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Photo via porterhovey [https://www.instagram.com/p/_YFrULLrjI/?tagged=parkslope] The pine needles are beginning to fill our sidewalks with their holiday scent, so it must be that time of year. And it’s pretty easy to pick up trees, wreaths, and other holiday accoutrements throughout the area. Beyond
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Owners and chefs Bjorn Böttcher (L) and Greg Barbiero (R). (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Der Pioneer, a new European pastry shop and cafe, is set to open on Church Avenue in time for Christmas shopping, said owners and chefs Bjorn Böttcher and Greg Barbiero. This seasoned, pastry-and-savory chef duo
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(Photo via Brooklyn ARTery)For the fifth season, Vermont couple Melody and Patrick Houle are bringing their organic Christmas trees to Cortelyou Road, thanks to the Brooklyn ARTery and Pilates on Cortelyou. The couple runs a family owned and operated tree farm [http://houlestreefarm.com/] near the Canadian border. Before
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(Photo via Greenlight BKLYN [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIKsX8uB6gw/?hl=en] / Instagram)Here’s a chance to get in at the ground floor of one of Brooklyn’s beloved independent bookstores, opening “very soon” on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Greenlight Bookstore, the Fort Greene book seller and literary
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A rendering of Neptune/Sixth. Photo via Cammeby’sApple Bank is coming to the epic, in-the-works Coney Island three-phase, mixed-use project Neptune/Sixth, located across from Trump Village at 532 Neptune Avenue . Project developer Cammeby’s made the announcement yesterday, after Apple Bank signed a lease, joining CVS at the
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A rendering of Neptune/Sixth. Photo via Cammeby’sApple Bank is coming to the epic, in-the-works Coney Island three-phase, mixed-use project Neptune/Sixth, located across from Trump Village at 532 Neptune Avenue . Project developer Cammeby’s made the announcement yesterday, after Apple Bank signed a lease, joining CVS at the
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It’s rarely a simple transaction when you visit Yakhil Yakobov, the cobbler of Foster Avenue. You don’t just hand him two sawbucks to get your Timberlands resoled, or a five dollar bill for a new watch band. It’s a conversation with Yakhil too. The store is small.
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Masal Cafe tabletop. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.Turkish media outlets are reporting [http://www.dailysabah.com/americas/2016/10/30/us-law-enforcement-raids-turkish-owned-new-york-cafe-house-with-links-to-gulen] that the FBI has raided Masal Cafe, a Turkish-American outpost on Emmons Avenue with ties to Turkey’s controversial Hizmet movement. Hizmet is the secretive organization blamed
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Workers from a contracted oil spill clean-up company sift through an oily debris field in Sheepshead Bay on November 2nd, 2012, days after Superstorm Sandy. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally.)In recognition of the fourth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, we’re taking a
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Workers from a contracted oil spill clean-up company sift through an oily debris field in Sheepshead Bay on November 2nd, 2012, days after Superstorm Sandy. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally.)In recognition of the fourth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, we’re taking a
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(Photo by Dan Nguyen, c/o Council Member Jumaane Williams’ Office)Last week, City Council Members introduced a bill package to curb the NYPD’s widespread use of Nuisance Abatement action. If passed, the package could restrict the decades-old law that allows police to shut down homes or businesses suspected