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The Last O.G is filming this Thursday on Carroll Street, along the Park and between Smith and Hoyt, based on the pink notices posted this morning. Move your cars by tomorrow night, neighbors. Last week Turner’s TBS announced [https://www.turner.com/pressroom/upfront-2017-tbss-tracy-morgan-comedy-last-og-casts-cedric-entertainer-taylor-mosby-dante] that they had has
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Photo via Douglas Elliman [https://anncutbilllenane.elliman.com/new-york-city/239-waverly-avenue-brooklyn-msjjopf] Back in the 1990s, when young comedian Chris Rock was on Saturday Night Live, he purchased a beautiful home at 239 Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill. Rock has long since moved on from SNL and Brooklyn, and recently put the
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27 Monroe Place, the second most expensive residential sale in Brooklyn this year (Image by Corcoran via Streeteasy [http://streeteasy.com/building/27-monroe-place-brooklyn])Three well-known and well-heeled men are unloading Brooklyn properties in deals worth millions of dollars. Actor Mark Ruffalo recently sold his lovely 19th-century Carroll Gardens townhouse for
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Books Are Magic, 225 Smith Street (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Book lovers were dealt a blow late last year when the beloved BookCourt closed up shop [/after-35-years-cobble-hills-cherished-bookcourt-to-close-author-emma-straub-announces-possible-neighborhood-replacement/] after 35 years. And then—poof! As if appearing out of thin air, Books Are Magic [https://www.booksaremagic.net/] arrives to
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Photo via Brown Harris Stevens [http://www.bhsusa.com/brooklyn/640-2nd-street/townhouse/16467081]Like many post-grads, after completing his studies at Columbia University in the 80s, former president Barack Obama moved to Brooklyn [http://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/27/15454992/barack-obama-former-park-slope-home-for-sale] . The brownstone located at 640 2nd Street [http:
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With the return of nice weather, the film crews are out in full force from Downtown Brooklyn to edges of Flatbush. While it is impossible to get a full list of who’s filming where ahead of time, the companies are required to post notices requesting folks to move vehicles
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178 Garfield Street (Photo via Core NYC [http://corenyc.com/178-garfield-place]) How is it I am only learning that Erasure’s Vince Clarke lived in Park Slope now that he’s moving? Clarke (who co-founded Depeche Mode and Yaz in the early 80s) and his wife, Tracy Hurley Martin (who
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Photo via Corcoran [http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/listings/display/3798550]Actress Chloë Sevigny is packing up and moving out of Park Slope, the area she once described as “the dorkiest, hokiest neighborhood [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/24/chloe-sevigny-on-the-cosmopolitans-new-york-s-frat-boy-takeover-and-asshole-michael-alig.html] .” Sevigny purchased the four-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment at
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Harlem Globetrotters players Hoops Green and Buckets Blakes at The Children’s Health Center of The Brooklyn Hospital Center (Photo by Dina Rabiner)Two players for the Harlem Globetrotters paid a surprise visit to the young patients at The Children’s Health Center at The Brooklyn Hospital Center on Thursday.
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Photo by booksaremagicbk via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQjFx_ABXIR/]Brooklyn bookworms have been waiting patiently for the arrival of Emma Straub [https://www.facebook.com/emmastraubwriter/]‘s Books Are Magic [https://www.booksaremagic.net/] bookstore to Cobble Hill. Filling the indie bookstore void, the Brooklyn-based author Straub
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> Tonight I spent a long time admiring/trying to understand this 3D CLOUD-SLASH-MIRROR in my new lobby ??#adamfrankinc #300AshlandPartner [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRme0ePhBqk/] A post shared by Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) on Mar 13, 2017 at 7:10pm PDT With all the towers rising in Downtown Brooklyn causing
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Photo courtesy of Jed HeuerToday, March 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the day The Notorious B.I.G. was killed at the age of 24 in a drive-by shooting. Considered one of the most influential rappers of all time, Christopher Wallace grew up in Clinton Hill. Before becoming a