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‘Pray At Home!’ Houses Of Worship Close Physical Doors, Open Virtual Ones

Photo via Makki Masjid.BROOKLYN – Houses of worship serve as safe havens for many people. It’s where they go to feel at peace, to get closer to God, to pray. With the coronavirus spreading very quickly, many houses of worship have shut down to protect their communities. It’s

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120-Year-Old Gothic Church in Flatbush Sold for More than $3 Mil

Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)FLATBUSH — A church in Flatbush that some neighborhood residents have wanted to save via landmarking in recent years has been sold for more than $3 million. The 120-year-old decommissioned Flatbush Presbyterian Church, located on

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Police Investigating A Noose Found At Crown Heights Church

CROWN HEIGHTS—A person over the weekend put a noose outside a Pentecostal church in Crown Heights, in a possible hate crime, according to the NYPD. Police are reviewing surveillance footage from a building across the street from the United House of Prayer for all People at 1325 Park Pl,

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New Apartments to Surround Bushwick Avenue Church

Renderings for the new residential project surrounding the church at 964 Bushwick Avenue (Via Think! Architecture)BUSHWICK – An unusual residential development is coming to Bushwick Avenue, with the latest renderings showing a pair of structures rising on either side of a church—which will stay an active house of worship.

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Friday Crime Blotter: Inappropriate Touching in a Sunset Park Church, A Brutal Robbery in Crown Heights & More

(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)SUNSET PARK – Police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with a case of forcible touching that happened within a Sunset Park church last week. On Friday, August 10, around 7:45 pm, the suspect followed a victim into a church near 5th Avenue and 48th

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Church Windows Smashed In Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for a man who smashed the windows of the Williamsburg Spanish Church yesterday evening. A man wielding a bat approached the doors of the church, then struck them six times, surveillance video reveals. The incident took place at approximately 7:25pm on Wednesday, August 16, said

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Brownstone Belt Real Estate Roundup: It’s Time For A Heat Wave

The Brownstone Belt’s luxury market is hotter than any heat wave that Martha & The Vandellas [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fnYpwrng]could have conceived of. Let’s start with a pair of high-profile transactions. Lena Dunham [/celebrity-real-estate-lena-dunham-sells-brooklyn-heights-starter-apartment/] recently flipped a one bedroom in Brooklyn Heights. Dunham managed to

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St. Lydia’s And The Progressive Protestant Co-Working Ethic

(Courtesy of St. Lydia’s)The church reaches all aspects of the life cycle, and at St. Lydia’s [http://stlydias.org/], that reach includes co-working and event planning. The progressive Lutheran dinner-church, through foresight and serendipity, found a home [/blog/neighbors/pastor-emily-scott-the-drive-for-communal-connectedness-at-st-lydias-dinner-church/] in 2014 at 304 Bond Street (between

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South Slope Car Service Collecting Goods For Ecuadorian Earthquake Victims

Red Cross volunteers aid victims of Ecuador’s May 16 earthquake (Image via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/26409477582/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] ). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz

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5 Churches In Sheepshead Bay Worth Visiting This Easter

Bibles tucked behind a pew at the United Methodist Church of Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Happy Good Friday, neighbors! Easter Sunday is on the horizon. And given that houses of worship are an important part of a neighborhood’s culture and identity, we though it would be

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Local Services for the Christmas Holiday

Father Perry & Father Mendez, Our Lady of Refuge ChurchHere are the local congregations with services for Christmas Eve and Christmas: Our Lady of Refuge Church [http://www.olrbrooklyn.org/christmas-2015/] 2020 Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210 Christmas Eve — Thursday, December 24th 9:00AM — English Mass 5:00PM — Family Mass in

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Almost 3 Years After Sandy, Coney Island Cathedral Gets The Repairs It Deserves

Coney Island Cathedral after Superstorm Sandy. (Photo: Bishop Waylyn Hobbs) Despite serving as a hub for disaster relief efforts in the desperate months after Superstorm Sandy, Coney Island Cathedral [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coney-Island-Cathedral/140785405988406], the neighborhood’s largest church, was denied government assistance to help rebuild. Due to

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Show Off Your Talents At An All Souls Bethlehem Church Open Mic Night This Saturday

Photo via Incase [https://www.flickr.com/photos/goincase/5036393063]Calling all neighborhood poets, authors and musicians! All Souls Bethlehem Church [http://allsoulsbethlehem.org/] (566 East 7th Street between Ditmas Avenue and Cortelyou Road) is hosting its next open mic night for local artists to showcase their talents, whether it’

2326 84th st

Today: St. Peter Catholic Academy Students Organize Thanksgiving Food Drive & Prayer Service

Students at St. Peter Catholic Academy organize food drive for the needy.The students of Saint Peter Catholic Academy (8401 23rd Avenue) will host a special Thanksgiving prayer service today at 11am – and they are inviting all southwest Brooklyn parishioners. The service, which will take place at Saint Mary, Mother

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A Rusty Belfry

Don’t you wish this belfry could talk? What all has it seen? As photographed by viewfromabroad [http://instagram.com/p/rBFxONNJkZ/?modal=true]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on

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World’s Greatest Organist To Play Midwood’s Biggest Pipe Organ

Pipe Organ Restoration at Our Lady of Refuge in Brooklyn New York | 6 Years in 7 minutes [http://vimeo.com/71075508] from Joe Vitacco [http://vimeo.com/pipeorgan] on Vimeo [https://vimeo.com]. One of the world’s greatest musicians will be heading to Midwood to lay his hands on

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Give Your Guns To God At Coney Church This Weekend

Source: downtown_boston_2004 / FlickrDistrict Attorney Charles Hynes is teaming up with the NYPD and City Councilman Domenic Recchia for a gun buyback event tomorrow, July 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Coney Island Gospel Assembly Church, 2828 Neptune Avenue between West 28th

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Reverend Gelfant Named Grand Marshall Of Columbus Day Parade

Source: Wikimedia CommonsReverend Michael Louis Gelfant of the Saint Finbar Catholic Church (128 Bay 20th Street) was selected as the Grand Marshall of the Columbus Day Parade next October, according to a report [http://brooklyneagle.com/articles/st-finbar-pastor-named-grand-marshal-brooklyn-columbus-day-parade-2013-05-20-181500] by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Gelfant was chosen by the organizing committee

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Sts. Simon and Jude To Host “Pasta Sunday” March 25

The Saints Simon and Jude Church Holy Name Society will be hosting a “Family Pasta Sunday” on March 25, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. A $20 ticket includes antipasto, salad, pasta, meatballs, bread, wine, soda, espresso, and dessert. Everyone is welcome to an event billed as an

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Summer 2009 Vacation Bible School At Bethel

If you are wondering what to do with the kids next week in the hot summer evenings, a VBS with a Polar Extremes theme [http://polar.rbpstore.org/index.php] might be just what they need to cool them down. The Bethel Baptist Fellowship [http://www.bethelbaptistbrooklyn.org/default.htm]