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Photo: Erica ShermanSeven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high school, prosecutors announced Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from a
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Photo: Lou BuenoA few days ago we wrote about the new LED streetlights that have been appearing throughout Greater Flatbush [/blog/neighbors/new-led-lights-have-started-to-appear-in-greater-flatbush/], and were installed in Kensington [/transportation/new-led-streetlights-continue-to-bother-residents/#.Vs-LXLQ-A_M] last Fall. Readers had many interesting things to say about the new lights, especially their impact on street-level
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New crocuses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (Photo: Sarah Crean)It’s a bleak, raw day today but Spring is coming. On a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [http://www.bbg.org] today, we were excited to see that lavender crocuses and snowdrops had made their arrival in spite
Announcements
Come Together — to celebrate 50 years of the most influential band in rock and roll history, The Beatles! The Broadway smash hit RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles makes its Brooklyn debut for a limited engagement run on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5 at the beautifully restored Kings
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Screen shot of Compstat map showing location of robberies in the 70th Precinct in the last 28 days.Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org] which allows users to examine crime
Announcements
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerFree legal counseling is available to area homeowners who are in danger of losing their homes or have encountered changes in their financial circumstances. Councilmember David Greenfield [http://council.nyc.gov/d44/html/members/home.shtml] is partnering with Brooklyn Housing and Family Services [http://brooklynhousing.
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Council Member Jumaane Williams (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Teen employment in New York City has never recovered since the Great Recession. New York City Council Member Jumaane Williams [http://council.nyc.gov/d45/html/members/home.shtml], whose district includes Flatbush, East Flatbush and other areas in Central Brooklyn, proposed
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Photo: Ditmas Park CornerWith all this focus on the presidential election, is it still true that all politics are local? Robert Carroll [http://www.robertcarroll2016.com] thinks so. A lifelong Brooklyn resident and a member of a politically active family, Carroll is running for Democratic State Committee Member of the
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Looking east on Church Avenue from Ocean Avenue, circa 1872-1887. (Photographer: George Bradford Brainerd, American. Collection: Brooklyn Museum. Silver glass wet plate negative.)In January, Forgotten New York took us on the first part [/blog/history/check-out-forgotten-nys-history-of-church-avenue/] of an amazing walk down Church Avenue, starting at the historic road’s
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Demonstration for housing reform organized by the Flatbush Tenant Coalition. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)As rents continue to rise, so too does crowding in apartments. A recent analysis by StreetEasy [http://streeteasy.com/blog/doubled-up-crowding-in-nyc/] found that rates of overcrowding — defined as more than one person per room, including living
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Filming the TV show “Odd Squad” on Rugby Road in 2012. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Do you ever feel like you’re living in Hollywood? Probably not, but our section of Brooklyn has become a hotbed of TV filming activity. According to data crunched by WNYC [http://www.wnyc.org/
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Memorial honoring International Mother Language Day near the corner of Beverley Road and McDonald Avenue. (Photo: Nicole Levit)A reader contacted us today mentioning that every year, in late February, a flower-adorned memorial appears on Beverley Road very close to McDonald Avenue. We wanted to learn what this memorial was