Announcements
As COVID-19 rates continue to hover above 5% in hotspot areas throughout New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that all nonessential businesses in red zones will close for 14 days, starting Oct. 8, with schools remaining closed until at least Oct. 21. In yesterday’s press conference, Mayor de
Bed Stuy
On a narrow sidewalk on the edge of Bushwick, Brooklyn, last Friday evening, a DJ was blasting techno music, his mixer set up on a foldable table. On the other side of the sidewalk, the smell of grilled hot dogs and hamburgers wafted from the grill, while a crowd was
Animals
Benji the Cat. (Photo via Dahlia Schweitzer)DITMAS PARK – In the midst of chaos and politics, neighbors got together to save a sick cat from dying on a Brooklyn street earlier this week. It all began about four days ago when a neighbor posted a photo of a sick-looking cat
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BROWNSVILLE – One person is dead and three are injured after a shooting that took place last night around 10:40 p.m. According to the NYPD, four men were shot on Hegeman Avenue near Osborn Street. One of them was found with a gunshot wound to the chest, and died
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Ocean Parkway (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)We are already a week into October! We wish we had some good news, but coronavirus cases are rising again. Some neighborhoods in “red zones” in certain zip codes are starting to be shut down. [/latest-on-southern-brooklyns-covid-cluster-return-to-lockdown/]Our editor and publisher Liena Zagare wrote an
Borough Park
The family of Berish Getz says he was beaten unconscious by a crowd in Borough Park protesting Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order to shut down schools and limit synagogue capacity after a coronavirus spike, Oct. 6, 2020. Courtesy of Mordy GetzBy Reuven Blau, originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/brooklyn/
Central Brooklyn
The Borough President at the dumping ground. (Photo via Eric Adams)EAST FLATBUSH – Farragut Road near Utica Avenue has become a dumping ground for garbage. Now, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is calling for people to document the culprit(s) and make their streets cleaner. “You know, this is our
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Kelly Sikkema [https://unsplash.com/@kellysikkema?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/remote-school?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve heard from my Bangladeshi Kensington neighbors
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Photo: Loudlabs NYCEAST NEW YORK – A woman has died after crashing into a USPS truck just before 2:00 a.m. this morning. According to the NYPD, a 20-year-old woman was driving a late model Honda Accord southbound on Atkins Avenue, when she crashed into a U.S Postal Service
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Photo via Jessie ChildsPARK SLOPE – A Chase Bank location was graffitied with red paint and a few messages over the weekend. It has since been cleaned up. Cops tell us the graffiti was reported on Sunday, October 4 at around 12:45 a.m. at 127 Seventh Avenue. According to
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Photo: Paul Stremple/BklynerSUNSET PARK – On Saturday, October 3 shortly after 7:30 a.m, Clara Kang was bicycling home, going eastbound on 56th Street near 3rd Avenue, having just finished the night shift at NYU-Langone Brooklyn. A 29-year-old man on a black and white 2018 Suzuki GSZ-R Motorcycle was
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Sama’s dad and brothers. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BATH BEACH – The community is calling for safer streets after seven-year-old Sama Ali was killed by a truck driver [/sama-ali-killed-scooter/] as she was crossing the street on her scooter last week. The little girl had been riding her scooter on September