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Council Member Robert Cornegy at a press conference before last week’s Third Party Transfer Program Hearing (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BED-STUY — After presiding over a hearing on the recently scrutinized Third Party Transfer Program, Council Member Robert Cornegy said Monday he was unimpressed with the city’s response
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160 Clarkson Avenue, where a new apartment building is planned (Image via Google Maps)FLATBUSH — Since we wrote about an eight-story apartment building [/8-story-apartment-building-to-rise-in-flatbush/] that’s set to rise in Flatbush at 290 Linden Boulevard, a series of new residential developments have been planned for the neighborhood and the neighboring
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY/CROWN HEIGHTS – Cops need help searching for two teen boys that went missing in Brooklyn last week. Roberto Lopez Coj, 16, was last seen at his home on Coney Island Avenue between Crawford and Lancaster Avenues in Sheepshead Bay on July 22 around 9 a.m. Cops describe
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Fred Baptiste by Sam Raskin/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS —On Tuesday, one of New York City’s most dysfunctional community boards got a new leader. Fred Baptiste took the helm [/fred-baptiste-elected-chair-of-tumultuous-community-board-9/] of Brooklyn Community Board 9 [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org/] at a special meeting earlier this week— a meeting that was called
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Adem Bunkeddeko. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)CROWN HEIGHTS — Rep. Yvette Clarke will next year again have to fight for her seat. Adem Bunkeddeko [/adem-running-for-congress/] announced over the weekend that he would challenge Clarke for the second cycle in a row. The New York Times on Saturday broke the news [https:
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Fred Baptiste, Community Board 9’s new chair, speaks before the votes were cast (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — The notoriously tumultuous central Brooklyn community board has chosen a new leader. Community Board 9 [http://www.communitybrd9bklyn.org/], which covers Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, on Tuesday
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Council Member Robert Cornegy addresses the media ahead of Monday’s Third Party Transfer hearing (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CITY HALL — Mayor de Blasio’s housing commissioner on Monday made an adamant defense of a heavily criticized housing program that allows the city to take control of homes whose
Central Brooklyn
Eric Adams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Council Member Laurie Cumbo gave their nods of approval on Friday to a community board proposal to create a new type of zoning that its proponents say would add and preserve jobs in central Brooklyn. Community
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg testing out dockless bikes in the Rockaways last week (Via Mayor’s Office)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS—Citi Bikes are coming to more neighborhoods in Brooklyn, but it’s going to take a while, city officials say. On Monday, reports [https://nypost.com/
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Citi Bike. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN—Citi Bike will within the next four years be expanded in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods, the city announced Tuesday. Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Park Slope, Prospect Park South, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, East Flatbush and Sunset Park will all get more Citi Bike
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Rending of Bedford Arms (Image via Housing Partnership Development Corporation) CROWN HEIGHTS— New Yorkers looking for new below-market-rate apartments now have two months to apply for one in Crown Heights. On Monday, July 15, the affordable housing lottery officially opened for apartments in a new 93-unit building at 1336 Bedford
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State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson embrace during Myrie’s inauguration at SUNY Downstate in East Flatbush (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—Local lawmakers are urging the governor to sign a bill that will add Medgar Evers College to the names of two central Brooklyn subway stops.