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East Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Borough Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Bedford Stuyvesant were amongst the top ten areas with the highest heat vulnerability and lowest number of ...
East Flatbush residents 'Occupy the Corner' for a safe summer. Posted: July 26, 2024 | Last updated: October 10, 2024. The East Flatbush Village says they aim at providing community engagement ...
Residents in East Flatbush say a recent spike in fireworks is creating loud noises that keep them up at night. Residents tell News 12 the fireworks have gone on for hours every night the past few ...
People stopped to pay their respects and to retrieve white balloons that would later be released during a vigil for Mr. Williams, held right in front of the Brooklyn housing complex where the ...
An affordable housing lottery has opened specifically for seniors aged 62 and above in a new building in East Flatbush, with rents listed as free but with residents required to have Section 8 and pay ...
The kids will be alright! The city plans to build East Flatbush’s first community center for teens to kick back, relax, and stay out of trouble — the Shirley A. Chisholm Community Center — named after ...
Brooklyn residents in East Flatbush took to the streets on Thursday night to voice their concerns over an affordable housing initiative from the state in their backyard. Longtime neighbors in the ...
East Flatbush Residents Work to End Violence with 'Occupy the Corner' Initiative. BY Spectrum News Staff Brooklyn. UPDATED 10:47 AM ET Jul. 25, 2020 PUBLISHED 6:56 AM ET Jul ...
East Flatbush became predominantly Black in the 1960s as real-estate agents used the fear of integration to drive out Italian and Jewish residents and replaced them with Afro-Caribbeans and ...
These petite East Flatbush houses won’t grab the eye for any architectural extravagance, but the builder came up with an interesting marketing hook and a budget solution to the housing crunch in ...
The upcoming Labor Day weekend marks the first in-person West Indian Day parade in three years, and longtime residents of Little Caribbean in Flatbush and neighboring Crown Heights find themselves ...
By degrees, long-term residents begin to find themselves tangled up in the criminal-justice system for so-called “quality of life” crimes as 311 and 911 calls draw police to neighborhoods ...