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Photo: NYC Department of Transportation.A major overhaul is planned for a Brooklyn Heights section of the BQE, the congested, dangerous and perpetually under construction highway that links us to Queens and numerous bridge crossings. As first reported by The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/
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The Brooklyn Flea in the summer. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus)Fort Greene is literally the perfect place to spend summer and a new study just confirmed it. A new study by Renthop [https://www.renthop.com/study/new-york-city-ny/summerscore-article.html] found Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill tied for the
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Image via Brooklyn Cat Cafe [http://www.instagram.com/catcafebk].Good news and bad news: The Cat’s Meow [http://www.instagram.com/catcafebk] — Fort Greene’s former pop-up cat cafe [/blog/2015/09/16/a-pop-up-cat-cafe-the-cats-meow-is-coming-to-354-myrtle-avenue-in-fort-greene/] — has found a permanent home, but it’s not in our neighborhood. The new
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Photo by Adam Kent/Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/akent/2951324016/]City terrain is tough on strollers. One minute they’re being rolled over cracked sidewalks, and the next, bounced over rocks and roots in Prospect Park — it’s enough to knock any Bugaboo out of alignment. If your
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Brooklyn Historical Society has just opened a new photography exhibition [http://brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/current.html] that lets the viewer see Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/] through the eyes of students experiencing the oldest landscaped space in New York City for the first time. “Wonder: First Encounters with Green-Wood,
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Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes (Source: Wikimedia Commons)Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced that his office shut down more day spas and arrested more people on prostitution-related charges in the city’s effort to root out illegal sex trade businesses and human trafficking practices in Southern Brooklyn. According to a
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So this one’s not in our neighborhood, but no one has picked up on this video yet and it needs to be highlighted. In a public display of true incompetence, a Department of Sanitation plow working in Brooklyn Heights ripped open the back of a Ford Explorer earlier today.