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Feb
11
Seven Great Ways To Celebrate Chinese New Years In Brooklyn

Seven Great Ways To Celebrate Chinese New Years In Brooklyn

It’s the year of the ram! February 19 marks the Chinese or Lunar New Year, and since Southern Brooklyn
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Nov
19
Police Warn of Scam Artists Targeting Elderly Asian Women

Police Warn of Scam Artists Targeting Elderly Asian Women

Source: Krokodyl via Wikimedia CommonsA team of scam artists is targeting elderly Asian women in Bensonhurst and Bath Beach, police
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Sep
22

Local Pols Hail Swearing In Of Brooklyn’s First Asian-American Elected Official As “Historic”

Source: Colton’s officeThe following is a press release from the offices of Assemblyman William Colton: In a historic swearing-in
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Jul
28

Gentile Travels To Taiwan For Diplomatic Exchange

This man will not eat a still living, half deep-fried fish. Whatever happened to leadership, America? (Source: council.nyc.gov)
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Apr
08

Crain’s Puts Spotlight On Bath Beach’s Demographic Changes

Can’t we all just get along? (Source:dtanist/Flickr)Crain’s New York Business Journal turned its gaze [http:
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Feb
07

Tomorrow: Chinese New Year Celebration At Seth Low IS 96

From our friends at the Federation of Italian-American Organizations’ (FIAO) Beacon Center:
Jan
08

Once Shunned, Chinese Population Booms In Bensonhurst And Dyker Heights

(Source: Howard WeissWhen Asian immigrants, mostly from China, began immigrating to Dyker Heights, the local Italian residents were unfriendly to
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Mar
05

Community Celebrates Lunar New Year With Dance At New Utrecht H.S.

Neighbors and school community members came together Sunday at New Utrecht High School (1601 80th Street) to celebrate the Asian
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Jul
27

Local Pols: “It’s About Time” For City-Funded Asian Senior Center

An HCS-organized senior health fair earlier this month. (Source: HCS)We told you on Tuesday about the Bensonhurst annex of
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Feb
23

Federal Judge Called In To Help Guide Redistricting

Tuesday, a panel of federal judges declined to dismiss a legal challenge to New York State’s redistricting process, instead
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