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76th Precinct Community Council
08/03/2010 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Greenwood Cemetery Tour
08/08/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Greenwood Cemetery Tour
09/05/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
76th Precinct Community Council
09/07/2010 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Greenwood Cemetery Tour
10/03/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Around Brooklyn
Sheepshead Bites
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There are big plans in store for the Brooklyn Bread House, which opened its doors at 1718 Jerome Avenue last Friday. The business sells breads, cookies, cakes and other pastries baked daily on premises. That’s in addition to a wall of nuts and...
Brokelyn
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Kings County whiskey
If you drink in Brooklyn, you may have heard: We’re about to...
Fucked In Park Slope
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photo: Gabi Porter for MetromixDogs, dogs, dogs, blah, blah, blah, blah.Yeah...I know. But suck it the fuck up. After a hot assed, romp filled Saturday a few weekends ago down at Dog Beach in Prospect Park, Oliver and a bunch of other FIPS-y pups...
NY Times The Local Ft. Greene
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A slower week in crime than we've seen lately.
Free Williamsburg
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Opening with beach waves and strumming simplicity Young Man’s debut release, aptly named Boy, brings us straight into a summery trance of hypnotic proportions. Slowly unfolding into the more hopeful “Hands”, we imagine Panda Bear...
Sheepshead Bites
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This one comes in by way of Queens Crapper, who wrote the perfect blurb: I like how the reporter and newscasters act like this is something that no one knew about and haven’t been doing for centuries… I have a lot of nasty things to say...
Brooklyn The Borough
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While their To-Go burger joint may be slightly more famous, the original DuMont is the place to go for a brunch when you have more than food on your agenda.
NY Times The Local Ft. Greene
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We're over the hump of summer and temperatures are mercifully beginning to fall.
Brooklyn The Borough
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Greenpoint feels a bit like a small town trapped in a different era, but in that warm and welcoming everybody-knows-each-other, life-is-fine-and-dandy kind of way. Though the neighborhood has seen an influx of younger residents over the last decade...
No Land Grab
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Atlantic Yards Report
Wiggle room, or weasel words?
So, did the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) study the impact on Flabush Avenue traffic of the need to build a lay-by lane for the arena and thus upgrade Metropolitan...
Free Williamsburg
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Ninja of Die Antwoord was in town last weekend for that Governor’s Island show and left a little “Thank You” note for Bushwick. [via All City Art]
Brokelyn
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Photo by Jo Ann Santangelo
From clothing to skill-sets, our broke minds have always seen swapping as a way to get something we really need for… our less-than-...
Free Williamsburg
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Yep, that’s right. There’s going to be another Tron movie. (Ah, the nostalgia). And Daft Punk is on the soundtrack. According to Cinemablend, there are nine songs in all. Here they are below! We’ve got the rest after the jump. [via]
BushwickBK
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In the shadow of the McKibbin Lofts, tenants walk to a meeting hosted by Assemblyman Vito Lopez about the effects of the Loft Law. — Photo by Aaron Short)
A month has passed since Governor Paterson signed the Loft Law extension, and two...
NY Times The Local Ft. Greene
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The magic of rouge street vendors is derived form their independence, but what happens when these renegade vendors begin to compete with local business?
Sheepshead Bites
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An elderly Chinese couple are fighting back against the city’s attempt to dump a stiff penalty on them for a driveway that is too wide. But, according to the family, sloppy city contractors built the driveway, not them. According to CBS2, Tim...
NY Times The Local Ft. Greene
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With Animation Block Party coming to BAM Cinematek this weekend, The Local sat down with Jane Wu, a Pratt Institute graduate whose thesis project will be shown during the festival.
NY Times The Local Ft. Greene
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Junior's Brooklyn is offering 60 cent slices of cheesecake today.
Sheepshead Bites
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Congressman Anthony Weiner unleashed an oral onslaught on Republicans yesterday, after a bill was killed that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to those sickened by toxins resulting from the 9/11 attacks. From Huffington Post: At the...
NY Times The Local Ft. Greene
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The weather is promising a reprieve from the heat and humidity for the next few days -- just in time for hot dogs and the orchestra in Fort Greene Park and biking on Flushing Avenue's new bike lanes.