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A Bookstore For Us

Businesses across the city are closing their doors as coronavirus spreads, with all non-essential businesses expected to shut down. But bookstores are essential to many of us, and two Latina-owned bookstores in Brooklyn are finding ways to connect with their customers through bike deliveries and their online sales. Cafe con

Bensonhurst

The Search For The Best Tamales In Bensonhurst

Photo by Carmen Molina TamacasBack in November, before Thanksgiving, I took a long walk looking for ingredients my husband needed for a traditional-style dinner. Since Waldbaums closed, I had to go to NetCost and Key Food. Along the way, I stopped at the Guatemalan restaurant Jireh (8715 18th Avenue); it

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Job Alert: Coney Island History Project Seeks Chinese, Turkish & Spanish Speaking Interviewers

Courtesy of the Coney Island History ProjectThe Coney Island History Project is looking to hire several part-time interviewers for an oral history project focusing on Coney Island, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend. According to the job listing, the new hires will conduct, record, and edit audio interviews in Chinese — Cantonese and Mandarin

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Job Alert: Coney Island History Project Seeks Chinese, Turkish & Spanish Speaking Interviewers

Courtesy of the Coney Island History ProjectThe Coney Island History Project is looking to hire several part-time interviewers for an oral history project focusing on Coney Island, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend. According to the job listing, the new hires will conduct, record, and edit audio interviews in Chinese — Cantonese and Mandarin

American Community Survey

Yiddish And Chinese Are Third-Most-Popular Languages In Fort Greene-Clinton Hill

Image courtesy of Business Insider.Is English your native language? No? What about Spanish? Well, it turns out that — to just about no one’s surprise — these are the top two languages spoken in Brooklyn homes, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest annual American Community

Brooklyn School of Inquiry

Brooklyn School Of Inquiry Principal Apologizes For Disparaging Comments About Spanish Speakers

The Brooklyn School of Inquiry, located at 50 Avenue P (Source: Google Maps)The principal of Brooklyn School of Inquiry is under fire for disparaging comments she made about Spanish speakers to an audience of prospective students and parents this week. The Bensonhurst middle school, which is known for its

2 Brother's

Restaurant At 4th Avenue And 16th Street: Take Three!

Following Boqueroncito, which filled the space after Country Boys closed, yet again a restaurant has set up shop at 568 4th Avenue. Inside it looks pretty much the same, and outside is the same red-and-white awing — but with a new name stenciled on: 2 Brother’s. In fact, there are

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Sticking It To Citi Bikes

Stickered Citi Bikes spotted at Clermont and Lafayette. (Photo courtesy of Ana Malick)Guerrilla vandals with a sense of humor are expressing their disdain for New York City’s new bike share program by giving creative makeovers to local Citi Bikes. On certain bikes and docking stations around the city,

dual-language program

Interested in a Dual Language Program at P.S. 10?

As the kindergarten admissions process kicks into high gear, a group of current and future parents at P.S. 10 are working with Principal Laura Scott to add a Spanish dual language program to the magnet school’s repertoire. According to local mom, Cara Tabachnick, they’re hoping to start

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Armory Needs Volunteers Thursday and Friday

With the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving approaching, it’s easy to forget that a number of evacuees are still housed down the street at the Armory. Volunteers (especially those who speak Russian or Spanish) are still needed for four to eight hour shifts tomorrow and Friday. Sign up online