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Arts & Culture
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerLITTLE PAKISTAN – Naseem Khan Alizai for the last 28 years has spent his days selling gold jewelry on Coney Island Avenue. Some days, he closes his shop making zero bucks. Yet, every day (except on Fridays) he comes back. Alizai, 50, owns the property located at 1064
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MIDWOOD – Cops need help searching for a man that pushed and yanked a necklace off an elderly woman earlier this week. On Monday, June 24 at around 12:47 p.m., an 88-year-old lady was walking on East 21st Street between Avenue J and Ocean Avenue when a man approached
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Kayla Santosuosso via Jordan Rathkopf/Rathkopf Photography.BAY RIDGE – Kayla Santosuosso does not eat pizza with a fork. Want a slice to eat while walking? Go to Elegante. Want to sit and eat some pizza? Find a table at Lombardo’s. Who was once a little girl sitting in her
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Jabaran Akram. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – Jabaran Akram, 22, was born in Brooklyn, the third of eight children of Pakistani immigrants who settled in Brighton Beach. These days Akram is the community liaison for Councilmember Chaim Deutsch as well as an auxiliary officer for the NYPD. Since he started
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Beharry Roti, Liena Zagare/BkynerDITMAS PARK – A new restaurant will be opening in Ditmas Park, though we don’t know yet when. The owner of the place is Alan Harding, a chef who the NY Times profiled [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/dining/brooklyn-restaurant-pioneer-alan-harding-reshapes-his-career.html] in 2014 and
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A young photographer in Tamazulapam taking a class. (Photo via Direct Impact Coalition)SUNSET PARK – Eight teenagers will get the opportunity to learn the ropes of photography this summer for free. Direct Impact Coalition [https://www.directimpactcoalition.org/] is an “independent non-profit offer[ing] sustained, direct support to migrant-origin communities
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UPDATE: On Wednesday, June 19, 55-year-old Alan Tatten was arrested and charged with Aggravated Harassment 2nd Hate Crime and Criminal Mischief 4th Hate Crime. SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The NYPD need help to search for a man they believe is responsible for writing Islamophobic sentiments at a bus shelter and the entrance
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128 Lewis Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)BEDFORD STUYVESANT – Rasheed Bennett, 31, has died after being shot in the chest in the Eleanor Roosevelt Houses at 128 Lewis Ave. on Monday, June 17 at around 2:47 p.m. Bennett was coming out of the elevator in the lobby of
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BAY RIDGE – The race for District Leader in the 46th Assembly District is underway and so are hateful attacks. Last week, a Bay Ridge neighbor sent us two flyers someone received in the mail. They said they were in an envelope. One of the flyers had a photo of Republican
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Photo via Deutsch’s office.SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The words “Kill Arabs” were spray-painted on a B44 bus shelter on Avenue V and Nostrand Avenue this morning. According to Council Member Chaim Deutsch’s office, a constituent saw the hateful words as he was getting on the bus this morning and
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCANARSIE – Today is Flag Day, and the day 37 Brooklynites became new American citizens at the Wyckoff House Museum. The historic farmhouse was filled with cheers and claps from new citizens, their families, and their friends this afternoon. The Wyckoff Farmhouse [https://wyckoffmuseum.org/about/history/] is
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125 Kingston Avenue. vi Google streetview.CROWN HEIGHTS – Yesterday evening, June 12 at around 7:30 p.m., a 48-year-old man was shot and killed while inside Classic Deli Market at 125 Kingston Avenue. The man was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and torso in the back