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This past Saturday, May 22, 2021, at approximately 7:00 pm, a blue Toyota Camry pulled up in front of 4911 16 Avenue (Agudath Israel of Sixteenth Avenue) in Borough Park.According to reports to police, the three men in the car began to yell anti-Jewish statements at four men
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At a virtual forum Thursday afternoon, five leading candidates for Brooklyn Borough President weighed in—or demurred—on a hot-button issue for Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community: how strictly to regulate secular education in the city’s yeshivas. The candidates—Council Members Antonio Reynoso [https://www.reynosoforbrooklyn.com/], Robert Cornegy
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Andrew Yang. (Image: Campaign)The heads of several major Hasidic sects in Borough Park jointly endorsed Andrew Yang for mayor yesterday, almost certainly guaranteeing the candidate several thousand votes from the neighborhood. The endorsement ran as an ad [https://hamodia.com/2021/04/28/yang-endorsed-coalition-borough-park-hasidic-activists/] in Yiddish-language newspapers on Wednesday,
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Council Member Kalman-Yeger at Digilio Playground. John McCarten/NYC CouncilBy Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/4/7/22372941/kalman-yeger-unopposed-brooklyn-city-council] by THE CITY. [https://www.thecity.nyc/] When voters in Brooklyn’s City Council District 44 cast ballots in November, they’ll
Announcements
This morning Park Slope civil rights lawyer and Democratic District Leader Doug Schneider [https://dougschneiderbk.com/meet-doug/] announced his campaign to represent the 39th Council District had received the support of 39 nine community leaders across the district. Doug Schneider, campaign photo.Schneider is running to replace term-limited council member
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Highlawn School in GravesendTwo MTA buses blocking each other’s path yesterday evening at a Boro Park intersection resulted in a conflict between the drivers and a massive traffic backup, according to videos shared to Twitter. The cause, the MTA says: an illegally parked minivan and shipping container. In the
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L-R Top row: West, Hanif, Schneider; bottom row: Haq, Krebs, ReinCandidates for Brooklyn’s Council District 39 (Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Windsor Terrace) gathered virtually Thursday night to talk about issues ranging from the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus rezoning to school reopenings and composting. At a forum hosted
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Hatzolah and NYPD arriving at the scene. Image by Loudlabs.Boro Park/Mapleton Yesterday, the driver who struck and killed one child and left another in critical condition [/one-child-killed-another-critically-injured-in-horrific-borough-park-crash/] on January 4, was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and
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A line forms outside Masbia’s Borough Park location in May 2020. (Image: Alexander Rapaport/Masbia)Masbia, the Borough Park-based soup kitchen and food pantry network [https://www.masbia.org/] that distributes kosher hot meals and emergency food packages, announced yesterday it would double the size of its Brooklyn locations.
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When it was announced Monday afternoon that the Department of Education (DOE)’s Gifted and Talented (G&T) exams would cease after this school year, many parents were outraged, particularly those who live or have children attending schools in Southern Brooklyn. Carrie, a single mom who’s son attends
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Rendering of the new CityHawk air ambulance (Image from the Urban Aeronautics website)To avoid traffic, Hatzolah wants to take to the skies, or so it would seem. Hatzolah Air, a newly formed air division of the volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) organization whose independent chapters serve mostly Orthodox Jewish
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Aaron Mastofsky speaking in a video interview while at the US Capitol building on Wednesday.The large crowd of Trump supporters who gathered in Washington on Wednesday to protest Congress’ certification of the election included multiple notable Brooklyn residents. As Gothamist first reported [https://gothamist.com/news/trump-fur-ever-costumed-capitol-rioter-son-brooklyn-supreme-court-judge] , among those
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Police at the scene of the incident. Image by Loudlabs.One child has died, another severely injured, as a result of a horrific car crash in Borough Park/Bensonhurst on Monday morning that has left the community in deep mourning. The victims, two young boys, were struck by a blue
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Hillel Lichtenstein/BklynerSUNSET PARK/BORO PARK – At around 01:10 pm Monday afternoon, 911 received calls for a retaining wall that collapsed on a few workers in the rear of 454 42nd Street. When first responders got to the scene they discovered a retaining had collapsed on two workers trapping
affordable housing
The Culver El building in Boro Park. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe Culver El Affordable Housing Project on 37th Street would bring large affordable condominiums to the area. The city-initiated rezoning was approved in October of 2010, but ten years later, amid a growing housing crisis, just 36 affordable condos have been
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BROWNSVILLE – Police are asking for help finding 13-year-old Malik Daleiy, who was reported missing on December 8 but was last seen on Friday, December 4. Photo of Malik Daleiy. Courtesy of DCPI.Daleiy was last seen inside his residence at approximately 12:00 p.m. on Friday, December 4, in