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869 Park Avenue via Google MapsBEDFORD-STUYVESANT/SOUTH SLOPE – Applications are now being accepted for affordable housing units at 869 Park Avenue in Bed-Stuy and 198 19th Street in South Slope. First up, nine one-bedroom apartments are available at 869 Park Avenue, a newly constructed building located between Marcus Garvey Boulevard
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BED-STUY – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the man seen in the below photo and surveillance video in connection to a robbery that occurred in a Burger King last month. Via NYPDAt approximately 10am on Monday, December 4, police say the suspect approached an 84-year-old man
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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT/SUNSET PARK – Shortly after ringing in the New Year early Monday, Brooklyn welcomed two of its newest residents. The borough’s first baby of 2018 was delivered at 12:25am on January 1st at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in Bed-Stuy. Weighing in at 6 pounds 14 ounces and measuring
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Even with the New Year underway, some parts of 2017 still remain—like crime. Here are the NYPD’s updates on crimes committed in Brooklyn over the last month. SUNSET PARK – Police
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BED-STUY – Last week, the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, Gregory Calliste, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the hospital’s first comprehensive health center dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients. L-R: Edward Fishkin, MD, Chief Medical Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull; NYS
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The building at 220A Patchen Ave, where last night’s fire claimed the lives of two men (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Last night, a fire in in Bed-Stuy brownstone claimed the lives of two men. The FDNY received a call about about a fire at 220A Patchen Avenue, near
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UPDATE 12/26 – NYPD released this video today and looking for three young men (17-18 years old) you can see in it. They are wanted in relation to the murder of Tahrim Applewhite. https://bklyner.s3.amazonaws.com/bklyner/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/3393-17-homicide-79Pct.-12-21-17-Final-v.mp4 Individual#1: was wearing
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Two town hall meetings this week offer Brooklynites a space to engage with elected officials before the year’s end. Residents of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s 35th City Council District and parents with kids attending schools in the 13th School Board District will have meetings in their neighborhoods starting this
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A view of the Brevoort Houses from Patchen Avenue (Screenshot via Google Maps) BED-STUY – A 24-year old man was shot and killed in Bed-Stuy last weekend by an unknown attacker outside the Brevoort Houses. The man was standing with friends in the parking lot at 331 Patchen Avenue, around 10:
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