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Crown Heights

Apr
30

Weekend Crime Blotter: Broad Daylight Shooting in Ditmas Park, Bed-Stuy Box Cutter Robbery, City Employees Rack Up DWIs & More

BUSHWICK – At 2:21 am on Sunday, April 29, off-duty NYPD officer Miguel Martinez, 38, was arrested and charged with
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Apr
27
Meet The Team Celebrating Local Business With “Black-Owned Brooklyn”

Meet The Team Celebrating Local Business With “Black-Owned Brooklyn”

Glenn Alan and Cynthia Gordy, the duo behind Instagram’s “Black Owned Brooklyn” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last week, our list
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Apr
26
Upgrades And New Entrances Coming To Flatbush Avenue Side Of Prospect Park

Upgrades And New Entrances Coming To Flatbush Avenue Side Of Prospect Park

PROSPECT PARK – Prospect Park Alliance President Sue Donoghue and NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver were joined Thursday afternoon by
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Apr
25
UPDATE: Police Release Video of Suspect in Anti-Semitic Crown Heights Attack

UPDATE: Police Release Video of Suspect in Anti-Semitic Crown Heights Attack

UPDATE (4/25/18): Police have released photos and video of the man wanted in last weekend’s violent anti-Semitic
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Apr
24
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Hosts Annual Cherry Blossom Festival April 28 & 29

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Hosts Annual Cherry Blossom Festival April 28 & 29

BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN – The cherry blossoms will be in peak bloom this weekend (April 28 & 29) and the Brooklyn
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Apr
19
Spring Tree Giveaways Start This Weekend

Spring Tree Giveaways Start This Weekend

Photo courtesy of New York Restoration Project.Spring may not have exactly sprung in Brooklyn yet, but Brooklynites should get
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Apr
11
Killer Sentenced For Slaying in Alleged East Flatbush Gambling Den

Killer Sentenced For Slaying in Alleged East Flatbush Gambling Den

Euzebelin Abellard will serve 20 to life for the slaying of Jean Claude Bernagene (Via District Attorney’s Office)Euzebelin
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Apr
06
Protestors Take to the Streets in Crown Heights After Rally for Slain Saheed Vassell

Protestors Take to the Streets in Crown Heights After Rally for Slain Saheed Vassell

CROWN HEIGHTS – After Wednesday’s killing of 34-year old Saheed Vassell at the hands of the NYPD [/police-shooting-vassell/], crowds gathered
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Apr
05
Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed Black Man, Saheed Vassell, In Crown Heights

Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed Black Man, Saheed Vassell, In Crown Heights

A photo of Saheed Vassell, who was shot and killed by the NYPD yesterday afternoon (Via Facebook)CROWN HEIGHTS – Yesterday
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Mar
28
Cynthia Nixon Tours NYCHA Building, Repairs Get Accelerated

Cynthia Nixon Tours NYCHA Building, Repairs Get Accelerated

Cynthia Nixon at the press conference/ BKLYNERCROWN HEIGHTS – On her first visit to a NYCHA development, gubernatorial hopeful, Cynthia Nixon,
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