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The New York City Department of Sanitation has issued a Snow Alert for Thursday, November 15, 2018 at noon, and they are expecting 3 inches of snow. Here’s what the Department of Sanitation wants you to know: When do salt spreaders start working? Salt spreaders are the first line
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Outside the Church Avenue subway station where the Q and B take turns, the B35 drops and picks up passengers every few minutes or so. Nobody looks the same. On this particular late afternoon hour, a group of Bangladeshi women with their hair covered in headscarves
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Photo: Rob Fruchtman and Steven LawrenceBROOKLYN – There are over 500,000 cats living in NYC, with the majority of them calling Brooklyn their home. “It’s a total uphill battle. If every cat has six kittens and every kitten has six kittens, there’s never going to be enough homes
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Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/ Michael DorauschThe annual Veterans Day Parade [https://parade.uwvc.org/] will be held on Sunday, November 11, at 11 am – in Madison Square Park. The parade goes north on Fifth Avenue, from 26th to 46th Street. This year is particularly special as it marks a centennial
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Kadia Goba and the stack of newspapersKENSINGTON-DITMAS PARK-FLATBUSH – We at Bklyner mostly think of ourselves as internet people, and we’ve been bringing you news about various Brooklyn neighborhoods for almost a decade, online. But we keep hearing from our readers and advertisers that neighbors miss the stories they care
Animals
Meadow Brooks and her 3-year-old chihuahua-terrier mix at the dog park at a new shelter for domestic violence survivors in Brooklyn.BROOKLYN – When Meadow Brooks* left her abusive partner in Houston, she found refuge for all but one of her family members — Honey*, a 14-pound Chihuahua-terrier mix. With few pet-friendly
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Elections are just a week away, and the pressure is building up in Southern Brooklyn. While the primaries in September pretty much decided who will represent most of Brooklyn in Congress, State Senate and Assembly, there are a few races that are not quite done yet. * Congressman Dan Donovan, a
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No Electioneering. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe city announced they’ll provide language interpreters at 86 polling sites throughout Brooklyn, but the translators will be left out in the cold again this year. Voters whose native language is Russian, Haitian Creole, Italian, Arabic, Polish, and Yiddish will have to seek interpreter services
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerMIDWOOD – In a press conference yesterday to condemn the murder of 11 Jewish people in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, Oct. 27., Borough President Eric Adams called for off-duty officers to carry firearms when they go to their house of worships to pray.
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Broward County Sheriff’s Office.BROOKLYN. The Florida man suspected of sending over a dozen explosive devices to a media outlet (CNN) and Democrats across the country was born in Brooklyn. 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/cesar-sayoc-bombing-suspect-arrested.html] was arrested this morning by the
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In March, we published a story about a young man who was planning on running for office. [/earl-blum-congress-cd9/] The Trump-supporting Republican, who had yet to file for elections, insulted black people, Mexican-Americans, and said Muslims belong in “internment camps.” A few hours after the article surfaced on social media, Earl
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The BPL announced [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-literary-prize] on Monday the winners of the fourth annual Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=510] Jeanne Theoharis [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=510]