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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in October [/downtown-brooklyn-10m-revitalization-fund/] that Downtown Brooklyn will receive $10 million from New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative [https://www.ny.gov/programs/downtown-revitalization-initiative] (DRI), a program that works to “transform communities into vibrant neighborhoods” while boosting local economies. Via brooklyn-usa.org [http://www.
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that Downtown Brooklyn will receive $10 million from New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative [https://www.ny.gov/programs/downtown-revitalization-initiative] (DRI) which works to “transform communities into vibrant neighborhoods” while boosting local economies. > $10M from the Downtown Revitalization Initiative will
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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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Commodore Barry Park would see significant changes. (Courtesy Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/Brooklyn-Strand-Community-Vision-Plan.pdf] .)Following a two year community input process [/blog/2015/10/20/brooklyn-strand-community-workshops-come-to-fort-greene-this-week/] , Downtown Brooklyn Partnership has released its full plan for the Brooklyn Strand waterfront revitalization project [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/
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The public discussion about the Brooklyn Strand [http://www.wxystudio.com/projects/urban_design/brooklyn_strand] is coming to Fort Greene with three community workshops, the first of which is tonight (Tuesday, October 20) from 6-7:30pm at the Walt Whitman Senior Center at 105 North Portland Avenue. The second