Immigration

Apr
03
Task Force Formed To Crack Down On Immigration Scammers

Task Force Formed To Crack Down On Immigration Scammers

Fraudsters beware: a new task force launched yesterday to put phony lawyers who prey on vulnerable immigrants behind bars. Attorney
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Jan
28
Cafe At Your Mother-In-Law Serves Home-Style Foods From Korea, Uzbekistan & Beyond

Cafe At Your Mother-In-Law Serves Home-Style Foods From Korea, Uzbekistan & Beyond

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
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Nov
06
Photo Of The Day: 3-For-1 Deal

Photo Of The Day: 3-For-1 Deal

Spotted on Bath Avenue: For those days when you’re craving Russian-Chinese-Halal food. Take any photos in Bensonhurst recently? Send
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Feb
26

Senator Golden Is No Dreamer On Tuition Assistance For Undocumented Residents

State Senator Marty Golden. Photo by Erica ShermanState Senator Marty Golden said he won’t support the New York Dream
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Dec
20

Bensonhurst Is NYC’s Second Largest Home To Foreign Born Population

Guatemalan goods line the shelves at an 86th Street market. (Photo by Carmen Molina Tamacas)New York City has hit
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May
06

Bensonhurst Attorney Anna Tsirlina Arrested For Visa Fraud

Tsirlina’s law office (Source: Google Maps)The feds have accused a Bensonhurst-based lawyer of falsifying applications for foreign nationals
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Jan
11

Greenfield And CUNY To Provide Free Immigration Legal Services

Source: council.nyc.govFrom the offices of Councilman David Greenfield: Councilman David G. Greenfield and City University of New York
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Dec
07

Where Do New New Yorkers Live?

When they move to our fair city, where do the new New Yorkers live? WNYC, masters [/blog/neighbors/how-diverse-are-brooklyn-neighborhoods] of
Jun
11

Congressman Michael Grimm Sponsors A Bill To Give Immigrant Tech Workers Visas

Congressman Michael Grimm has sponsored a bill that aims to create two types of conditional immigration visas. One visa would
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Feb
08

Report: Things Looking Up In A Changing Bensonhurst

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
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