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City announces voter registration forms in five new languages at Homecrest Library. (Courtesy: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office)By Elizabeth Elizalde Just in time for election day. Voter registration forms in five new languages — Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, French and Arabic — are available under the City’s effort to
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Photo courtesy Shahid KhanCommunity leaders, elected officials and other neighbors celebrated on Sunday the opening of a new center in our area that is dedicated to promoting Pakistani languages, literature and culture, as well as connecting the neighborhood’s growing Pakistani and South Asian community [/blog/food/thousands-celebrate-pakistans-independence-at-brooklyn-mela-on-coney-island-avenue] with other
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Meet Scott Trausch, 25, a graduate student, music lover and bike rider who recently moved to Clinton Hill for graduate school at NYU. (Photo by Amanda Woods)Neighborly Neighbors [http://www.thenabe.me/blog/tag/neighborly-neighbors/] is a series of posts in which we stop random people, ask them a
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By Arkadiy Fridman and Ilya Galak In the end, the vote was overwhelming. “For far too long, dozens of thousands of the Russian-American senior citizens of New York have been shut out of the voting process unfairly because of the language barrier,” pontificated State Sen. Carl Kruger when he introduced
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I had the pleasure of meeting a lovely young lady a few days ago at an event in Manhattan. We were just at the beginning of our niceties, exchanging some basic information about what part of the city we live in, when she stated something about her experience with Sheepshead