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By the Narrows Botanical Gardens. Photo by Salma Elazab/BklynerJames Johnson, a landscape designer and co-founder of the Narrows Botanical Garden, would love to see mugwort gone from the neighborhood. To this end, Johnson proposed the installation of a native plant garden along the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge at
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Protestors gather outside Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ office in Bay Ridge on Saturday, January 9th. (Photo: Billy Richling/Bklyner)Just days after Republican Congress Member Nicole Malliotakis took office, public officials, activists and protestors gathered in Bay Ridge to demand she support the removal of President Donald Trump. But Malliotakis seems
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NYPD Lieutenant Hayward prepares to strike Brent Schmidt (R) after members of the Occupy Wall Street movement had been removed from Zuccotti Park in New York November 15, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Lucas JacksonDeputy Inspector Joseph Hayward is now in charge of the 71st Precinct [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/
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Welcome back to yet another installment of Openings and Closings. This week we welcome a few new Greenpoint spots, a coffee shop/woodworking parlor, and yet another seafood restaurant. As usual, the few goodbyes we have are hard, but there are mercifully only three. And as always, let us know
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Photo by Bill Oxford [https://unsplash.com/@bill_oxford?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gavel?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BAY RIDGE – A local tax preparer and his company the Five
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Dr. Ahmad Jaber. (Photo: Joey O’Loughlin, Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.)BAY RIDGE – One of the most prominent Muslim and Arab leaders in Brooklyn, Dr. Ahmad Jaber, who founded a number of community-based organizations and masjids after surviving loss and poverty, and someone who was an
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Borsalia [http://borsalia.com/] 79 Grand Street, between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyHEnWlM9t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyHEnWlM9t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] This new coffeehouse and pastry shop opened on
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This week we say hello to lots of exciting new spots, including gooey cookies just in time for Halloween, a new Palestinian spot, and lots of interesting new sweets. Sadly, we also say goodbye to a classic Park Slope Diner and several Bay Ridge Italian institutions. As always, let us
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City Point, 445 Albee Square West in February of 2019 (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Century 21 will be closing all of its 13 stores, located mostly across the city and nearby suburbs [https://www.c21stores.com/stores], and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy [https://cases.stretto.com/Century21]. The
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BAY RIDGE/CONEY ISLAND – Last Thursday night some 60 residents Zoomed into the Southern Brooklyn Community Roundtable on School Reopening, organized by Assemblywoman Mathylde Frontus (AD46, Coney Island, Dyker Heights and parts of Bay Ridge). The event offered those present – mainly parents and educators from School Districts 20 and 21
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District 20 Outgoing Superintendent Carina Kostantino with schoolchildren [https://www.facebook.com/CECDistrict20/photos/a.1217949231635561/1217953831635101/?type=1&theater] ., via CEC20 Facebook page.BAY RIDGE – On Friday, it was revealed that Superintendent Karina Costantino of District 20 (D20) will be retiring, effective Monday, August 31st. The announcement was
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Treyger speaking at the press conference this afternoon. (Photo via Treyger’s office)BENSONHURST – Following months of hateful harassment of the Asian community, an 89-year-old woman was set on fire on July 11. The 89-year-old Asian woman was slapped, and her shirt was lit on fire by two men as