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Kayla Santosuosso via Jordan Rathkopf/Rathkopf Photography.BAY RIDGE – Kayla Santosuosso does not eat pizza with a fork. Want a slice to eat while walking? Go to Elegante. Want to sit and eat some pizza? Find a table at Lombardo’s. Who was once a little girl sitting in her
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Monique Chandler-Waterman (left) and Farah Louis. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) By Zainab Iqbal and Sam Raskin MIDWOOD/EAST FLATBUSH – City Council candidate Monique Chandler-Waterman accused Council Member Farah Louis of orchestrating an unspecified “deal” involving Trump supporters and “greedy landlords and developers” to get votes from right-leaning voters in the
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Bishop Kearney High will close after August. (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)This week marked the last day of school for the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Catholic schools [https://dioceseofbrooklyn.org/schools/about-catholic-schools/], with summer break now underway. But for some of those long-standing schools, their doors will not reopen in
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCANARSIE – Today is Flag Day, and the day 37 Brooklynites became new American citizens at the Wyckoff House Museum. The historic farmhouse was filled with cheers and claps from new citizens, their families, and their friends this afternoon. The Wyckoff Farmhouse [https://wyckoffmuseum.org/about/history/] is
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Thomas and Lennie. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)COBBLE HILL – The first thing one notices when approaching Thomas DeVito is a beautiful Jindo-mix puppy named Lennie who, much like her owner, doesn’t like to sit still. DeVito is the Director of Advocacy at Transportation Alternatives, an organization [https://www.transalt.
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGERRITSEN BEACH – “Drag queens are robbing children of their innocence,” people shouted outside the Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn Public Library branch on Thursday. Inside, a small room was packed with children listening to a drag queen read It’s Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr. Everyone was
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Fire rages on September 17, 2018, in Kings Plaza parking garage. By Bruce Cotler with permissionKINGS PLAZA – As the seven-alarm fire engulfed Kings Plaza mall’s parking garage, radios used to communicate by firefighters kept going in and out. There were seven “May Day” calls from firefighters during the height
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EAST NEW YORK — Just as a songstress belted out a high note on the ground floor of the East New York Seventh Day Adventist Church, New York City’s first lady was also testifying on a much more secular topic, “How was Iowa?” First lady Chirlane McCray addresses a congregation
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A group of fifth graders hold a sign they made. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) DITMAS PARK – P.S. 139’s playground is in dire need of repairs and students, parents, and administrators are calling on State Senator Kevin Parker to help. About 60 parents gathered at the P.S. 139
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PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Scoops, an ice cream parlor and vegetarian shop in PLG that opened in 1984, faces eviction in an area undergoing rapid gentrification and neighbors are upset. Scoops and Plates Photo: Kadia Goba/BklynerThe news first broke on a closed Facebook group. Stefan Sirucek posted that the business, located
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A cyclist holds a sign calling attention to the death of Aurilla Lawrence who was killed on her bike. (Todd Maisel/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS/MARINE PARK/BORO PARK – While Mayor Bill de Blasio is out campaigning for U.S president, [/park-slope-neighbor-runs-for-president/] cyclists are continuing to die in his city. The
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PARK SLOPE – Amid much anticipation, Mayor Bill de Blasio, our Park Slope neighbor, finally announced his bid to become the 46th president of the United States and some Brooklyn electeds think the idea is pretty hairy. “I have a better chance of regrowing a head of hair than he has