Even with tools like spell check and predictive text, a good once-over can never hurt. New York Assembly candidate Ben Akselrod, who is running against Democrat Steven Cymbrowitz in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, learned that the hard way. Last week, The Friends of Ben Akselrod sent out a mailer that read that crime…
FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — On election day here, the name of the game is religious education. Home to an affluent and increasingly observant Syrian Jewish community, Flatbush is a neighborhood of elegant houses and well-manicured lawns hugging Ocean Parkway, one of Brooklyn’s busier thoroughfares. Life in the Jewish community here orbits around the gleaming Sephardic Community…
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