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The Down-Low: Crazed Squirrel In Prospect Park & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Carly Miller

Jul 24, 2017 — 1 min read

A totally innocent squirrel (Photo by Pamela Wong)

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

-Crazed squirrel goes on biting rampage in Prospect Park [NY Post]

-Furious Crown Heights Residents Protest ‘Bullet Hole’ Bar: ‘People Of Color Are Not Props’ [Gothamist]

-BP Adams Bowing to ‘Anti-Semitic Bullying’ in Opposing Development: Builder [DNAinfo]

-De Blasio, Riding Subway, Demands Cuomo Fix the System [NY Times]

-Let these ‘book-mixtapes’ guide your summer reading [technical.ly]

-First Black-Owned Beauty Supply Store Opens in Brownsville [BK Reader]

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