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Photo by Yelp user Cynthia L. [https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/hand-pull-noodle-and-dumpling-house-brooklyn?select=Sn2_hK-pBUGsIZtjWX7Eug] For many New York City Jews, seeing a movie and eating Chinese food on Christmas is as observed and beloved tradition as any [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/why-american-jews-eat-chinese-food-on-christmas/384011/] . It
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We know these aren’t NYC parking meters, but they’re fun and vintage and look similarly frustrating and dysfunctional. (Photo via Pixabay)At last: thanks to a new app [https://parknyc.parkmobile.us/parknyc/] announced by the de Blasio Administration yesterday, you can now pay the meter from your
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Photo via PixabayBeginning in January 2017 National Grid customers in Brooklyn, Staten Island and some parts of Queens can expect to see higher heating bills following a unanimous vote by New York State’s Public Service Commission to raise bills so the company can pay for the utility, DNAinfo first
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Photo by Christopher Bride via PropertyShark [http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Property-Report/?propkey=960130]An eight-story, 14-unit mixed-use building is coming to 331 Avenue U in eastern Gravesend. Shlomo Wygoda of TriBeCa-based SWA Architecture PLLC filed a new building application for the development this month. According to filings at the
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Behold, Coney Island, 1983 to 1988, as preserved through Municipal Archives tax photos [/relive-1980s-coney-island-tax-photos/]. It speaks to Coney Island’s timlessness that if it weren’t for the cars and the phonebooths many of these photos could be mistaken for present day photographs, three decades in the future. The awning
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(Photo by plezrock [https://www.instagram.com/p/pXDB_vjTs1/] / Instagram)“Every neighborhood has its own unique character. Likewise, every neighborhood has its own unique characters,” begins proudly born and raised Bensonhurst native Barry Jacobs’ thorough description of the area’s famed Backwards Wheelchair Lady [/40072/]. Barry goes on: >
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The 86th Street Mcdonalds where the ordeal took place. (Photo by Yelp user Michele S. [https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/mcdonalds-brooklyn-73?select=Uem5b4ZhC0MJDBsl-OTwVQ] )A U.S. Marshall was arrested early Sunday morning for threatening a Bay Ridge McDonald’s employee with a gun. Deputy Marshal Charles Brown walked into
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“On the Sixth day of Christmas @Villabatealba gave to me…” (Photo via villabatealba [https://www.instagram.com/p/BONOEDUgZt_/] / Instagram)Stay up to date on community happenings, cultural events and other free or otherwise affordably priced goings-ons in your community. For even more things to do around Brooklyn, or to
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(Photo via police)Back on September 14th, a Wednesday, a 27-year-old woman was on the corner of 82nd Street and 20th Avenue when a stranger approached her and grabbed her butt before running away, the police reported. The stranger is described as a roughly 17-year-old Hispanic male weighing 150lbs and
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* Check out this footage a tipster sent in of southern Brooklyn’s beloved Backwards Wheelchair Lady [/40072/] in action * After months of being closed for renovations, Seth Low Park reopened [/seth-low-park-reopens-pols-break-ground-new-soccer-fields/] on Thursday! * You’re not really livin until you’ve tried one of Aunt Butchie’s cheese cones [/better-cannoli-aunt-butchies-cheese-cones-heaven-earth/
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(Photo by deandelray [https://www.instagram.com/p/BNqRK67h4D1/] / Instagram) Dining Review: Oasis Diner as on of the last old-school Brooklyn diners. [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/dining-review-oasis-diner-one-last-old-school-brooklyn-diners/] [Sheepshead Bites] Car crashes into storefront across from J.J. Byrne Playground; Second 5th Avenue curb jump incident on same night
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Ah, the holiday season. Chestnuts, open fires, yadda yadda. It’s too cold. Way. Too. Cold. Here are some places for you to warm up. (Courtesy Street Easy/Andre Campodonico of Standard Living Realty Inc [http://streeteasy.com/building/2063-85-street-brooklyn/1])2063 85th Street, #1 [http://streeteasy.com/building/2063-85-street-brooklyn/