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2620 Glenwood Rd Apt 3D (courtesy of Zillow).Looking for a new place to call home? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Ditmas Park apartment listings. Take a look at the details, and let us know what you think. Lots of luck and happy hunting! Hawthorne Street Studio
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Ikhari Hinds-Lewis (center) at the YEAH! NYC Rock Camp last summer. (Photo: Kassim Hinds)Good news, but a long road ahead, for a young member of our community who had a tragic accident last month. Former P.S. 139 student Ikhari Hinds-Lewis, now 16, who suffered a traumatic brain injury
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The Beach Boys, 2016. Mike Love is at center and Bruce Johnston is at right. (Photo: the Beach Boys)“I love Brooklyn,” was the first thing Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnston told us when we spoke with him last week. And Johnston also loves historic venues, he happily pointed out,
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Coney Island Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)Kensington’s Pakistani community [/photos/thousands-of-people-celebrate-pakistans-independence-day-at-brooklyn-mela-on-coney-island-avenue/#.VrO7yDYrJ8c] is taking a leading role in keeping the area safe. A civilian patrol, created last summer to protect the Little Pakistan commercial district along Coney Island Avenue following a series of armed robberies in 2014, reports that
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Flatbush Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library at 22 Linden Boulevard. (Photo: Google Maps)Cast your votes today and help Flatbush students win funding for an exciting student-library history research program! We only have today to register our votes — via Facebook comments and “likes” [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/
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The Dirty Water Dogs (Photo: Dirty Water Dogs)According to purists, you can only celebrate Mardi Gras one day during the year. As a long-time Gulf Coast resident explained, it’s fine to have Carnival festivities throughout the weeks leading up to the big day. But a real Mardi Gras
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZC4NxC91Y&feature=youtu.be Video depicting July 13, 2015 shooting at 866 Coney Island Avenue. (Courtesy: Brooklyn District Attorney) A gang which terrorized [/blog/crime/two-men-shot-at-862-coney-island-avenue-monday-night/] parts of Brooklyn, especially greater Flatbush, with gun violence has been the subject of a massive police
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Vegan Delights On Washington Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)One of the beautiful things about Brooklyn is the variety of amazing people and food in the area. On one block, you might have a pizza shop, Indian restaurant and raw juice bar right next door to each other. As a vegan,
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Map of the Town of Flatbush, 1842. (Image: Sergey Kadinsky)Did you know that Flatbush once had its own local source of drinking water? In the pages of his upcoming book, Hidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in
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The P.S. 217 Weather Club with Snowball the Hamster. (Photo: Mara Dubovici)OK, it may not feel like we’re going to have six more weeks of winter, but a highly reputable source on Newkirk Avenue has just declared it so. Snowball, the P.S. 217 [http://ps217brooklyn.org]
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After that big dump of snow have you been dreaming of ocean waves crashing on a sandy shore? We’ve got a perfect show to help you keep that dream alive. One of the greatest bands in rock and roll history, The Beach Boys, visit Brooklyn for an intimate performance
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There are typically three situations that parents find themselves in during the first week of February. 1) They’ve had a midwinter break camp booked for weeks now, and are sitting pretty. 2) They’re taking the week off of work for some quality family time. 3) They received the