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A Thief or Bad Postal Service? Packages Are Missing In Ditmas Park.

DITMAS PARK – Amazon may soon be our next door neighbor, but Amazon packages have been missing across Ditmas Park and Kensington for months. In over six months, over 100 packages (both Amazon and others) have been reported missing by neighbors at a building near Cortelyou and Stratford alone — and that

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Congresswoman Clarke Meets With Brooklyn Postmaster

Post Office on Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D9, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay) met with Anthony Impronto, Brooklyn Postmaster on Monday, February 12, to discuss how to address the poor service provided by the postal offices in her district, that has been

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What To Know Around Town This Labor Day 2016

Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882 (Source: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)We hope all our neighbors enjoy a final summer sendoff this Labor Day weekend. If you’re sticking around the area, here’s some information from the city on what’s open, what’s closed, and what’

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Dyker Heights Woman & Pitbull Brawl With Mailman [Video]

The life of a mailman is hard enough. Rain or shine, postal workers are out there, lugging around that bag of mail, marching up to strangers’ homes to bring them their packages. Occasionally these encounters go awry, like yesterday, at 11am, when a Dyker Heights woman and her dog attacked

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What’s Open, Closed, And Happening On Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Photo via Wikimedia Commons.Whether you plan to spend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day reflecting on the nation’s unrest, taking in a movie at a local theater, or, I don’t know, selfishly capping off a three-day weekend without a thought to the significance of the day itself – here’

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What To Know Around Town This Labor Day

Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882 (Source: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)We hope all our neighbors enjoy a final summer sendoff this Labor Day weekend. If you’re sticking around the area, here’s some information from the city on what’s open, what’s closed, and what’

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Service Changes & Closures In Sheepshead Bay During The 4th Of July Weekend

4th of July Fireworks. (Photo: Anthony Quintano / Flickr)Break out the buns, franks, and firework — the Fourth of July weekend is right around the corner. If you’re sticking around the city to see the Macy’s fireworks display, which will launch from the East River, you may want to

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New Post Office For Flatbush Avenue?

The USPS may be setting up shop on Flatbush Avenue — but then again, it might not. There’s been a lot of back and forth about the Boerum Hill post office, currently located at 542 Atlantic Avenue but in need of a new space — unfortunately, the one they were eyeing

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Pack & Ship Store Coming To 1013 Fulton Street

A packaging and shipping store is opening soon at 1013 Fulton Street (between Downing Street and Grand Avenue), said a worker on site today. Permits were filed to alter the ground floor space in mid-June. The contractor we spoke to said the shop, which is looking very fancy with its

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Dyker Heights Civic Replenishes Military Postage Fund

Source: Joint Base Lewis McChord/FlickrFor more than a decade, the Dyker Heights Civic Association has been running one of those awesome programs that makes you feel proud to be a Southern Brooklynite, by providing a no-cost service to families of those serving our country overseas and helping them stay

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Photo: Bath Beach Post Office In The Sepia-Tinted Days Of 1914

The Bath Beach post office crew in 1914 (Source: Howard Weiss via Facebook)There is something about this picture of the Bath Beach post office picture from 1914 that makes me long for an orange creamsicle. Bensonhurst Bean reader Howard Weiss took a picture of this old photograph hanging up

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Where Is It?

Do you know where this old post office sits? You’ll win bragging rights, and our undying admiration. That’s really all anybody needs, isn’t it?

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USPS Holiday Mailing Schedule

It might seem early, and we don’t want to stress you out, but the Postal Service just announced the deadlines for mailing packages and cards to get to their destination in time for Christmas. Mail-By Dates November 14: APO/FPO Parcel Post Military Deadline December 3: Priority Mail International

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Newkirk’s Faded Flag

The flag at Newkirk’s post office isn’t looking quite as tattered as it did a couple of months ago but it’s still torn and faded. Is it strange that I’m growing fond of the flag? When the wind is blowing as hard as it was today,

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Holiday Greetings? Get The USPS Shipping Cut Off Dates

Source: Sarah Parrott/FlickrIf you’re planning on mailing out holiday cards or gifts, it’s time to get to it. Because this is the busiest time of year for the United States Post Office, mailings can take a little longer. Here’s a list of cut off dates to

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Brighton Beach Post Office Saved

Courtesy of Daily News The United States Postal Service (USPS) has signed a five-year lease on 3157 Coney Island Avenue, after a fierce battle with the landlord to keep the Brighton Beach Post Office branch open. The agreement caps an almost year long fight in which the new landlord attempted