By Julianne McShane
Health: Local tech and education boffins are sounding the alarm after a Bay Ridge state senator announced his legislation calling for body scanners in schools.
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By Lenore Skenazy
Rhymes with Crazy: Believe it! Today’s dolls double as surveillance devices.
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By Lenore Skenazy
Rhymes with Crazy: Believe it! Today’s dolls double as surveillance devices.
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Sound Off To The Editor
Re: Larry Penner’s letter, “Stamp it Out” in the Feb. 16–22 edition of Bay News.
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Books: Brooklyn booksellers give their top picks.
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Bergen Beach: An employee at PS 312 in Bergen Beach is suing the city and her school’s principal, alleging a litany of discriminatory actions targeting her Orthodox Jewish beliefs.
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Editor’s Picks: This week we’re all about the ladies, with a female jazz singer, a go-go grandma, and a reading from former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton. Brooklyn is the place to be!
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Event: Coney Islanders turned out on March 23 to celebrate the co-naming of an intersection in front of a church after its beloved late pastor, who was committed to serving the neighborhood’s homeless, sick, and elderly.
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Marine Park: These cubs are scouting the competition!
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Community News Group / Julianne Cuba
Fixing the BQE: The streamlined design-build process is integral to the city’s repairs to a crumbling portion of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, according to Gov. Cuomo, who this week signaled his support for the process that would fast-track the fix — months after local pols and residents began demanding he authorize the procedure.
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Co-op d’Etat: Membership at the Park Slope Food Co-op is now so overgrown that the bastion of cheap, organic produce must either expand to a new location or begin refusing thousands of grocery-starved shoppers’ admission to the cooperative market, according to a founding member and employee.
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Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge attorney and Civil War buff commands a collection of more than 10,000 miniature military figurines poised in the midst of famous battles — and even showcases about 4,000 of them at his Fifth Avenue law firm.
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By Adam Lucente
Marine Park: It’s the yeast they could do!
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E.R. Kaynas
Standing O: The brass and staff of Maimonides Heart and Vascular Institute, clad in red, marked National Heart Month with speeches and a flag-raising outside the hospital’s 10th Avenue entrance on Feb. 23.
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By Julianne Cuba
Party Line: A newly elected East Flatbush pol has joined a group of activists fighting to get more women elected to the Council.
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Digital editions: This week’s print edition teaser is going to be as powerful as yesterday’s storm. And … that’s it. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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By Moses Jefferson
Brooklyn Paper Radio: Drivers behind the wheel of private garbage trucks are so overworked they can barely keep their eyes open near the ends of their shifts — which usually happen when kids are heading off to school, a union rep for truckers told Brooklyn Paper Radio’s hosts on another scintilating episode.
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Event: They rocked out for a good cause.
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Fixing the BQE: Officials’ approval of a developer’s long-gestating proposal to dig up a tree-lined courtyard behind a Brooklyn Heights building to make way for an underground parking garage sandwiched against the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway could send the road’s already crumbling triple cantilever crashing down before it is repaired, warned residents and their reps.
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Event: They gave back to those who give so much.
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Flatlands: One man was killed and three others were wounded in a wild shooting near Kings Highway on March 3.
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By Colin Mixson
Prospect Heights: Citi Bike users in some hilly parts of Brooklyn are pedaling their rented two-wheelers downward, but not back up again, according to a honcho of the program, who said riders frequently fail to redock bikes at stations in Prospect and Crown Heights because they’re located on higher ground.
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By Alexandra Simon
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: Honchos of a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens dance school forced to abandon its classrooms due to allegedly rising rents are ushering in the academy’s March 11 grand reopening inside a brand new location with a week of discounted classes ahead of the event.
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By Julianne McShane
Mean Streets: Two motorists successively plowed into a senior crossing a Bensonhurst street steps from his home before dawn on Friday, killing him.
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By Julianne McShane
Coney Island: He wasn’t flashing his badge!
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By Adam Lucente
Art: The Starman has touched down in Brooklyn!
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Manhattan Beach: Manhattan Beachers told the city to stick those solar panels where the sun don’t shine!
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Parks Department
Fort Greene: A massive sculpture featuring three carved visages will soon greet visitors to Fort Greene’s eponymous meadow, the Department of Parks and recreation announced on Wednesday.
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Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: He’s a buried treasure hunter.
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By Adam Lucente
Bay Ridge: A Sheepshead Bay woman allegedly fed her look-alike in Queens a poisonous cheesecake in an attempt to kill her and steal her identity.
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By Julianne McShane
Coney Island: Call it a lesson learned the hard way.
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Brooklyn Heights: The developers restoring the swanky Bossert Hotel yet again postponed its long-awaited reopening, pushing the luxe Brooklyn Heights lodge’s debut to some time this summer while they secure a new operator after their previous candidate packed its bags.
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Bay Ridge: The owners of Coney Island eatery Gargiulo’s have reportedly bowed to pressure from local pols, officials, and residents and cancelled its controversial April fund-raiser for the National Rifle Association.
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New York Cosmos
Bay Ridge: The New York Cosmos and the league it competes in cancelled their 2018 season after the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Feb. 23 to boot the league from the division it has played in for the past five seasons.
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