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BKLYNERStrong winds and two to three inches of rain is not a fun way to start the week, but it is what’s forecast for Monday. If you live in a low-lying and/or poor drainage area, you should be ready for some flooding and protect your property accordingly.
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[Update 1/24 at 2pm: Madiha Rao was found on Monday and relocated with her family.] NYPD is asking for assistance in finding Madiha Rao, a 24 year old Midwood neighbor, who was last seen on Frida24-year-old20th, around 3pm at the Dunkin Donuts on Avenue J between 14th
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Fairway grand opening (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if
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(Photo via @dimati/instagram)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. * The Real Freaks of Coney Island: Jake Flores talks to Erik Sprague aka The Lizardman and Black Scorpion. [BrokeAssStewart [http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2017/
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Metropolitan Detention Center on 2nd Avenue via Google Street ViewJoaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious Mexican drug lord whose net worth is estimated at well over $1 billion [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3168750/The-Rich-Kids-Cartel-Mexico-drugs-lord-El-Chapo-s-blinged-children-fabulous-wealth-
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Yesterday, Midwood resident Akhror Saidakhmetov, 21, pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the foreign terrorist organization ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, according to the United States Department of Justice. Saidakhmetov was one of six young men charged with aiding a Brooklyn-based terrorism
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Amy Weil (L) and Leigh Blanchard (R). (Photo via Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Currently on view at 440 Gallery in Park Slope [https://gallery440.squarespace.com/exhibitions/] (440 6th Avenue), “Mending Fragments: Hide & Seek” combines the work of 2 artists, Amy Weil [http://www.amyweilpaintings.com/] and Leigh Blanchard [http:
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Robert Drach, via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.It’s one of a parent’s worst nightmares — having your child abducted while they play in the yard. That is what almost happened, and the Sheepshead Bay man who attempted this has now been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Today,
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Help cops find four suspects accused of ambushing a teenage girl and punching her in the face on 4th Avenue near Gowanus yesterday. The 17-year-old victim was standing in front of 88A 4th Avenue when she was surrounded by about 20 people on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm,
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300 Ashland Place building. (Photo via 300 Ashland)Whole Foods is opening its first ‘365 by Whole Foods’ market in New York inside Fort Greene’s towering mixed-use development at 300 Ashland [http://www.300ashland.com/], announced today by the Two Trees management company. 365 by Whole Foods [https: