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Welcome to our business column, where we’ll share news on expansions, new biz, pop-ups, art shows, and recent closures. Openings Bond Townhouse & Garden [https://www.bondtownhouse.com/] @ Boerum Hill The Garden Suite at the Bond Townhouse. Courtesy of The Bond Townhouse.A landmark townhouse in Boerum Hill was
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Man wanted in connection to string of Brooklyn bank robberies. Courtesy of NYPD. NORTH BROOKLYN — Police are on the lookout for a man connected to a string of three similar bank robberies over the last two weeks. The first robbery took place in Williamsburg on Monday, January 13 at approximately
Bay Ridge
95th Street subway station in Bay Ridge. Via Wikimedia Commons. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Ridge%E2%80%9395th_St_td_(2018-09-19)_01.jpg] BAY RIDGE — A woman was sexually assaulted in a subway bathroom on Monday morning. Yesterday, around 10.15 a.m., a 31-year-old woman on
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West 6th Street and Avenue S. Via Google Maps.GRAVESEND — A pedestrian passed away after being struck by a car mid-January in Gravesend. On Tuesday, January 14, around 10.30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian struck at West 6th
Dyker Heights
The back entrance of PS229 in Dyker Heights, on Bay 7 Street and Benson Avenue. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.DYKER HEIGHTS — Mornings at the intersection of 14th and Benson Avenues are hectic and dangerous for students attending PS229 in Dyker Heights. In the morning, during drop-off, city buses and school buses
News
Espinal. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Brooklyn Councilmember Rafael Espinal announced on Sunday his resignation from office to join the Freelancers Union, a New York non-profit, serving the independent workforce. Espinal was the Councilmember representing the 37th district, which serves Cypress Hills, Bushwick, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and East New York. In
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BUSHWICK/BED-STUY — A man was arrested Thursday for criminal possession of a weapon on an M train. An IGTV video originally posted by the Instagram account @harley_punxx [https://www.instagram.com/harley_punxx/] shows close to a dozen police officers flooding the platform and train car, which was stopped
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New York style arepa with ham, egg, and cheese. Courtesy of Love, Nelly.BED-STUY — This spring, the team behind the boozy milkshake and dessert bar in Crown Heights, Butter & Scotch [https://shop.butterandscotch.com/], will bring a new bakery focused on Colombian and Latin American treats to the border
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SUNSET PARK — Two elderly people were attacked and robbed in Sunset Park in mid-December, cops said. On Wednesday, December 18 around 1.50 p.m. inside of a multi-unit residential building in the vicinity of 4th Avenue and 58th Street, two men gained entry to an apartment by forcing a
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Photo by Hush Naidoo on UnsplashThe City and the State today laid out their preparedness plans for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak [https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html], which has spread from Wuhan City in Hubei province in China to 16 countries, including the USA, which at this
Business
Some of the dips on offer. Courtesy of Medusa Greek Taverna.PARK SLOPE – On December 4th, George Constantinou opened up his fourth restaurant with his husband, Farid Ali – a modern Greek spot called Medusa Greek Taverna [http://medusataverna.com/]. The couple now operates three restaurants within two-blocks in Park Slope—
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Puerto Rico Earthquake Relief Fundraiser flyer. Courtesy of Saara DeAngelis. Puerto Rico [/pr-declares-state-of-emergency-after-6-4-magnitute-earthquake-hits-island-brooklyn-gets-ready-to-help/] has been hit with over 1,200 earthquakes [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/opinion/puerto-rico-earthquake-power.html?searchResultPosition=1] in the course of just three weeks, leaving over 2,200 people homeless. Roughly 6,000 are