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Photo by sarahbelle1 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahbelle1/3442747012/]Know your way around Microsoft Office? Familiar with the New York City public school system? Apply for this administrative assistant position at Community Education Council 20 (CEC 20), where you can serve as primary liaison between the Council and Department
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Photo via Industry City [https://www.facebook.com/IndustryCityBK/photos/pb.118852951506737.-2207520000.1445821252./726488584076501/?type=3&theater] Last September, Industry City announced the creation of the Innovation Lab [http://southslopenews.com/blog/jobs/innovation-lab-industry-city-plans-help-community-job-training-entrepreneurship/] , a jobs center that plans to provide job training as well as education and
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanAfter last week’s brutal carjacking and kidnapping [/woman-kidnapped-and-beaten-during-car-jacking/#.Vo_YP8ArKqQ] on a typically quiet Bensonhurst intersection (Harway Avenue and Bay 41st Street), the victim is ready to speak about what happened to her. The New York Times has interviewed the 56-year-old woman [http://www.nytimes.com/
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https://youtu.be/jMg4aas6Fio Assemblywoman Pamela Harris took her seat in the state legislature Wednesday as it held its first session of the new year. The newly-elected assemblywomen stood beaming as she was introduced on the Assembly floor by Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, who described Harris’ career as a corrections
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Courtesy of The Owl’s HeadLots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Send us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. “Giving Up The Ghost” Art Exhibit
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By Laura IfrailovToday it’s a bustling playground, with basketball courts, handball courts, and picnic tables, but once upon a time, the triangle between Bay Parkway, Bay Ridge Parkway, and Stilwell Avenue known as Seth Low Park was a serene waterway called Indian Pond. Highlighted in his upcoming book Hidden
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Photo by ajaxnyc [http://websta.me/p/1047274359330236213_472839152]Once again, we can expected a stress free weekend, with blissfully uninterrupted subway service. Enjoy it while it lasts, because starting January 18, we can all expect screwy commutes [/major-n-train-renovations-to-begin-on-january-18/] for the next 14 months as the MTA begins its massive
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Photo via ImprovEverywhere.com [http://improveverywhere.com/]What is it with January and stripping down? The cold weather must bring out the exhibitionist in all of us. Just a few days ago, the Coney Island Polar Bears took the plunge [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/01/heres-what-it-feels-like-to-take-the-new-years-day-polar-bear-plunge/] in their annual
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Photo by kiss_gal [https://www.instagram.com/p/BALdx7QG44g/]/InstagramThese blossoms are unfazed by the dropping temperatures. Take any photos in Bensonhurst recently? Send them to editor@bensonhurstbean.com , or tag them #Bensonhurst on Instagram, and we’ll post them here. Also, follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/
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We’re currently growing, and we’d love to add some new staff members to our crew! If you are passionate about the Brooklyn neighborhoods [http://cornernewsmedia.com/] that we cover, please get in touch about the possibilities for full-time and contributing writer opportunities, and a digital advertising operations manager
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Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst BeanSouthern Brooklyn’s decrepit N line stations [/post-apocalyptic-n-line-get-repairs-screwing-commute/] will finally get some TLC this month, but unfortunately that comes with a price for local commuters. The first half of the MTA’s planned four-year renovation [/construction-on-six-n-line-stations-is-underway-heres-what-you-need-to-know/] of the long-neglected subway line will begin on January
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Photo by herblessedjourney [http://websta.me/p/1042299262142572358_18787616] Safety advocated are hailing a new law, sponsored by Senator Marty Golden and Assemblyman James Brennan, as an important tool in protecting commuters and MTA workers from crime and sexual assault. The bill, signed into law this week by Governor Andrew