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# The Down Low: Pizzas, Pit Bulls, Tattoos & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss
- URL: https://bklyner.com/low-pizzas-pit-bulls-tattoos-stories-shouldnt-miss/
- Published: 2017-03-13T19:42:25.000Z
- Updated: 2017-03-13T20:46:52.000Z
- Author: Pamela Wong
- Tags: Central Brooklyn, News, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, Southern Brooklyn, Western Brooklyn, #wp

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Photo by Emily via [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/pizzalovesemily/photos/a.1473416806219222.1073741830.1446266052267631/1926242827603282/?type=3&theater)

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

–Did your favorite slice make the Best Brooklyn Pizza cut? \[[amNY](http://www.amny.com/eat-and-drink/brooklyn-pizza-best-slices-and-pies-in-the-borough-1.13183219?ref=bklyner.com)\]

\-Two pit bulls shot while attacking man in Bushwick \[[NY Post](http://nypost.com/2017/03/12/police-fatally-shoot-2-pit-bulls-after-animal-attack-cops/?ref=bklyner.com)\]

\-The history behind tattooing in NYC \[[6sqft](https://www.6sqft.com/the-history-of-tattooing-in-nyc-and-its-36-year-ban/?ref=bklyner.com)\]

\-Tech experts discuss how to build a smart city \[[Technical.ly](http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2017/03/06/urban-x-event-miguel-gamino-sree-sreenivasan/?utm%5Fcampaign=Brooklyn%20Editorial%20Email&utm%5Fsource=hs%5Femail&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcontent=43934202&%5Fhsenc=p2ANqtz-9AZweLkM7e3jok%5FANQDYNnGv%5FmjkqEXCTp39zKlFVhT8358WJDRTlxL9x2ySup6yXQ%5FBv94XMBfSXGdh79sf1aMXx5hA&%5Fhsmi=43934202)\]

–New Yorkers protest rise in anti-Semitism \[[NY Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-vigil-takes-aim-anti-semitism-surge-article-1.2996077?ref=bklyner.com)\]

\-Activist Ravi Ragbir temporarily spared deportation \[[Gothamist](http://gothamist.com/2017/03/09/ravi%5Fragbir%5Fimmigration.php?ref=bklyner.com)\]

–Two new co-living spaces planned for Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights \[[Curbed NY](http://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/6/14829250/brooklyn-co-living-common-start-up-rentals?ref=bklyner.com)\]

–Vacant storefronts not discouraging Smith Street business owners \[[Commercial Observer](https://commercialobserver.com/2017/01/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-not-yet-for-brooklyns-smith-street/?ref=bklyner.com#.WMRI5whs5Ut.email)\]

\-Housing Works closing Brooklyn Heights location \[[DNA Info](https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170310/brooklyn-heights/housing-works-thrift-shop-montague-street-closing?ref=bklyner.com)\]

–BIG Architecture moves office from Manhattan to DUMBO \[[Curbed NY](http://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/6/14829568/bjarke-ingels-group-dumbo-offices?ref=bklyner.com)\]