Nieuw Amersfort Community Association (NACA) President Steve Yamin welcomed back area residents at a packed first general meeting, after an over two-year hiatus, on Tuesday, October 25th in the basement of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 3913 Avenue J. After a moment of silence in memory

Subway crimes are soaring all over New York City. Plans to put more police officers on trains – and stay posted at various stations – are sporadic. However, due to the shortage of Transit Police citywide, precincts across the board are scrambling to assign their

Frustrated residents aired their concerns about the constant barrage of crimes that they perceived as happening after listening to the monthly crime report at the 63rd Precinct Community Council meeting held on Wednesday, October 26th at the John Malone Center. Commanding Officer Captain Rachael Kosak reported

When Martin Lewis Blumberg published his popular memoir, My Brooklyn, My Way, a collection of short stories and poems about growing up in Brownsville and Canarsie in the 1940s and 50s (see “Memoir Of Old Brooklyn a Hit,” Canarsie Courier, February 25, 2021), he hoped it would

Members of the District 22 family logged onto Zoom on Tuesday evening, November 1st for the monthly meeting of Community District Education Council 22 (CEC 22), led by its recently-appointed President Oluwaseun Salako, whose calm, patient demeanor and hands-on approach have proven beneficial to the group

Bergen Beach residents suspect that the Democratic Party is behind the removal of scores of lawn signs promoting their political rival, New York Congressman and Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Lee Zeldin. Though it has yet to be confirmed, some members of the community believe a local

An unveiling ceremony was held at the intersection of Avenue W and East 73rd Street in Bergen Beach, which was co-named “Patrick Solomita Way” on Saturday morning, October 22nd, in honor of the late Patrick Solomita, an initiative first proposed by Paul Curiale at a meeting

A man was killed and a woman is in stable condition following a shooting outside the NYCHA Sheepshead Bay Houses on Halloween night. Officers from the 61st Precinct and PSA1 arrived at 2932 Avenue V around 5:10 p.m. on Monday, October 31st where they found both

Breukelen resident Cynthia Jimenez – or “Boo’elen” as she prefers to call it – has outdone herself again this year.  The Halloween-loving Canarsien has transformed the lawn outside her East 108th Street home into a ghoulish delight.  Not only that, she decorates her first-floor hallway

For three hours, ghouls glided in and out of 1222 East 96th Street, picking pumpkins and snatching up bags of candy. They transformed themselves into goblins, police officers, firefighters, princesses, witches, farmers — you name it and there’s a good chance the character appeared at

Dressed up in all kinds of costumes, students at Canarsie’s P.S. 115 showed off their Halloween spirit on Friday, October 28th. A couple of classes dressed up as crayons, while others donned costumes of their favorite book characters, superheroes and animals. After the children marched

There were no tricks, just treats, at a garden party hosted for students on Thursday, October 27th, by teachers and staff at P.S. 276 Louis Marshall School, located at 1070 East 83rd Street. The highlight of the party was a decorative pumpkin patch set up outside

After Superstorm Sandy blasted New York on October 29, 2012, leaving in its wake 96 dead statewide and hundreds of thousands of homes, vehicles and other properties destroyed, many are still reeling from its onslaught 10 years later. While some may wish to forget the

Dressed up as monsters, movie characters and superheroes, families came out in droves to Hendrix Creek patio at Shirley Chisholm State Park on Sunday, October 30th to enjoy free some pre-Halloween festivities. The third annual “Treat on the Trails” event included trick or treating tables,

Friends, family and officers of the 63rd Precinct gathered on Saturday, October 22nd to celebrate the life of an officer who was killed in the line of duty by dedicating a street in his honor. The street co-naming ceremony was held at the corner of Brooklyn