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PARK SLOPE – On Tuesday morning at the corner of 4th Avenue and 9th Street, dozens of families stood outside the Holy Family – St. Thomas Aquinas Church. The families were from the Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy in Williamsburg [https://queenoftherosarybrooklyn.org/] and were chanting and waving signs. As trucks
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5th Avenue is closed down between Dean Street and Park Place, Friday-Sunday. Ellie Plass, Bklyner.PARK SLOPE – Brooklyn’s 5th Avenue between Dean Street and Park Place is now part of the city’s Open Streets program, designed to aid small businesses and provide more room for social distancing and
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Meals ready for distribution. Courtesy of Paul Carney.Andy Wandzilak can’t not feed people. Former co-owner of Two Boots Park Slope with his wife, Piper, as well as a caterer at Kings Theatre, Wandzilak had launched the volunteer-led Hurricane Sandy Relief Kitchen back in 2012 when the storm devastated
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When owner Marina Charny began working on Beer Garage in January, she thought it would take her about a year to open. She planned on doing much of the work on the space herself, along with her manager, and was okay with taking her time. Instead, a pandemic hit, forcing
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When Randy and Suzanne Tyson started planning their Park Slope bar, DDT [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=21&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjozLGH4cXpAhU0mnIEHRNjA_8Q_BcwFHoECBEQEg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.
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PARK SLOPE – Two years ago, Ruthie Ann Miles was pregnant and crossing the street with her five-year-old daughter Abigail Joy, when a driver ran over them, killing Abigail and a one-year-old boy/ Miles suffered a miscarriage. Now, two years later, she gave birth to a baby girl. The 37-year-old Broadway
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PARK SLOPE – All Terri Zimmerman wanted for her husband’s birthday was a cake from Häagen-Dazs. For as long as she could remember, he’s gotten an ice cream cake from there every May 1st. She didn’t want this pandemic and his long hours working in the hospital to
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The Park Slope Food Coop on May 8Park Slope Food Coop members may not be able to shop like they used to, but the grocery is in a stronger position to weather the pandemic because it can depend on them. The fabled low-priced grocery store is asking their 17,000
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Michael and Alice Halkias. (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE – Michael Halkias, a Brooklyn legend and the owner of the Grand Prospect Hall, died yesterday afternoon. He was 82. Halkias, described as a philanthropist and a “lover of Greek letters and culture,” was fighting the coronavirus at Lenox Hill Hospital
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Mother’s Day cards from Awesome Brooklyn. Courtesy of Vanessa Raptopoulos.You forgot Mother’s Day. It’s fine – there’s a lot to worry about right now. Happily, however, we live in Brooklyn, rife with some of the city’s coolest independent shops, owned and curated by talented and
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LBK Pizza is open for take out and delivery only, in park Slope. Photo by Ellie Plass.New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes representing Southern Brooklyn is teaming up with Assemblymember Robert Carroll, of Brooklyn’s 44th district, to introduce legislation to require COVID-19 related incidents to be covered under
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The re-named New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER)By Virginia Breen, originally published in THE CITY. [https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/moms-left-alone-in-maternity-wards-despite-cuomo-order.html] Anxious first-time mom-to-be Keri Lynn Patton spent two hours awaiting transfer to a labor and delivery area of New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital