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Makki Masjid located at 1089 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner) MIDWOOD – The fight for accountability at the beloved Makki Masjid in Little Pakistan has found its way out the doors of the mosque and into the court. Makki Masjid, officially the Muslim Community Center of Brooklyn (MCCB), has
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Jayden Grant with his grandmother, Bessie Watson Grant, before the graduation ceremony began (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BOROUGH PARK— Jayden Grant, an 11-year-old boy who was recently hit by a stray bullet in Crown Heights, graduated from elementary school on Monday, at a bittersweet ceremony at the hospital where
Arts & Culture
Yoni Katz in a library on Kingston Avenue, where he begins his tours (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—It all started with a fight over bike lanes. Rabbi Yoni Katz, 40, almost 10 years ago noticed “tension” between “hipsters” and Hasidic people in Williamsburg centered around them [https:
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerLITTLE PAKISTAN – Naseem Khan Alizai for the last 28 years has spent his days selling gold jewelry on Coney Island Avenue. Some days, he closes his shop making zero bucks. Yet, every day (except on Fridays) he comes back. Alizai, 50, owns the property located at 1064
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Bishop Kearney High will close after August. (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)This week marked the last day of school for the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Catholic schools [https://dioceseofbrooklyn.org/schools/about-catholic-schools/], with summer break now underway. But for some of those long-standing schools, their doors will not reopen in
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Jabaran Akram. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – Jabaran Akram, 22, was born in Brooklyn, the third of eight children of Pakistani immigrants who settled in Brighton Beach. These days Akram is the community liaison for Councilmember Chaim Deutsch as well as an auxiliary officer for the NYPD. Since he started
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A five alarm fire raced through three 100+ year-old houses in Midwood, resulting in 13 injuries.A Pennsylvania man who allegedly torched a Brooklyn rabbi’s home and taking two others with it [/suspicious-early-morning-4-alarm-fire-destroys-three-century-old-midwood-homes/] , went before a judge Sunday night smiling after getting arrested for attempted murder and arson charges
Arts & Culture
The New York Landmarks Conservancy [http://www.nylandmarks.org/] is hosting the Sacred Sites Open House from May 18-19, inviting the public to tour 150 churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and meeting houses across the state, including 13 sites in Brooklyn. New Utrecht Reformed ChurchThe Conservancy began hosting the tours of
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerIt’s that time of year again. Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam, is beginning in just a few days (Sunday, May 5 or Monday, May 6 depending on when the new moon is sighted). It is a time where Muslims fast every day from dawn to
Central Brooklyn
By Andrea Karshan, a Jewish woman currently living in Crown Heights In Chabad Crown Heights, the Jewish community is holding elections, and women aren’t allowed to vote. Elections [https://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=54482&alias=crown-heights-will-hold-elections] are being held in June in Chabad Crown Heights for
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People leaving Easter Service. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE – Hundreds of people attended Easter service at the Old First Reformed Church on Sunday. It was their first time being back after the sanctuary closed in 2011 for massive repairs. “This morning, we remember the people of Sri Lanka; the
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Burning of chametz in Boro Park. Todd Maisel/BklynerFriday marked the beginning of Passover in the Jewish faith and Good Friday for Christians worldwide, meaning thousands of people in Brooklyn participated in special religious rituals to mark the holy days. In the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, Jewish residents burned bread and