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The site of yesterday morning’s drug raid in Brownsville (Screenshot via Google Maps)BROWNSVILLE – In the early hours of yesterday morning, police prepared to serve a warrant at an unsuspecting Brownsville address, hoping to find those responsible for last week’s wave of overdoses across Brooklyn. [/k2-od-bed-stuy/] As scores
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Councilmember Antonio Reynoso’s District 34 covers parts of Williamsburg, Bushwick and Ridgewood (Via City Council)With results filtering in for Participatory Budgeting Cycle 7, the latest district to announce their winning projects is Councilmember Antonio Reynoso’s District 34, which covers Williamsburg, Bushwick and Ridgewood. The neighborhoods will receive
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Hancock Street, looking towards Broadway, near where last night’s accident took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – A vehicle crash on a Bushwick street claimed the life of a 27-year old man last night on the block where he lived. Around 11:00 pm on Monday, May 28—Memorial
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Last June, we told you about Ticket Wiper [/ticketwiper-new-app-help-fight-nyc-parking-tickets/], an app that helps you challenge NYC parking tickets. Since it’s been almost a year, we wanted to follow up and see how things are going. “It’s going great. We’re getting busier and busier. The word is getting
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Near the corner of Myrtle and Broadway, where the weekend’s overdoses occurred (Screenshot via Google Maps)UPDATE (5/22/18): Following the wave of overdoses along the Bed-Stuy and Bushwick border stemming from synthetic cannabinoids, police have made 13 arrests in the last two days for the sale of
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Passengers leaving the L train at Lorimer Street. About 225,000 riders take the L between Brooklyn and Manhattan each day. (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)WILLIAMSBURG – In their ongoing efforts to reach out to residents that will be affected by the 15-month shutdown of the Canarsie Tunnel for repair, the MTA
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Volunteers worked to plant, build and paint the new community farm on Gates Avenue last Friday (Paul Stremple/BKLYnER)BUSHWICK – On a sunny Friday, volunteers were hard at work on the lawn outside the RiseBoro Youth Center on Gates Avenue, putting together a community garden in the heart of Bushwick
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Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports and Events CenterT.S. Eliot had his own reasons for calling April the cruelest month [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land], but if weather whiplash is any measure, it’s certainly been cruel to Brooklynites this year. With the temperature ranging from a high
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205 Water © S9 ArchitectureOn a bright morning late last month, I visited the Manhattan offices of S9 Architecture [http://s9architecture.com/] – a firm that has played a special role in the huge changes sweeping Brooklyn. You might not have heard their name, but you know their work: Since their first
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What is the most important holiday? Mother’s Day, of course. We love the moms in our life and we have put together a list of local finds for every kind of mother, even those that say they don’t need anything. Also, know that you will have the added
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BUSHWICK – At 2:21 am on Sunday, April 29, off-duty NYPD officer Miguel Martinez, 38, was arrested and charged with DWI, driving the wrong way and refusing to take a breathalyzer test. CROWN HEIGHTS – At 3:45 am on Saturday, April 28, NYC Corrections officer James Laraque, 35, was charged
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Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl [https://www.bkbookcrawl.com/] will be returning for a third year on April 28th, 2018 across Brooklyn, New York. The crawl is a self-guided tour through Brooklyn’s many, eclectic, wonderful independent bookstores riddled across the sprawling borough. On Indie Bookstore Day, Brooklynites are invited to explore