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Councilman Jumaane Williams. (Photo by William Alatriste/NYC Council)As part of his bid for the role of Speaker of the New York City Council, Councilmember Jumaane Williams (D-45) has released a plan for the “Next Chapter for New York City,” suggesting a number of ways to improve the city
Announcements
All events are free and open to the public, and we will update as more events and details are announced. Mark your calendars and bring the kids! (Dyker Heights lights go up the weekend after Thanksgiving.) Christmas, as usual, falls on December 25th. Kwanzaa follows Christmas and takes place December
Arts & Culture
Photo: Zainab IqbalCLINTON HILL – Just below her right shoulder, there is a quote inked on Golnar Adili’s skin. Unless one knows how to read the curves and dots of Persian, it is foreign—just like Adili herself. “I can do without the world, but I can’t do without
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SUNSET PARK – The driver of a BMW struck and killed a 14-year-old delivery boy as he was cycling in Sunset Park Saturday afternoon. 5th Avenue & 23rd Street via Google MapsAt approximately 5:45pm on Saturday, November 25, police say Edwin Ajacalon was riding his bicycle eastward on 23rd Street
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SUNSET PARK – The NYPD announced last week that a 37-year-old Sunset Park man was arrested in connection to hammer attacks at two mosques earlier this month [/nypd-releases-additional-video-man-vandalized-two-sunset-park-mosques/]. Via NYPDPolice apprehended Muy Hu on Tuesday, November 21, after he scratched the side of a Toyota Camry parked near the intersection of
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN – A pub, a vintage clothing store, the basement of a Peruvian restaurant: in Brooklyn, if there is room for a mic and an audience, a stand-up comedian has probably performed there. In the last few years, the borough has become so saturated with stand-up, it is hard to find
Big Story
(left to right) Dr. Andrew Moshman, Dr. Howard Moshman, Dr. Stanley Moshman (Photo by Margaret Wheeler-Frothingham)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – I wanted to make life easier and find a new dentist, but mom balked: “You can’t give up the Moshmans, just because you moved to Midwood.” I’ve been making this
Bed Stuy
The robbery took place just before 3:00 am on Fulton Street (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Police are looking for the man who stole cash and cigarettes from a 7-Eleven store on Fulton Street earlier this week. Just before 3:00 am on Tuesday, November 21, the suspect entered
Central Brooklyn
Inside the old Pavilion Theater as it’s being renovated (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER) The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. Bensonhurst Brothers Cornered the Online Market for Appliances and Big Ticket Buys [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/
Arts & Culture
Tom Finkelpearl, co-chair of the Mayoral Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers opened the discussion (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BOROUGH HALL – Politicians, teachers, art historians, feminists, futurists and more turned out to speak on the role of public monuments in New York City. The Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art,
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. (Photo: Eric T. Schneiderman [https://www.facebook.com/eric.schneiderman/photos/a.438189636273087.1073741826.289949387763780/631569633601752/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released an open letter today [https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a] addressed to the Federal Communications Commission
Health
Today, the Food Bank for New York City released a new study that shows Brooklyn has the highest rate of food security of all five boroughs. The report, titled “Trade Offs at the Dinner Table,” examines the effect that 2013 cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had on