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Kadia Goba and the stack of newspapersKENSINGTON-DITMAS PARK-FLATBUSH – We at Bklyner mostly think of ourselves as internet people, and we’ve been bringing you news about various Brooklyn neighborhoods for almost a decade, online. But we keep hearing from our readers and advertisers that neighbors miss the stories they care
Central Brooklyn
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — The heated gentrification fights of this neighborhood have begun to turn inward, and much of the drama has centered on wild accusations against a local blogger Tim Thomas, who authors the Q at Parkside [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/], by the folks behind two local groups that seem
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – This is the 6th year we are asking our readers to donate to CAMBA to fund holiday meals for 500 families that rely on the non-profit’s food pantry on Church Avenue. What we started as 500 Turkeys For 500 Families has become more inclusive of vegetarians.
Central Brooklyn
Jumaane Williams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)City Councilman Jumaane Williams announced, on Tuesday, a bid for the New York City Public Advocate seat. The three-term Councilman of the 45th council district (East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, Marine Park, and Midwood) is looking to take the would-be vacant seat of current Public
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Google Maps screenshot of 239 Hawthorne St.PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — Applications are closing November 5 at midnight for new one-bedroom affordable housing units in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. There are three affordable one bedroom units available in the four-story building at 239 Hawthorne Street between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues. The building is
Central Brooklyn
SUNSET PARK/FLATBUSH – This past Sunday was like any other day for MTA train conductor Benjamin Schaeffer, that is, until he had to evacuate the entire train because somebody poured gasoline on the floor of one of the cars. NBC News interviewed Schaeffer [https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Subway-Conductor-Evacuates-Train-After-Gasoline-is-Poured-497736421.
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Jeremiah Harvey. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)FLATBUSH – “Cornerstore Caroline’s” stunt last week traumatized a kid, and Flatbush community isn’t having it. Borough President Eric Adams and Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte held a community conversation outside Sahara Deli Market on Albermarle Rd. between Flatbush Avenue and East 21st Street, yesterday
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FLATBUSH – A video titled “Cornerstore Caroline” that documents an incident that took place on Wednesday, Oct. 10 in Flatbush, has gone viral. It shows a white woman calling the cops on a black child saying he sexually assaulted her. She said she was a cop. We checked. She never called
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYC Council.FLATBUSH – We’ve been reaching out to District 40 Council Member Mathieu Eugene for a year, asking for an interview, but all we got were excuses. Eugene has been representing Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Prospect Park, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens since 2007. In
Bensonhurst
Mr. Pacheco recalls his first days as an immigrant living in Brighton Beach and later in Bensonhurst. Photo by Carmen Molina Tamacas/BklynerBENSONHURST – A couple of weeks ago, Melvin Pacheco, who is from El Salvador and lives in Bensonhurst, took his car for an emergency repair to a shop on
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – After a Brooklyn College professor posted statements that seemed to be condoning sexual assault on his blog (and later said it was satire), several hundred students and faculty rallied for his termination on campus this afternoon. “Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes and
Central Brooklyn
On Community Board 14 Agenda: Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 6:15 PM Location: CB14 District Office (810 East 16th Street, Brooklyn 11230) SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR (SOC): A Special Order Calendar application has been filed with the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) to extend the term of the previously