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With New York’s presidential primary coming up on April 19 [/33538/#.Vw_prpMrLWU], Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls descended on our fine borough this week to court voters and vie for Brooklyn’s electoral heart. We’ve mapped the pit stops made by the candidates along the campaign trail
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopPark Slope provides all sorts of neighborhood services. This afternoon, we saw a poster at the corner of 5th Avenue and 6th Street that guarantees a haircut “to complement your features and personality.” The gentleman in the photo is a bit cut-up, so we
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Image via New York Daily News [http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/donald-trump-loving-nyc-sanitation-workers-fight-driver-article-1.2568005] .The two Sanitation Department workers who were caught on video blocking traffic and then threatening a complaining driver with deportation and Donald Trump [/blog/2016/03/18/city-sanitation-workers-face-scrutiny-trash-talk-deportation-threats-clinton-hill/] are back on the job after a five-day suspension.
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Nathan Crisp; (Photo Credit: LinkedIn)Another employee of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/us/politics/trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski.html?_r=0] is in trouble with the law. Nathan Crisp, 34, vice president of revenue management and distribution at Trump Hotels, was arrested for assaulting a
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Angelo Bonsignore wears his Trump gear. (Photo by Bensonhurst Bean)The last time we spoke to Angelo Bonsignore, he was documenting — in meticulous detail — the history of Dyker Heights’ spectacular architecture [/dyker-heights-just-holiday-lights/]. These days, the 37-year-old film editor and occasional character actor has a new obsession: GOP presidential frontrunner Donald
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Image via New York Daily News [http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/donald-trump-loving-nyc-sanitation-workers-fight-driver-article-1.2568005] .Road rage + Trump trash talk = a bizarre brawl that took place yesterday morning (Thursday, March 17) on Clinton Avenue near Greene Avenue between city sanitation workers and an SUV driver. According to video obtained by [http://m.
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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Photo: Nick Solari. Courtesy: Wikimedia CommonsYour neighbors’ political views may surprise you — or maybe not! An interesting new dataset [https://www.renthop.com/study/new-york-city-ny/new-york-donors.html] has just been released by Renthop [https://www.renthop.com], which looks at contributions to presidential candidates — by zip
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Photo via FacebookThis Mob Wife wants Trump to make America great again — for her jailbird dad. Karen Gravano — whose father Sammy “Sammy the Bull” Gravano escaped 19 murder charges by helping the FBI take down numerous local gangsters including Gambino crime boss John Gotti — said she hopes her father’s
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Photo via donut_strong [https://www.instagram.com/p/_zHfUBnQUL/]Passing by layers of political ideology in Gowanus. Take any photos in the neighborhood lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope
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Presidential contender Donald Trump has been making headlines lately for his hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. From his suggestion [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/] that most Mexicans coming across the border are criminals and rapists, to his calling for a ban on all Muslim immigration, the
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Source: Wikimedia CommonsPresidential contender Donald Trump has been making headlines lately for his hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. From his suggestion [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/] that most Mexicans coming across the border are criminals and rapists, to his calling for a ban on all Muslim
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Borough President Eric Adams speaking outside the Turkish American Eyüp Sultan Cultural Center. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Borough President Adams joined with leaders from the Turkish Muslim community Friday to denounce the Daily News’ insensitive portrayal of a Brighton Beach mosque. “This mosque was used on the same page