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Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams stand with police and religious leaders to pray for shooting victims in Grand Army Plaza. (Elizabeth Elizalde / Sunset Park Voice)People of different faiths held hands in prayer to honor victims of last week’s Louisiana, Minnesota, and Dallas
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Photo courtesy of Bosc d’Anjou [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boscdanjou/6445274743].A new plan lays out a vision of how to keep Downtown Brooklyn’s place as an artistic hotbed amidst the massive change [/?s=development+watch] currently enveloping the area. Culture Forward [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/
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> Towering statue of Captain America coming to Prospect Park: https://t.co/8dgeNciV52 pic.twitter.com/ZilxV7ftdd [https://t.co/ZilxV7ftdd] — DNAinfo New York (@DNAinfoNY) July 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/DNAinfoNY/status/750423448246165504] A proud native of Brooklyn will soon be commemorated with a statute in Prospect Park.
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The new logo of Dine In Brooklyn. (Courtesy the Brooklyn Borough President’s office.)The symbol of Brooklyn’s restaurant week will come from our neck of the neighborhood woods. Park Slope [http://bklyner.com] resident Jeffery Rosenkrantz and Pratt Institute [/?s=pratt] alum won a contest to design a
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The new logo of Dine In Brooklyn. (Courtesy the Brooklyn Borough President’s office.)The symbol of Brooklyn’s restaurant week will come from one of our own — a Pratt grad! Pratt Institute [/?s=pratt] alum and current Park Slope [http://bklyner.com] resident Jeffery Rosenkrantz won a contest to
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P.S. 321 and P.S. 9 students wished the late-author illustrator Ezra Jack Keats a H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R–T-H-D-A-Y in the Imagination Playground in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where a statue of two of his beloved characters, Peter and Willie, was declared a Literary Landmark. Joining them, from L to R,
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Brooklyn Borough President Adams is lending his support to Grays’ case. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.)Glen Grays [/?s=glen+grays], the postal worker who was arrested by cops last March and later had his charges dropped [/blog/2016/05/12/charges-dropped-postal-worker-glen-grays/], is now planning on suing the city
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The Naval Cemetery Landscape at dusk. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.)A former cemetery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard was reborn as a public space last week. The Naval Cemetery Landscape [http://www.brooklyngreenway.org/naval-cemetery-landscape/] is a waterfront 1.7 acre public space built on the site of
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Flatbush Avenue, looking north toward Grand Army Plaza, with Prospect Park on the left. (Photo: Google Maps)The effort to enhance public access to Prospect Park along its Flatbush Avenue side got a huge boost yesterday. The Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/] has won a $5 million grant
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Photo by ricangeekn [http://instagram.com/p/y3MWjiuzak/?modal=true]After a decades-long absence, F Express service will be returning to Brooklyn next year. However the new express route will be skipping some Park Slope stops. The new F express service should be in place by Fall 2017, MTA spokesman
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Rendering by Davis Brody Bond. (Courtesy Brooklyn Brewery [http://brooklynbrewery.com/blog/brewery-expansion/bigger-badder-brooklyn-er/].) Soon, the work being put into transforming the Navy Yard will be rewarded with an ice cold one. Brooklyn Brewery [/?s=brooklyn+brewery] is moving to Building 77 [/?s=building+77] in the Navy Yard, where
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Screenshot via Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ office.Charges against postal worker Glen Grays have been dropped according to District Attorney Ken Thompson. Grays was arrested for disorderly conduct on St. Patrick’s Day after he yelled at a car that had nearly run him over. The car was an