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Photo: NYPDHelp cops track down a local senior who has been missing since yesterday. Joseph Pauyo, 81, of East 19th Street, was last seen leaving Crown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center [http://crowncares.com/], located at 3457 Nostrand Avenue, on Wednesday, May 25, at approximately 11:15am, according to police. He
Arts & Culture
Crowds at the Kings Theatre last night. (Photo: Lauren Collins)The Kings Theatre was packed last night as comedy fans took their seats to see Netflix’s The Do Over Comedy Tour. Comedians Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Norm MacDonald, David Spade and Nick Swardson were all on hand
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A crowd of students, parents, school officials, and elected officials gathered at PS 217 last year. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Have a fun night out, spend time with your neighbors, and help support our local public schools. Two area schools are throwing fundraising parties in the next few days, and
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George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845-1887). Toll Gate, Flatbush, Brooklyn, ca. 1872-1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection, 1996.164.2-181 Imagine having to stop at a toll booth as you advanced down Flatbush Avenue. Well, if you wanted to travel from
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Flatbush Avenue, looking north toward Grand Army Plaza, with Prospect Park on the left. (Photo: Google Maps)(This story was updated with a statement from the Prospect Park Alliance on 5/26/16, 2:25pm.) The effort to enhance public access to Prospect Park along its Flatbush Avenue side got
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Crispy Deviled Eggs. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)Brooklyn is home to more Southerners than you think. And it’s also home to folks who lived down South for dollops of their lives (yours truly is a former Atlantan and New Orleanian, dawlin’). Southerners love their home-cookin’, of
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Detective Michael Milici of the 66th Precinct. (Photo: Jole Carliner)A longtime community affairs detective at the 66th Precinct, who was named in a federal corruption investigation, has been fired, DNAInfo reported yesterday [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160524/upper-east-side/top-nypd-official-caught-federal-probe-files-for-retirement] . Detective Michael Milici of the 66th Precinct, who invoked
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Photo: Amanda WolinWhile we enjoy spring flowers, our elected officials are thinking about winter. Borough President Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Kathryn Garcia unveiled a new haulster today designed to salt, and clear snow and ice from smaller tertiary streets in Brooklyn Community District
Business
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerAfter being open for less than a year, Cortelyou Road’s Little Miss Saigon [/blog/food/new-vietnamese-sandwich-shop-opening-on-cortelyou-road/] sandwich and bubble tea shop will close its doors for good on Friday. Owner Teddy Mui opened Little Miss Saigon at 921 Cortelyou Road last September. A separate business owned
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Flatbush Tenant Coalition march for tenants rights in December, 2014. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Do you have a rent-stabilized lease? Are you concerned about a rent increase? Testimony from the public is now being accepted regarding the proposed rent increase guidelines for rent stabilized apartments, lofts, and hotel units with
Business
As a Brooklyn freelancer, it sometimes feels like finding the perfect workspace is more of an art than a science. Sitting at home all day is too close to hermit behavior, but coffee shops are perpetually unreliable—whether it’s internet issues, noisy conversations, or live kids sing-alongs (believe it
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Thick smoke at the March 23rd fire which destroyed 474 Stratford Road. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)The fire that consumed a wooden house on Stratford Road is being treated as “suspicious”. The two-alarm fire that destroyed 474 Stratford Road [/blog/crime/turn-of-century-house-consumed-by-flames-on-stratford-road/], located between Dorchester Road and Ditmas Avenue, on