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By Andy Campbell for the Brooklyn Paper

It's done — and on Monday, Brooklyn Bridge Park's first portion opens.
Roger Swingle / IntervisionMedia

BROOKLYN — Today, Monday, Brooklyn finally gets a chance to park it on the stoop.

The city announced on Thursday that the first phase of Brooklyn Bridge Park — featuring a vast green lawn and a granite front-stoop sitting area located on Pier 1 — will open to the public.

Brooklyn Bridge Park to Open Today

By Andy Campbell for the Brooklyn Paper
It’s done — and on Monday, Brooklyn Bridge Park’s first portion opens.
Roger Swingle / IntervisionMedia

BROOKLYN — Today, Monday, Brooklyn finally gets a chance to park it on the stoop.

The city announced on Thursday that the first phase of Brooklyn Bridge Park — featuring a vast green lawn and a granite front-stoop sitting area located on Pier 1 — will open to the public.

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Yosef Aharon Karpilovsky (Toronto, CA) to Chayale Silberstein (London, UK)
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Mordechai Lubecki (Paris, France) to Iscah Sarah Andrea (Jalisco, Mexico)
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Yariv and Malkie (nee Kershner) Sharabi from Parkland, FL had a baby girl!
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Ari and Chava (nee Notik) Rendler from Riverwoods, IL on the birth of a baby girl.
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Eli Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) to Risa Drizin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at The Arches
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Levi Its’hak Ben Soussan (Courbevoie, France) to Sterna Sarah Gagueche (Brunoy, France)
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Shea Shmotkin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Jacobs (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 585 Albany Ave
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Ariel Benchimoun (Levallois, France) to Rivka Bouzna (Sarcelles, France)
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Moshe Leib and Chaya Mushka (nee Friedman) Yaras from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Yossi Futerfas (Crown Heights) to Mussy Goldstein (Crown Heights)
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Mendel Shemtov (Crown Heights) to Mushka Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at 1345 President Street
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Moshe Maiman (Mequon, WI) to Hinda Teich (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
Baby Girl!

Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
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Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
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Eliyahu and Chayale Citron from Portland, Oregon had a baby boy!

MYFOXNY.COM — After a series of public hearing on proposed service cuts, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued Friday a list of revised proposals for service cuts to help close a nearly $800 billion budget gap.

MTA Revises Planned Service Cuts

MYFOXNY.COM — After a series of public hearing on proposed service cuts, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued Friday a list of revised proposals for service cuts to help close a nearly $800 billion budget gap.

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By Andrew Friedman for Chabad.org

Colel Chabad officials preside over the distribution of Passover food aid by students at the Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys in Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – It’s a bright, cool afternoon at Jerusalem’s Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys, known locally simply as “Hartman” after the institute and Jewish think tank that houses it. A group of 10th grade boys are horsing around on the basketball court, careful to avoid the stacks of food parcels that they’ve stayed after school to help distribute to needy residents ahead of the Passover holiday.

Israeli Passover Food Distributions Reach Feverish Pitch

By Andrew Friedman for Chabad.org
Colel Chabad officials preside over the distribution of Passover food aid by students at the Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys in Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – It’s a bright, cool afternoon at Jerusalem’s Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys, known locally simply as “Hartman” after the institute and Jewish think tank that houses it. A group of 10th grade boys are horsing around on the basketball court, careful to avoid the stacks of food parcels that they’ve stayed after school to help distribute to needy residents ahead of the Passover holiday.

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Levi Bronchtain (Crown Heights) and Rivkah Nelken (Montreal, Canada)
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Eliyahu Andrusier (Crown Heights) and Chumi Bukiet (Chicago, IL)
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

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IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

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IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Eliyahu Andrusier (Crown Heights) and Chumi Bukiet (Chicago, IL)
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Yosef Yitzchok Schtroks (Morristown, NJ) and Mussi Perl (Crown Heights)
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just moments ago the Shabbos siren was triggered for no apparent reason prompting an unprecedented amount of calls to our call system, and a crushing amount of traffic to CrownHeights.info.

11:21pm: Shabbos Siren Goes off – Apparent Accident

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just moments ago the Shabbos siren was triggered for no apparent reason prompting an unprecedented amount of calls to our call system, and a crushing amount of traffic to CrownHeights.info.

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Just twenty four years ago, a refusenik, jailed by the Soviet communist regime for proudly representing Judaism in a country where Jewish activity was a crime, Natan Sharansky was barred from communicating with his concerned Jewish brothers around the globe. This Sunday (March 21), at 3pm EST, Natan Sharansky, now a powerful figure in Israeli politics and chairman of The Jewish Agency, will address world Jewry in a live pre-Passover webcast entitled “The Courage to be Free.” The event is sponsored by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and will be hosted on TorahCafe.com

The Courage to be Free – Special Pre-Passover Web-Event

Just twenty four years ago, a refusenik, jailed by the Soviet communist regime for proudly representing Judaism in a country where Jewish activity was a crime, Natan Sharansky was barred from communicating with his concerned Jewish brothers around the globe. This Sunday (March 21), at 3pm EST, Natan Sharansky, now a powerful figure in Israeli politics and chairman of The Jewish Agency, will address world Jewry in a live pre-Passover webcast entitled “The Courage to be Free.” The event is sponsored by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and will be hosted on TorahCafe.com

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A ticket sits on the windshield of a car parked at a meter.

New Yorkers finally have the one thing they've always wanted - more time.

Five minutes more.

As of 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning, a controversial new law grants that extra 300-second cushion to move your car for alternate-side parking or from an expired Muni meter before getting slapped with a ticket.

Five Minutes of Mercy for Alternate-Side Parking Takes Effect

NY Daily News

A ticket sits on the windshield of a car parked at a meter.

New Yorkers finally have the one thing they’ve always wanted – more time.

Five minutes more.

As of 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning, a controversial new law grants that extra 300-second cushion to move your car for alternate-side parking or from an expired Muni meter before getting slapped with a ticket.

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MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Bochurim in the Morristown Semicha program got tested last week by Rabbi Dovid Schochet from Toronto on Hilchos Taaruvos. Rabbi Schochet was very impressed with the knowlage the Bochurim displayed.

Morristown Bochurim get Tested on Taaruvos

MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Bochurim in the Morristown Semicha program got tested last week by Rabbi Dovid Schochet from Toronto on Hilchos Taaruvos. Rabbi Schochet was very impressed with the knowlage the Bochurim displayed.

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Handcuffs. Illustration Photo.

It was a very bizarre scene which unfolded on Kingston Avenue on Shabbos afternoon. As people were heading to Shul for Mincha, 4 Bochurim were being taken by police officers in handcuffs down Kingston and to the police station.

Bochurim Arrested Shabbos, Walked Down Kingston in Cuffs

Handcuffs. Illustration Photo.

It was a very bizarre scene which unfolded on Kingston Avenue on Shabbos afternoon. As people were heading to Shul for Mincha, 4 Bochurim were being taken by police officers in handcuffs down Kingston and to the police station.

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