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190 East 7th Street, August 2016. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)One of the remaining single family houses on Kensington’s East 7th Street will be torn down to make way for a small apartment building, but the City has slowed the process down. EM Development NYC, a Bay Ridge-based
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190 East 7th Street, August 2016. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)One of the remaining single family houses on Kensington’s East 7th Street will be torn down to make way for a small apartment building, but the City has slowed the process down. EM Development NYC, a Bay Ridge-based
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Photo via Robert Carroll2016.com.The battle for Jim Brennan’s New York State Assembly seat is heating up, and so is the debate about a new direction for the local Democratic Party. Three candidates seeking to represent the state assembly’s 44th district — Rob Curry-Smithson [http://www.robcurrysmithson.com/
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Former Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver (left), with Governor Andrew Cuomo in July, 2014. Silver, who served as speaker for 21 years, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison on federal corruption charges. Cuomo has been criticized for not doing more to change the
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As the overall reduction of crime continues across the 70th Precinct, the exception to the rule in 2016 has been rape and other sex crimes. Reported rapes in the 70th Precinct have more than doubled, from 8 to 17, according to mid-year statistics provided by the NYPD; however, in 16
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Travelers on their way to Coney Island in the mid-19th century could stop at road houses like this for meals, drinks and care of their horses. Mort Tunison’s Road House, seen here in the early 1860s, was located along the Coney Island Plank Road (now Coney Island Avenue), near
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)It almost seemed like it wasn’t going to happen, but new Kensington watering hole Hinterlands [https://twitter.com/HinterlandsBar] had its official opening last night. Hinterlands, located on Church Avenue between East 7th and 8th Streets, is yet another addition to the changing block
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Councilmember Mathieu Eugene, at microphone, speaking at a press conference in 2015. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Mathieu Eugene, who has represented the Flatbush area in the New York City Council since 2007, will have some competition next year. Brian-Christopher Antonio Cunningham [http://www.briancunninghamnyc.com/about/brian/] has filed paperwork
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Photovia Assemblymember James Brennan [https://www.facebook.com/27523202673/photos/pb.27523202673.-2207520000.1464707281./10153140018207674/?type=3&theater] After 32 years of service, Jim Brennan will no longer represent our area in Albany. State Assemblymember James Brennan, whose district includes sections of Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Park Slope and Windsor
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Photovia Assemblymember James Brennan [https://www.facebook.com/27523202673/photos/pb.27523202673.-2207520000.1464707281./10153140018207674/?type=3&theater] After 32 years of service, Jim Brennan will no longer represent our area in Albany. State Assemblymember James Brennan, whose district includes sections of Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Park Slope and Windsor
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Sculpture of a dying soldier, part of the “Prospect Park Memorial,” the monument listing the names of 2,800 Brooklyn residents who perished while serving in World War I. The memorial was sculpted by Augustus Lukeman and dedicated in Prospect Park in 1921. (Copyright 2007 Jeffrey O. Gustafson, released to