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Photo by David von Diemar [https://unsplash.com/@davidvondiemar?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/police-tape?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death last night. The suspect
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Before the pandemic, thousands of people would gather on Coney Island Avenue to celebrate Pakistan’s independence in August. (Photo via Bklyner)MIDWOOD – The annual Pakistani Independence Day mela will not be taking place this year because of COVID-19, but don’t fret, there will be a Cultural Caravan to
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Hundreds of bicyclists rode down Coney Island Avenue to the site where Jose Alzorriz was killed. (Photo by Todd Maisel)PARK SLOPE – Hundreds of bicyclists from throughout the city jammed Bartel-Pritchard Square on Sunday to follow one rider who was pulling a white bicycle, a “ghost bike,” representing Jose Alzorriz,
Arts & Culture
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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Makki Masjid. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – An ivory colored structure stands sandwiched between two typical brick-colored three-story buildings between Avenue H and Glenwood Road on Coney Island Avenue. Though the stores next to it have closed and new ones have opened, Makki Masjid has stayed in that very spot
Central Brooklyn
Coney Island Avenue and Cortelyou via DOTDITMAS PARK/KENSINGTON – After more than a decade of saying nothing could be done, [/dot-to-conduct-a-left-turn-study-at-notoriously-dangerous-cortelyou-road-coney-island-avenue-intersection-ditmas-park/] NYC DOT revealed last week it has a plan to drastically change the intersection that has been frustrating neighbors for years. Work is expected to start in September. The
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George’s Diner on Coney ISland Avenue (Photo Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)DITMAS PARK: George’s Diner on Coney Island Avenue is legendary. It was the first in Brooklyn to open 24 hours. And at a time when we seem to be reporting on the closure of one old-school diner [/neighbors-bid-farewell-bensonhursts-vegas-diner/
Business
Workers replace the Eleven-7 sign at 560 Coney Island Avenue at Beverley Road. (Photo by Gordon Rothman)What’s in a name? Apparently, for a neighborhood bodega fighting against an incoming corporate giant, a name means a lot. After a protracted, legal trademark battle, Coney Island Avenue’s longstanding Eleven
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)Now, ‘The Sinners’ can scratch one vice off their list — and the worst sin in Brooklyn: taking up parking spaces. Production crews for ‘The Sinners’, a crime drama series premiering this summer, removed their ‘No parking’ signs this week after officials discovered that the signs
Central Brooklyn
752 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Looks like our newest Thai spot on Cortelyou Road [/new-thai-restaurant-set-open-next-week-cortelyou-road/], slated to open this week, will face some immediate competition. The shuttered Propellerhead Restaurant (formerly Visions bar), on Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou Road, will also be a Thai restaurant by
Business
Park Manor, 570 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)The Park Manor Home for Adults, an assisted living facility on Coney Island Avenue appears to be shuttered. Several neighbors reached out to us, noticing the padlock-and-gates down for several days at a time. They also reported not having
Central Brooklyn
The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)Yesterday, a Midwood travel agent was sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for pocketing $350,000 from Pakistani immigrants for whom he was supposed to make travel arrangements to Mecca.
Central Brooklyn
February 19, 2017 (Photo submitted by reader)Last night, firefighters stamped out a house fire on the border of Ditmas Park and Kensington. The all-hands fire started on the top floor of a residential building at 735 Coney island Avenue near Cortelyou Road, around 5:30pm on Sunday, February 19,
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Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Carly Miller / BKLYNER)The CBS cop procedural [http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/] Blue Bloods is back in Ditmas Park…again. Blue Bloods, which features Tom Selleck playing the NYPD police commissioner and Donnie Wahlberg playing an NYPD detective, might as
Central Brooklyn
Video footage courtesy NYPD Police are searching for two men suspected of robbing and stabbing a teenager on Coney Island Avenue on Tuesday, just one block from PS 217. Two young men approached the 16-year-old victim and demanded his bicycle, on November 1 around 9:15pm, according to police reports.
Central Brooklyn
Chicken gyro platter with yellow rice, cucumbers, and white sauce. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)…Because sometimes a lunch salad just won’t cut it. Gyro Cafe, a Middle Eastern Halal restaurant on Coney Island Avenue between Beverley Road and Avenue C, is a great local spot for a hot