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1534 62nd Street, photo via Property Shark [http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Property-Report/?propkey=261112]On an industrial Boro Park street just a few blocks from the 66th Precinct, one tipster claims a lot of shady business is going down. “At 1534 62nd street, there is a ‘business’ by the
Bensonhurst
The current, near-windowless structure at 6202 14th Avenue. Photo by Christopher Bride via PropertyShark [http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Property-Report/?propkey=269974]On the heels of a permit application to construct a new three-story synagogue [/38041/] in a long vacant Boro Park lot, permits have now been filed to build
Central Brooklyn
Black minivan slowed after hitting the 6-year-old boy, then rolled away.Cops are searching for a driver who plowed into a young boy and then fled the scene in Borough Park yesterday, close to the border of Kensington and blocks from the southern edge of Greenwood Cemetery. Surveillance footage shows
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(Source: failedmessiah.typepad.com)For the first time in years, Samuel Kellner, who fought to expose sex abuse in Borough Park’s Orthodox Jewish community, can breath a sigh of relief. New Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson dropped the justice-chilling charges brought forth by his predecessor, Charles Hynes, earlier this
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Source: CeCILL via Wikimedia CommonsAssemblyman Dov Hikind secured $1 million for new security cameras to be installed in Borough Park and the project is continuing to stir controversy [/borough-park-and-midwood-are-getting-1-million-in-security-cameras-stirring-some-controversy/] among those who feel that the cameras raise serious questions over privacy. A New York Daily News editorial [http://www.nydailynews.
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Councilman David Greenfield (Source: Facebook)Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Councilman David Greenfield exchanged vicious remarks in regards to the race for the Brooklyn District Attorney. According to a report [http://politicker.com/2013/08/hikind-blasts-greenfield-for-disgusting-lies-and-unconscionable-gutter-politics-in-brooklyn-d-a-s-race/] by Politicker, Greenfield, who supports incumbent Charles Hynes, warned that candidate Ken Thompson would “target
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A Microscopic Look at the Measles Virus (Source: Center For Disease Control via Wikimedia Commons)The measles outbreak in Borough Park is getting worse. Last week we reported [/measles-outbreak-hits-ultra-orthodox-in-borough-park/] that the outbreak has already infected 21 people in Borough Park this year and one in Williamsburg. Now Failed Messiah is
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Source: Facebook via NY PolitickerYesterday [/assemblyman-dov-hikind-dons-black-face-at-a-purim-party/] we tipped you off to the brewing controversy over Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s Purim costume, in which he dressed as a basketball player, which, of course, means he was in blackface and an afro. Defiant at first, the ensuing media reaction has forced Hikind
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Source: Councilman David Greenfield’s officeFrom the offices of Councilman David Greenfield: More than 150 Borough Park residents, elected officials and ambassadors to Sweden and Hungary braved the rain yesterday afternoon on the first day of Chanukah to honor the legacy of great humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg at a street co-naming
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Source: Jelson25 via Wikimedia CommonsLast month during the second day of celebration for Rosh Hashanah, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) towed vehicles after posting a note the day before, a time when operating a vehicle is not permitted. Councilman David Greenfield has noticed a rise in the occurrence of
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Image courtesy of the offices of Assemblyman Dov HikindJust a few weeks after the Borough Park area was vandalized with anti-semetic graffiti [/swastika-graffiti-spraying-continues-over-the-weekend/], the perpetrators have struck again. Police have a video of the vandals drawing on a car in front of the Hamodia office at 207 Foster Avenue in
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The following is a press release from the office of City Councilman David Greenfield: City Renames 13th Ave to Honor World War II Hero Raoul Wallenberg at Urging of Greenfield and Lander Brooklyn – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, one of the great heroes of World War II who is credited with