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FAD Market Holiday Pop-Up [https://fadmarket.co/holiday-pop-up-the-invisible-dog-art-center-december-7-8-14-15] . Photo by Stephen Yang/FAD Market.‘Tis the season! Support your local businesses and makers by choosing to shop at these Brooklyn holiday markets. Often, these markets represent voices
affordable housing
Grow Brooklyn worked with the Holmes family to save their Staten Island house after Mrs. Holmes passed away. Photo by Minnow Park PhotographyThis is a time of year Brooklynites are looking for ways to give back to their communities. Neighbors throughout the borough need help in a number of ways,
Carroll Gardens
The best gifts are ones bought from your local merchants! Get your holiday shopping done and enjoy a variety of discounts and perks at the Court Smith “Holiday Shopping & Cheer” event. Dec 5th from 6-9PM. 30+ retailers, live music and refreshments! Start at Invisible Dog for treats and
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FDNY Deputy Chief Michael Grogan. Photo courtesy of Loudlabs.FLATBUSH — One person is dead and seven are injured after a two-alarm fire ripped through an apartment early this cold morning. At around 4:40 a.m. on December 2, the FDNY responded to a fire on 1176 Nostrand Avenue
Central Brooklyn
Thankful for the kindness and generosity of strangers. Liena Zagare/BklynerFall is the season to celebrate, to share kindness, to be grateful for what we have. I wanted to say Thank You to our readers and especially our subscribers, who make our work possible. We at Bklyner are impressed daily
Central Brooklyn
SJ Baren [https://unsplash.com/@sjbaren?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=photographer-credit&utm_content=creditBadge] Happy almost Thanksgiving! We are so close! Every year for the past 7, with the help of our readers we have raised $10,000+ for CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Food Pantry [https:
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Two Jewish boys in Boro Park. (Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — Cops are looking for five teenage boys that yanked a yarmulke and a hat off two Jewish boys last week. On Monday, November 11 at around 6 p.m., the group of five teenagers approached a 14-year-old
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New HRA center in Bushwick. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.BROOKLYN — One out of every four Brooklynites lives in poverty and depends on SNAP [https://1giqgs400j4830k22r3m4wqg-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Shadow-of-the-Shutdown_Food-Bank-For-New-York-CIty-Brief.pdf] (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known
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BROOKLYN — As the temperature drops consider helping a fellow New Yorker out with a winter coat. You can donate a new one or lightly used one at one many Brooklyn drop-off locations. Don’t have time? You can also donate $20 [https://coatdrive2019.funraise.org/] to provide a coat
Central Brooklyn
MIDWOOD – An informational meeting about East Midwood Jewish Center’s (EMJC) plan to rent a former Jewish day school building to a charter-school devoted to educating at-risk kids devolved into a chaotic shouting match last night, pitting the Orthodox and Conservative Jewish communities in Flatbush against each other.
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerAfter months of denying gas to new customers and holding them hostage, the National Grid moratorium has been lifted after Governor Andrew Cuomo and the gas company reached a new deal. As part of the deal, National Grid will lift its moratorium immediately. The company has 30
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerPROSPECTS LEFFERTS GARDEN – A one-year-old is dead and police have labeled it a homicide. Last week on Tuesday, November 19 at around 10 a.m., cops were called for an unconscious baby boy at Winthrop Street near Albany Avenue. One-year-old Aidenn Joyette was