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The education department launched a community engagement effort in District 15 as parents, educators and activists try to devise a plan to address segregation in the Brooklyn district. By Christina VeigaBy Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/] PARK SLOPE – In a Brooklyn district where middle schools are sharply divided
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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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CENTRAL BROOKLYN – Parents across Brooklyn have been working for years with local schools to make school lunches available to their children [/after-hundreds-of-petition-signatures-lobbying-for-community-support-parents-win-battle-for-a-healthier-menu-at-ps-217-ditmas-park/] who follow kosher or halal diets at home. We wrote back in 2015, about parents at PS217, a large, diverse elementary school on Coney Island Avenue, who won
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The mob drama called “The Kitchen” is filming around Avenue U, 86th, West 12th – a number of blocks have been blocked off by the cones in the area. Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss, play the wives of jailed Irish gangsters. After their husbands get locked up, the wives
Boerum Hill
FORT GREENE – Members of the Brooklyn Bear’s Rockwell Place Community Garden [https://brooklynbears.wordpress.com/rockwell/] will host their annual Summer Solstice Celebration on Thursday despite fears of a “serious threat to the Garden’s future.” Brooklyn Bear’s Rockwell Place Community Garden at Lafayette & Flatbush (Photo: Pamela
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Gravesend – Another grocery store is opening this week – this one at 1949 Stillwell Avenue [https://www.google.com/search?q=1949+Stillwell+Avenue&oq=1949+Stillwell+Avenue&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.390j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8] between Avenues S and T on June 22nd, bringing back a
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Sheepshead Bay – The much-anticipated NetCost Market on Ocean Avenue just south of Voorhies opened yesterday. This is the first 24/7 grocery store concept for NetCost Market chain, which has a number of stores across southern Brooklyn and beyond, serving mostly the large Eastern European and former Soviet Union diaspora
Central Brooklyn
The hate crime took place as a 22-year rabbinical student was making his way from the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – Two men who attacked a Jewish rabbinical student in Crown Heights earlier this year have been charged with assault
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PARK SLOPE – Several Park Slope and Prospect Heights neighbors filled the hall at the Sixth Avenue Bible Baptist Church (97 Lincoln Place) Tuesday evening for the 78th Precinct’s quarterly Neighborhood Coordination Officer [/nypds-78th-precinct-rolls-neighborhood-coordination-officer-program-brooklyn-museum/] (NCO) Sector C Build The Block Meeting. L-R: Officer Kareem Abdelaziz, Sergeant Anthony Dimichele, Officer William
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For most New Yorkers, smoking marijuana in public will now result in a ticket instead of an arrest (Photo by dankdepot/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/dankdepot/5457588074/])Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio formally announced a long-expected change in New York City’s policing policy towards marijuana smoking in
Business
PARK SLOPE – After 34 years, Ansonia Chemist closed its doors at 358 7th Avenue for the last time Tuesday night. The shuttered Ansonia Chemist, 358 7th Avenue, Park Slope, June 20, 2018 (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Many Park Slope neighbors stopped by the beloved pharmacy to say goodbye, including Patrick
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – NYPD Officer Michael Martinez, 40, was arrested and charged on multiple accounts after allegedly misrepresenting his income to pay less in child support. An 11-year veteran of the force, Martinez shorted