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Outside 280 Frost Street. (Photo via Google Maps)EAST WILLIAMSBURG – A 27-year-old man from Bed-Stuy was shot dead inside Cooper Houses over the weekend. According to the NYPD, the homicide took place on Saturday, January 19 at about 10:22 p.m. Police arrived on the third-floor hallway of 280
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BED STUY – The NYPD needs help searching for two men involved in a homicide that occurred at Kingsborough Houses last weekend. To recap, on Sunday, January 13 at approximately 1:30 p.m., police discovered a 43-year-old man inside 219 Kingsborough 2nd Walk with two gunshot wounds. [/man-shot-kingsborough-houses/] According to
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MARINE PARK – A firefighter was arrested for drunk driving and hitting a pedestrian after going home from a slain firefighter’s funeral [/firefighter-steven-h-pollard-dies-trying-to-save-crash-victims/] on Friday. According to the NYPD, 36-year-old Matthew Wilson was driving home while intoxicated, when his car struck a 31-year-old on Marine Parkway and Quentin Road. The
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BED STUY – A man died after being shot yesterday afternoon inside the Kingsborough Houses. On Sunday, January 13 at approximately 1:30 p.m., police discovered a 43-year-old man inside 219 Kingsborough 2nd Walk with two gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to Interfaith Hospital and was pronounced dead. According
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Despite the light dusting of snow and cold weather families from across Brooklyn came to the Camp Expo and Activity Fair at P.S. 139 last Sunday. Families had the chance to meet camp reps and kids could try their hand a variety of activities from stop motion filmmaking and
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Public Advocate Candidate Series, a Bklyner and Solidarity Space Collaboration. BAY RIDGE – The race for Public Advocate is going full steam ahead. Over two dozen candidates have declared their intentions and are gathering signatures to get on the ballot. We have partnered with Solidarity Space [https://www.solidarityspace.org/] in
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PARTNER NEWS: The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) received the highest grade “A” for patient safety from the prestigious Leapfrog Group. TBHC is one of only two hospitals in all of New York City to get an “A” and is the only A-rated hospital in Brooklyn. In fact, only about 8%
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The kids are back in school and while summer is still six months away, it is a good time to start looking at options. Why not get a head start on planning (and budgeting) and join us at the Summer Camp Expo and Activity Fair. There will be over 27
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BED-STUY – Once you’ve shoehorned 80 musicians into a Brooklyn flat for a live recording of an imaginatively arranged cover of a radio-friendly pop song, where do you go next? If you said, “Iceland, obviously,” you’re on the same page as the Apartment Sessions [https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Fannie Pettie Watts (Photo: Screenshot Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. website) BEDFORD STUYVESANT — Fannie Pettie Watts, the co-founder of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority [http://zphib1920.org/], Inc., will have a street named for her in Bedford Stuyvesant. Lawmakers voted unanimously to honor the former Brooklynite by co-naming Decatur Street between
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police have arrested and charged a Staten Island man in the death of Elina Sokolov, 45, who was killed while crossing Nostrand Avenue at Emmons in October. [/two-traffic-fatalities-and-one-arrest-on-thursday/] Nicholas Didio, 57, was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care, police said.
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An 18-year-old was found murdered on the roof of a Brevoort Houses building yesterday (Screenshot via Google Maps)Two men are dead at housing developments on opposite ends of Brooklyn, police confirmed. One was murdered, the other apparently fell. BED-STUY – This morning, police announced that a teen found dead on