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Bank vice president wins Bay Ridge council’s top award

Bay Ridge
A bank executive with strong ties to Brooklyn’s civic life and its religious organizations has been named winner of the Bay Ridge Community Council’s Civic Award for 2013. … Full Article
 

Crowded Classrooms: Parent panel claims city is ignoring overcrowding in schools

Bay Ridge
The city is doing nothing to ease overcrowding in public schools and the New York State Department of Education is letting the city get away with it, a panel of PTA leaders charged in a resolution passed unanimously at a recent meeting.  … Full Article
 

Thrift sale to raise funds for restoration of New Utrecht Reformed Church

Bensonhurst
Shoppers can find great bargains and help an historic old church at the same time by attending a thrift sale in Bensonhurst.  … Full Article
 

Worker injured at Bay Ridge `Green Church' site

Bay Ridge
A construction worker is taken in a stretcher after he fell off a 6-foot ladder at a building site for a new school at Ovington Avenue and 70th Street, Bay Ridge. … Full Article
 

Quaglione says his council campaign raised $30,000 in 2 weeks

Bensonhurst
John Quaglione, a Republican hoping to unseat longtime Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile, said his campaign got off to a flying start by raising an impressive $30,000 in its first two weeks.  … Full Article
 

Gentile wants mayor to hire 200 cops to catch speeders

Bay Ridge
Two hundred cops would be flooding the city streets for the sole purpose of catching drivers who speed, under a plan put forth by Councilman Vincent Gentile. … Full Article
 

Quaglione says his council campaign raised $30,000 in 2 weeks

Bay Ridge
John Quaglione, a Republican hoping to unseat longtime Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile, said his campaign got off to a flying start by raising an impressive $30,000 in its first two weeks.  … Full Article
 

Malliotakis’s demand: Give soldiers a break on tuition!

Bay Ridge
Military personnel who return home from fighting wars in this country’s name and want to go to college shouldn’t have to pay full tuition costs, according to Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis. … Full Article
 

Cops nab suspect in Dyker Heights break-in

Dyker Heights
As Dyker Heights residents remained on edge in the face of a rash of home break-ins in the community, police made a burglary arrest on the night of March 19. … Full Article
 

Albanese says he’d veto NYPD inspector general

Bay Ridge
Sal Albanese, the maverick fighting an uphill battle for the Democratic Party nomination to run for mayor, surprisingly found that he agreed with Michael Bloomberg on a key question involving oversight of the New York Police Department in the wake of the controversial stop and frisk policy. … Full Article
 

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