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CARROLL GARDENS/PARK SLOPE – Brooklyn Community Board 6 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] elected Park Slope resident Peter Fleming as its new Chair at the start of its December board meeting. “One of the things that I think is really important about the community board is that
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Yesterday, Dec. 26, marked the first day of Kwanzaa, a holiday created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966. The celebration lasts a week (ending January 1) and honors the African heritage. At the end of the week, there is a big feast with plenty of gifts. > As families celebrate
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Photo by Donny Levit / Bklyner.PARK SLOPE – Legionella bacteria was found during a Department of Health inspection in the water system at the New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. “The water supply of many large buildings and hospitals often contains small amounts of Legionella bacteria, and most people who are exposed
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Hassan Ahmad at home in Brighton Beach. Ben Masten/BklynerBRIGHTON BEACH – Earlier this year, Hurricanes Florence and Michael cut huge swaths of destruction across the southeastern United States, hundreds of miles from Brooklyn. In Brighton Beach, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Hassan Ahmad, is keeping a wary
Business
The art adorning the front of Rose Wolf Coffee was done by a local artist, recommended by the owner’s family tattoo artist (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)Walk into Rose Wolf Coffee on any given morning and the first thing that hits you is the smell of fresh-baked pastries. As in,
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE/WINDSOR TERRACE – NITEHAWK Prospect Park opens today in the building last occupied by The Pavillion movie house at 188 Prospect Park West with a 3:30 PM screening of The World Before Your Feet. The beautifully restored movie house has 7 theaters to show movies to 650 patrons
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PARK SLOPE/SUNSET PARK – Photographer Larry Racioppo [http://larryracioppo.com/index.html] loves his native Brooklyn and has made it his life’s work for nearly 50 years to document the borough’s transforming neighborhoods as well as his family and friends who have called it home. Brooklyn Before, Photographs,
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Renovations on the way of the new Stocked Burger. (Photo credit: Matthew Fulton) CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After an electrical fire in 2016 shuttered their Vanderbilt Avenue business for 14 months, owners of Stocked Cafe [https://www.stockedbrooklyn.com/], Matthew Fulton and Lesley Covitz were filled with emotion over the
Bushwick
A picture of the girls from the fundraising page (Via GoFundMe [https://www.gofundme.com/support-renita-vincent-and-their-family?fbclid=IwAR0LdY0zGf420lFYjc2S8aEbeiJJvppSvXBr9VpDtbCdc4GBvFKgdKkArVg] )A fundraiser has been set up to help the family of the two girls who were killed in a Bushwick apartment fire [/two-girls-killed-in-fire-while-visiting-their-grandfather-in-bushwick/] over the weekend. Haley Harris, 8, and Payton Gomez,
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The Rev. Khader El-Yateem at the Alpine Theatre.BAY RIDGE — Rev. Khader El-Yateem returned to his old neighborhood for a night to see the Brooklyn premiere of “FATHER K,” a documentary based on his 2017 run for the City Council seat to represent Bay Ridge, his home for nearly two
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBROOKLYN HEIGHTS – “There is no one way to be Muslim,” Zaheer Ali, the project director of “Muslims in Brooklyn” said. “Islam is not a box that you put people in. It is a box that people stand on.” Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) officially presented its “Muslims in
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Photo via OneBlood.FLORIDA – Sure Bklyner covers Brooklyn stories, but this story was too important to pass up. Zainab Mughal, an adorable two-year-old needs blood to survive. The catch? The blood she’s looking for is rare. Could you be her match? Zainab has an aggressive form of cancer called