Announcements
P.S.152/P.S. 315 play space design on Bedford Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller)The results are beginning to come in for New York City’s Participatory Budgeting Cycle 6! City Council Member Jumaane Williams announced the three winning projects for District 45 [http://council.nyc.gov/district-45/
Central Brooklyn
The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)Yesterday, a Midwood travel agent was sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for pocketing $350,000 from Pakistani immigrants for whom he was supposed to make travel arrangements to Mecca.
Central Brooklyn
1703 Avenue J. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Two men broke into the apartment on top of a Midwood synagogue, left the caretaker beaten and bloody, and robbed the place on Sunday before sunrise, said cops. The suspects beat the 53-year-old victim in the face with a metal garden tool in
![[Updated: FOUND] Midwood Teen Missing From Fort Hamilton High School](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-8.19.08-AM.png)
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYPD[Update from NYPD at 3:45pm: Anderson Ortiz has been found and is safe] Help cops find a 15-year-old boy from Midwood missing since Monday. Anderson Ortiz, 15, was last seen at Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge, on April 3 at 8am, said cops. Ortiz
Central Brooklyn
Just a quick reminder to everyone cleaning and getting their homes ready for Passover: NYC Sanitation department has added the following special pickups in Brooklyn: CB12: Kensington, Midwood, and Boro Park The Sanitation Department is asking everyone who has bulk items to start placing them out for collection as early
Central Brooklyn
Avenue J between East 14th and 15th Streets, March 30. (Photo by Carly Miller) It’s budget time in Albany, and Simcha Felder’s progressive constituents are taking to the streets to demand that the state senator, who’s voted with Republicans for the past four years, hear their voices.
Central Brooklyn
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Photo by South Slope NewsVoting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] 2017 begins this Saturday, March 25, where you can vote on how $1 million in city funds are spent in your community. Below, find all the ballot options and polling locations for Council Member David Greenfield’s District 44 [http://council.
Central Brooklyn
Jewish Children’s Museum, Crown Heights via Google MapsPolice in Israel arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday for making a series of bomb threats to Jewish centers and schools across the U.S., including the Jewish Children’s Museum [/jewish-childrens-museum-evacuated-bomb-threat/] in Crown Heights and the Jewish Association Services for the Aged
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Carly Miller)It’s a sight so common on our streets that we often don’t notice: armies of school buses parked on residential blocks on nights and weekends — when commercial vehicles are normally banned. But for some neighbors, it’s more than an eyesore. Perpetual fleets of
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYPDPolice are looking for a man suspected of two rather eclectic robberies only blocks apart in Midwood earlier this year. The suspect broke into Empire State Colon & Rectal Surgery at 1928 Bay Avenue between 5pm on January 31 and 8am on February 2, according to info just
Central Brooklyn
Parents checking out a project board at the District 45 PB Project Expo, Flatbush YMCA. (Photo by Carly Miller)Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25, and we stopped by the Project Expo for Flatbush and Midwood to give District 45 residents a peek at the projects