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This piece was written by Janice Hamilton and Lincoln Eccles. Hamilton provides affordable rent-stabilized housing to families in her 8-unit building in Prospect Heights, while Eccles houses 14 families in his rent-stabilized building in Crown Heights. Rent-stabilized buildings like ours are family businesses. Our immigrant grandparents and parents came to
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CROWN HEIGHTS—State Sen. Zelllnor Myrie hosted a dozen city representatives and advocates on Thursday who informed residents on housing issues including the recent change in the city’s area median income. [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/renters/area-median-income.page] The area median income (AMI) for a family of
Business
CROWN HEIGHTS – On May 19, Jyll Hubbard-Salk will host her latest monthly yoga class specifically for tradeswomen at her Sterling Place yoga studio in Crown Heights, Urban Asanas. The hour-long classes, which are open to tradeswomen including electricians, ironworkers and carpenters, launched this spring in collaboration with the NYC Coalition
Crown Heights
PROSPECT HEIGHTS/CROWN HEIGHTS — After “shots fired” caused several shelter-ins [/no-drills-necessary-nearby-gang-shootings-keep-local-schools-on-alert/] at a Prospect Heights school, neighbors and students get extra protection at the adjacent playground. Elijah G. Stroud Playground (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)According to a memo from Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo, ten new officers will join the 77th
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CROWN HEIGHTS — There are 49 days between Passover and Shavuot when observing Jews are not allowed to groom their hair. So chances are Levi Aronow, a new orthodox-Jewish barber in Crown Heights, is going to have a record month this June. Levi Aronow at work at ( ) Barbershop. (Photo: Instagram of
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Martinsville, Missouri is a long way from Crown Heights, but that’s where cartoonist George Booth first began drawing. Since then, the 92-year-old artist has traveled from Korea to Chicago practicing his craft. These days, you’ll find him sketching on asphalt, at a Brooklyn block party, while
Central Brooklyn
By Andrea Karshan, a Jewish woman currently living in Crown Heights In Chabad Crown Heights, the Jewish community is holding elections, and women aren’t allowed to vote. Elections [https://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=54482&alias=crown-heights-will-hold-elections] are being held in June in Chabad Crown Heights for
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for a suspect in connection to a stabbing that occurred Sunday morning within the confines of the 77th precinct. On April 28, just before 2:00 am,
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CROWN HEIGHTS — A Brooklyn judge temporarily blocked two 17-story towers slated for the corner of Franklin Avenue and Montgomery Street, a development project activists say would block sunlight to the neighboring greenhouses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [https://www.bbg.org/]. Approved Cornell Realty development at 40 Crown St. (Renderings:
Arts & Culture
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN — The city, on Wednesday, announced the winning duo to create the Shirley Chisholm monument slated for the Parkside Avenue entrance of Prospect Park. Aerial view of Shirley Chisholm monument proposal. (Renderings: Amanda Williams and Olalekan JeyifousArtists Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous proposed “Our Destiny, Our Democracy” as
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS — April and warm weather usually mark the arrival of Sakura Matsuri, the borough’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This year is no different. Kaoru Tani of the Yoshi Amao and Samurai Sword Soul poses by bloomed cherry blossom. (Photo Kadia Goba/Bklyner)The
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CROWN HEIGHTS — The restaurant that brings you the best sidewalk BBQ in Crown Heights was robbed earlier this month and police are looking for the two suspects. On April 11, around 2:30 am (kitchen closes at midnight), a man approached Royal Cuisine Yard Food restaurant at 324 Utica Avenue