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Photo: BklynerLITTLE PAKISTAN – After neighborhood drama canceled it last year, the annual Pakistani Independence Day mela is back. The 2019 mela will take place on Coney Island Avenue between Avenue H and Foster Avenue on Sunday, August 18 at 12:30 p.m. Famous guests include singers Nouman Khalid, Fizza
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Makki Masjid located at 1089 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) MIDWOOD – The fight for accountability at the beloved Makki Masjid in Little Pakistan has found its way out the doors of the mosque and into the court. Makki Masjid, officially the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn (MCCB), has
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Here’s how the street signs would look like. (Photo via PAYO)DITMAS PARK – The Coney Island Avenue strip between Avenues C and H, also known as “Little Pakistan,” will be co-named “Muhammad Ali Jinnah Way,” after the founder of Pakistan. “This is a really great achievement of the Pakistani-American
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Photo: BklynerDITMAS PARK – The 72nd anniversary of Pakistan’s independence was supposed to be celebrated with an annual mela (street festival) on Coney Island Avenue (between Avenue H and Glenwood Road) on Sunday, August 19. But disputes among the community and multiple permits being filed got it canceled. The Pakistani
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At the Coney Island Ave and Foster Ave intersection. (Photo/Zainab Iqbal)CONEY ISLAND AVE – A van hit an NYPD car leaving the cop limping and reaching for his head this morning, witnesses say. At approximately 10:30 am, a police car was about to cross Foster Avenue at Coney
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There will be a neighborhood-led clean-up in “Little Pakistan” (Coney Island and Foster Avenues) this Sunday, September 17, from 5 to 8pm. It is organized by the Pakistani American Youth Organization [https://www.facebook.com/payousaa/] (PAYO) in partnership with the Department of Sanitation in an effort to keep the
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(Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)DITMAS PARK – Day three of classes at the brand new P.S. 889 let out with a lot less drama than when they opened with last week [/chaos-new-school-opens-brooklyn/], but danger still lurks in the traffic. So far the only improvements DOT has added are the “no standing”
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Hassan IqbalThe month of Ramadan [/guide-ramadan-2017-brooklyn/]is over, the moon has been sighted and on Sunday, June 25, the majority of Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr (which lasts three days). How did Muslims in Brooklyn celebrate? With the annual Chand Raat Bazaar on Coney Island Avenue [/coney-island-avenue-packed-for-annual-chand-raat-bazaar-ditmas-park/
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The NYPD congratulated Pakistani-American’s on the historic win. (Photo: Hassan Iqbal)About 100 Pakistanis and cricket fans, old and young, gathered at the corner of Foster and Coney Island Avenues to celebrate Pakistan’s historic win against its long-time rival, India, in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy
Central Brooklyn
Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)Kensington’s Pakistani community [/photos/thousands-of-people-celebrate-pakistans-independence-day-at-brooklyn-mela-on-coney-island-avenue/#.VrO7yDYrJ8c] is taking a leading role in keeping the area safe. A civilian patrol, created last summer to protect the Little Pakistan commercial district along Coney Island Avenue following a series of armed robberies in 2014, reports that
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Gennady Litvin / Source: About.meA judge has ordered a Midwood law firm and its lead attorney, Gennady Litvin, to immediately end illegal business practices that included phony claims that it could help clients avoid a foreclosure, and to open up its books so the court could determine restitution for its
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Eat ‘N Run Cafe is now open at 2574 Coney Island Avenue, serving a variety of hot and cold kosher treats. The luncheonette-style cafe will serve up pizza, salad, sandwiches and, yes, sushi, among other things, all deemed kosher under the supervision of Kehilas Hashrus [http://m.greatkosherrestaurants.com/restaurant-detail.
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Cops say a woman in her 20s posed as a utility representative to rob a 79-year-old man in his own home. The woman knocked on the man’s door at approximately 3pm on January 8, in a building near Brighton Beach Avenue and Coney Island Avenue. When the victim answered,
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Dynamic’s Brooklyn facility at 1830 Coney Island Avenue. (Source: DYCInc.org)The associate director of a Midwood-based drug rehabilitation and counseling center said she was among the first to sound the alarm about an impending spike in heroin abuse in the community, and now the group is turning to
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Mandee’s to the rescue? More like turn tail and run. The long-lived Brighton Beach Avenue location of Mandee is having a storewide sale as it gets set to close its doors for good. Its parent company, Big M, is retreating from the neighborhood following bankruptcy proceedings last year that
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The following is a paid announcement from the Shorefront YM-YWHA [http://www.shorefronty.org/] (3300 Coney Island Avenue): Summer Day Camp at the Shorefront Y [http://www.shorefronty.org/Brooklyn-Summer-Day-Camp.aspx]! A licensed community camp located right by the beach, with sessions from June 30 to August 22. Here’s