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The Down Low: Fake Elephant Stampede, Comic Book Crook & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Pamela Wong

Sep 21, 2017 — 1 min read

Underhill Walls BK at Underhill Avenue and St. Johns Place, Prospect Heights, Sept. 9, 2017 (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)

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

-Flatbush and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens To Be Designated “Little Caribbean” [Brooklyn Paper]

-Is Intersection at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street Sinking? [News 12]

-Man Attacked By Trio with Baseball Bat in Williamsburg [New York Daily News]

-Prospect Heights Man Displays Provocative Signs in Window [Gothamist]

-Cops Bust Comic Book Crook Who Stole 1st Edition Amazing Spiderman and X-Men Off a Windsor Terrace Porch [New York Post]

-Artist Erects Memorial For Made-Up Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede [Untapped Cities]

-Migrating Birds are Crashing into Windows and Dying [Brooklyn Paper]

-Dog Trapped in Crown Heights Apartment For Two Days After Family Evicted [New York Post]

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