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Menchaca, Lander, and Velázquez at a memorial for a bicyclist killed on 3rd Avenue in 2019. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Following a particularly deadly year for pedestrians and especially bicyclists in Brooklyn, the City has decided to lower the speed limit from 30 MPH to 25 MPH along 3rd Avenue
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CROWN HEIGHTS/BROWNSVILLE — A man who thought he was going to buy a few phones and earbuds from a man on Facebook ended up being robbed at gunpoint. On Wednesday, November 20, around 4:10 p.m. inside the lobby of a residential building at 1760 Park Place, the victim,
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SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG — A young man was shot three times on a subway train early on Christmas day. A 26-year-old man was shot three times on a Manhattan-bound M train around 12:35 a.m. on Wednesday, December 25. The suspect opened fire at the victim, wounding him in the right
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EAST FLATBUSH — Two men fired a gunshot in East Flatbush and are being sought out by the NYPD for questioning. On Tuesday, December 17, around 10:40 p.m., in front of 3017 Newkirk Avenue, a 35-year-old man was approached by two unknown men. One of the suspects displayed a
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Carla Vasquez. Courtesy of NYPD.SUNSET PARK — NYPD needs help looking for Carmen Vasquez, a 58-year-old woman from Sunset Park. Carmen Vasquez was last seen on Tuesday, December 24, at her residence on 29th street at around 7 p.m.; Carmen is believed to have Alzheimer’s. She is described
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Christmas tree. Photo by Michael Voroshnin on Unsplash.Our readers mean the world to us, and we want to wish to those in our community celebrating a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Kwanzaa! Thank you to our neighbors, readers, and subscribers for your continued support. We will return
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The Kwanzaa Crawl on December 26, 2016. Photo by Deneka Penistin, courtesy of Kwanzaa Crawl.Several of Brooklyn’s Black-owned nightspots are preparing for crowds of partiers on the day after Christmas. The revelers will be crawling from bar to bar for drinks and to show off the latest dance
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MCU Coney Island. Via Google Maps.CONEY ISLAND — The Municipal Credit Union has announced [https://www.nymcu.org/] that it will be closing six branches on January 31, 2020 including the Coney Island branch on 1904 Surf Avenue at MCU Park, one of the neighborhood’s last full-service banking institutions.
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Exterior of Noods N’ Chill. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.comSOUTH WILLIAMSBURG — Two weeks ago, Plant Love House opened its fourth restaurant, Noods n’ Chill in South Williamsburg, an homage to their Chinese and Thai roots. Their first location in Elmhurst, Queens, was born out of a weekly dinner in Benjaporn’s
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerSUNSET PARK/GOWANUS — Two more pedestrians were struck and killed by drivers early yesterday morning and today. They are the third and fourth pedestrians killed in Brooklyn in just a few days. On Thursday, December 19 at around 3:30 p.m., 85-year-old Brendan Gill was crossing
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BAY RIDGE — An off-duty firefighter was arrested last night for drinking while driving. It turns out, he had been arrested for the same thing last year. On Wednesday, December 18 at around 8 p.m., 35-year-old Carlos Vaquero, was driving his car on Ridge Boulevard near 86th Street. He was
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Bicyclist on Pulaski Bridge. Courtesy of Bike New York.Frustrated with the slow pace of data on bicycling made available by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Bike New York [https://www.bike.nyc/], which organizes the five-borough bike tour each year, released their own study this week of the Pulaski