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Post-rain Prospect Park woods. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)TGIF — and don’t let the rain get you down. It’s still going to be a great summer weekend in your favorite boro, with live music, Twin Peaks festivities, 80s hip roller skating, and more! If you have an event
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Crime scene on Friday morning, July 14. (Photo via BKLYNER)Two men were shot — one fatally — while sitting in an SUV parked near the Parade Grounds last night by gunmen on bicycles, cops said. At 12pm on Friday, cops listed the incident as a homicide. The victims were sitting in
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> A post shared by Deborah Kass (@debkass) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BWckWKchI76/] on Jul 12, 2017 at 5:23am PDT The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -YO, or is it OY?, Sculpture Finds
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(Photo via gemsiecraven/Instagram)This week, the city turns its arsenal on those infamous, four-legged rodents that share our streets, [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00764.x/asset/sign764.pdf;jsessionid=F73EB4D2CCFF4B4462D268FADA1E5739.f01t02?v=1&t=j52v87n4&s=b618e49364759150c8f6ff1714bc49732a680947] subway tunnels, public parks,
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A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz / Flickr)Ten people – including three Brooklynites – were arrested and charged for their roles in widespread alleged schemes to defraud Medicaid and Medicare through sham billing and illegal kickbacks in New York City, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. These arrests were
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Community activist Mamnun Haq speaking at the safety improvements groundbreaking on Church and McDonald Avenues, July 11 2017. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER) Yesterday, city officials and civic leaders announced the start of a two-month safety improvement project on Church Avenue at one of Kensington’s busiest and most dangerous
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Get ready for steamy air, unforgiving heat, and scattered thunderstorms through tomorrow evening. The National Weather Service [http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=okx&wwa=heat%20advisory] has issued a Heat Advisory for New York City until 6pm on Thursday, July 13. A Heat Advisory is issued
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East 16th Street. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Neighbors are taking a stand against what has been called an age-old problem in Ditmas Park: dog poop minefields [/what-to-do-about-dog-owners-who-dont-pick-up-poop-bensonhurst/]on the sidewalks. Last week, we spotted these pet waste containers strapped to U-channel poles on four residential blocks that have long
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MTA riders experienced another nightmare commute Tuesday evening when signal problems at DeKalb Avenue once again [/signal-problems-dekalb-affecting-b-d-n-q-r-trains/] caused major backups, service changes, and headaches. At least one MTA train was stuck on the Manhattan Bridge for approximately half an hour yesterday evening, July 11, NBC New York [http://www.nbcnewyork.
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Photo: Liena ZagareThanks to the request by Prospect Park South Neighborhood Association, Albemarle Road finally has all-way stop signs at one intersection. “In June the Department of Transportation determined that the corner of Argyle met criteria for signs in the west and east directions,” Community Board 14 told us, and
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(Screenshot via Google Maps)A 20-year-old man was shot and killed after a fight on Ocean Avenue in Flatbush last night, said cops. Two men were having a verbal dispute outside 533 Ocean Avenue between Church Avenue and Albemarle Road on Tuesday, July 11 around 11:30pm, said cops. The
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