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Yvette Clarke at a public charge forum she hosted in Flatbush.FLATBUSH – U.S. Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke sponsored an information session in Flatbush Monday night to discuss the plan to change the definition of the “public charge”, a White House proposal which could drastically impact residents of the 9th
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CENTRAL BROOKLYN – Governor Cuomo has announced the organizations chosen to develop 2,700 units of affordable housing in Central Brooklyn as part of his Vital Brooklyn initiative. The four companies will develop the 100% affordable units in Central Brooklyn for residents making less than 80% of the Area Median Income.
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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerFLATBUSH – The gunman who killed two people outside a funeral in 2015 has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, the District Attorney announced. Fritz Celestine, 43, of Georgia, was attending the April 27, 2015 funeral of 38-year-old Jose Luis Robles at the Emmanuel
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Photo via Rodneyse Bichotte.MIDWOOD/FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – After intense rain over Thanksgiving weekend, streets in parts of Brooklyn turned into rivers and lakes. Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte was caught in one yesterday, tweeting, “We are under water!” She said she reached out to various City agencies including the Mayor’s
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DITMAS PARK – Amazon may soon be our next door neighbor, but Amazon packages have been missing across Ditmas Park and Kensington for months. In over six months, over 100 packages (both Amazon and others) have been reported missing by neighbors at a building near Cortelyou and Stratford alone — and that
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Most of us will never experience the extreme hunger that millions of Americans face, but every day, CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Emergency Food Pantry helps hundreds of our neighbors get the emergency food they need [https://www.camba.org/programs/health/nutritionalservices/beyondhungeremergencyfoodpantry] . Families, elderly people and those simply struggling
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BOROUGH PARK – Police are looking for a burglar who broke into a private school in Borough Park late last month. The incident took place around 5:30 pm on Saturday, October 27, police said, at 1373 43rd Street, near 14th Avenue. Forcing his way past a secured
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FLATBUSH – The New York City Police Department wants your help in identifying a white man in his 30’s who attacked a middle aged woman last Friday, November 9, on her way out of the Church Avenue B/Q stop. Last Friday, around 7:30pm, Ann Marie Washington (57) was
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Outside the Church Avenue subway station where the Q and B take turns, the B35 drops and picks up passengers every few minutes or so. Nobody looks the same. On this particular late afternoon hour, a group of Bangladeshi women with their hair covered in headscarves
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Tashawn Sutherland is facing eviction at 250 Clarkson Ave. after having lived at the residence for several years under the city’s now-defunct “cluster-site” shelter program.UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2018 The Legal Aid Society secured a temporary stay for 60 residents — formally placed in the city’s “cluster” housing program
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BROOKLYN – Voters were in a well-deserved tizzy this morning around 9:30 am when all of the scanners at one Crown Heights polling site went down. A long line of voters was instructed to drop their ballots into boxes at PS 22 inside 443 St. Marks Ave. this morning because
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Subway car from the 1918 Malbone wreck.CreditNew York Transit MuseumPROSPECT HEIGHTS—Lawmakers and transit officials gathered outside the Willink Plaza Entrance of Prospect Park Thursday to remember the worst subway accident in New York’s history-the Malbone Street wreck [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/nyregion/100-years-after-new-yorks-deadliest-subway-crash.html]