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Jan
11
Dirty, Brown Water From Your Faucet? Report it to 311!

Dirty, Brown Water From Your Faucet? Report it to 311!

FLATBUSH – Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, who has been speaking in support of tenants for years, [/tenants-of-e-17th-street-building-sue-landlord-over-terrible-living-conditions-ditmas-park/] is now advocating for clean
3 min read
Jan
10
Flatbush Landlord Tops The Public Advocate’s Worst Landlords List in 2018, Again

Flatbush Landlord Tops The Public Advocate’s Worst Landlords List in 2018, Again

250 Parkville Avenue owned by Eric Silverstein (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Just a couple days before Christmas, former Public Advocate
4 min read
Jan
09
Landmarked Erasmus Hall Academy Building No Longer In Danger of Demolition By Neglect

Landmarked Erasmus Hall Academy Building No Longer In Danger of Demolition By Neglect

Erasmus Academy in 1879. (Image: The Brooklyn Museum)FLATBUSH – The original Erasmus Hall Academy building in the school’s courtyard
4 min read
Jan
08
Community Coalition Seeks Landmark Status for Flatbush Presbyterian Church

Community Coalition Seeks Landmark Status for Flatbush Presbyterian Church

1922 Rendering of Flatbush Presbyterian Church (Image: The Brooklyn Library) FLATBUSH – In the December issue of Bklyner [/a-bit-of-history-about-the-flatbush-church-looking-for-developer/] we wrote
3 min read
Dec
18
Dollar Van Drivers Feel Left Out As Commuter Services Gear Up for L Train Shutdown

Dollar Van Drivers Feel Left Out As Commuter Services Gear Up for L Train Shutdown

A dollar van in Brooklyn (Photo via Caribcandy/Instagram)With the L Train Shutdown rapidly approaching, companies are lining up
2 min read
Dec
14
Mark-Viverito Promises To Continue The Worst Landlords List As She Campaigns For Public Advocate At Newkirk Station

Mark-Viverito Promises To Continue The Worst Landlords List As She Campaigns For Public Advocate At Newkirk Station

Public Advocate Candidate Melissa Mark Viverito on the Q train platform at the Newkirk Avenue station in Flatbush (Photo credit:
3 min read
Dec
13
Would Secular Education Destroy The Haredim? YAFFED Panel On Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas

Would Secular Education Destroy The Haredim? YAFFED Panel On Education in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas

Inside Oholei Torah, a Crown Heights Yeshiva. (Photo credit: Rabbi Yossi Newfield)CROWN HEIGHTS — Young Advocates For Fair Education (YAFFED)
5 min read
Dec
11
A Bit Of History – Flatbush Church Looking For Developer

A Bit Of History – Flatbush Church Looking For Developer

Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. Liena Zagare/BklynerFLATBUSH – As the borough shuffles to
4 min read
Dec
10
Culture Wars Come To Brooklyn College, Possibly Not In Highest Form

Culture Wars Come To Brooklyn College, Possibly Not In Highest Form

BROOKLYN COLLEGE – Two months ago, Brooklyn College Professor Mitchell Langbert posted something on his blog [http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2018/
6 min read
Dec
07
1640 Flatbush Avenue Proposal Heading To CB 14 on Monday

1640 Flatbush Avenue Proposal Heading To CB 14 on Monday

1640 Flatbush Avenue looking north along Flatbush towards the Junction. Two lower floors would be retail and offices, upper floors
7 min read