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• BOROBEAT: Great Dane! Danish conul general visits local school

  28-03-2016 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn DailyThey got a taste of the Danish life.Consul General of Denmark Anne Dorte Riggelsen visited PS 186 to talk about life in the Scandinavian country as part of an after-school program where kids learn about other cultures on March 23.The Bensonhurst school’s third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders have been working online with kids from 30 cities — including Denmark’s capital Copenhagen — on assignments about social
  
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• Dominican Night at the Bandshell to bring bachata, dembow and more to Prospect Park

  27-08-2026 20:18 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn is getting a taste of the Dominican Republic this weekend — no plane ticket required.Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! will host Dominican Night at the Bandshell on Saturday, Aug. 29, bringing Dominican artists and DJs to the park for an evening celebrating the music of the Dominican diaspora.The lineup will feature bachata singer Teodoro Reyes, known for his romantic songs; Dominican dembow artist La Insuperable, also known as “La Mami
  
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• Chick-fil-A to open Brooklyn Junction In-Line location with $25,000 donatioin to fight food insecurity

  27-08-2026 19:32 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A new Chick-fil-A has just arrived in Brooklyn — and its opening will come with a $25,000 donation aimed at helping Brooklynites facing food insecurity.Chick-fil-A Brooklyn Junction In-Line, located at 1569 Flatbush Ave., is set to open Aug. 27. To mark the occasion, Chick-fil-A, Inc. will donate $25,000 to Feeding America to support hunger relief efforts in New York City, including through the Food Bank for NYC. The new location marks the borough's fifth Chick-fil-A. The new restaura
  
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• Inside Government with PoliticsNY: A Q&A with New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams

  27-08-2026 16:00 via politicsny.com
  
  Inside Government is a Q&A series that gives New Yorkers a glimpse inside the role of the elected officials who represent them. This edition of Inside Government with PoliticsNY features New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Public Advocate Williams acts as an ombudsperson, championing New Yorkers' rights and providing oversight of New York City’s government agencies.
  What services does your office provide to constituents?
  In the Office of the New York City Public Advocate, w
  
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• Crown Heights’ historic Eastern Parkway Library set for $36M renovation and expansion

  27-08-2026 15:33 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A century-old Crown Heights library is set for a major transformation, with city officials breaking ground this week on a $36 million renovation and expansion of the Eastern Parkway Library.
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Department of Design and Construction Commissioner Paul A. Ochoa and Brooklyn Public Library President and CEO Linda E. Johnson on Thursday announced the start of the project, which will expand the branch’s public space by more than 50% while preserving its historic architecture.
  
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• Three teens killed in horrific Belt Parkway collision in Brooklyn weren’t wearing seatbelts: cops

  26-08-2026 16:30 via amny.com
  
  Three young men killed in a horrific collision on Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway Tuesday night were not wearing seatbelts and were hurtled onto the roadway, police sources revealed Wednesday.According to police sources, the crash occurred at about 11:33 p.m. on Aug. 25 at the eastbound Exit 1 near 65th Street in Bay Ridge. Law enforcement sources reported that an 18-year-old male was driving a 2002 black Cadillac Escalade with four other teenage boys eastbound along the Belt Parkway when the
  
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• Three teens killed in horrific Belt Parkway collision in Brooklyn

  26-08-2026 16:30 via amny.com
  
  Police are investigating a horrific collision on Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway on Tuesday night that left three teenagers dead.According to police sources, the crash occurred at about 11:33 p.m. at the eastbound Exit 1 near 65th Street in Bay Ridge.Law enforcement sources reported that an 18-year-old male was driving a 2002 black Cadillac Escalade with four other teenage boys eastbound along the Belt Parkway when the vehicle collided with a black 2024 Honda HRV at high speed. The wreck left both
  
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• ‘A missed opportunity’: Mamdani’s plan for the BQE draws mixed reactions in Brooklyn Heights

  26-08-2026 16:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new plan to fix up and extend the life of the city-owned section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has drawn mixed reactions in Brooklyn Heights.The $4 billion proposal, unveiled Monday, stepped back from a total reconstruction of the 1.5-mile “BQE Central” proposed by previous administrations. Instead, the city would construct temporary bypass roads in Brooklyn Heights and repair the crumbling highway — including the infamous triple cantilever &mda
  
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• Greenpoint church to open new cultural center with Grammy-winning string quartet ETHEL

  26-08-2026 15:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A historic Greenpoint church is opening its doors to a new performing arts center this fall, bringing chamber music, readings, screenings and other community programming to the neighborhood.St. John’s Lutheran Church, located at 155 Milton St., will launch The Cultural Center at St. John’s on Sept. 3 with a performance by Grammy-winning string quartet ETHEL. The opening-night concert will kick off a fall chamber music series intended to make the church a gathering place for the arts
  
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• Brooklyn Dems change who picks party boss in closed-door vote; chair challengers head back to court

  26-08-2026 14:39 via amny.com
  
  Brooklyn Democratic leaders voted behind closed doors Tuesday night to dramatically expand the party body that will choose its next chair — reshaping a leadership fight in which reformers say they had already secured a majority and setting up a renewed court battle over control of the county organization.All 10 proposed amendments were approved, with the most consequential of them broadening voting membership on the party’s executive committee beyond the 42 district leaders who previ
  
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• Bronx grandmother pleads for friends of teen killed in shooting to aid police as she mourns at Brooklyn service

  26-08-2026 00:06 via amny.com
  
  The grandmother of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot in a Bronx apartment earlier this month pleaded during his emotional funeral Tuesday for her grandson's friends to help police find the shooter.Friends and family gathered at Lawrence H. Woodward Funeral Home in Brooklyn on Aug. 25 to celebrate the life of Riley Billingslea, who was gunned down on Aug. 12 while spending time with what his family called the wrong crowd.Police stood outside the funeral parlor as grieving teens clung to thei
  
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• Prospect Park Lake gets $1.4M upgrade to cut water waste, sewer overflows

  25-08-2026 23:06 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The New York City Department of Environmental Protection, NYC Parks and Prospect Park Alliance announced the completion of a $1.4 million valve upgrade at Prospect Park Lake on Tuesday. The new valve gives park staff greater control over how much water enters Brooklyn's only lake, particularly during bouts of heavy rain.The project is also an early piece of the city’s planned Prospect Park Bluebelt, a larger stormwater-management initiative intended to make the park and neighboring areas m
  
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• Brooklyn gunman arrested for shooting dog during walk with owner

  25-08-2026 22:05 via amny.com
  
  Police arrested a man Tuesday who allegedly opened fire on a Brooklyn street last week and injured a beloved dog.According to police sources, the NYPD Warrant Squad cuffed 29-year-old Adrian Benitez at his home on Aug. 25. Benitez had been wanted since Wednesday when he allegedly opened fire in Sunset Park.[caption id="attachment_137866076" align="alignnone" width="3536"] According to police sources, the NYPD Warrant Squad cuffed 29-year-old Adrian Benitez at his home on Aug. 25. Benitez had bee
  
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• ‘The People’s Runway’ returns, putting five Brooklyn designers in the NYFW spotlight

  25-08-2026 21:30 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Fashion’s biggest stage is making room for Brooklyn’s next big names.After the resounding success of the first-ever “The People’s Runway” fashion show in 2025, Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza will once again be transformed into an outdoor catwalk on Sept. 12, showcasing the couture of five up-and-coming Brooklyn designers in a full-service fashion show as part of the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Spring 2027 New York Fashion Week.In June, Brooklyn Boro
  
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• Battle of Brooklyn marks 250 years with reenactments, tributes across the borough

  25-08-2026 18:39 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn spent the weekend looking back 250 years, commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn with solemn ceremonies, musical tributes and a large-scale reenactment of the Revolutionary War battle that forever changed the course of the American fight for independence.At Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklynites gathered for “The Battle of Brooklyn 250: The Meaning of Freedom,” a program that brought elected officials, community leaders and historians to Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn a
  
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• Before Brooklyn became Brooklyn, Red Hook helped save the Revolution

  25-08-2026 17:42 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  History books routinely talk about how George Washington and the Continental army escaped from Brooklyn after losing a major battle, turning a short-term defeat into a major victory.They, however, rarely explain who helped evacuate the 9,000-strong army after the Battle of Brooklyn in what proved to be possibly the first turning point in the Revolution. Some Brooklynites, though, have been shining a spotlight on heroics in Red Hook that may have saved the Revolution.“For years I heard Wash
  
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• Fresh start: SuperFresh opens new store on Kings Highway in Gravesend

  25-08-2026 16:23 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A new supermarket is bringing fresh food and a family touch to Kings Highway.SuperFresh celebrated the grand opening of its newest location at 185 Kings Highway in Gravesend on Thursday, Aug. 20, marking the latest expansion for the family-owned Abed Group, which operates six supermarkets through the Key Food Co-op.Brothers Randy and Sam Abed run four SuperFresh stores and two Key Food locations across Brooklyn and Staten Island. Randy Abed said the family’s deep ties to the neighborhoods
  
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• Brooklyn Democrats’ rule-change vote moves forward via judge’s ruling as pressure mounts on incumbent chair

  25-08-2026 00:15 via amny.com
  
  The Brooklyn Democrats’ escalating leadership war landed in court Monday, where a reform-aligned challenger whose allies say he has the votes to become the county party’s next leader sought to block sitting Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn from pushing through a sweeping package of rule changes Tuesday.That meeting can go ahead after Justice Jill Epstein declined Monday afternoon to grant the reformers’ emergency request for a temporary restraining order, writing that the reque
  
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• Cops release surveillance images of gunmen wanted for fatally shooting Brooklyn teen

  24-08-2026 23:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Police have released surveillance images of two men wanted for fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy as he hung out in a New Lots restaurant last week.The newly released footage appears to show two young people dressed in hoodies and wearing face masks walking along a sidewalk. Police say they believe these two individuals stood outside of Hakim’s Restaurant, located at 514 New Lots Avenue, and opened fire into the establishment at around 8:23 p.m. on Aug. 19.Police sources say the gunme
  
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• Back from a ‘very restorative’ vacation, Mamdani launches effort to renew NYC’s parks

  24-08-2026 21:15 via amny.com
  
  Fresh off a week away upstate that he described as “very restorative,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani returned Monday with a plan to give New York City’s parks a little renewal of their own.City Hall launched the Parks Department’s new “Renew Crew,” a 24-person team of painters, electricians, plumbers and other trade specialists focused on making faster repairs at playgrounds, recreation centers and sports courts across the five boroughs.The city is investing $2.3 milli
  
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• SEE IT: Battle of Brooklyn comes alive with reenactment in Prospect Park

  24-08-2026 20:08 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The celebrations honoring America’s 250th anniversary culminated in the re-enactment of the historic Battle of Brooklyn on Aug. 22, when more than more than 300 reenactors dressed in period costumes and armed with reproduction firearms retraced the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence when the British Crown Forces, Hessian troops, and Loyalist forces attacked General George Washington’s Continental Army on the fields of what later would become Prospect Park o
  
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• Bushwick housing lotto offers affordable co-ops to first-time buyers

  24-08-2026 19:03 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A rare affordable housing lottery has opened for the sale of 16 one-, two-, and three-bedroom co-op apartments in two new Bushwick buildings, giving buyers the chance to become first-time homeowners. Households must be between one and seven people with incomes between $88,666 to $231,440 a year.The lottery is for apartments in two buildings that are part of a four-building development dubbed South Bushwick Neighborhood Homes. The four buildings are not clustered together but are scatte
  
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• Mamdani administration set to pitch multi-billion-dollar plan to fix BQE’s crumbling cantilever

  24-08-2026 10:00 via amny.com
  
  Could Zohran Mamdani be the mayor who finally manages to fix the beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's (BQE) triple cantilever on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront?Mamdani's Department of Transportation (DOT) is set to unveil on Monday a $3.5 to $4 billion plan to rehabilitate the part of the Robert Moses-era highway that runs through Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, and Downtown Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street — known as BQE Central. That section of the highway contains the tri
  
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• Mamdani administration pitches multi-billion-dollar plan to fix BQE’s crumbling cantilever

  24-08-2026 10:00 via amny.com
  
  Could Zohran Mamdani be the mayor who finally manages to fix the beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's (BQE) triple cantilever on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront?Mamdani's Department of Transportation (DOT) unveiled on Monday a $3.5 to $4 billion plan to rehabilitate the part of the Robert Moses-era highway that runs through Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, and Downtown Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street — known as BQE Central. That section of the highway contains the triple cant
  
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• Brooklyn shooting leaves man dead in likely road rage incident, suspects still at large: cops

  22-08-2026 15:01 via amny.com
  
  Detectives in Brooklyn are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a man on Friday night in a possible road rage incident, it was reported.Officers from the 75th Precinct responded to a ShotSpotter activation and a 911 call about the shooting at 899 Crescent St. in East New York just before 10 p.m. on Aug. 21. ShotSpotter is the NYPD's citywide network of sensors designed to detect possible sounds of gunfire and evoke a rapid police response.When the officers arrived at the scene, police r
  
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• Elevated levels of mercury, arsenic found in dog run at Herbert Von King Park

  22-08-2026 01:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The dog run at Herbert Von King Park is closed seemingly indefinitely after elevated levels of arsenic and mercury were discovered in the soil. Soil testing found the chemicals in “moderate exceedances” of state residential soil standards at surface level, according to a New York City Parks Department spokesperson, with “more significant” contamination discovered three to six inches deep. The department did not share the full report or the exact levels discovere
  
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• Gounardes introduces landmark bill to regulate screens, AI and ed tech in schools

  21-08-2026 22:04 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  In a bid to curb the growing presence of screens and artificial intelligence in classrooms, State Sen. Andrew Gounardes on Aug. 21 unveiled legislation that would place sweeping, age-based restrictions on technology use in New York public schools.The Fostering Optimal Classroom Use of Screens, or FOCUS, Act would regulate the use of screens, artificial intelligence and other “ed tech” devices, aiming to ensure students’ educational outcomes come before the profits of tech corpo
  
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• City Council Transportation chair asks Apple to boot Empower ride-share service from app store

  21-08-2026 21:00 via amny.com
  
  A city lawmaker this week sent Apple Inc. a letter requesting it remove a controversial ride-hailing app from its online store in New York City due to allegations the service operates in the five boroughs without a city Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) license, amNewYork has learned.In the missive, which was obtained by amNewYork, City Council Transportation Committee Chair Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) argues that the tech giant is enabling the app — known as Empower — to continue
  
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• Santa Rosalia Feast returns to Bensonhurst for 52nd year with food, rides and Sicilian tradition

  21-08-2026 19:55 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Bensonhurst is ready to feast. The 52nd annual Feast of Santa Rosalia makes its grand return to 18th Avenue, now through Aug. 30, bringing multiple nights of food, live music, entertainment and carnival rides to the neighborhood. The celebration, also known as the 18th Avenue Feast, will take over the stretch of 18th Avenue — also known as Cristoforo Colombo Boulevard — between 68th and 75th streets. The annual event honors Santa Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily
  
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• Bay Ridge dermatologist Dr. David Biro has the write stuff in new novel

  21-08-2026 16:45 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Dr. David Biro, a dermatologist in Bay Ridge, where he grew up, is telling a story about a difficult day in a physician’s waiting room. A patient, frustrated by a long wait, pulls a gun, and an already complicated profession becomes much more complicated.Rather than recounting a story from his own waiting room, the Bay Ridge dermatologist and nonfiction and fiction author was describing a scene from his fifth book, “The Unstoppables” (Regalo Press, an imprint associated with Si
  
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