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Jonna Twigg opened her DIY and custom bookbinding shop in her home neighborhood of Fort Greene. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)They say never judge a book by its cover, but now you totally can — especially if you made the cover yourself at Twigg’s Bindery [http://www.
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Journalist Adam Sternbergh works in the Quiet Room at The Ditmas Workspace. (Photo: Maya Lewis)New York Magazine journalist Adam Sternbergh makes a short walk everyday from his home to a sprawling corner-lot Victorian house in Ditmas Park. There’s always an office with a view waiting inside for him.
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Photo via yesmini_ [https://www.instagram.com/p/BAKTnbanTbC/?taken-by=yesmini_]. WNYC Studios [http://www.wnyc.org/] and The Nation [http://www.thenation.com/] are launching There Goes the Neighborhood, an eight-part weekly podcast series exploring the “remarkable and destabilizing phenomenon of gentrification.” The preview episode is available here [http:
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopThe drones have arrived in Gowanus. They’re not flying above 4th Avenue — rather, they are perched in a sleek, inviting new store ready for you see them up close and personal. Brooklyn Drones [http://www.brooklyndrones.nyc/] (315 4th Avenue between 2nd and
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Photo via barreisbk [https://www.instagram.com/p/ozMgFXt0mJ/?taken-by=barreisbk&hl=en]No one ever said the food and drink business was easy, which is illustrated by five recent closings that have taken place throughout the neighborhood. These join some other closures of great interest, such as Applewood
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Image via Circle Line [https://www.instagram.com/p/_IAq67tMh9/?taken-by=circleline42nyc].A new cruise-based tour all about Brooklyn culture, history, and food is being launched by Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Junior’s Cheesecake are two of the borough’s icons that will get
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Photo by Ben Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanAs the owners of Jmart quietly closed [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart/]on the Waldbaums supermarket site last week, a “no parking” sign has popped up in the store’s parking lot. The 37-year-old New Utrecht Avenue supermarket — which shut down [/farewell-waldbaums-longtime-employees-customers-mourn-supermarkets-demise/#.VkuYI2SrSqQ] as part of A&P’
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Royal Crown Day Care was shut down by the Health Department in 2010. (Photo: Google Maps)Royal Crown Day Care — shut by the Health Department in 2010 for a multitude of violations — once let a baby escape from the center and wander the streets alone, the Daily News reports [http:
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148 3rd Street. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6765877,-73.9911392,3a,75y,214.86h,87.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spiOnehRnHZrHheKC5M0_yw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en] )A building that will contain both office and manufacturing space is planned for the banks of our
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The Gala Fresh Farms in Baldwin, NY.(Photo: Gala Fresh Farms [https://www.facebook.com/GalaFresh/photos/a.895391630519773.1073741828.828227910569479/960257004033235/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Gala Fresh Farms, the ‘upscale’ grocery that last year bought the floundering Ocean Avenue Waldbaum’s [/three-quarters-of-ocean-avenue-waldbaums-workers-could-lose-jobs-due-to-ap-bankruptcy/] , is expected to open for business
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Image via Google Maps.Apple Art Supplies and it’s owner, Sam Lee, are the subject of their very own profile in the [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/nyregion/apple-art-supplies-in-brooklyn-is-hub-for-matte-knives-and-gossip.html?_r=1&referer=https://www.google.com/] New York Times [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/
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Photo via jasond97214 [https://www.instagram.com/p/zaMZBqLHuU/?taken-at=538650&hl=en]Owners Laura and David Shea of Applewood [https://www.facebook.com/applewood-146263862119839/] (501 11th Street) announced yesterday that their restaurant has closed after 12 years. “The response has been overwhelming in the last 24 hours,” says