’ camp regarding
Source: Mattes via Wikimedia CommonsIn its second year of operation, a practice called participatory budgeting has doubled in size with even more council members, community organizations and citizens taking on leadership roles. Among the advocates for participatory budgeting is Councilman David Greenfield who announced recently that he will be bringing
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 62nd Precinct reports every Friday. The 62nd Precinct is the police command responsible for Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
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Source: Otto Yamamoto via Wikimedia CommonsState Senator Martin Golden is calling on the Metropolitan Transit Authority to consider an MTA discount plan that reduces tolls, similar to the Port Authority’s recent announcement [/e-z-pass-discount-on-bridge-tolls-announced-for-brooklyn-residents/], for enrolled E-Z Pass users with non-commercial plates to $4.75 per trip, for the Verrazano-Narrows
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Source: Militarygun via Wikimedia CommonsReality TV just got a whole lot realer. Ex-husband of “Mob Wives” star Renee Graziano squealed to cops about the role of two former associates in a murder investigation, which ultimately led to their arraignments. Hector (Junior) Pagan said that Richard Riccardi and Luigi Grasso are
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Source: qualityolstuff via EbayAn original table menu holder from Lundy’s Restaurant came on the buyer’s block on eBay. The famous seafood restaurant [/lundys-bros-restaurant-history/] opened in 1934 or 1935 to 1977 or 1979, and then again from 1997 to early 2007. Currently, Cherry Hill Market [/breaking-lundy-s-cherry-hill-now-open/] has taken over
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Click to enlargeAccording to Minghui.org [http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2012/7/13/134409.html], July 20 marks the 13th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) practitioners in China. Congressman Michael Grimm reached out to the offices of Falun Gong administrators with a letter declaring
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Protesters demand the restoration of the B64. (Photo: Allan Rosen)In what may be a bit of good news for straphangers, the MTA are planning to allocate tens of millions of dollars to reestablish routes that were cut as part of the 2010 attempt to close an enormous MTA budget