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Photo via Di Fara PizzaThe Avenue J building that houses neighborhood institution Di Fara Pizza is up for sale, reports NY Eater [http://ny.eater.com/2016/4/7/11385778/di-fara-pizza-building]. The owners of 1424 Avenue J have put the building on the market for roughly $4 million, but Di
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The East 4th Street Community Garden. (Photo: E. 4th Street Garden)The East 4th Street Community Garden — located on the cusp of Windsor Terrace and Kensington — will host its twice yearly Flea Market this Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17. The goods will be displayed in front of the
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Photo via Bernie Sanders [https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/photos/a.1027143367340667.1073741845.124955570892789/1027144537340550/?type=3&theater] Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been criss-crossing New York State for weeks. Just two days before the New York Democratic Presidential Primary on Tuesday, April 19, Sanders will be speaking
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Photo courtesy of Gov. John Kasich’s campaign.Fresh off his town hall at the Bay Ridge Manor [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/04/33572/#.VwwIIRMrIU0] with talk show host Montel WIlliams, Ohio governor and GOP presidential contender John Kasich will return to Brooklyn to meet and greet with members
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Image by Wikipedia and Nick Solari.This list is in formation. If you have an event you’d like featured in our calendar, or if there’s anything we’ve left off, please let us know! Post your events in our community calendar [/blog/events/got-an-event-coming-up-share-it-on-our-new-calendar/] or email us at
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Photo: Liena ZagareWe’ve been intrigued by the Bernie Sanders for President signs that have been popping up in the front windows of some of the businesses on Cortelyou Road. It’s an interesting range of businesses. What are you seeing in the neighborhood from the presidential campaign? Please send
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Photo: Liena ZagareThe cuisine of Uzbekistan — and the romance of the Silk Road — have a new home on Coney Island Avenue. Uzbeki restaurant Samir, which is on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue C, has recently opened. The restaurant is finalizing its menu but owner Danny Azizov showed us a preliminary
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Photo: Ditmas Park CornerThe Borough Park business man at the center of a massive NYPD bribery investigation — which has taken down several top cops who patrolled our area — allegedly used his police connections to quash assault charges against his nephew and his entourage of Yiddish-speaking teen gangsters, reports the New
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Photo via New York Restoration ProjectYou can help make our community greener! Tree Giveaway events are starting this week. Register at one of six New York City events this month — including two in our area — to take home your free tree! Registration is now live on the New York Restoration
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The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)A local travel agent has been indicted for defrauding area taxi cab drivers, home health aides, postal workers and Uber drivers who paid for travel packages and plane tickets that never materialized.
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Photo: Ditmas Park CornerThis week in Ditmas Park, the battle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination came to the streets of Flatbush — the Sanders campaign opened an office here, [/blog/news/sanders-campaign-to-open-office-in-flatbush-tonight/] and Sanders also spoke at a rally in Midwood [/blog/events/bernie-sanders-to-speak-at-rally-in-flatbush-today/] Friday. In other major news, both
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Photo via Brownstone Detectives [https://twitter.com/BrownstoneDetec/status/658687411493425152/photo/1]After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. Madiba Restaurant