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`Bible Storyland’ coming to Crown Heights Film Fest

Crown Heights
Bible Storyland,” a film about an ill-fated 1960s theme park whose exhibits were based on biblical scenes, will have its New York city premiere on Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Crown Heights Film Festival. … Full Article
 

Hynes, Kelly announce drug takedown in Bed-Stuy

Bedford-Stuyvesant
Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes on Wednesday announced the arrest of eight drug dealers who have been operating in Bedford-Stuyvesant and the arrest of four additional individuals found with narcotics in the targeted locations.   … Full Article
 

Bed-Stuy building sells for $900K

Bedford-Stuyvesant
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services reports the sale of a 6,800-square-foot mixed-use building in Bedford-Stuyvesant. … Full Article
 

St. John's in Bed Stuy offers bread and life, legal advice

Bedford-Stuyvesant
Unique charity serves up dignity with rare immigration services Located on Lexington Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, St. John’s Bread & Life Program has been responding to the needs of poor and disadvantaged for the past 30 years. … Full Article
 

Health programs combat obesity in Central Brooklyn

Bedford-Stuyvesant
On a cloudy, sweaty Wednesday evening, a crowd of 20-odd people dressed in tights, shorts and sweatshirts gathered in the courtyard of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza. … Full Article
 

Ribbon cut at Crown Heights supportive housing 

Crown Heights
Officials cut the ribbon on Friday for a new affordable and supportive housing development in Crown Heights. … Full Article
 

NYC man stuck between train and platform rescued

Bedford-Stuyvesant
NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters have rescued a man who was struck between a subway train and the platform in Brooklyn. … Full Article
 

New development transforming Classon Avenue, Crown Heights

Crown Heights
New development is pushing the eastern boundary of Prospect Heights beyond its city-designated border of Washington Avenue and solidly into what has traditionally been thought of as Crown Heights. … Full Article
 

Brooklyn businesswoman opens another B&B

Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn resident Monique Greenwood, a Bedford-Stuyvesant businesswoman, innkeeper and former editor-in-chief at Essence magazine, has opened her fourth bed and breakfast (B&B) establishment, thanks to the “ … Full Article
 

Brooklyn protests planned over annual slaughter of chickens in Jewish ritual

Crown Heights
A group called the “Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos” will be hosting two demonstrations in the Orthodox Jewish section of Crown Heights this Sunday and Monday to protest the overhead “swinging" and slaughtering of live chickens in Kaporos cer … Full Article
 

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