Announcements
EAST FLATBUSH – A 33-year-old man was shot and killed last night and cops need help searching for who did it. On Thursday, September 5 at around 8:49 p.m., James Dorce was standing on East 28th Street between Cortelyou and Clarendon Roads. Cops say an unknown person approached him
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Another anti-Semitic attack in the borough. On August 29 at around 4:57 p.m., a 34-year-man Jewish man was sitting inside his delivery truck on Brooklyn Avenue and Prospect Place, which was stopped in traffic. The driver’s side of the car was open and a group
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBENSONHURST – After Mayor Bill de Blasio’s panel announced its recommendation to eliminate most selective admissions and gifted and talented programs in NYC schools [https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/08/26/gifted-and-talented-programs-nyc-public-schools-panel-recommends-ending-them] and replace them with school-based enrichment programs, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis expressed her
Business
PARK SLOPE- Shari Call has been working as a baker for over 13 years. She’s been all around the country helping to open bakeries and perfecting her craft – California, Cape Cod, Key West, and now, Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue. She and her business partner, Julissa Escobedo, will introduce
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Eric Adams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)By Ben Verde and Zainab Iqbal BOROUGH HALL – Borough President Eric Adams laid out several preliminary proposals to curb the misuse of city parking placards at a town hall meeting Tuesday night, but when confronted with the misuse of placards on the doorstep of
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Mayor Bill de Blasio during a rally against anti-Semitism at Kingsway Jewish Center (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)The NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC) was officially launched today to help with the increase in hate crimes the city has been experiencing. Just last week, a 63-year-old Jewish
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BUSHWICK – Another cyclist was killed on Labor Day. On Monday, September 2, a 47-year-old was attempting to break into a 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee on Marcus Garvey Boulevard near Ellery Street at around 6 a.m. The vehicle belongs to a 41-year-old Korey Johnson. Johnson then confronted the man and
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Corner of East 2nd Street and 18th Avenue where the incident occurred. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)KENSINGTON – A father and son were stabbed over the weekend by a group of men on the corner. On Sunday, August 31 at around 1:20 a.m., a 45-year-old father and his 18-year-old
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE – Last Sunday, a new public artwork was installed at the recently revamped 7th Avenue Triangle on the west side of Flatbush. Under the Sun by William Soltis (2019), photo by Pamela Wong/Bklyner Aug. 30, 2019, as the greenery at 7th Avenue Triangle was wateredWilliam Soltis’ sculpture Under
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BUSHWICK – A five-year-old girl was killed after a heavy stone fence fell on top of her. On Thursday, August 29 at around 8:55 p.m., Alysson Pinto-Chaumana was walking with her mother, when she pulled on a decorative stone fence in front of a residential three-family house on Harman
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CANARSIE – A motorcyclist is dead after swerving her bike and crashing into an unoccupied pick-up truck over the weekend. On Saturday, August 24 at around 4:27 p.m., 52-year-old Dovina Chenbow was riding her 2017 Honda motorcycle. She was traveling southbound on East 95th Street near East New York
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Gary. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)KENSINGTON – The Kensington Plaza is a small, triangular space created by Church Avenue and Beverly Road meeting at an odd angle. A stretch of concrete sidewalk was turned into a Plaza in 2012 to serve as a green space for neighbors to hang out and