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There has been an 82 percent increase in anti-Semitic attacks since last year. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BORO PARK – It’s no secret that anti-Semitism has been on the rise. Just over the weekend, anti-Semitic slurs were yelled at two Jewish teenagers. According to the NYPD, there has been an
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A ghost bike to commemorate the death of a cyclistBORO PARK – A 26-year-old cyclist died after being struck by a box truck early evening yesterday. At around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, Pedro Tepozteco was cycling westbound on 47th Street on the right side of the road.
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BORO PARK — Police struggled to control thousands of mourners on Tuesday who came out to funeral services to honor a Grand Rebbe. Funeral procession of The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal (Photo: Todd Maisel)During the funeral procession at 58th and 14th Avenue, two on-duty police officers went to
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Some of the crowd. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal)BORO PARK – A protest against Council Member Kalman Yeger’s “Palestine doesn’t exist” tweet was overtaken Thursday by a raucous counterprotest as the political divide in the Middle East flares up in New York. At about 6 p.m. on Thursday evening,
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BORO PARK – A car drove onto a sidewalk endangering the lives of children in order to avoid waiting behind school buses. Yesterday, former Assemblyman Dov Hikind went on Twitter to post a video of the incident, which takes place at Vizhnitz Cheder on 53rd Street in Borough Park. Hikind tweeted
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Photo: Julieta CervantesBORO PARK – “This is a universal story of women’s empowerment that takes place in a very particular setting. We’re all fighting in some way in whatever communities we’re in,” filmmaker Paula Eiselt said. “This is a really powerful organization. They’re really breaking the ground
Borough Park
MARINE PARK – Two suspects are in custody after a brutal home invasion robbery of an elderly couple in Marine Park, in which the burglars sexually assaulted one of the victims and slashed the other’s face before stealing their car. One of the suspects, however, remains at large. The robbery
Central Brooklyn
Today, a Brooklyn man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for violently assaulting, raping and robbing a sex worker in Boro Park two years ago [/borough-park-woman-bound-and-raped-in-her-home-as-reports-of-rapes-surge-citywide-bensonhurst/] , said the Brooklyn DA’s office. 30-year-old Robert Hernandez Brooklyn man was convicted in June of the violent attack, which including binding the
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CB 14 member Kalman Yeger, at a meeting in 2015. (Photo via BKLYNER)Kalman Yeger is officially the Democratic nominee for Councilmember David Greenfield’s now open position in District 44 [/no-city-council-david-greenfield-will-now-run-non-profit/] — and received an endorsement from the councilman himself. “I’ve known Kalman Yeger for 20 years. He is
Bensonhurst
Greenfield announcing 2016 Participatory Budgeting results at Brooklyn School of Inquiry, 2017. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Council Member David Greenfield says he will not be running for re-election this year, instead he’ll take a position as the new executive director of a Jewish non-profit. Greenfield, who is also
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Assembly Members Felix Ortiz and Dov Hikind, Boro Park Shomrim Liaison Jacob Daskal, City Council Member David Greenfield, Captain Wall, and CB 12 DM Barry Spitzer. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Brooklyn officials held a pro-cop rally outside Brooklyn’s 66th Precinct [/?s=66th+precinct] station this morning in Boro
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Brooklyn Construction Director; CB 12 District Manager Barry Spitzer; Bklyn Parks Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey; Councilman Brad Lander; and designers at groundbreaking for Phase 1, 2016. (Photo via NYC Parks, by Daniel Avila) Tomorrow, the makeover begins on Dome Playground’s basketball and handball courts, Parks Department announced, a much-used park