Announcements
BROOKLYN – Saturday, November 11 is Veterans Day. Government offices will be closed, there will be no mail delivery, libraries will be closed, alternate side parking is suspended but all other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect. Garbage/recycling/organics collections are on a normal schedule. Check out NYC.gov
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The NYPD is asking for help with two different missing persons cases in Brooklyn reported this week. East Flatbush Jada Alexander, 14, missing in East Flatbush since Thursday, November 2 (Photo via DCPI)Jada Alexander, 14, has been missing since Thursday, November 2. She was last seen around 11:00
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Rendering via Alloy Development [http://www.alloyllc.com]DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Alloy Development [http://www.alloyllc.com] has partnered up with 32BJ SEIU [http://www.seiu32bj.org/], the largest property services workers union in the country, on its 80 Flatbush [http://www.80flatbush.com] project in an effort to create permanent
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Photo: Liena Zagare/BKLYNERHere are the winning candidates of the 2017 General Election [http://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2017/?officetype=6&languageType=English&electionCycle=2017] . Mayor [http://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2017/meet-the-candidates/Mayor?officetype=1&languageType=English&electionCycle=2017] : Bill de Blasio (D,
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PARK SLOPE – It’s Election Day 2017! Today, New Yorkers get to vote [/remember-to-vote-new-yorks-elections-are-tomorrow/] for Mayor, Pubic Advocate, Comptroller, Borough President, and City Council representatives. Three ballot proposals [http://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2017/ballot-proposals/?languageType=English] —including the contentious Constitutional Convention [/constitutional-convention-debate-lamp-post/]—are up for decision as well.
Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Community Board 6, former District Manager Craig Hammerman is seated second from leftPARK SLOPE – All charges against former Brooklyn Community Board 6 District Manager, Craig Hammerman, have been dropped, his lawyer announced on Monday. “On Nov. 1, 2017, all charges pending in Brooklyn Criminal Court, against Craig Hammerman, former
brownsville
The NYPD is asking for help with four missing persons cases in Brooklyn. Flatbush Ditmas Park Briana Carter, 14, has been missing since Thursday, October 26. She was last seen around 7:00 pm leaving her home on the 2000-block of Bedford Avenue, between Clarendon and Avenue D. Carter is
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Yesterday’s news about DNAinfo shocked us at the BKLYNER newsroom on Coney Island Avenue. The disappearance of DNA Info leaves a lot of great reporters out of work, and many communities with much less coverage. Over years of bootstrapping local news coverage in Brooklyn, I’ve become convinced that
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MARINE PARK – In his Sheepshead Town Hall back in September, Mayor De Blasio promised many things [/mayors-promises-sheepshead-last-nights-town-hall/]. Among them was a STOP sign by a local school – which he was adamant would be installed by the end of October, if warranted. The exchange at the town hall was extremely memorable:
Central Brooklyn
Abdullah Kwaja, president of the Turkestanian Association speaks at the press conference (Comice Johnson/BKLYNER)Yesterday afternoon Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, met with prominent Uzbek-Americans of NYC to address yesterday’s attack in Lower Manhattan. The attack, which left eight people dead, was allegedly carried out by Sayfullo Saipov,
Arts & Culture
CLINTON HILL – Last night, the creepy and kooky team behind Halloween 313 [https://www.facebook.com/Halloween313Theatrical/], who have been putting on elaborate, family-friendly stage shows for neighbors every October 31 for the past 20 years, performed its swan song. Rehearsals for Halloween 313’s production of The Curse of
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James Nixon at the door to his home on Marion Street, where he’s lived nearly his entire life. (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BROWNSVILLE – Standing in his lavender living room, wearing a purple shirt, James Nixon watched as they pulled up his beloved purple carpet and dragged it to the curb.