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The Sunset Park community gathered with 72nd Precinct Commanding Officer Emmanuel Gonzalez and Councilmember Carlos Menchaca at National Night Out. (Photo: Elizabeth Elizalde / Sunset Park Voice)As the city announced its new police commissioner — precincts, politicians, and communities from all boroughs came together for “National Night Out [/events/sunset-park-ready-for-national-night-out-against-crime/]” against
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The Bonnie Seals with their 2015 Borough Cup Championship (Photo courtesy Bonnie Youth Club)Two Bonnie Youth Club [http://bonnieyouth.org/] champion baseball teams have earned themselves spots in the coveted 2016 AABC World Series tournaments [http://www.aabcworldseries.com]— but in order to attend, our neighborhood players need your
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> video: @BilldeBlasio [https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio]‘s loud walk to the gym. #brooklyn [https://twitter.com/hashtag/brooklyn?src=hash] #labor [https://twitter.com/hashtag/labor?src=hash] #police [https://twitter.com/hashtag/police?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/61kHTfhtgJ [https://t.co/61kHTfhtgJ] — Azi (@Azi) August 2, 2016
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Auxiliary officers at the 88th Precinct enjoyed National Night Out Festivities in 2013. Pictured, top row: Officer Anthony Johnson, Sergeant Lynford Fairclough, Officer Justin Lopez, Deputy Inspector, Officer Kevin Grant, Officer Joseph Barber; second row: Officer Jason Woods, Officer Ezra Glasgow and Officer Ellen Moseley. (Photo by Amanda Woods)Today
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Photo by Jerry Del Priore By Jerry Del Priore Two of the borough’s most prominent fighters, Paulie Malignaggi and Gabriel Bracero,squared off Saturday night in a 10-round welterweight bout at the Barclays Center [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/07/two-boxers-sunset-park-bensonhurst-battle-championship-barclays-center/#.V5-SaJMrI9c] on Showtime Extreme-aired — part of the preliminary
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Photo courtesy of Park Slope Fifth Avenue BIDTonight is an opportunity to meet the police officers of both the 72nd Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_072.shtml] and 78th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_078.shtml] at the National Night
Arts & Culture
Carrots at the Coop can be deadly. Gersh Kuntzman, co-creator of ‘Murder at the Food Coop’ and card-carrying Coop member in real life. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)“No veggies were harmed in the making of the show,” says Windsor Terrace resident Gersh Kuntzman, in an assuring tone
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Photo by Jerry Del PrioreBy Jerry Del Priore Two of the borough’s most prominent fighters, Paulie Malignaggi and Gabriel Bracero, squared off Saturday night in a 10-round welterweight bout at the Barclays Center [/two-boxers-sunset-park-bensonhurst-battle-championship-barclays-center/#.V5-SaJMrI9c] on Showtime Extreme-aired — part of the preliminary undercard to the Leo Santa Cruz vs.
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(Photo by Carly Miller / Fort Greene Focus)The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) held a peaceful rally and march on Thursday, July 28 [/blog/2016/07/28/tonight-jews-black-lives-action-vigil-call-police-reform/], to protest police violence against people of color, and demand police accountability through the passage of
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(Courtesy: John McCarten)Brooklyn youth and cops bonded over a basketball tournament to build a connection Saturday afternoon in Red Hook. The games played at Joseph Miccio Community Center on July 30 brought Red Hook youths and cops from the 76th precinct together for the first annual ‘Unity in the
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Kensington, Midwood and Boro Park: Mark your calendars — Tuesday, August 2 is the 66th Precinct’s National Night Out, [https://natw.org] an annual meet and greet fête with community members, cops and local officials. The event will be from 5pm to 8pm at the 66th Precinct station house, 5822
Arts & Culture
Photo via BPL / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCsgxd4LgSt/?taken-by=bklynlibrary]Finally, a summer reading list that revolves around ‘the most literary borough’, featuring books that are not only fun to read but can teach us more about the place we call home. Last week, the Brooklyn Public Library