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District 39

Shahana Hanif

Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and the Columbia Waterfront

News 12 – By Julia Burns | Published October 20, 2025

Tenants of 225 18th Street in Park Slope and local officials in Brooklyn rallied Monday saying their rights and safety is at risk. Councilwoman Shahana Hanif joined tenants in calling for safety.

“This building has over 167 oath office code violations, 97 Department of Buildings violations and 227 on-the- record complaints.

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The Park Slope Walk – By Dan Myers | Published October 17, 2025

At a press conference this morning, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Executive Director Chad Cooper announced that the acclaimed local music school will be expanding with a music therapy-focused second campus in the neighborhood, on the lower level of One Prospect Park West, between Union and President Streets.

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BrooklynPaper – By Gabriele Holtermann | Published October 1, 2025

After serving the Park Slope community for decades, Steve’s 9th Street Supermarket between 5th and 6th avenues, shuttered permanently on Sept. 30 with little notice to the community.

News of the abrupt closure of the supermarket sparked concerns among Park Slope residents, who worried the shop might be replaced with luxury housing, leaving them without a local affordable grocery store.

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BrooklynPaper – By Gabriele Holtermann | Published September 29, 2025

New Yorkers citywide joined members of the New York City Council Progressive Caucus on Sept. 27 for a day of action called “Stand Against ICE,” rejecting what they called the Trump administration’s unlawful and often violent detention of immigrants and demanding an end to the disappearance of detained immigrants to unknown locations.

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BrooklynPaper – By Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil & Paul Frangipane | Published August 26, 2025

The walls of the Fifth Avenue Committee’s Center for Community Development on DeGraw Street now pulse with new life.

On Thursday, Aug. 21, FAC and Groundswell Community Mural Project unveiled “The Heartbeat of Gowanus,” a large-scale community mural created by lead artists Kristy McCarthy and Yolande Delius in collaboration with 13 youth artists from Groundswell’s Voices Her’d Visionaries program, local leaders and neighborhood residents.

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NepYork – By Kishor Panthi | Published July 31, 2025

New York City has taken a significant step to protect its immigrant communities from fraud with the automatic enactment of two City Council bills into law. Introduction 205-A and Introduction 980-A became law on July 31, 2025, after the Mayor opted not to take action on them within 30 days of their passage.

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