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Councilman Chaim Deutsch hosted his second community cleanup on Sunday, with volunteers turning out to sweep the sidewalks and gutters of Avenue U between Nostrand Avenue and Coney Island Avenue. Dozens turned out, including volunteers from Homecrest Community Services and local schools like Sheepshead Bay High School and Midwood High
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Members of the 25 strong cat colony on Plumb Beach (Photo by Lisanne Anderson/Flickr)You didn’t actually think we’d get through this story without a headline pun did you? The National Park Service (NPS) has agreed to give more time to cat enthusiasts to remove a sizable
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In celebration of the fourth anniversary of “Mary Powell Memorial Day in Brooklyn, USA,” folksinger Danny Quinn will perform traditional Irish and contemporary music Wednesday, March 19, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Carmine Carro Community Center, 3000 Fillmore Avenue in Marine Park. Powell,
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Source: GoodNCrazy/FlickrBensonhurst resident Iljirijana Glavatovic recently started a virtual book drive to raise money for students at a Brooklyn public elementary school. A sophomore at City College, Glavatovic and her three siblings decided to open an online book drive using the services of a charity organization called First Book.
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PS 212 (Source: nyc.schools.gov)A teacher at P.S. 212 Lady Deborah Moody Elementary School in Bath Beach (87 Bay 49th Street) is looking for help from the community to raise funds for a project that will help break barriers and make learning fun for dozens of school
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You may have seen a petition being circulated online recently called Save Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education [http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-brooklyn-college], which has received over half of its 2,000 signatures needed so far. Opposition to the campaign, however, is coming from an unlikely place–Corey
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Gerritsen Beach — ignored in the initial wake of Superstorm Sandy [/ignored-by-city-gerritsen-beach-comes-together-in-recovery-efforts/] — will be getting a little help from their friends in a very big way this week. The tight-knit neighborhood, which suffered unprecedented damages despite being classified as Zone B flood area [/after-sandys-devastation-senator-golden-wants-gerritsen-beach-reclassified-as-zone-a/] (a secondary flood plain where evacuation was
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The Checkmate, Cancer! team.Karafin at the 2005 PCF WalkathonChildhood cancer is the number one cause of non-accidental deaths [http://snowdropfoundation.org/?page_id=116] among children, with 12,000 diagnoses each year. Elona Karafin, a 19-year-old Bensonhurst native, has started ”Checkmate, Cancer!”, a team participating in the annual Pediatric
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From the Bay Improvement Group: We are having a meeting of block captains and those interested in being block captains at Roll & Roaster on Wednesday, 11/27, at 7pm. Block captains will collect information at the meetings and bring them back to their blocks. They will also collect information
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Source: Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia CommonsOn July 9, more than 700 Canada Geese [/751-geese-gassed-in-jamaica-bay/] were rounded up and killed at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Instead of dumping the dead geese into landfills, the meat from the birds was donated to food pantries and soup kitchens in New York. Normally,
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Steiner (Source: brandonsteiner.com)Daily News’ source for all things Brooklyn, Denis Hamill, has got a heartwarming Father’s Day tale [centersquarejournal.basecamphq.com/projects/8223536-local-independent-online-news-publishers-trade-group/log] for all of us to learn a little kindnessfrom. A Native American teenager, who never knew his biological father, celebrated Father’s Day
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The approximate location of the proposed natural gas pipeline.After the House of Representatives passed a bill last week approving the construction of a three-mile gas pipeline, running underneath Jamaica Bay through Brooklyn and Queens, environmentalists and local leaders are outraged, claiming they were kept in the dark about it.