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Photo: Todd Maisel/BklynerUPDATE: Cops have identified the slain cyclist as 28-year-old Devra Freelander. She was an artist from Bushwick. BUSHWICK – Just four days after a bicyclist was killed in Brownsville, another cyclist was hit and killed by a truck Monday afternoon. This marks the 15th cyclist death in NYC
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EAST FLATBUSH – East Flatbush Restaurant Week [https://www.facebook.com/events/2054605487973599/] is in full swing. Organized by the Community Board 17 Commerce Committee [http://www.cb17brooklyn.org/about/committees/commerce/], HABNET [http://www.habnet.com] (Haitian American Chamber of Commerce), Elite Learners, Inc. [http://elitelearners.org], and The Breakfast
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FLATLANDS – Another pedestrian was killed by a driver. This time, a 33-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle last week. Ingrid Pineda-Cuellar was crossing the street at Avenue L and Utica Avenue on Thursday, June 27 at around 6:53 a.m. Cops say she was crossing west to east
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Photo: BklynerUPDATE: Cops arrested 41-year-old Sam Chen on July 4th. He was charged with Murder and Criminal Possession of a Weapon. SUNSET PARK – A 45-year-old man is dead after being shot in his own bed last Friday. On Friday, June 28, at around 12:34 p.m., cops found an
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Photo Courtesy of NPowerDo a search of the term “data breach” and you’ll get a sense of how vulnerable companies of all kinds are to attack. And with that vulnerability comes a need for cybersecurity experts, people with the knowledge and skills to help defend against those attacks. Unfortunately,
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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided to currently block a question on the 2020 census that asks for citizenship status. “The reasoned explanation requirement of administrative law, after all, is meant to ensure that agencies offer genuine justifications for important decisions, reasons that
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Photo: Todd Maisel/BklynerBROWNSVILLE – Ernest Askew, a cyclist, was killed in Brooklyn last night after being struck by a vehicle. Askew, 57, was riding his bike westbound on Sutter Avenue near Chester Street around 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 27. He was just a five-minute bike ride from his
Arts & Culture
Yoni Katz in a library on Kingston Avenue, where he begins his tours (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—It all started with a fight over bike lanes. Rabbi Yoni Katz, 40, almost 10 years ago noticed “tension” between “hipsters” and Hasidic people in Williamsburg centered around them [https:
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Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City TransitSUNSET PARK – The 59th Street Subway Station is finally going to have an elevator, but that will come with street closures for three weeks. “Starting tonight at 10:00 p.m. Fourth Avenue from 58th to 60th Streets will be closed to
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerLITTLE PAKISTAN – Naseem Khan Alizai for the last 28 years has spent his days selling gold jewelry on Coney Island Avenue. Some days, he closes his shop making zero bucks. Yet, every day (except on Fridays) he comes back. Alizai, 50, owns the property located at 1064
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MIDWOOD – Cops need help searching for a man that pushed and yanked a necklace off an elderly woman earlier this week. On Monday, June 24 at around 12:47 p.m., an 88-year-old lady was walking on East 21st Street between Avenue J and Ocean Avenue when a man approached
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McCarren Pool/Courtesy of NY ParksGet ready to swim! Brooklyn’s outdoor public pools open for the summer on Thursday, June 27th. Thirteen of the borough’s fifteen pools will be open to all through September 8. The Jesse Owens Playground—JHS 57/HS 26 Pool [http://www.nycgovparks.org/