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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopThe Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West will undergo a major and strikingly fast transformation which will keep the building a movie theater, the New York Times reported [http://nyti.ms/2bRR1j7]. And none other than the popular Nitehawk Cinema [http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/
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> Just some of the thousands of officers up tonight making a safe, celebratory #JOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/JOuvert?src=hash] in Brooklyn. #WeAreJOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreJOuvert?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/NotGDAMEMi [https://t.co/NotGDAMEMi] — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/
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It’s been said that there is no such thing as luck. Instead, luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Hundreds of Brooklyn builders, founders and entrepreneurs will come together at City Point for the Make It In Brooklyn Innovation Summit on September 28, to connect with Brooklyn’s
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Photo via miss_patricia [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJQCkoFgAZs/?tagged=jesusquintana&hl=en]“You ready to be [Flatbushed], man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we’re gonna [Flatbush] you up.” [Click here and scroll to 3:23] [https:
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(Photo courtesy: hannerz23 / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ8ot3njp5a/?taken-at=251412631])After a long Labor Day weekend, it’s finally time to drudge up those schoolbooks and backpacks for back to school week. But there’s still a host of great local activities while the summer weather lingers, whether
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Community support is pouring in via a fundraiser [https://www.gofundme.com/anthonynazaire] to help cover funeral costs for Anthony Nazaire, a 19-year-old Flatbush resident who was stabbed to death on the Cornell University campus last week [/blog/crime/community-mourns-flatbush-teen-stabbed-death-cornell-university/]. Nazaire’s mother, Katia Toussaint,
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Kara Lynn [left] and Marisa Roper. (Credit: Charles Ardai)The pastoral environment of Prospect Park is about to become host to an intriguing production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest [http://www.thefreetempest.com/] by a theater company which brought audience members out in droves to Central Park last May during
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121 Marlborough Road (Photo via Stribling.com)This week in Ditmas Park, a fire on East 5th Street decimated the second house in two years [/blog/news/fire-decimates-second-house-two-years-519-east-5th-street/], the community mourned a Flatbush teen stabbed to death at Cornell University [/blog/crime/community-mourns-flatbush-teen-stabbed-death-cornell-university/], kids learn to build a sustainable Brooklyn
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Brooklyn’s Lynch Park in 1974. (Photo courtesy U.S. National Archives / Flickr) Didn’t get out much this week? No Problem, we’ve got you covered. Catch up on what’s happening outside our neighborhood with the best stories from our sister sites. Residents question status of 24th street
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Image via californialabor [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJyM7kqBSNH/?tagged=rosietheriveter&hl=en]While many consider Labor Day to be the “unofficial end of summer,” the day is about a lot more. Our readers work hard. We appreciate your ethic, talent, and dedication — and it’s what makes our
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September is National Preparedness Month [http://NYC.gov/nationalpreparednessmonth; NYC.gov/npm] in New York City and across the nation. It is important to prepare for the next emergency ― whether it is a hurricane, tornado, fire, heat wave, or terrorist attack. Make the commitment this month to get ahead of
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Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882 (Source: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Labor_Day_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Labor_Day_New_York_1882.jpg] )We hope all our neighbors enjoy a final summer sendoff this Labor Day weekend. If you’re