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Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/DUMBOBID/photos/a.551127124934745.1073741825.124869040893891/1389862564394526/?type=3&theater] DUMBO – It’s going to rain elephants in DUMBO tomorrow! The DUMBO Improvement District is hosting a new, annual block party on Washington Street on Thursday, September 28 from 5pm to 8pm. There
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At the Coney Island Ave and Foster Ave intersection. (Photo/Zainab Iqbal)CONEY ISLAND AVE – A van hit an NYPD car leaving the cop limping and reaching for his head this morning, witnesses say. At approximately 10:30 am, a police car was about to cross Foster Avenue at Coney
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Rendering via Castle Rock Equity Group [http://www.castlerockequitygroup.com/portfolio-item/237-duffield-street/] DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – BRIQ, a new 23-story, 105-apartment rental building located at 237 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, recently launched a lottery for 22 affordable units. Applicants earning 60% of the area median income (AMI) can vie for one
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PROSPECT PARK – On Friday, September 22, Prospect Park Alliance President Sue Donoghue and Council Member Brad Lander hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially reopen two newly restored ballfields [https://www.prospectpark.org/news-events/news/ballfields-6-7-reopen-after-restoration/] on Prospect Park’s Long Meadow. Left to right: Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher, Council
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The new app was launched in a press conference within the NYC Office of Emergency ManagementDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Amid the myriad notifications pushing their way to the front of your phones—texts, tweets, Tinder connections and Times headlines—get ready to make room for one more. The new Notify NYC app
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The security cameras in McGolrick Park have been upgraded (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – The NYPD 94th precinct will benefit from increased police numbers both in McGolrick Park and throughout Greenpoint and Williamsburg after a summer fraught with fatal violence and community concerns over hate speech. State Assemblyman Joe Lentol was
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BUSHWICK – The North Brooklyn community is rallying to help those affected by Hurricane Irma, holding a relief drive that is running through the weekend and ending Tuesday, September 26. The group is accepting donations of socks, bug spray, hygiene products, baby formula, diapers and snacks to be sent to Florida
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L’shanah tovah u’metukah to our Jewish readers. May the year 5778 be a happy, healthy and peaceful one! All of us at BKLYNER
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BOERUM HILL – Atlantic Antic will take place for the 43rd time this Sunday, September 24th, on Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and 3rd Avenue. The street fair will have plenty of local merchants, music and other entertainment, and yes, the dumpling eating contest will take place Schedule for the main
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Looking for a community to celebrate High Holidays? These four congregations are opening their doors to share the service with all – from Park Slope to Midwood. Check them out! High Holidays this year: Rosh Hashana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah] this year falls on September 21 and 22,
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Brooklyn Bridge Park pop-up pool, August 2012 (Photo by: Julienne Schaer, courtesy of Brooklyn Bridge Park)DUMBO – Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) announced today that the much-loved pop-up pool will be back for one more season in 2018. Located at Pier 2, the pop-up pool [http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/attractions/pop-up-pool]
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Photo: Council Member Mathieu Eugene’s officeCROWN HEIGHTS – The intersection ofLefferts and Kingston Avenues was co-named to Barbara Simmons Way this weekend to honor the community activist who died last year. Barbara “Cookie” Simmons was a strong advocate for education. She traveled to Albany many times to lobby for school