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Big Changes Coming To Annual Greek Festival This Weekend On Avenue P

Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Churchby Megan McGibney The Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church [http://threehierarchsbrooklynny.org/] at 1724 Avenue P, near Kings Highway, is getting ready to hold its annual three-day Greek Festival this weekend [https://www.facebook.com/threehierarchsfestival]. At the same time, it is preparing for some big changes

Ocean Parkway Shooting Victim Natik Nisimov Remembered As A Salon Owner With A Great Heart, Despite Troubles

Natik Nisimov (Source: Facebook)Police identified the 29-year-old man who was found shot dead on an Ocean Parkway sidewalk [/man-found-shot-dead-ocean-parkway/] Tuesday morning as Natik Nisimov, a Kensington salon owner who the NYPD said lived on East 8th Street, near Kings Highway. Cops found Nisimov with a gunshot wound to the

Car Burglar Busted After Cops Track Footprints In The Snow

Source: NYPD’s 70th Precinct, via TwitterIt was a whodunnit of proportions usually seen on Saturday morning children’s cartoons. A crime was in progress, but the suspect had left the scene. How will they find him? Oh, the criminal mastermind left footprints in the snow. That’s what happened

Learn More About Area Middle Schools At Tomorrow’s District 21 School Fair

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Free Screening Of “The Lego Movie” This Sunday Night At Seth Low Park

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Flubbed Traffic Sign On Nostrand Avenue Causes Wrongful Tickets – Here’s How To Fight Back

After the Department of Transportation erroneously posted a sign on a residential stretch of Nostrand Avenue indicating two-hour metered parking, several nearby residents received wrongful summonses. Now Councilman Chaim Deutsch is leading the fight to get those tickets thrown out. Deutsch announced the agency’s error at last night’s

CEC 21 Asks: Don’t Our Public School Kids Count In Charter Debate?

The following is a press release from the offices of the Community Education Council of District 21 [https://sites.google.com/site/cecdistrict21/]: Last Thursday’s announcement regarding the continuance of charter co-locations at I.S. 96, Seth Low, and I.S. 281, Joseph B. Cavallaro, is a major setback

Community Board 11 Approves Seth Low Playground Expansion Plan, Though Softball Players Fear Being Squeezed Out

Seth Low Playground’s softball fields. Players say they’ll be displaced when the renovation is complete (Source: NYC Parks Department)Community Board 11 passed a proposal on Thursday to expand and redesign Seth Low Playground on Avenue P and Stillwell Avenue. The new change include a Tai Chi space,

Tonight: Hearing On Controversial Co-Location Of Charter School Within Seth Low J.H.S.

Source: Wikimedia CommonsA plan that has riled parents and school activists throughout Southern Brooklyn is coming to a hearing tonight, at 6:00 p.m., at Seth Low Intermediate School (99 Avenue P). The Department of Education is proposing the co-location of a Success Academy Charter School within the same

Cyclists Rejoice! Rehabilitation Of Ocean Parkway Malls To Resume In 2014

Source: Friends of Ocean ParkwayIf you’re a bicyclist or pedestrian who makes Ocean Parkway a part of your routine, you’ve probably noticed how nice the pavement is above Avenue O. And you’ve probably noticed how cruddy it is south of that spot. That’s because the Parks