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Popular photography retailer B&H is being sued by workers who allege discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender while working in the company’s Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse. According to the workers, B&H Foto and Electronics Corporation routinely promoted and paid higher
Neighbors
Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a 75-year-old woman who went missing from her home at 555 10th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues). Cops say Lidiya F. Piddubna was last seen inside her home at approximately 6:00pm on Sunday, February 28. Piddubna suffers from dementia, and may be
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Police have arrested a homeless man for allegedly slashing a man across the face with a boxcutter on the Classon Avenue G train Queens-bound platform at around 2:50am this morning (Monday, February 29). According to PIX11 [http://pix11.com/2016/02/29/homeless-man-slashes-subway-commuter-who-woke-him-up-in-brooklyn-nypd/] , police say that after being roused
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/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/636-16-CIS-78-PCT-02-28-16-video.mp4 Video via NYPD Police have released a video of the suspect’s vehicle involved in an apparent hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian. The incident took place near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 9th Street at approximately 5:00am on Sunday, February 28, according
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Image via NYPD.The man pictured above is wanted for allegedly punching and robbing a 35-year-old woman near the Clinton Hill-Bed Stuy border last Sunday, February 21, at Classon and Lafayette Avenues. According to police, it was 7pm when the suspect approached the victim, punched her in the face, demanded
Neighbors
Photo via ajhazell [https://www.instagram.com/p/9RyDyvEfi2/?tagged=brokeniphone] Over the last few months, our site has become a maudlin reliquary of iPhone muggings [/blog/crime/injured-12-year-old-is-latest-victim-of-recent-iphone-robberies-in-neighborhood/] in the neighborhood. And if you type “iPhone” [/?s=iphone] into our search engine, you’ll have plenty of crime news
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Image via Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.Missed this week’s neighborhood news? We’ve got you covered. And don’t forget to list local events in our Brooklyn-wide Calendar [http://http//www.bklyner.com/calendar]! TOP NEWS * Get out the vote: 19 participatory budgeting projects will be on the
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The intersection of 5th Avenue and 9th Street, hours after a pedestrian was struck and killed on Sunday, February 28. (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)Updated 9:46pm: A previous version of this story stated the victim was riding a bicycle. Police say that they released this information erroneously, and
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Photo via peri_rob [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCD9L5zPDk0/?taken-at=61172945] Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and sign up for our daily newsletter. And if you ever have any news tips, story ideas, questions, or
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Photo by Sarah Crean.After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. How did a booming real estate market create a deadly
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Photo via daniel_orren [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCDTzGoFrlX/?tagged=gowanus] After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. How did
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Image courtesy of Fort Greene Park Conservancy.Parks-lovers have until this coming Monday, February 29 to vote for their favorite park to get $5 million in funding through the city Parks Department’s $50 million Parks Without Borders initiative [http://www.nycgovparks.org/planning- and-building/planning/parks-without-borders] — and Fort Greene