Business
Soda Bar at 629 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. (Screenshot: Google Maps) PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Vanderbilt Avenue hot spot Soda Bar is looking to bring in a DJ on the weekends, but a couple of neighbors say, “Not so Fast.” Owner Galina Sokolova of Soda Bar [https://m.facebook.com/
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerFLATBUSH – Police need help searching for two individuals who allegedly robbed a man last month. On December 14, two men approached a 52-year-old man inside a building on Ocean Avenue and Church Avenue. One of the men pointed a handgun while the other searched the victim. They
Central Brooklyn
1922 Rendering of Flatbush Presbyterian Church (Image: The Brooklyn Library) FLATBUSH – In the December issue of Bklyner [/a-bit-of-history-about-the-flatbush-church-looking-for-developer/] we wrote about the history of the 120-year-old Flatbush Presbyterian Church, and how it is likely to be redeveloped into housing, with space for a new church facility, under the current zoning
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“Don’t bring this check to the bank,” Chaim Deutsch joked. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MARINE PARK – Every year Altice USA [http://alticeusa.com/] (the provider of Optimum and Suddenlink) holds an essay contest. To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the company presents a question in the Fall and asks middle
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerWILLIAMSBURG – Twelve elected officials and representatives from various organizations stood outside the Lorimer Street L Train subway station yesterday in 46 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour to each repeat the fact that they had more questions than answers about Governor Cuomo’s new plan that they all
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By Michael Kawochka GREENPOINT – Greenpoint centenarian “Big Helen” Sieczkowski passed away January 2, 2019. She was the oldest living person on Jewel Street. Widow to Stanley “Chick” Sieczkowski, sister of the late Regina Klembicki, she is survived by her little sister Irene Grecula (age 99); daughter Alicia Kawochka, son Thomas;
Neighbors
PARK SLOPE – Florence Leopoldi, the matriarch of 5th Avenue’s family-owned Leopoldi Hardware [https://ww3.truevalue.com/leopoldi/Home.aspx], passed away on December 19. She was 83 years old. Message posted on window of Leopoldi Hardware, 415 5th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)“She had congestive heart failure about
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Here’s how the street signs would look like. (Photo via PAYO)DITMAS PARK – The Coney Island Avenue strip between Avenues C and H, also known as “Little Pakistan,” will be co-named “Muhammad Ali Jinnah Way,” after the founder of Pakistan. “This is a really great achievement of the Pakistani-American
Central Brooklyn
Nowshin Ali. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)DITMAS PARK – Nowshin Ali came to live in the United States five years ago with her son. Things weren’t going well for her in India, so she left everything behind to start a new life in Brooklyn. In these five years, she has
Coney Island
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at the 2019 Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge (Photo: Stefan Ringal)CONEY ISLAND — This year, as thousands braved the frigid temperatures of the ocean, Borough President Eric Adams also took a dip in the Atlantic during this year’s Polar Bear Plunge in Coney Island
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CARROLL GARDENS – Borough President Eric Adams honored Emma’s Torch on Thursday with a “Hero of the Month” award. The award goes to individuals saving lives in a variety of ways throughout the borough. Adams has doled out tributes to Brooklyn heroes from the NYPD officers [http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/
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Source: Jeff Belmonte via Wikimedia CommonsBROOKLYN — Looking for someone to officiate your wedding? Consider your local state lawmaker. New York State Gov. Cuomo signed legislation to allow state legislatures the authority to officiate weddings. And they have to do it for free. The bill, S8298 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/