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🌱 Patch AM: Brooklyn Event Lets Residents Clear Old Tickets And Warrant

Also, don't miss Tremendous Office Furniture & Soft Seating Liquidation Sale on the Brooklyn Patch calendar

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Hello Brooklyn! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Chance to clear old summons warrants at Brooklyn church on Saturday
  • How you can help save Crown Heights' beloved Crabby Shack right now
  • How would a temporary BQE roadway change driving near the Brooklyn Bridge?

Also on today's calendar: Tremendous Office Furniture & Soft Seating Liquidation Sale and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Partly sunny and not as warm, with a high of 74 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Sunday: A little afternoon rain, temps: high: 65, low: 60.
  • Monday: Sunshine, breezy and pleasant, with a high of 71 and low of 50 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Brooklyn Event Lets Residents Clear Old Tickets And Warrant (patch.com) — Brooklyn residents with old low-level summons warrants can clear them for free this Saturday at the Begin Again event at Bridge Street AME Church in Bed-Stuy. With on-site attorneys, a temporary courtroom, and added services like health screenings and job-readiness help, the district attorney's office aims to ease the burden of outstanding warrants that can affect jobs, housing, and immigration concerns.
   

2. Crown Heights' Crabby Shack Fights To Stay Open Amidst Rough Season (bkreader.com) — A beloved Crown Heights spot, The Crabby Shack on Franklin Avenue, is struggling with rising costs and fewer customers and is asking Brooklyn neighbors to help keep it open. Owners Fifi Bell-Clanton and Gwen Woods launched a GoFundMe and are urging locals to order directly from their website as they race to hit a $35,000 goal before the slow winter season.
   

3. City considers possibility of building temporary roadway over Brooklyn Bridge approach while repairing BQE (news12.com) — A major long-term repair plan for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, including the Brooklyn Bridge approach, could add temporary elevated roadways to keep 130,000 daily drivers off local streets during construction. City engineers are still refining the proposal, which might run from 2029 to 2040. Brooklyn residents can learn more and ask questions at an upcoming virtual Q&A session on October 6.
   

4. Brooklyn Medicaid fraud case advances with guilty plea over $65 million billing scheme (tradersunion.com) — A Brooklyn social adult day care operator has pleaded guilty in a long-running Medicaid fraud scheme involving about $65 million in false claims for day care and home health services. The case, one of several tied to the operation, highlights growing federal scrutiny of Medicaid-funded providers in New York and could influence oversight of similar programs serving Brooklyn residents.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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