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Image via NYPD.This man allegedly grabbed a woman’s iPhone 6 Plus out of her hands before fleeing out the subway car doors at DeKalb Avenue station on November 29 at around 5:20am, say cops. Both victim and perpetrator were on a Brooklyn-bound N train at the time.
Animals
Photo via Kath Hansen [https://www.instagram.com/p/-6ih7So7rw/?taken-by=radiokath].Roxy’s got good taste in donuts! Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram [http://instagram.com/
Business
After 16 years of bringing traditional South African cuisine to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and New York City, Madiba Restaurant [http://www.madibarestaurant.com] (195 DeKalb Avenue) chef/owner Mark Henegan is hoping that the popular local eatery’s fans will band together to give back and keep them around. “We
Events
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! For family-friendly and kids events, see this week’s (through December 15) Kid Calendar [/blog/2015/12/08/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-december-15/]. Submit your event listing [/calendar/
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Image via PACS Architecture.Five full-floor condo units and a duplex apartment are coming to 162 South Portland Avenue — a two-story, three-unit building that will become a six-story building if applications are approved for the planned project. However, this is no big-developer-led expansion; existing owner Maria Villafane is the one
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Image via NYScanner on Twitter [https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/673653007054209024].A 30-year-old Brooklyn Heights woman tragically lost her life early Sunday night in a car crash outside Not Ray’s Pizza on Fulton Street off South Portland Avenue, and the 39-year-old man who was behind the wheel has been
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Photo via Fort Greene Park [https://www.instagram.com/p/-euxiyjnyc/?taken-by=fortgreenepark].Missed this week’s neighborhood news? We’ve got you covered. KID CALENDAR: Through December 8 [/blog/2015/12/01/things-to-do-with-the-kids-through-december-8/]. We’re hiring salespeople [/blog/2015/11/30/things-to-do-this-week-through-december-4/]! Where to donate to Toys For Tots
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Image via NYPD.Fourteen-year-old Mercedes Cameron has not been seen since leaving home for school on Friday, December 4 at around 7:40am and her family and police are hoping someone has seen her. Mercedes was last seen on Washington Avenue between Gates Avenue and Fulton Street. She stands five-feet-two-inches
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Image via Brownstone Detectives via Brooklyn Historical Society [https://twitter.com/BrownstoneDetec/status/671791435021176832/photo/1].The Fort Greene Houses — now known as the Ingersoll and Walt Whitman Houses — were completed in 1944 and considered a pioneering development for urban renewal and addressing the housing crisis. Nowadays, of course, the
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Photo by latonyayvette [http://instagram.com/p/xhjqmWtaxx/?modal=true].Clinton Hill got highlighted in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/realestate/clinton-hill-brooklyn-a-neighborhood-in-transition.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0] New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/realestate/clinton-hill-brooklyn-a-neighborhood-in-transition.html?smid=fb-nytimes&
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Image via NYPD.We see-sawed back up in reported crimes Thanksgiving week compared to the week prior, with 22 total incidents in major crime categories, compared to last week’s 14 [/blog/2015/12/01/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-16-22/] and the previous week’s 19 [/blog/2015/11/20/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-november-9-15-reduced-crime/]. This was also
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Image via NYPD.Surveillance images have been released by the NYPD of a suspect in the knife assault [/blog/2015/12/03/blood-splatter-victim-identified-playwright-david-henry-hwang-is-recuperating-after-seemingly-random-slashing/] on Fort Greene resident and prominent Broadway playwright David Henry Hwang. Seen above and in the Wanted poster below, the suspect is shown crossing the street in