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Things To Do This Weekend, Through March 20: JL Beauty Bar Free Facial And Massage, Property Fraud Workshop, Clinton Hill Library Book Collection

WINE TASTINGS: here’s a list of seven [/blog/2015/10/14/seven-places-to-enjoy-wine-tastings-in-fort-greene-clinton-hill/] weekly options! Myrtle Avenue’s KIDS GUIDE [http://myrtleavenue.org/kids-guide-to-myrtle-avenue/] also has great listings. Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/] or by emailing editor@bklyner.com. [/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/books.jpg]

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Mark Your Calendars: Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair Is Wednesday, March 23

Let all the senior citizens in your life know: next Wednesday, March 23, from 11am-2pm, at the Cumberland Gotham Health Center (100 North Portland Avenue, at Park Avenue) is the first annual Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair. At least 30 vendors — representing city agencies and community providers of everything

Events

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With The Parade, Bars And Irish Soda Bread

Image via Meghan Corridan [https://www.instagram.com/p/W9-nS8SKZA/].St. Patrick’s Day is this Thursday, March 17, and the neighborhood is a pot o’ gold full of celebratory options! From parades, to bars, to the beloved Irish Soda Bread, you need not go far from our neighborhood to

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Jobs Alert: Seasonal Jobs In Parks And At Habana To Go

Image via Habana To Go.Habana To Go (757 Fulton Street, at South Portland Avenue) is seeking “fun and outgoing” people to work the counter and bus tables [https://www.instagram.com/habanatogobk/]this spring and summer. The NYC Parks Department is also seeking seasonal workers [http://www.nycgovparks.org/

Police & Fire

Sunset Park Toddler’s Mother Arrested On Murder And Manslaughter Charges

Less than one day after two-year-old Melody Pheng’s drowning death was ruled a homicide [/police-fire/sunset-park-toddlers-death-is-ruled-a-homicide-no-arrests-made-yet/] by the city medical examiner, police arrested the toddler’s mother, Lin Li, 24, on charges of second degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and acting in a manner injurious to a child. It is

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Much-Needed Lighting And Security Cameras Are Being Installed At Ingersoll Houses

Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Let there be light. Now that a $4.8 million lighting installation project has been completed at Harlem’s Polo Grounds Towers public housing development, the city is continuing to go full steam ahead at the next eight (8) locations — including our very own Ingersoll

Business

Going Gratuity Free At Roman’s Has Been A Rocky Road Thus Far, Say Employees

It’s been a rocky few months for Roman’s [http://romansnyc.com/], the Italian restaurant at 243 Dekalb Avenue (between Vanderbilt and Clermont Avenues) that ended tipping this past January [/blog/2015/12/17/romans-to-end-tipping-raise-prices-around-20-percent-beginning-january-18/] and hiked prices by 20 percent in an effort to bridge the gap between

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Cops Seek Help IDing Suspect And Car In Shooting Outside Clinton Hill McDonald’s

Image via NYPD.Some might say that going to McDonald’s is like taking your life into your hands because of the quality of the food. But here in Brooklyn, the phrase seems to take on a harsher light considering the tendency for violence to break out there. The latest

Events

Things To Do This Week, Through March 18: Free Tax Help, Guinness & Oyster Fest, DIY Charm Bracelets, Another Rat Academy

Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/]. [/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/books.jpg]ONGOING Book Sale Donation Collection When: Through Friday,

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Celebrate Pi Day With Pie!

Image via easyjunkremoval_mo [https://www.instagram.com/p/BC77ucMPSBE/?taken-by=easyjunkremoval_mo&hl=en]. Math and pie-loving nerds, unite! Today is March 14, also known as 3.14 or Pi Day! Named after the mathematical constant of pi, you don’t have to know that π = the ratio

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Construction At 500 Waverly Is Almost Complete

Image via City Realty.Three years after its $9.2 million sale to Orange Management [/blog/2014/07/23/seven-story-condo-commercial-building-coming-to-waverly-fulton/] , the 49-unit, seven-story condo building at 500 Waverly Avenue (at Fulton Street) is almost ready for leasing. As first noted by 6sqft [http://www.6sqft.com/clinton-hills-500-waverly-condo-tops-out-teaser-site-launched/?utm_source=feedly&

Police & Fire

Sunset Park Toddler’s Death Is Ruled A Homicide; No Arrests Made Yet

The heartbreak continues surrounding two-year-old Melody Pheng’s death this past Sunday, March 13, which has now been ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner. Pheng was found “unresponsive” [/police-fire/sunset-park-toddler-dies-family-bathtub/] in her family’s bathtub in a home on 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues and later