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Brooklyn’s VA Medical Center is shuttering its ear, nose and throat clinic at the end of June, and veterans groups are fearful that this means the VA is moving ahead with the same elimination of full hospital services that was squelched last year after political intervention. … Full Article

Is it time for dinner yet? … Full Article

Councilmember Justin Brannan, the NYC Department of Transportation, parents and students were in attendance for a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday for a speed bump on 87th Street between Third Avenue and Ridge Boulevard, near P.S. 185 the Walter Kassenbrock school. … Full Article

Eighty-sixth Street in Bensonhurst is replete with Asian restaurants of all types, and one of its newest eateries specializes in a type of food rarely seen in New York City – Burmese food. … Full Article

How can today's performers appeal to a younger generation? Composer, conductor and arranger Steve Hackman has an answer: smashing together the old and the new.  … Full Article

Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte envisions creating a “Little Haiti” in Flatbush where, she says, Haitian Creole is by far the most prevalent foreign language spoken. … Full Article

Dyker Heights residents and preservationists are upset that the Landmarks Preservation Commission has turned down their bid to landmark St. Rosalia Catholic Church at 14th Avenue and 63rd Street. The church was “relegated to profane [non-sacred] use” last May by the Diocese of Brooklyn. … Full Article

The Brooklyn Rotary Club of Verrazano celebrated its 40th anniversary on May 4 by presenting a $20,000 check to the Guild for Exceptional Children. This year’s event celebrated the achievements of Man of the Year Jay Badame, … Full Article

A 26-year-old man whose blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when he fatally struck a cycling teenager in Gerritsen Beach was sentenced to three to nine years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to the crime. … Full Article