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Danna Jellinek Ozeri. (Courtesy of Nurit Ozeri)“Come up! Come up!,” says Nurit Ozeri, welcoming me into her Ocean Parkway home. She bolts up the stairs to the second floor and swings open the door — which has a small “Shalom Y’all” sign at eye level. This welcoming moment connects
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Photo: Q GardensSpring is almost here and it’s time to starting planting. Why not meet more of your neighbors and join one of our area’s newest community gardens [/blog/garden/q-gardens-launches-fundraiser-for-community-driven-mosaic] ? Q Gardens [https://www.facebook.com/Qgardenscommunity/?fref=photo] will be hosting its first meeting of 2016
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The Cortelyou Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. (Photo: Google Maps)“Nearly half of all Brooklynites speak a language other than English at home,” says Eva Raison, the Brooklyn Public Library’s coordinator of immigrant services. Starting in November, the Brooklyn Public Library became the first library system in New
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905 Winthrop Street. IS 232 is located here, as well as the Middle School of Marketing & Legal Studies. (Photo: Google Maps)UPDATE: Annalise Thomos has been located and is safe. [3/3/16, 10:10am.] ******************************************* The NYPD is seeking the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old girl reported
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Screenshot of map of District 22 from the NYC Department of Education website. District 22 extends all the way down to Jamaica Bay.Our section of South Brooklyn is one of two New York City school districts especially shortchanged by the City’s school construction plans, according to a new
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Flatbush District #1 School Building in 1931. (Photo: Brooklyn Public Library)A landmarked Church Avenue school building — which was constructed when Flatbush was still an independent village — is no more. The Flatbush District #1 School Building, a designated New York City landmark [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/cpc/
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Flatbush Nostrand Junction. Photo: Google MapsThe Flatbush Nostrand Junction Business Improvement District [http://www.flatbushjunctionbid.com] has just won $100,000 from the City through its Neighborhood Challenge [http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/html/neighborhood_development/neighborhood_challenge.shtml] grants program. The Flatbush Nostrand Junction BID will use the
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On the grill at the Flatbush Avenue Street Fair.We really liked Brokelyn writer William Widmaier’s recent piece on “The best of Flatbush Ave.’s deliciously cheap Caribbean food” [http://brokelyn.com/brooklyn-snackdown-caribbean-food/]. Widmaier picks out five spots that all sound great and span the Caribbean: * The Ultimate Bakery
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Photo via BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn [hhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BBV0SbBmnSP/?taken-by=briccelebratebk&hl=en]June may seem like a long time from now, but that warm weather and summer sun has a way of sneaking up on you. So while you’re waiting, you can prepare yourself by
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Cafe Madeline on Cortelyou Road, one of many area establishments where freelancers work. Photo: crissachappellAre you a freelancer who is struggling to get paid in a timely fashion? New York City Councilmember Brad Lander wants the City to go to bat for you. The City Council’s Consumer Affairs committee
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Photo: http://instagram.com/p/y3MWjiuzak/?modal=true”>ricangeeknSome of our local Councilmembers, along with a group of business, labor, and transit advocates, will be pushing the de Blasio administration and the MTA tomorrow on the issue of renewed F express service in Brooklyn. Councilmembers David Greenfield of Borough
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Madina Restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. Photo: Ditmas Park CornerOne of Coney Island Avenue’s most well known Indian / Pakistani restaurants is launching delicious satellites. The owners of Madina are about to open two new restaurants, one in Kensington, and the other in Borough Park, right next to Maimonides Hospital,