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The Down Low: Crown Heights Citi Bike Locations Revealed & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Carly Miller

Jul 6, 2017 — 1 min read

Citi Bike — A Citi Bike station on 5th Avenue and 3rd Street outside of J.J. Byrne Playground and the Old Stone House. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

-MAP: Final Citi Bike Locations Unveiled in Crown Heights Expansion [DNAinfo]

-Heavy metal: City cleared to dump millions of gallons of partially treated, contaminated water into Coney Island Creek [Brooklyn Daily]

-12 Places in NYC that Inspired Great Music [Untapped Cities]

-There’s A Plan For NYC To Fix Its Transit System That Doesn’t Involve Cuomo [Gothamist]

-A Transgender Child Confronts Growing Up [WNYC]

-NYPD clears suspicious package after workers mistake time capsule for WWII-era bomb [NY Daily News]

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