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Oct
07
What’s Happening In Brooklyn: Boro Park Protest, The Red Zone, Crashes

What’s Happening In Brooklyn: Boro Park Protest, The Red Zone, Crashes

Ocean Parkway (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)We are already a week into October! We wish we had some good news,
3 min read
Oct
06
Mayor’s Misleading ZIP Code Talk Means Zip

Mayor’s Misleading ZIP Code Talk Means Zip

There has been so much talk of ZIP codes recently. COVID-19 hot spot areas, watch areas, areas where schools are
4 min read
Oct
02
Quanda Francis – A Data Driven, Progressive, Independent Brooklynite for Mayor

Quanda Francis – A Data Driven, Progressive, Independent Brooklynite for Mayor

Quanda Francis, campaign photo.Quanda Francis did not have it easy growing up in Brooklyn [https://quandafrancis.com/meet-the-candidate]. The
4 min read
Oct
01
Jo Anne Simon Is Running To Empower Women and Unify Brooklyn

Jo Anne Simon Is Running To Empower Women and Unify Brooklyn

Jo Anne Simon outside James Madison HS in Brooklyn, October 1. Liena Zagare/BklynerJust after 9:30 this morning outside
5 min read
Oct
01
Absentee Ballot Vendor Donated Over $100k To GOP Campaigns

Absentee Ballot Vendor Donated Over $100k To GOP Campaigns

BROOKLYN – Last month the Board of Elections (BOE) sent out nearly 100,000 absentee ballots with return envelopes that had
3 min read
Sep
29
Voters Across Brooklyn Get Absentee Ballot Return Envelopes with Wrong Name and Address

Voters Across Brooklyn Get Absentee Ballot Return Envelopes with Wrong Name and Address

A ballot sent to Brooklyn voterBy Greg B. Smith, originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/9/28/21492665/voters-brooklyn-wrong-absentee-ballot-envelopes-presidential-election]
4 min read
Sep
24
Antonio Reynoso Endorsed By Jumaane Williams, Julia Salazar For Borough President Run

Antonio Reynoso Endorsed By Jumaane Williams, Julia Salazar For Borough President Run

Council Member Reynoso speaking at a press conference in Williamsburg a few years ago. (Photo: Paul Stremple/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – The
3 min read
Sep
22
Who’s Funding the Brooklyn Democratic Party, and Why?

Who’s Funding the Brooklyn Democratic Party, and Why?

Rodneyse Bichotte. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerThe progressive wave [https://nypost.com/2020/06/26/a-progressive-wave-in-new-yorks-democratic-primaries-for-now/] that has washed over parts of
5 min read
Sep
15
Competing Visions Cloud the Future of Brooklyn’s Industry City as Expansion Plan Reaches City Council

Competing Visions Cloud the Future of Brooklyn’s Industry City as Expansion Plan Reaches City Council

Industry City. August 2020. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Greg David, originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/9/14/21436907/brooklyn-industry-city-expansion-plan-city-council-sahadis]
7 min read
Sep
14
Brooklyn Gun Buyback Takes 33 Guns Off New York Streets

Brooklyn Gun Buyback Takes 33 Guns Off New York Streets

Thirty three guns are now off New York’s streets thanks to a gun buyback held in Brooklyn on Saturday.
4 min read