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Characters on the wood walls of the Oak Room had been painted over by the hall’s previous owners. They were discovered when the paint was stripped during renovations, Grand Prospect Hall. (Photo by Pamela Wong)Keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week — follow us
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> Crazy truck fire on the BQE right near my apt- melting the guard rails and stopping traffic completely. YIKES. pic.twitter.com/gHXTjfbfoM [https://t.co/gHXTjfbfoM] — Dana Erickson (@wiscodana) April 21, 2017 [https://twitter.com/wiscodana/status/855462365768409088] Today was not a good day for commuting. First, there
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‘Tis the season to be … uhh, relieved that taxes are in? Provided they are [https://www.irs.gov/filing/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return]. Still, with your attention free to turn elsewhere, why not take your whole life elsewhere? Perhaps even Southern Brooklyn? 2375 East 3rd Street [http://www.kingsqueensapts.com/no-fee-rentals-nyc/brooklyn-apartments/neighborhood/
Announcements
P.S.152/P.S. 315 play space design on Bedford Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller)The results are beginning to come in for New York City’s Participatory Budgeting Cycle 6! City Council Member Jumaane Williams announced the three winning projects for District 45 [http://council.nyc.gov/district-45/
Arts & Culture
Now that your taxes are done, use that refund on some fun weekend events. Celebrate a couple of musical legends, take an outdoor drawing class, or have an artist immortalize you, or a loved one, in a silhouette portrait. Even if you didn’t get a refund, there are lots
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Photo via Friends of the EndThe weather may not hold out all weekend, so enjoy every moment of sunshine available at these (mostly) outdoors Earth Day-themed weekend events from Ditmas Park to Marine Park. Looking for more earth day events in the Park Slope area? Check out our full guide
Business
Hinckley Place is a two block street, one of which is in Prospect Park South, between Stratford Road and Coney Island Avenue. It has a couple of larger apartment buildings and a handful of victorian homes on it. A new school is being built on the other block. But for
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Leslie Carrington, founder of HolistiCityLyfe. (Photo via Leslie Carrington)When I met Leslie Carrington, Ditmas Park native and owner of HolistiCitiLyfe, at Cafe Madeline, she pulled out a stainless steel thermos and plopped it on the table next to my coffee cup. “I make this amazing mixture, it’s my
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St. Francis Xavier Church (Photo by msusiem via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BF3xudiSe1t/?taken-at=800075777])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Contest To Name Hawks Nesting In St. Francis Xavier Church’s Steeple
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535 Carlton rendering via 535 Carlton.With so many of the new developments that are required to offer affordable housing approaching completion, we’ve been posting about the opportunities to apply for the apartments one actually could try to afford to live in. City Limits [http://citylimits.org/2017/04/
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1173 Bergen Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby)On Wednesday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine once again [/judge-issues-another-block-crown-heights-homeless-shelter/] extended the temporary restraining order that prohibits a new homeless shelter from opening at 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. Two block associations and more than 40 Crown Heights residents argue that
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The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)Yesterday, a Midwood travel agent was sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for pocketing $350,000 from Pakistani immigrants for whom he was supposed to make travel arrangements to Mecca.