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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCYPRESS HILLS – On Monday, January 14, the NYPD arrested 27-year-old Christopher Benitez for reckless endangerment on the J Train last month. To recap, on December 18 at approximately 1:20 a.m., a man approached a 19-year-old woman on the southbound J Train inside the Cypress Hills
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Ron Kim Will need to change his party line and logo.BROOKLYN — Those unique taglines public advocate candidates are parading as Party names aren’t special enough, apparently. Eight of the 23 candidates [/23-candidates-qualify-public-advocate/] running for public advocate have to change their Party name because of a Board of Elections
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Public Advocate Letitia James. (Photo by Sean Egan)BROOKLYN — More than 30 New Yorkers announced their run for the Public Advocate’s seat and after the final day to submit the required number of signatures, 23 remain. Candidates had less than two weeks to gather 3,750 signatures of support
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Photo by Orla McCaffrey/BklynerBROOKLYN — The new Democratic majority voted 48-13 in favor of early voting on Monday, a bill newly elected State Sen. Zellnor Myrie sponsored. “Voting is the right that protects all other rights, yet too many New Yorkers struggle to get to the ballot box because of
Coney Island
CONEY ISLAND – Low-income Coney Island homeowners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy are feeling the wrath of what is now the longest U.S. government shutdown in history that started on December 22, 2018. Rebuilding Together NYC [/rebuilding-together-nyc-debuts-new-headquarters-in-gowanus/], a Brooklyn-based non-profit, provides free home repairs and accessibility modifications to low-income homeowners,
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Several hundreds of people gathered on the beautiful Brooklyn Heights Promenade in the freezing cold to rally against the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) plan to turn the historic Promenade into a six-lane highway while repairing the deteriorating Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). Last September, the DOT
Business
Photo courtesy of OmbligoAcross the landscape of makers at Industry City, most businesses are creating products from scratch. They are fashion [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-malia-mills/] and industrial [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-roll-hill/] designers, instrument fabricators [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-fodera-guitars/], bakers [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-colson-patisserie/], and much more. Ombligo [https://ombligo.com/], however, does things differently – it is a REmaker. CEO and
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Former Public Advocate Letitia James. (Photo by Sean Egan)BROOKLYN – Today, Monday, Jan 14, is the last day for Public Advocate candidates to file the required 3,750 signatures which put their names on the ballot for the Feb. 26 special election. The vacant seat is up for grabs since
Education
Originally posted on Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/01/11/white-teacher-mother-school-choice-segregation-nyc/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] by Alie Stumpf [https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/alie-stumpf/] on January 11, 2019. Reprinted with permission. When I read Saratu Ghartey’s story last fall
Bed Stuy
MARINE PARK – A firefighter was arrested for drunk driving and hitting a pedestrian after going home from a slain firefighter’s funeral [/firefighter-steven-h-pollard-dies-trying-to-save-crash-victims/] on Friday. According to the NYPD, 36-year-old Matthew Wilson was driving home while intoxicated, when his car struck a 31-year-old on Marine Parkway and Quentin Road. The
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Photo via Google Maps.WILLIAMSBURG – A man was killed by a truck while crossing the street last Friday afternoon, January 11. At about 5 p.m. last week, a 46-year-old man was driving east on Maspeth Avenue in his 2015 Ford Pick-Up. He then made a left turn into Vandervoort
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PARK SLOPE – Another celebrity couple is leaving Park Slope [/blunt-krasinski-matt-damon/]. Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350454/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm] and Peter Sarsgaard [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0765597/?ref_=nmbio_mbio] have listed their Sterling Place townhouse for $4.599 million, the Wall Street Journal first