Madison Torah Center Opens Its Doors

For many decades, there stood a Catholic school named St. Agnes Seminary on the corner of Avenue R and East 23rd Street in the Madison section of Brooklyn. Over the years, the noticeable demographic shift in the neighborhood could no longer be denied. The predominantly mixed neighborhood of both Chr...

11/29/2007 | 309 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Read more...

Magen David Synagogue Declared A Landmark

The overcast skies and threat of rain did not deter the excited crowd of community members that gathered on a June morning to mark a momentous occasion. They had all gathered on 67th Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to witness the unveiling of a plaque that designated the Magen David Synagogue a New ...

02/15/2008 | 427 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Read more...

Maimonides: Setting Standards for Surgical Care

Patients from around the region and the country come to Maimonides Medical Center seeking the experience and skill of the hospital's cardiac and vascular surgeons, orthopedists, spine surgeons, pediatric surgeons and numerous other surgical specialists. They come because the Departments of Surgery a...

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Making Kings Highway Beautiful

The writing, aka graffiti, is on the wall—the walls of buildings, storefront gates, mail boxes, fire hydrants, light poles, traffic signal boxes and more—it is everywhere! But it doesn't have to be. You don't see it on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street or in neighborhoods such as Park S...

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