Central Brooklyn
Looking for a new place to call home? We’ve rounded up a bunch of interesting Ditmas Park apartment listings. Take a look at the details, and let us know what you think. Lots of luck and happy hunting! 1438 Flatbush Avenue, Unit #11438 Flatbush Avenue, Unit #1 [http://www.
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531 East 26th Street, near Foster Avenue, where 26-year-old Dwight Brathwaite was stabbed to death in December, 2013. (Photo: Google Maps)A young Flatbush man who believed a stranger was flirting with his girlfriend, and then stabbed the individual to death, has been convicted two years after the crime. Brooklyn
Announcements
PS 130 in Kensington will host a flea market and book sale this Sunday. (Photo: Corner Media)If you have an event you’d like featured in our calendar, or if there’s anything we’ve left off, please let us know! Post your events in our community calendar [/blog/
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Photo taken by reader in late February of what appears to be illegal trash dumping at the corner of Buckingham Road (East 16th Street) and Church Avenue. UPDATE: Department of Sanitation spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins told us this morning that “the condition” at the northwest corner of Buckingham Road and Church
Arts & Culture
Photo by: Kings TheatreThe Broadway hit RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles is about to make its Brooklyn debut at Flatbush’s own Kings Theatre [/blog/news/kings-theatre-rain-a-tribute-to-the-beatles-sponsored/] for just two nights — Friday, March 4th and Saturday, March 5th. The show celebrates 50 years of music from what is arguably
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BY SARAH CREAN AND HEATHER CHIN Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. Last week, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org/] which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street
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Photo by Utopian Branch [https://www.flickr.com/photos/utopianbranch/3469064600] .“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
Announcements
Photo: Q GardensSpring is almost here and it’s time to starting planting. Why not meet more of your neighbors and join one of our area’s newest community gardens [/blog/garden/q-gardens-launches-fundraiser-for-community-driven-mosaic] ? Q Gardens [https://www.facebook.com/Qgardenscommunity/?fref=photo] will be hosting its first meeting of 2016
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The Cortelyou Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. (Photo: Google Maps)“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
Central Brooklyn
905 Winthrop Street. IS 232 is located here, as well as the Middle School of Marketing & Legal Studies. (Photo: Google Maps)UPDATE: Annalise Thomos has been located and is safe. [3/3/16, 10:10am.] ******************************************* The NYPD is seeking the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old girl reported
Central Brooklyn
Screenshot of map of District 22 from the NYC Department of Education website. District 22 extends all the way down to Jamaica Bay.Our section of South Brooklyn is one of two New York City school districts especially shortchanged by the City’s school construction plans, according to a new
Police & Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiHXed-kRM The hunt for a burglar who posed as an MTA construction worker to break into the D train’s 9th Avenue station in January [/police-fire/crook-steals-chainsaws-from-9th-ave-subway-station-video/] is heating up as perp struck a second time this week — at the same station! In both