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Photo: Nathan HaselbyGet your snow boots and shovels ready because we may quite possibly get hit with 4 to 6 inches of snow this weekend, ending the spring-like days! A winter storm watch is in effect from Saturday at 6 pm to Sunday morning. Temperatures are not expected to go
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Photo via Brooklyn Prospect Charter SchoolWINDSOR TERRACE – Just 90 minutes after the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-respond-shooting-parkland-florida-high-school-n848101] , two teenage boys went to social media, threatening a shooting at Brooklyn Prospect Charter School. [https://www.brooklynprospect.org/] “Don’
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Post Office on Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D9, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay) met with Anthony Impronto, Brooklyn Postmaster on Monday, February 12, to discuss how to address the poor service provided by the postal offices in her district, that has been
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Simcha Felder. (Photo: NY Senate)MIDWOOD – We received the following email from the NY State Senator Simcha Felder (D17) today in response to yesterday’s school shooting in Florida. Felder is renewing his call for armed police officers to be stationed at every school, and emergency drills to include all
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Harris speaking at a campaign event in 2015. (Photo: BKLYNER)Brooklyn Assemblywoman Pamela Harris representing the 46th Assembly District has not attended any Assembly sessions in Albany following her indictment last month, yet she continues to get paid [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/brooklyn-pol-absent-albany-bust-paid-article-1.3814799] . Harris was indicted on
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FLATBUSH – The Mayor will deliver his 5th State of the City at the Kings Theater on Flatbush Avenue tonight at 7:00pm, and the theme is “Making New York America’s Fairest Big City”. The Mayor previewed the event on NY1 last night [http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/
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PROSPECT PARK – Last June, in honor of the Park’s 150th anniversary, the Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org] hosted the first ever Prospect Park Soiree, an event for “thousands of friends and neighbors to get together as a community and celebrate the Park,” according to Deborah Kirschner, AVP
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/big-ideas/make-it-in-brooklyn/make-it-in-brooklyn-pitch-contests] presents The Make It In Brooklyn Smart Cities pitch content—giving startups working to create smarter cities the chance to win $5,000. Startup businesses developing innovations in urban technologies in an effort to create smarter cities are
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FORT GREENE – The President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music [http://bam.org], Katy Clark, announced yesterday that the Tony Award-winning Broadway Producer, David Binder, has been appointed BAM’s Artistic Director. L-R: Katy Clark, BAM President; David Binder, incoming Artistic Director; Coco Killingsworth, VP of Education and Community Engagement;
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SUNSET PARK – The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) [https://www.nycedc.com] recently announced the launch of the Brooklyn Army Terminal [https://www.bklynarmyterminal.com]’s Micromanufacturing Hub, a new area housing smaller industrial manufacturing spaces designed to allow growth-stage businesses to move in quickly. The spaces available
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SUNSET PARK – The family behind the James Beard award-winning specialty market Sahadi’s [https://sahadis.com] announced yesterday that they will open a new location at Industry City [https://industrycity.com] later this year. Photo courtesy of Industry CityOriginally from Lebanon, Wade Sahadi founded the business in Manhattan in 1895
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MTA MetroCard vending machines will be cash only for six hours this coming Saturday.After last week’s public outcry over the MTA’s plans to go cash only for the weekend [/mta-machines-wont-take-credit-cards-this-weekend/] while upgrading their vending machine’s credit-card systems led to a quick reversal and delay, the organization