Central Brooklyn
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerTwo drastically different accounts have emerged regarding the arrest of a woman in Flatbush last week. Cops say Latisha Bellamy-Maldonado, 27, was arrested Friday afternoon around 1:20pm at 180 Woodruff Avenue (near Flatbush Avenue) and charged with assault of a police officer and resisting arrest, among
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanHere’s our roundup of some of the crime reports that happened in and around Bensonhurst in the last two weeks, courtesy of the NYPD’s 62nd Precinct. * A teenager walking down McDonald Avenue on Monday March 28, at 7pm, got into an argument with three men.
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerIt was a call for peace, from Coney Island Avenue to the streets of Lahore. Borough President Eric Adams, along with other elected officials and leaders of our local Pakistani community, held an interfaith candlelight vigil last night to honor the victims of Sunday’s terrorist attack
Education
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit [http://thelawfareproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lax_Complain_EDNY.pdf], first reported by
News
Photo by Sean EganTwo weeks after a fake Sunset Park lawyer was sentenced [http://sunsetparkvoice.com/police-fire/fake-sunset-park-lawyer-who-offered-bogus-immigration-services-gets-2-4-years/] to two to four years in prison for scamming immigrants out of thousands of dollars — the first such conviction in New York State — a forum was held at the CUNY Graduate School
Announcements
The Future of Work Summit [http://weblink.ibrooklyn.com/events/The-Future-of-Work-Summit-1791/details] is presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with LiquidTalent and the Chamber’s Workforce Development Committee. The summit will explore what the next generation of work will look like in Brooklyn. It will discuss the
News
Sanders supporters [left to right] Jesse Brickle, Mohammed Siddique, and Jonathan Vaquez. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)With less than 24 hours notice, the Brooklyn presidential campaign office of Senator Bernie Sanders opened in the Gowanus neighborhood on Saturday. The event — which took place in front of the
Events
Riders enjoying the Cyclone roller coaster. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Elected officials gathered in Coney Island Saturday to christen the newly refurbished cyclone at the spring opening ceremony for Luna Park. The celebration had been postponed one week because weather reports predicted a Nor’easter [/luna-parks-march-20-opening-day-postponed-due-noreaster/] on the first
News
Photo by Sean EganTwo weeks after a fake Sunset Park lawyer was sentenced [/police-fire/fake-sunset-park-lawyer-who-offered-bogus-immigration-services-gets-2-4-years/] to two to four years in prison for scamming immigrants out of thousands of dollars — the first such conviction in New York State — a forum was held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to
Bensonhurst
Photo by Sean EganTwo weeks after a fake Sunset Park lawyer was sentenced [http://sunsetparkvoice.com/police-fire/fake-sunset-park-lawyer-who-offered-bogus-immigration-services-gets-2-4-years/] to two to four years in prison for scamming immigrants out of thousands of dollars — the first such conviction in New York State — a forum was held at the CUNY Graduate School
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerThis week in Ditmas Park, residents began to choose which capital projects — like a new dog run in the Parade Ground [/blog/news/starting-saturday-residents-to-vote-on-new-dog-run-at-parade-ground/] — deserve City Council funding, we explored the plants and flowers coming into bloom [/blog/garden/in-bloom-this-week/] in our area, and we learned we
News
A patch of mud was all that was left of the grass that caught on fire. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going