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Today’s Links: Seals Spotted in New York Waters, Celebrities Spotted in Brooklyn Nabes & More

Paul Stremple

Mar 6, 2018 — 1 min read

Balloons for sale in Brooklyn (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)

Remembering the Great Blizzard of 1888 [Brownstoner]
NYPD Files Show Officers Kept Jobs After Serious Offenses [BuzzFeed News]
Are “Star Maps” Brooklyn’s Next Step? 19 Celebrities That Live in BK [StreetEasy]
Cell Phone Snaps Are Exposing Serial Subway Perverts [NY Daily News]
Fake Subway Posters Are Depressing Pleas from a Personified MTA [NY Post]
Eclectic Crew of Brooklyn Politicians Save Former Dyker Heights Orphanage [Kings County Politics]
Burning Bed-Stuy Building Falls of Firefighter Battling Blaze [NBC New York]
Progressives and Independent Democrats Square Off in State Senate Races [Gotham Gazette]
De Blasio Finances Affordable Housing to the Tune of $1.1 Billion [New York Times]
Ditmas Park Has One of the Largest Collections of Victorian Homes in U.S. [Untapped Cities]
Hundreds of Seals Are Flocking To New York’s Waterways [New York 1]
A Bar Even Your Grandmother Would Love [New Yorker]

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