Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

...said Michael Blaise Backer, Executive Director, Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership. West was an active member of Friendship Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant where Deaconess Bertha Brown recalled her as a loyal and giving member.

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...cards to date: A. That's because the high-poverty school -- which serves 97 percent black or Hispanic students in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant -- has been able to maintain an incredible 96 percent graduation rate for the past two...

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...and Hispanic neighborhoods, winning by a 3-to-1 margin in some districts. He beat Bloomberg handily in predominantly black neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn and Jamaica in Queens. He won Harlem and East Harlem easily,...

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...as a tightknit working-class neighborhood. Growing up during the civil rights era, attending Jesuit schools and tutoring in Brooklyn's tough Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, he gained an awareness of live theater as a community-binding...

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...in Brooklyn. A The baby's life is reportedly in jeopardy. The unidentified woman was standing inside a bodega on DeKalb and Kent avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 7:05 p.m., when a man in a white Escalade drove by and opened fire at a...

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...the life of her baby may hang in the balance. The unidentified woman was standing inside a bodega on DeKalb and Kent avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 7:05 p.m., when a man in a white Escalade drove by and opened fire at a 20-year-old man who...

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...who've brought quirky energy to districts beyond the reach of TimeOut New York and Zagat. Take Abidjan. It's a friendly West African joint where Bedford-Stuyvesant rubs shoulders with Bushwick. It has exotic dishes like smoked turkey neck,...

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...were aware of his full background," an aide said, "it would have been done differently." Wahhaj heads the Masjid al Taqwa mosque in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and presides over fellow African-American converts to Islam. "He was invited by staff...

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