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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBAY RIDGE – “The nights are the hardest. My son would’ve graduated, went to his prom this week, had a girlfriend… maybe,” Amy Cohen said, choking up. “I just miss him every day.” Parents, spouses, and loved ones gathered outside Senator Marty Golden’s Bay Ridge office
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerThe 2018 Congressional Primaries have come and gone. The winners? Two incumbents: Dan Donovan of District 11 and Yvette Clarke of District 9. District 9 (Park Slope, Flatbush, Sheepshead, Crown Heights) had a total of 28,533 voters [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/
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In a 5-4 decision [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban.html] , the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump’s third travel ban—also referred to as the “Muslim ban”—is indeed lawful. The ban restricts entries from Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Venezuela.
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Photo via a straphanger.FORT GREENE – Train service was delayed this morning after a 29-year-old man was hit by a southbound Q train from the DeKalb station platform around 9:45 am. He was taken to Methodist Hospital in serious but stable condition, with lacerations to the head. > We
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPROSPECT PARK – Crystal Bobb-Semple, known as Persephone, is the founder of Camp Half-Blood, [http://camphalfbloodbklyn.com] a summer camp based on the Percy Jackson books for kids who have big imaginations. We spoke on a hot summer Tuesday, both of us seated on beach chairs using the
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UPDATE- as of 9:30 am, thanks to the quick intervention by the Public Advocate’s office, water will no longer be shut off at 250 Parkville Avenue today. “This is outrageous. It should not be happening,“ Francisca Montaña from the Public Advocate’s office said upon reading our story.
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Photo: Hassan IqbalCONEY ISLAND AVE – The end of Ramadan [/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ramadan-in-brooklyn/]is near which means so is the popular Chand Raat Mela [/muslims-brooklyn-ramadan-celebration-coney-island-avenue/] (Night of the Moon Bazaar). Depending on the moon sighting, Eid al-Fitr (which lasts three days and marks the end of Ramadan) will begin on Friday or Saturday
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBENSONHURST – Earlier today on Bay Parkway Dunkin’ Donuts unveiled what the company touts as the Dunkin’ Donuts of the future – its first New Generation Concept store. Cold brew is on tap, whether you want cold brew coffees (including the new Nitro) or iced tea. Employees are sporting
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PARK SLOPE – Not to ruffle your feathers, but a young chicken was founding clucking around Park Slope. Now, it’s in Nikki Burst’s home waiting for its owner. It started off like any ordinary day. Burst was walking down 6th Avenue toward the Park Slope Library branch to pick
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Photo: Pamela Wong/BklynerBOERUM HILL – Brooklyn Public Library’s Pacific Branch was scheduled to open this month after renovations, but it has been delayed until July after discovering additional abatement work was needed. BPL had this to say: “As we put the finishing touches on an improved Pacific Library, we
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Chica with her youngest daughter. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE – A 35 year old man from Long Island was delivering pizza to the US Army Garrison Fort Hamilton base last week. He showed his IDNYC and got inside, just like all the other times he delivered pizza there. But
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Photo: Zainab IqbalBARCLAYS – The 2018 Brooklyn College commencement at Barclays Center Thursday morning wasn’t a boring one. Pioneering disability rights activist Judith “Judy” Heumann gave a compelling speech on fighting adversity, and Borough President Eric Adams announced that he will be the next mayor of NYC. “I’m a