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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBAY RIDGE – After neighbors and activists called on him to “close the camps” two weeks ago, Congressman Max Rose will be visiting the Southern border this Friday. According to his office, he will be visiting the Rio Grande Valley as part of the Bipartisan Homeland Security Committee
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At the Sunset Park protest against ICE last Sunday. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)SUNSET PARK/MIDWOOD – Two doors were knocked on by ICE officials today. One in Sunset Park and one in Midwood. Neither families opened the doors, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) confirmed with Bklyner. There
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Big crowd at MCU Park in Brooklyn on Opening Night for the baseball game between the Staten Island Yankees and Brooklyn Cyclones, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (Gordon Donovan)CONEY ISLAND – MCU Park is hosting a free community baseball game. The teams? Hatzolah Flatbush and the NYPD. The game isn’t
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Council Member Deutsch holds the sign with Gerald Fox. (Photo via NYC Council.) CONEY ISLAND – The intersection on Surf Avenue and West 12th Street has officially been co-named after NYPD officer Leon Fox who was killed while on duty in 1941. On February 15, 1941, Fox was gunned down near
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SUNSET PARK – After reports of ICE knocking on doors on Saturday, July 13, in Sunset Park, the neighborhood and its main park, a place usually packed with people, was eerily empty this Sunday. > This Sunset Park soccer field is Never empty….from 7 am until they shut the lights
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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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UPDATE: The ICE raids that were expected two weeks ago were postponed. Instead, they will be taking place this Sunday, July 14. Stay safe and know your rights (we provided them below). BROOKLYN – The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be conducting raids, arresting, and deporting undocumented immigrants
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Stickball Day at MCU Park. (Photo via Jay Cusato)CONEY ISLAND – It’s almost time for the Fourth Annual Stickball Hall of Fame Game at MCU Park to celebrate Stickball Day in Brooklyn. The annual stickball game will take place on Sunday, July 14—with South Brooklyn taking on Sheepshead
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Church Avenue and East 5th Street. (Photo via Google Maps)KENSINGTON – Just two days after 49-year-old María del Carmen Porras Hernández was struck and killed by a driver at the intersection of Coney Island and Church Avenues, a 50-year-old man has succumbed to his injuries doing the same thing just
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK – About a thousand cyclists lay down on the ground next to their bikes and loved ones Tuesday evening for a die-in to protest the 15 preventable bicycling deaths in NYC just this year. “Some people say that there are too many people on bikes
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An old photo of María del Carmen Porras Hernández with her daughter. (Photo via Luis Varela with permission)KENSINGTON/PROSPECT PARK SOUTH – The victim of yesterday’s fatal car crash has been identified as 49-year-old María del Carmen Porras Hernández. She lived on Ditmas Avenue, about a 20-minute walk away
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EAST FLATBUSH – The free and popular Wingate Concert Series is back in Brooklyn for the next two weeks with five events. The series is hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and will take place at Wingate Park (opposite Kings County Hospital). Gates open at 6 p.m. and the