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Prospect Park (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Photos: Bury Your Deepest Secrets In A Tomb At Green-Wood Cemetery [Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2017/05/02/brooklyn_has_secrets.php#
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Photo via Flickr/MTAFor a moment, finding this twitter account made it all seem worth it. The long nights anxiously waiting for a ghost train, the vomit-caked seats, the unexplained delays, the ‘showtime’s, the snail-slow service when the train finally does show up, the rat parades, the overcrowding, the
Arts & Culture
It would not be summer in Brooklyn without the free Celebrate Brooklyn concerts in Prospect Park. The schedule was released today [https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival] , so start making plans: June: * Lake Street Dive [https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival/lake-street-dive] , June 7, 2017 · 8:15PM@Prospect Park Bandshell
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Police stand guard outside the McDonald’s at 943 Flatbush Avenue after brawl, March 2015. (Photo by Corner Media)The alleged leader of a group of teenage girls who viciously beat up a teen in the Flatbush Avenue McDonald’s in 2015 [/blog/crime/video-shows-four-girls-attacking-teen-adults-nothing-flatbush-avenue-mcdonalds/] , has been sentenced to four
Arts & Culture
Ginko Necklace. (Jewelry and photo by CJ Segal-Isaacson)This Sunday, the annual Art and Craft show [https://www.facebook.com/Art-and-Craft-780238918808296/] by the Flatbush Artists returns at P.S. 139 at Argyle Road near Cortelyou Road. This year, the show features more than 20 artisans and artists — many living and
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanLast week, cops arrested an MTA employee accused of sexually assaulting a female commuter twice at the 18th Avenue F station on the Kensington/Borough Park border. Reportedly, 63-year-old Mohammad Talukder had been verbally harassing the victim, who is an orthodox Jewish woman, asking her out and
Arts & Culture
BKLYN DESIGNS [http://bklyndesigns.com/]– a juried exhibition of the best furniture, lighting and home accessories made or designed in Brooklyn. Here is a sneak peek at who’s participating: Bolé Road Textiles [http://boleroadtextiles.com] Bolé Road Textiles [http://boleroadtextiles.com] – Brooklyn-based designer Hana Getachew started Bolé Road Textiles
Announcements
Today is the last day to complete the BKLYNER reader survey. Thank you to all that have provided feedback. Winners of the thank you gifts will be selected on May 2. In January we made some big changes merging our (7) sites (Bensonhurst Bean, Fort Greene Focus, Ditmas Park Corner,
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752 Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Looks like our newest Thai spot on Cortelyou Road [/new-thai-restaurant-set-open-next-week-cortelyou-road/], slated to open this week, will face some immediate competition. The shuttered Propellerhead Restaurant (formerly Visions bar), on Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou Road, will also be a Thai restaurant by
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1173 Bergen Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby)On Friday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine extended the temporary restraining order again [/opening-crown-heights-homeless-shelter-delayed/] on 1173 Bergen Street, prohibiting the homeless shelter from opening while Crown Heights neighbors negotiate with the shelter’s operators and the City. Two block associations and more
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Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNERKeep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bklyner], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bklyner], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/parkslopestoop], and sign up for our daily newsletter [/]. And if you ever have any
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To the editor: Thank you for your recent article on abandoned and illegally parked cars on Hinckley Place off Coney Island Avenue (Whose Parking Lot Is Hinckley Place? [/whos-parking-lot-hinckley-place/] by Liena Zagare – April 21, 2017). It is good to know that I am not the only one that has noticed.