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Police engaged in a running gun battle with a man who began shooting at them in Brownsville Brooklyn early this morning, just before the start of the annual JÕOvert and West Indian Day Parade.Three people are dead, two others critically wounded as a result of gun violence early Labor
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Image via californialabor [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJyM7kqBSNH/?tagged=rosietheriveter&hl=en]Happy Labor Day! We hope everyone enjoys the final weekend of summer. If you’re sticking around town, here’s some information from the city [https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03233] on what’s
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CROWN HEIGHTS/FLATBUSH – The 52nd annual West Indian American Day Carnival [http://wiadcacarnival.org/] returns this weekend with a series of festivities honoring Caribbean history, culture, and unity, including a Junior Carnival for the kids and the popular “day break” J’Ouvert celebration. With an array of steel band music,
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Gary. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)KENSINGTON – The Kensington Plaza is a small, triangular space created by Church Avenue and Beverly Road meeting at an odd angle. A stretch of concrete sidewalk was turned into a Plaza in 2012 to serve as a green space for neighbors to hang out and
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Domino Park. Liena Zagare[UPDATED: Friday, August 30, 2019 at 2:45pm] A representative for Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte contacted Bklyner with the following correction and clarification. “Although [Bichotte] did not like certain things about how the congestion pricing was being handled still voted in favor of it. Her concerns
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Cops are looking for a man and woman who were involved in a stabbing at a train station over the weekend. On Sunday, August 25 at around 5:33 p.m., cops say there was a dispute between a 41-year-old victim and a man and a woman at
Arts & Culture
Staying in town this Labor Day weekend? If so, grab some friends and family and head out to the various events happening throughout Brooklyn. Check out the Memeseum at Court Tree Gallery for unique works of art, spend the day at the New York Transit Museum and participate in the
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Letter to the Editor: Regarding the five or so highly selective High Schools in the city and the lack of diversity within them and desire to open them up to more underprivileged students, I think we are asking the wrong question. Rather than scrap the current system why not expand
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CROWN HEIGHTS – Cops found a five-year-old kid wandering by himself in the neighborhood. They are now looking for his parents. A little boy was walking by himself at Buffalo Avenue and Park Place around 4:30 p.m. today. He is currently safe with the cops at the 77 Precinct
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S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, 595-611 Smith Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby taken June 15, 2018, the morning after a fire damaged the building.) * * * * After NYC DOT lifted the Stop Work Order on the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse [/dob-to-issue-criminal-court-summons-against-developer-of-bowne-storehouse/] last week, the developer quickly got back to work demolishing
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CROWN HEIGHTS – A 63-year-old Jewish man was the latest victim when someone threw a massive brick to his face yesterday morning. On Tuesday, August 27 at around 7:45 a.m., Abraham Gopin went out for his morning walk at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights. All of a sudden,
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Kensington Plaza in 2016 after the beautification effort. (Photo: Michael M Kadish with permission)KENSINGTON – Neighbors’ complaints of trash at the Kensington plaza (just off Church and McDonald) have finally been heard and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will be conducting a clean-up in the plaza tomorrow, August 28.