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No Electioneering. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe city announced they’ll provide language interpreters at 86 polling sites throughout Brooklyn, but the translators will be left out in the cold again this year. Voters whose native language is Russian, Haitian Creole, Italian, Arabic, Polish, and Yiddish will have to seek interpreter services
Arts & Culture
Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.Grandmothers were the cause of celebration on Sunday at the National restaurant and catering hall in Brighton Beach. The talented ladies brought history, whimsy, song, and dance to the stage, and glee to the members of the audience. “I never thought we’d live
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Local elected officials have rallied around efforts to add Russian and French Creole interpreters and translations at polling stations. Following the presidential primary debacle, in which more than 125,000 Brooklyn Democrats [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/04/brighton-beach-among-handful-brooklyn-nabes-voted-sanders/] were dropped from voter rolls, Mayor
Bensonhurst
The report found there are two sex offenders living in the Marlboro Houses. (Source: Google Maps)Elected officials railed against NYCHA Monday for allowing registered sex offenders to to live illegally in public housing — including at least two at Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses [/in-list-of-citys-worst-housing-projects-marlboro-houses-ranks-41st-out-of-349/] . Following a report released last week
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The report found there are two sex offenders living in the Marlboro Houses. (Source: Google Maps)Elected officials railed against NYCHA Monday for allowing registered sex offenders to to live illegally in public housing. Following a report released last week that found the number of convicted sex offenders living in
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Brooklyn tenants advocacy group Flatbush Tenants Coalition visited Albany last week to call for an end to 421-A. (Photo by Anna Gustafson)This June, state lawmakers are expected to vote on renewing a 40-year-old tax exemption program, called 421-a [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/421a.shtml], that
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Magen David Yeshivah High SchoolIn the wake of recent terror attacks [http://www.cbsnews.com/paris-shooting/] in France at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and at a Kosher supermarket – which left many Jewish communities shaken – elected officials joined the faculty and students of Magen David Yeshivah High School [http://www.
68th street
Courtesy of CM Treyger’s officeOur elected officials are taking on 86th Street’s chronic trash problem. [/86th-street-trash-problem/] Councilmen Mark Treyger and Vincent Gentile were joined by Assemblyman Bill Colton as they announced funding for a major cleanup of 86th Street between Stillwell Avenue and 18th Avenue on Friday, November
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Source: @takeonhate/FlickrAssemblyman William Colton is adding his voice to the chorus of condemnation of the anti-Muslim fliers found in a Bath Beach apartment building [/hate-crime-cops-investigating-anti-muslim-fliers-distributed-bath-beach-apartment-building/] this week. The fliers were found throughout the Shore Haven apartment buildings near Cropsey Avenue and 21st Avenue in Bath Beach early this week,
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The following is a statement from Assemblyman William Colton, issued yesterday for Memorial Day: Colton (Source: Facebook)As summer approaches, many of us in southwest Brooklyn will be celebrating Memorial Day by enjoying barbecues, parties and time off from work and school. But while we gather with our families and
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Colton and Salgado (Source: Salgado via Twitter)Assemblyman Bill Colton claims he’s staying out of the congressional race in the 11th District, currently occupied by Michael Grimm, until the candidates up their game and talk about “substantive issues.” Here’s the statement he issued this morning: > “As a
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Garbage in Milestone Park (Photo By Elle Spektor)It is difficult for any city public park to remain perfectly clean, and Milestone Park has not been an exception to this rule. A group of volunteers decided to do something about it and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle is reporting [http://brooklyneagle.
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Source: riacale/FlickrWith Councilman Domenic Recchia term-limited out of his seat [http://council.nyc.gov/d47/html/members/home.shtml] and planning a run against Michael Grimm for a spot in the Congress, a mad scramble to fill the District 47 seat has begun. Early candidates include Christine Quinn aide
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The Parks Department revealed they will be adding free wireless internet to parks in Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, and Marine Park after Bensonhurst Assemblyman William Colton expressed that the city has so far lavished Manhattan and northern Brooklyn communities with the service. Colton said he believes it is unfair that