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BOROUGH PARK/WILLIAMSBURG – NYC Department of Health reports that the number of measles cases has risen to 17, up from 7 last week, and that the highly infectious disease has spread from the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg to Borough Park. The children affected range in age from 7 months
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Naomi Levin Campaigns at a subway stop. Photo by Rosemary Misdary / Bklyner WESTERN BROOKLYN – In emerald heels, Naomi Levin fought for votes during the morning rush. Commuters muttered “no”, and avoided campaign cards in her outstretched hand, yet she remained undeterred. “My polls showed that a majority of voters in
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KENSINGTON – Boro Park’s booming Orthodox Jewish community is spilling over the borders of the neighborhood, bringing with it new religious schools and new tensions with neighbors at the sleepy end of Kensington. The big new school that opened on the corner of Clara Street and 36th Street last fall
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Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports and Events CenterIce skating has been a winter pastime in New York City since 1858 [https://hyperallergic.com/422185/160-years-of-ice-skating-in-new-york-city/] when the first dedicated rink opened on a lake near 72nd Street in Manhattan. Its popularity has only grown since then. Well, that chill in
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CLINTON HILL – A group of young men held up a Clinton Hill wine shop Friday night, but the armed oenophiles seemed to prefer cash to cabernet. The robbery took place on Friday, October 19, around 7:00 pm said police, when four suspects in their late teens or early twenties
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFor the first time, some New York City voters can expect to use two pages when they go to bubble in their ballots for the November 6 election. Twenty days before the general election Board of Elections announced, during a live-streamed meeting on Tuesday, a modification to
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The brutal attack took place at the intersection of 46th and 13th, apparently sparked by a man crossing the street too slowly (Screenshot via Google Maps) BOROUGH PARK – Over the weekend, a brutal attack on a Jewish man in the streets of Brooklyn has led to public outcry over what
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And to end the day on a happy note – we have no idea why a llama was roaming in Borough Park today, but folks say it was. 14th Ave around 54th: > Llama strolling the streets of Borough Park…. pic.twitter.com/TVWXT1Yx8x [https://t.co/TVWXT1Yx8x] — Jacob Kornbluh ?? (@jacobkornbluh)
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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
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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