via Gothamist
Mosque Calls for Understanding
Some neighbors of a Brooklyn mosque complain the call to prayer, sounded up to five times daily, is too noisy. But worshippers say the call is an important part of their religion.
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via Bensonhurst Bean
Grappling With N Train Pain
Commuters are losing patience – and sleep – over platforms closed for renovation in a stretch of Brooklyn.
via New York Daily News
The Subway Stinks in Brooklyn
A sewage leak is sickening riders at the Myrtle/Wyckoff L train station in Bushwick.
via Brooklyn Based
Bushwick Feels the Bern
Bernie Sanders fans in the Brooklyn neighborhood are banding to campaign for the presidential hopeful – and to dispel the idea that millennials are apathetic.
via Vocativ
Saving Manhattan’s Chinatown
Longtime residents of New York's historic, but shrinking immigrant enclave battle against being priced out of their homes.
via DNAInfo
Recipe for a Healthy Brownsville
A cooking school and restaurant featuring healthy, locally grown food is set for a former 99-cent store.
via Motherboard
Beating Trump at His Own Game
The presidential wannabe's anti-immigration rhetoric has inspired some video games.
via City Limits
Dumpster Dives Stem Waste Tide
Members of the freegan movement fight hunger by plucking edible eats from city trash.