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The suspect leaving the station. Photo via policeOn Saturday, November 12, a black, male D train rider approached a 24-year-old woman at the 9th Avenue subway station and punched her in the face. The allegedly unprovoked attack happened in broad daylight at 4 p.m. The woman refused
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Photo via Google Maps.Applications have been filed for a six-story mixed-use apartment building at 179 West End Ave in Manhattan Beach, according to New York YIMBY. [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/11/six-story-eight-unit-mixed-use-building-filed-at-179-west-end-avenue-manhattan-beach.
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Photo via Google Maps.Applications have been filed for a six-story mixed-use apartment building at 179 West End Ave in Manhattan Beach, according to New York YIMBY. [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/11/six-story-eight-unit-mixed-use-building-filed-at-179-west-end-avenue-manhattan-beach.
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Photo by Anthony Arrigo [https://www.facebook.com/ArrigoPhotography/]What southern Brooklyn news did you miss this week? Find out and catch up with The South BK Beat: De Blasio to Boost Vision Zero Efforts as Pedestrian Deaths Jump 5 Percent [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161130/civic-center/
Arts & Culture
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Business
Peter Romano at work. (Photo by Erin DeGregorio / BKLYNER)After working at his stained glass window business for the last 40 years in Park Slope, owner Peter Romano refuses to have the word “retirement” as part of both his vocabulary and future plans. At 72, he always busy because he
Central Brooklyn
A group shot of Assemblymembers and library staff at a funding celebration at the Central Library this morning. (Photo by Gregg Richards)New York State Assemblymembers have determined bringing video game consoles (and other technology) to every Brooklyn Public Library branch is a high priority, and have secured $3 million
Education
There haven’t big any big protests in Sunset Park or Bay Ridge yet, but here is an image from a rally held in Brooklyn Heights this weekend in response to swastika graffiti found on a children’s playground. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER [/check-your-hate-senator-squadron-beastie-
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(Dyker Heights home photo by Will Caruso / Bensonhurst Bean)We have it on the record from a very reliable local source that NYPD Brooklyn South Chief Steven Powers has decided to revise controversial plans to reserve holiday parking along 86th Street for tour buses. Now, instead of the original plan
Holidays
Santa’s rightful place on the lawn, and security footage of the intruder. (Photos via resident)A Dyker Heights resident reached out this morning with the sad news that a man had stolen the inflatable Santa from his lawn’s Christmas display. “Yesterday, at around 5:45 p.m., a
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Santa’s rightful place on the lawn, and security footage of the intruder. (Photos via resident)A Dyker Heights resident reached out this morning with the sad news that a man had stolen the inflatable Santa from his lawn’s Christmas display. “Yesterday, at around 5:45 p.m., a
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(Rendering via IMC Architecture)Earlier this week, a Midwood-based LLC filed applications to build a four-story apartment building on an empty lot at 62 Martense Street, between Bedford and Flatbush Avenues, reports YIMBY. [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/11/revealed-62-martense-street-flatbush.html] The building would