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Saturday Night Fever is coming back to Brooklyn for one night only—on a Wednesday! To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic disco flick, the original 2001 Space Odyssey Nightclub is coming back to life in a Southern Brooklyn Chinese restaurant. The Bamboo Garden, which sits at 64th Street
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A rendering of proposed development in the Broadway Triangle (Image via Dept of City Planning)WILLIAMSBURG – A court settlement in the discrimination case against the Broadway Triangle housing development was announced earlier this week, stipulating changes to the planned housing that critics decried as racially biased. Two-thirds of planned apartments
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BOERUM HILL – DreamStreet Theatre Company [http://www.dreamstreetnyc.org] will present a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for their annual winter production scheduled for next week. Set in a small American town, Wilder’s three-act play tells stories of the townspeople’s everyday lives. The DreamStreet Theatre
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Photo: Zainab IqbalKENSINGTON – A pushing, shouting match broke out after four men came from inside the locked Church Avenue mosque and cut the poster put up by the community for the press conference last Friday at 2 pm. A press conference was held outside Masjid Nur al Islam [https://www.
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PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS – A concerned dog-owner is requesting the community’s help in locating her lost dog, Teddy. “I know this may sound small, but it means the world to me,” Teddy’s owner wrote in an email asking that we post info about the lost pup. “While on a walk
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Hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli posing with an Enigma machine, a possession he might be forced to sell (Photo: Martin Shkreli [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100963244517225&set=pb.16400586.-2207520000.1450377114.&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Reviled “Pharma Bro” and securities fraudster Martin Shkreli may
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Headstones at Greenwood CemeterySUNSET PARK – Job training non-profit Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow [http://obtjobs.org/home/] (OBT) is taking a step in a new direction, announcing a 2018 program for masonry restoration training in conjunction with Green-Wood Cemetery [https://www.green-wood.com/]. The 10-week paid internship will teach 10
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BROOKLYN – The New York City Council passed a bill on Thursday that will protect tenants from harassment from “unscrupulous” landlords looking to drive them out and cash in on their apartments. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/brad.lander.7/posts/10213673536047920?pnref=story] “Unfortunately, for some unscrupulous landlords in
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CLINTON HILL – At an event kicking off a $7 million initiative to promote urban farming education in Brooklyn classrooms, Borough President Eric Adams joined students of Clinton Hill’s PS 56 Lewis H. Latimer and Urban Assembly Unison School on Tuesday to tour the site of a “future state-of-the-art greenhouse.
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DUMBO – Barely a week after it was announced that a “full-sized supermarket” [/another-gourmet-market-coming-dumbo/] is slated for the neighborhood early next year, Superette [https://www.superetteny.com/], “a chic new mini market and deli” has debuted in DUMBO. Photo courtesy of SuperetteLocated at 145 Front Street between Pearl and Jay Streets,
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LAS lawsuit supportersCROWN HEIGHTS – Ahead of tomorrow’s City Council vote on the Bedford-Union Armory [/cumbo-announces-bedford-union-armory-plans-drop-condos-gain-affordable-units/] land use application, the Legal Aid Society (LAS) filed a lawsuit today in New York County Supreme Court contesting the City’s development plans for the Armory and challenging the methodology used to evaluate