1090 Coney Island Avenue
Thousands of people filled Coney Island Avenue, from Foster Avenue to Avenue H, last night for the annual Chand Raat Bazaar [/blog/events/annual-chand-raat-bazaar-on-coney-island-avenue-thursday-night] — a night of celebration marking the end of the Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The American Council of Minority Women [https://www.facebook.com/
Affordable Care Act
Maimonides Medical Center (Source: Google Maps)The deadline for applying for New York State Marketplace [https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/] health coverage has come and gone, but it may not be too late to sign up and avoid penalties for being uninsured. CareConnect [http://www.nslijcareconnect.com/], a healthcare outreach initiative
fraud
Fraudsters beware: a new task force launched yesterday to put phony lawyers who prey on vulnerable immigrants behind bars. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio are teaming up on the initiative, dedicating enforcement resources to root out “immigrant service provider fraud,” among other scams targeting immigrants. The
8611 19th ave
Tucked into 19th Avenue, just off of 86th Street, Cafe At Your Mother-in-Law [http://www.yelp.com/biz/elza-fancy-food-brooklyn-2]‘s orange sign is easy to miss if you don’t read Russian (the English letters read “Eddie Fancy Foods”). Aside from a refrigerator displaying fresh salads, the wood-paneled store does
2158 bath ave
Spotted on Bath Avenue: For those days when you’re craving Russian-Chinese-Halal food. Take any photos in Bensonhurst recently? Send them to editor@bensonhurstbean.com , or tag them #Bensonhurst on Instagram, and we’ll post them here. Also, follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/BensonhurstBean], Facebook [https://www.facebook.
CUNY
State Senator Marty Golden. Photo by Erica ShermanState Senator Marty Golden said he won’t support the New York Dream Act, legislation that would allow undocumented residents in New York to have access to tuition assistance for higher education. Up until recently, Golden wouldn’t have even needed to address
guatemalan
Guatemalan goods line the shelves at an 86th Street market. (Photo by Carmen Molina Tamacas)New York City has hit a new high in foreign born population, with 3.06 million of its 8.3 million inhabitants having immigrated from other nations, the mayor announced on Wednesday. Bensonhurst is the
1931 86th st
Tsirlina’s law office (Source: Google Maps)The feds have accused a Bensonhurst-based lawyer of falsifying applications for foreign nationals hoping to receive U.S. work visas. Reuters is reporting [http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/New_York/News/2013/04_-_April/Immigration_attorney_arrested_for_visa_fraud/] that attorney Anna
Immigration
Source: council.nyc.govFrom the offices of Councilman David Greenfield: Councilman David G. Greenfield and City University of New York are partnering to provide constituents with free immigration legal services by appointment at his Borough Park district office each month beginning next Wednesday, January 16th. All district residents with questions
Immigration
When they move to our fair city, where do the new New Yorkers live? WNYC, masters [/blog/neighbors/how-diverse-are-brooklyn-neighborhoods] of interactive [/blog/politics/where-are-the-neighborhood-republicans] maps [/blog/crime/where-guns-are-actually-found-during-stop-frisks], have a new map answering just that question [http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/dec/06/manhattan-lures-newest-new-yorkers/] . Where have new New
Immigration
Congressman Michael Grimm has sponsored a bill that aims to create two types of conditional immigration visas. One visa would be for up to 75,000 immigrant entrepreneurs and the other for 50,000 foreign graduates working in math, science, engineering and technology. The purpose of the bill is to
blue collar
You could say we put the “class” in working class. A piece by Brooklyn Eagle editor Raanan Geberer, [/fiction-the-singing-dentist-of-bensonhurst/] which summed up the findings of a recent report put out by the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, describes Bensonhurst as a neighborhood where hardworking parents raise