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The courtyard outside 101 North Portland Avenue, near where Colon was shot and killed (Screenshot via Google Maps)In 2014, Leonaldo Parrado was robbed by two men. Despite the fact they were wearing clown masks, Parrado thought he knew who one of them was. And he went looking for retribution.
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A 66-year-old man was shot in the lobby of a Walt Whitman Houses building early this morning. He later died of his injuries. (Photo by Francisco Daum)A woman was killed at the Whitman Houses last night, according to the NYPD. Cops say they responded to a call just past
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The meeting in session. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)“What do you call affordable?” asked Ingersoll Residents Association President Darold Burgess [/?s=darold+burgess] in reference to the developments rising around the Ingersoll Houses and the proposed affordable housing set-asides. The Ingersoll Residents Association Meeting was last night at
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Image via NYPD.This past week’s crime report shows a slight increase in overall crime compared to last week [/blog/2015/11/06/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-october-26-november-1/](19 incidents versus this week’s 21), but an improvement compared to last year (21 versus 23). There were, however, no murders or shootings this
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Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.NYCHA residents from Farragut, Ingersoll and Whitman Houses now have a free monthly market of their own, courtesy of a partnership between City Harvest [http://www.cityharvest.org/] and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (MARP) [http://www.myrtleavenue.org]. Dubbed Fresh Pantry [http://www.
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Come to learn about the activities offered at the Children’s Academy, but stay for the Blackbirds’ basketball game. (Photo by David Gardiner Garcia)Long Island University Brooklyn [http://www.liunet.edu/Brooklyn] and the LIU Blackbirds [http://www.liuathletics.com/] invite local families to stop by this Saturday to