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Dr. Melony Samuels, the executive director of The Campaign Against Hunger, center with supporters.This holiday season, Brooklyn Community Foundation wants to prove that Brooklyn isn’t just New York City’s largest or hippest borough, it is also its most generous. The Foundation’s #BrooklynGives campaign [http://www.brooklyngives.
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DITMAS PARK — A 60-year-old delivery man was attacked and robbed while delivering food last week. On Tuesday, November 5 at around 9:40 p.m., a man was delivering food to a house on Dorchester Road, between Marlborough Road and East 16th Street. Then, two men approached him and took
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Alexander Rapaport placing a candle on the site of the man’s death. (Photo via Rapaport)BORO PARK – A homeless man died while sleeping on the streets in Brooklyn over the weekend. On November 10, a 46-year-old homeless man who was sleeping on a bench outside the Alben Triangle park
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerKENSINGTON – Over a dozen neighbors gathered at the corner of Church Avenue and East 4th Street to begin a walking tour commemorating six people who had died in six years just a few blocks away from each other. Council Member Brad Lander called it the most depressing
Central Brooklyn
CAMBA volunteersEvery November we have been asking you, our readers, to open your hearts and your wallets and to give as much as you can to help those less fortunate in Brooklyn. This year, as for the last 6 years, we are raising money for CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Emergency
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PROSPECT PARK SOUTH – A 13-year-old boy, Ade Prince, was on his way home from school earlier this month. He never made it home. The last his parents ever saw him was on November 4 as he was leaving for school. He attends Exceed Upper Charter School and is in the
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Crime scene in Flatlands. Lloyd Mitchell/Bklyner.FLATLANDS — A brazen gunman opened fire on a woman and man on Sunday afternoon at 2119 Utica Avenue on November 10. The gunman took aim at his two victims just after 2 p.m. When cops arrived, they found a 33-year-old man with
Business
Giorgi Koguashvili at FIAO in Bensonhurst. Photo by Eli Smith/BklynerWhen Giorgi Koguashvili was a six-year-old in post-Soviet Georgia, his uncle bought him a copy of Space Jam, now best-remembered by everyone else as the cringeworthy crossover of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. For Koguashvili, the movie was life-changing: “I
Central Brooklyn
Retaining wall along tracks. Liena Zagare/BklynerUPDATED: As of Monday morning, it seems DOB had no idea that the walls were the property of the NYC TransitAuthority – see the letter here DOB sent to NYC Transit [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6544387-Cid-EF689545-71C2-44F3-9816-DF8CFCEBC6F9-1.html] . Homeowners can sleep easier tonight. Assemblyman William
Central Brooklyn
New York City — The city is holding general elections for city civil court, supreme court, and the District 45 city council seat tomorrow, on November 5, 2019. On the ballot are also proposed revisions to the New York City Charter, legislation proposals built on public meetings and hearings throughout the
Central Brooklyn
Unveiling of the Malbone Centennial Way. Liena Zagare/BklynerOn November 1, 1918, an accident so horrific took place in Central Brooklyn, that a street was renamed to wipe it off the memory. A hundred years later, a plaque has been unveiled to tell the story of the event that led
Central Brooklyn
Courtesy of QSAC (Quality Services for the Autism Community)The start of a new school year is an exciting time for New York children—a time when they get to meet new teachers and make new friends. But for many students, this hopeful excitement is replaced by anxiety. This is