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Coney Island Beach when it first reopened a few weeks ago. (Photo via Erica Price)It’s Thursday! Again, it’s hot out. Please remember to take care of yourself and check on your neighbors. And tomorrow is Eid al-Adha. [/eid-al-adha-during-a-pandemic/] Eid Mubarak to all of our neighbors. May your
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This is from Eid 2019, during a time where there was no pandemic. (Todd Maisel/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN – A pandemic will not stop Muslims from celebrating Eid al-Adha tomorrow, Friday, July 31. Eid al-Adha is also referred to as the Festival of the Sacrifice and is observed after the completion of
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Aleksejs Saveljevs was sentenced to 10 years in prison today. (Photo via Brooklyn DA’s office)FLATBUSH – The man who stabbed a 57-year-old Black woman in the Church Avenue subway station two years ago was sentenced to ten years in prison. Back on November 9, 2018, at around 7:30
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The MTA Mask Force giving out free masks to straphangers. (Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit)It’s Wednesday! How are you enjoying the weather? Remember, we are still in a pandemic. Please keep wearing your face coverings when outside. * We talked to two young Milken Scholars,
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Naomi Nesmith (left) and Ayan Rahman. (Photos were given by Nesmith and Rahman) BROOKLYN – For Naomi Nesmith (18) and Ayan Rahman (18), March 13 — the day the NYC Schools shut down in the face of COVID-19 pandemic — was their last day of high school before college. Their last semester of
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Free Mobile Covid-19 testing site in Ocean Hill Brooklyn on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s Tuesday! It’s hot outside (again), so please remember to take care of yourselves and your neighbors. We also have some nice stories coming up this week and next,
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Nostrand Playground. (Photo via NYC Parks)FLATBUSH – After an uptick in shootings, a recreation center for the youth is coming soon to the Nostrand Playground to “put them in the right path, to stop problems before they begin,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today. “We know there’s been a
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Photo: Flickr Creative CommonsBROOKLYN – This was another weekend with shootings and deaths. In four separate shootings across the borough, five people died, including a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old. On Friday, July 24, around 5:30 p.m., 39-year-old Ancil Blackman was shot in the face in front of a church
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WILLIAMSBURG – A 37-year-old motorcyclist is dead after an NYPD car crashed into him while allegedly responding to a shooting. On Saturday, July 25 at around 9:25 p.m., cops were in a 2017 Ford Explorer NYPD vehicle with sirens on, traveling westbound on Metropolitan Avenue. They say they were
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Free Mobile Covid-19 testing site in Ocean Hill Brooklyn on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)It’s finally Friday! Did you enjoy the rain this afternoon? We hope you are staying safe and wearing your face coverings when outside! * The Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law to
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Clarkson Estates will be located on Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Garden. EAST FLATBUSH/PLG – As part of the Vital Brooklyn initiative, 291 affordable housing units are coming to Flatbush, Assemblywoman Diana Richardson announced. Vital Brooklyn [https://www.ny.gov/transforming-central-brooklyn/vital-brooklyn-initiative-0] is a $1.4 billion plan funded through
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BED STUY – Cops are looking for six guys who beat up a 12-year-old boy inside a deli two weeks ago. On Monday, July 13 at around 5:30 p.m., a 12-year-old boy was inside a deli on Marcy Avenue near Pulaski Street. Then, a group of six guys came