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Wrestlemania is this Sunday, and so this week’s theme will be legendary independent pro wrestlers with submission finishers. ….I kid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3BE-Ck1D58]. I kid because I love. (Early) April Fools! But don’t be a freier [http://www.haaretz.com/thou-shalt-not-be-a-freier-1.211247] and get
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Ingersoll Houses at Navy and Myrtle by snapitschelsea via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRd6wyxlUah/?taken-at=258605691]President Trump’s initial budget outline would cut millions of dollars from affordable housing projects across New York City. The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which develops affordable housing
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(Photo by Carly Miller)Check out the latest house-for-sale in a quaint, tucked-away corner of Flatbush — in what a 1923 New York Times writer called, “the most desirable corner in Flatbush.” Martense Court, a tidy cul-de-sac at the corner of Martense Street between Flatbush and Bedford Avenues, is packed with
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Photo via Corcoran [http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/listings/display/3798550]Actress Chloë Sevigny is packing up and moving out of Park Slope, the area she once described as “the dorkiest, hokiest neighborhood [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/24/chloe-sevigny-on-the-cosmopolitans-new-york-s-frat-boy-takeover-and-asshole-michael-alig.html] .” Sevigny purchased the four-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment at
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Key Food, 120 Fifth Avenue (Photo by Nathan Haselby)One of the largest developments on 5th Avenue in Park Slope is getting closer to becoming reality: Avery Hall Investments has finally sealed the $45 million deal to acquire the site of Key Food property, Real Deal reported yesterday. Avery Hall’
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1173 Bergen Street via Google MapsThe battle continues over the opening of a senior men’s homeless shelter at 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. Today Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine issued a temporary injunction against the shelter, extending the previous temporary restraining order until mid-April while she reviews
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The vacant lot on 9th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenues believed to be the final resting place of hundreds of Revolutionary War heroes (Image via Google Maps)A vacant lot located on 9th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenues in Gowanus may be the final resting place of hundreds
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1173 Bergen Street via Google MapsThe New York City Department of Home Services Press Secretary, Isaac McGinn, reached out to BKLYNER late Friday with additional information following the court-issued temporary block [/temporary-block-issued-crown-heights-homeless-shelter/] on the homeless shelter proposed for 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. “Despite today’s ruling, we are
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So, the weather might not have seemed much like it lately, but Spring is here! We’re through the vernal equinox, people! It’s time to clean up your apartments or, even better, get brand new digs. (Courtesy Street Easy/Fumiko Akiyama of Corcoran [http://streeteasy.com/building/1813-78-street-brooklyn/2]
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Crown Heights residents protesting the opening of 1173 Bergen Street homeless shelter at a March 15 town hall meetingA judge temporarily blocked the opening of 1173 Bergen Street, a senior men’s homeless shelter in Crown Heights that would provide transitional housing for more than 100 residents. Judge Paul Wooten
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Spring cleaning might be ruining commutes [/three-r-line-stops-will-close-for-half-year-in-total-makeover/] in Southern Brooklyn, but that’s all the more reason to head on over to the Brownstone Belt. The subways are (mostly) underground and the real estate prices are rock bottom. I know it’s an ironing board, but I wish it were
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Photo by booksaremagicbk via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQjFx_ABXIR/]Brooklyn bookworms have been waiting patiently for the arrival of Emma Straub [https://www.facebook.com/emmastraubwriter/]‘s Books Are Magic [https://www.booksaremagic.net/] bookstore to Cobble Hill. Filling the indie bookstore void, the Brooklyn-based author Straub
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Crown Heights residents protesting the opening of the 1173 Bergen Street senior men’s homeless shelter at a town hall meeting last week (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)[UPDATED March 21, 8:20pm] The 1173 Bergen Street shelter will not open tomorrow, March 22, as scheduled. Jennifer Cato emailed the
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439 36th Street (Photo via Compass [https://www.compass.com/listing/439-36th-street-brooklyn-ny-11232/12c4305f7a13494a09da1ebe17f701bf15518ce5/] )A stylishly renovated 2,800-square-foot townhouse located at 439 36th Street [https://www.compass.com/listing/439-36th-street-brooklyn-ny-11232/12c4305f7a13494a09da1ebe17f701bf15518ce5/] (between 4th & 5th Avenues) in Sunset Park recently sold for $2.05 million—a record for the neighborhood.
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Image by Lightstone Group via City Realty [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/gowanus/363-bond-street/87272]Applications are now available for 54 affordable units at the new 363 Bond Street Apartments overlooking the Gowanus Canal Superfund site. Located in the up-and-coming Gowanus neighborhood, the 12-story building features 270 units. When the
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384 11th Street, Park Slope (Photo by Christopher Bride via Property Shark [https://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Photos/view.html?photo=3-01023-0033.aTDLldQT&type=uploaded&rand=697] )Mayor Bill de Blasio is seeking a new tenant for his one-bedroom rental at 384 11th Street in Park Slope. The