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Aditi Shrikant

Aditi Shrikant is a Brooklyn-based reporter. You can find more of her work in The Goods, The Outline and the New York Daily News
Jun
07
Borough President Holds Second Hearing On Brooklyn Jail Plan

Borough President Holds Second Hearing On Brooklyn Jail Plan

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Yesterday, on the anniversary of Kalief Browder [/inmates-in-the-dark-and-cold-at-brooklyn-federal-prison/]’s death after being held on Rikers Island for three
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May
17
Time To Start Packing? Bushwick Rezoning Not Aggressive Enough To Help Residents Remain In Neighborhood

Time To Start Packing? Bushwick Rezoning Not Aggressive Enough To Help Residents Remain In Neighborhood

Sarit Platkin of the DCP presented updates atCB4 meeting. Aditi Shrikant/Bklyner BUSHWICK – Wednesday night, the Department of City Planning
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May
10
CB2 Votes No On Brooklyn Jail Expansion

CB2 Votes No On Brooklyn Jail Expansion

BOERUM HILL – On Wednesday night, Brooklyn Community Board 2 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb2/index.page] voted “no” on
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May
09
L Train Slowdown is … OK?

L Train Slowdown is … OK?

A week and half into the L Train slowdown and things are…okay. The plan, which replaced the much-dreaded L
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Apr
24
Reynoso To City: Bushwick Rezoning Plan Falls Short On Housing

Reynoso To City: Bushwick Rezoning Plan Falls Short On Housing

BUSHWICK – Tuesday night, about 50 people piled into a conference room at the Bushwick Multi-Service Center to discuss updates to
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Apr
12
Community Plans For Bushwick, Worries It Will Not Matter

Community Plans For Bushwick, Worries It Will Not Matter

Attendees at the Bushwick Community Plan rollout event [/residents-propose-bushwick-community-plan-for-rezoning-to-tame-development/] (Chase Brush/Bklyner)BUSHWICK – From 2008 to 2018, the median price
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