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First-ever One Bite Pizza Festival set to take over Coney Island

First ever One Bite Pizza Festival set to take over Coney Island.

Sep. 20, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer

Pizza lovers will finally have the opportunity to joyously celebrate dozens of the city’s best pizzaiolos at the first-ever One Bite Pizza Festival, set to take place in Coney Island on Sept. 23. 

‘Our most precious resource’: Pols say restored funding saved Brooklyn Public Library programs the from chopping block

brannan at Brooklyn Public Library press conference

Sep. 20, 2023 By Jada Camille Nearly three months after the City Council struck a deal to restore millions of dollars in funding for the city’s public libraries as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 budget, Council Member Justin Brannan and New York City Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams stopped by the Bay Ridge library…
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Bay Ridge unveils new dog run named after late canine-loving resident

The Decolvenaere family and city officials gathered at the new dog run

Sep. 19, 2023 By Jada Camille

City officials joined with the Decolvenaere family to unveil a new dog run on Shore Road named after Frank Decolvenaere, a beloved Bay Ridge resident who was hit and killed while walking his dog in 2020.

What’s happening with the empty Bed-Stuy lot where the Dangler Mansion once stood?

jacob dangler mansion in bed-stuy

Sep. 19, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith More than a year after the shocking demolition of the historic Jacob Dangler mansion at 441 Willoughby Avenue by a local developer with plans for a new apartment building, the site remains empty and still under the ownership of the struggling nonprofit that said it made a deal to sell the beloved French Gothic Revival building to avoid foreclosure. While court filings show the nonprofit has not yet filed a petition with the state attorney general to sell the property, documents recorded only last week by the city show a $1.525 million mortgage was…
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