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Entrance to a building, where Lincoln High School students gathered. Courtesy of a resident.BRIGHTON BEACH – For residents and storekeepers on one Neptune Avenue block between Ocean Parkway and Brighton 3rd Street, being close to Lincoln High School has been an unrelenting disaster. Massive groups of students, often high on
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New HRA center in Bushwick. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.BROOKLYN — One out of every four Brooklynites lives in poverty and depends on SNAP [https://1giqgs400j4830k22r3m4wqg-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Shadow-of-the-Shutdown_Food-Bank-For-New-York-CIty-Brief.pdf] (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program). Survival could soon become more difficult for
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Nicole Malliotakis. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE — Over the weekend, over three dozen residents woke up to their vehicles being vandalized along avenues in the 70s near Shore Road. For some cars, the tires were slashed. For others, they were keyed. Just last month, about 35 cars were also
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Lindsey Boylan. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BENSONHURST/BORO PARK – The 10 Congressional District, which encompasses the Upper West Side in Manhattan and many Brooklyn waterfront neighborhoods as well as Bensonhurst and Boro Park, has been represented by Congress Member Jerry Nadler since 2013. Lindsey Boylan [https://lindseyboylan.com/] is looking
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Young men in a mosque. (Photo: Rifky Nur Setyadi on Unsplash)BAY RIDGE – A Muslim family, along with Council on American-Islamic Relations-NY [https://www.cair-ny.org/], has filed a civil rights complaint against the NYC Department of Education for allegedly bullying a nine-year-old because of his faith, in retaliation for
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B71 coalition gather outside of Park Slope Library with Council Member Brad Lander and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon. Hannah H. Kim/BklynerPARK SLOPE — Residents from Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, and Park Slope rallied before the MTA’s open house on the Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign [/tell-the-mta-what-you-hate-about-your-brooklyn-bus-route-this-fall/] in Park Slope
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SOUTH BROOKLYN — At a town hall [/mayors-promises-sheepshead-last-nights-town-hall/] in Sheepshead Bay back in September 2017, Mayor de Blasio promised a $10 million initiative that would provide homeowners in Southern Brooklyn with free sewage cut-off valves. However, it seems that the mayor misspoke. That money would be coming from state funds, not
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerKENSINGTON – Over a dozen neighbors gathered at the corner of Church Avenue and East 4th Street to begin a walking tour commemorating six people who had died in six years just a few blocks away from each other. Council Member Brad Lander called it the most depressing
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Steven Patzer. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BENSONHURST/CONEY ISLAND – Steven Patzer is an almost-23-year-old who is running to represent District 47 in City Council [https://stevenpatzer.com/] with a mission to bring folks together and get stuff done for the good of the community. Current Council Member Mark Treyger is
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — On Friday night packed with anger and emotion, over 1,000 people marched and protested against police brutality and the crackdown on MTA’s fare evasion. The large protest at One MetroTech Center was in response to the videos of black teenagers being punched in
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Hurricane Sandy.Hurricane Sandy slammed into Brooklyn in 2012. It caused 43 deaths and $19 billion in widespread devastation. [http://www.nyc.gov/html/sirr/downloads/pdf/final_report/Ch_1_SandyImpacts_FINAL_singles.pdf] Seven years later, the effects of the storm still linger. Though much work was done
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School District 13 is a classic example of gentrification in Brooklyn, representative of the last decade and a half in the borough. As local schools learn to navigate the challenges that come with rapidly changing demographics of neighborhoods that surround them, the Academy of Arts and Letters in Clinton Hill,