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Food Pantries Set Up In Crown Heights Through Holiday Weekend

Food Pantries Set Up In Crown Heights Through Holiday Weekend

Four food distributions will be available to those who need it in the Crown Heights area heading into the holiday weekend.
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Snipes to Open First U.S. 2.0 Concept at Barclays Center

Snipes to Open First U.S. 2.0 Concept at Barclays Center

Snipes is bringing its 2.0 concept store Stateside. The German sneaker retailer will open its updated store concept at 161 Flatbush Avenue across from Barclays Center in Brooklyn on July 9.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Expected To Announce Decision On Allowing Indoor Dining In NYC: ‘I Need The Local Governments To Do The Compliance’

Gov. Phil Murphy is delaying indoor dining for New Jersey , and on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to make a decision on whether or not to delay indoor dining in New York City.
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How This Restaurant Directory App Is Helping Black-Owned Restaurants Around the Country

How This Restaurant Directory App Is Helping Black-Owned Restaurants Around the Country

My discovery of EatOkra resulted in a deep sigh of relief as my days of sifting through numerous search results for "Black-owned restaurants near me" had finally come to an end. EatOkra is an app created by Anthony Edwards Jr.
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I Spent A Night With The People Setting Off Fireworks In One Brooklyn Neighborhood

I Spent A Night With The People Setting Off Fireworks In One Brooklyn Neighborhood

A few young men in Crown Heights pulled a couple boxes of fireworks into the street on Tuesday night and unfurled a long roll of firecrackers to make one neat line. Their friends crowded to the edge of the street and pulled out their phones.
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NYC Neighborhoods with Highest Rates of COVID-19 Expected to be Slammed by Evictions, Report Finds

NYC Neighborhoods with Highest Rates of COVID-19 Expected to be Slammed by Evictions, Report Finds

The neighborhoods that have the highest rates of COVID-19 will also have the highest levels of homelessness after the eviction moratorium is lifted in August, according to a new housing report.
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Businesses Say Black Lives Matter Street Mural is Financially Hurting Them

Businesses Say Black Lives Matter Street Mural is Financially Hurting Them

The first Black Lives Matter street mural in New York City was painted two weeks ago -- that street has been shut down since then and some businesses say it's hurting them. Judy Teko is the owner of J and K Beauty Supply.
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Cops Coax Escaped Peacock Back To Prospect Park Zoo

Cops Coax Escaped Peacock Back To Prospect Park Zoo

A peacock who made a break for it from the Prospect Park Zoo led cops on a wild goose chase through the streets of Crown Heights early Monday morning, according to cops and reports. The bird escaped from the zoo just before 6 a.m.
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‘Helps With the Grieving’: Musicians and Relatives Take to the Streets to Honor Slain Brooklyn DJ

Led by a truck blasting music, fellow musicians and relatives took to the streets of Brooklyn on Sunday to honor Jomo "DJ Trouble" Glasgow and protest the gun violence that took his life.
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With Distributed Absentee Ballots Vastly Outnumbering In-Person Vote, Impact of Mail-In Ballots Could Be Dramatic

With Distributed Absentee Ballots Vastly Outnumbering In-Person Vote, Impact of Mail-In Ballots Could Be Dramatic

The New York City Board of Elections is reporting that over 765,000 absentee ballots were distributed to voters before primary day, June 23, vastly exceeding a tally of in-person votes in the Democratic presidential primary, which came to 471,000, wi
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