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Angel Guardian Home. (Photo via Angel Guardian Home Facebook)DYKER HEIGHTS – The Angel Guardian Home, a century-old former orphanage, has officially been landmarked and is the first historic landmark in Dyker Heights. “Although the Angel Guardian Home sits just outside the borders of my council district, preserving this building has
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The intersection where the LPI will be installed. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) BATH BEACH – Just one month after seven-year-old Sama Ali was killed crossing the street on her scooter, local politicians announced pedestrian safety improvements are coming to the intersection – those crossing will get between 3-7 seconds head start before
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Gounardes speaking at the rally calling for the reopening of 16 schools. (Photo via Gounardes’ office)SOUTHERN BROOKLYN – Parents and elected officials are calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to re-open the 16 schools in the ‘yellow zone’ that have been ordered shut
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LBK Pizza is open for take out and delivery only, in park Slope. Photo by Ellie Plass.New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes representing Southern Brooklyn is teaming up with Assemblymember Robert Carroll, of Brooklyn’s 44th district, to introduce legislation to require COVID-19 related incidents to be covered under
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Screenshot via live stream.SOUTH/WESTERN BROOKLYN – To help address the concerns of their neighbors amid the coronavirus, State Senator Andrew Gounardes and Council Member Justin Brannan hosted a virtual town hall for Southern Brooklyn yesterday. But neighbors said the well-intentioned event was “out of touch,” overlooking practical information that
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Andrew Gounardes presents a check. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MARINE PARK – The city, the state, and the borough have all worked together to secure a total of $11.1 million to renovate Marine Park. The 798-acre park, which stretches from Shore Parkway to Avenue U to Fillmore Ave., between Brigham
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BAY RIDGE – Two years, two council members, and $4.7 million later, the historic Fort Hamilton High School Athletic Field has been renovated – 18 years since last improvements were made to the large property. In 2017, funding for the six-acre field located at 83rd to 85th Street between Colonial Road
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Hurricane Dorian at the Bahamas. (Photo via Weather Channel)Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas on September 1 as a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 200 mph. It hung around the island for two days and killed at least 44 people, many of whom are still missing. “This disaster
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MIDWOOD – The driver who killed a cyclist about two weeks ago was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter and a host of other charges today. On Sunday, August 11, 18-year-old Umar Mirza Baig from Queens was driving southbound on Coney Island Avenue at Avenue L, ran a red light, slammed
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerAs part of the city’s Vision Zero [https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/264-19/vision-zero-mayor-rapid-expansion-life-saving-speed-camera-program-stronger-law/#/0] program to reduce traffic deaths, the new and expanded speed camera law went into effect on July 11. Speed cameras in school zones have been in NYC since 2014, but
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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided to currently block a question on the 2020 census that asks for citizenship status. “The reasoned explanation requirement of administrative law, after all, is meant to ensure that agencies offer genuine justifications for important decisions, reasons that
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerDYKER HEIGHTS – After the vicinity of 10th and 11th Avenues from 65th to 85th Streets saw three car crashes in three hours last weekend, the community is demanding life-saving traffic measures. “We are urging, pleading, demanding the Department of Transportation (DOT) finish the traffic study they’ve
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGERRITSEN BEACH – “Drag queens are robbing children of their innocence,” people shouted outside the Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn Public Library branch on Thursday. Inside, a small room was packed with children listening to a drag queen read It’s Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr. Everyone was
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Teddy bears and flowers on the corner of Bay 25th St and Benson Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BATH BEACH – Elnur means ‘the light.’ That is what one woman from Uzbekistan said yesterday at a vigil for three-year-old Elnur Shavkator who was killed by a van while crossing the street
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Protesters across the street from Ft. Hamilton High School at a rally against the new Reproductive Health Act.BAY RIDGE — More than 30 people, including former State Sen. Marty Golden, gathered across from Ft. Hamilton High School to protest the new Reproductive Health Act (RHA) Sunday, ahead of State Sen.
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Bob Capano. (Facebook screenshot)BAY RIDGE — Bob Capano, a former City Council candidate and chairman of the now-defunct New York State Reform Party stepped down from Andrew Gounardes’ transition team two weeks ago. Sources say the departure comes as a result of what some called “xenophobic rhetoric” Capano spilled [https: