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Ave D and 105th Street. (Photo via Google Maps)CANARSIE – A 29-year-old man on an E-Bike is dead after a drunk driver collided with him Sunday night. On June 9th at about 10:37 p.m., 22-year-old Treasure Liggins was driving her 2007 Infiniti G35 heading eastbound on Avenue D
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Brooklynites celebrating Bengali New Year at the Ave C Plaza. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)KENSINGTON – The popular Ave C Plaza has been celebrating its fourth season of hosting events for the Immigrant Heritage Month and all are welcome! Ave C Plaza, located at Ave C and McDonald Avenue, kicked off
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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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The intersection where Elnur was killed. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BATH BEACH – Just last month, three-year-old Emur Shavkator was riding his scooter, when a van struck and killed him at the dangerous intersection. Now, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has approved a traffic light to be installed in November. On
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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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Photo via Office of Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis.UPDATE: The mailbox has been replaced with a brand new one. BAY RIDGE – Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a mailbox in Bay Ridge today. Three phrases were written: “Kill all Jews,” “Israel,” and “Mario Cuomo.” The word “mayor” was written and crossed out.
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Whitman, 51, donning his notorious facial hair. (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.) * The 200th birthday of Walt Whitman, the famed Brooklyn poet, was this past Friday, May 31st. In celebration of his “contribution to poetry and hipsterism”, the Brooklyn Public Library is throwing a Walt Whitman Beard & Moustache Competition [https://www.
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Eid 2019 Todd Maisel/ BklynerRamadan, the month of blessings [/ramadan-2019/], has come to an end. Today (and tomorrow depending on whether or not the moon was sighted in other parts of the world, and in this city), Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Fitr. > It was great to join with thousands
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WILLIAMSBURG – Community staple, Mugs Alehouse [http://www.mugsalehouse.com], will be closing on June 22nd after over 26 years of business. Co-owner Ed Berestecki, who runs the alehouse with his wife and other co-owner, Halina, said that the bar was initially scheduled to close on the first of June, but
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928 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)KENSINGTON – The development at Coney Island and Webster Avenues is coming together. The hotel that replaces the old Jiffy Lube building at 928 Coney Island Avenue is expected to open by 2021, contractor Triborough Construction Services told Bklyner. The four-story commercial Best
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MIDWOOD – The month-long Ramadan [/ramadan-2019/] is soon coming to an end. That means it’s time for the annual Chand Raat Mela (Night of the Moon Bazaar). Eid al-Fitr (which lasts three days and marks the end of Ramadan) is scheduled for either June 4th or June 5th based on