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Animals
(Photo via Sean Casey Animal Rescue [https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue/photos/a.378832716482.159179.17669251482/10154407517221483/?type=3&theater] )Looking for a new companion? Dodger is a 3-year-old pit mix that needs a loving home. Sean Casey says: “Dodger is our pit bull mix that was found running
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)For the past two weeks, Brooklyn has been peppered with Trump resistance events, from parent-led immigrant support rallies [/belong-parents-stage-immigrant-support-rallies-outside-ditmas-park-schools/] to bodega strikes [/thousands-yemeni-americans-supporters-rally-trumps-muslim-ban/] to hand-delivering power bars to Senators [/thousands-brooklyn-send-senator-schumer-message-resist-trump/]. For those of you seeking to keep the momentum alive or make your voice h
Central Brooklyn
Cherry Clafoutis at Purple Yam for #ValentinesDay. (Photo via Purple Yam/twitter [https://twitter.com/PurpleYamNYC])While we can’t get enough of neighborhood-themed gourmet pizza [/blog/food/scenes-from-the-soft-opening-of-wheated/], Western-NY style buffalo wings [/blog/food/buffalos-famous-open-western-new-york-cuisine-deep-brooklyn-roots/], and possibly the best dumplings in the borough [/10-brooklyn-dumpling-shops-love/], on Valentine’s Day we
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News
A manhole fire shot bursts of flames and smoke through Cortelyou Road last night, causing 56 neighbors to lose power. Here’s our eyewitness account from Cortelyou Road last night: During the last half hour, smoke has been filling houses and apartments near the Cortelyou Road train station. The cause
Arts & Culture
Blindspot [http://www.nbc.com/blindspot], the FBI drama currently in its second season on NBC, that was spotted filming last year in Clinton Hill [/street-closure-fyi-on-and-around-clinton-avenue-thursday-february-11-fortgreene/] , will be filming along Beverly between Coney and the Q station, on parts of Westminster Road and Matthews Court this coming Monday, so don’
Arts & Culture
(Photo by Rebecca Meek)With a neighborhood as diverse and talented as Kensington, a school music festival is rarely just an evening of amateurs. This year, the two-day P.S. 130 Music Festival will feature a rare, interactive performance by Transcendence featuring award winning artists Jaimeo Brown and Chris Sholar
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Ditmas Park Corner)There’s a large number of New York City drivers who register their cars out-of-state, costing the city an estimated $73 million in unpaid parking tickets, $1 million in license plate fees, and more than $93 million in tax revenue, reports Crain’s New York
Police & Fire
Caton Avenue and East 18th, where Nelson was shot in 2015. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Pennsylvania man arrested in a January drug bust has been charged with a Flatbush murder from 2015. Manuel Waisome, 24, has been charged with fatally shooting 27-year-old Darnell Nelson in the chest on East
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Business
(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)One thousand Yemeni-owned bodegas across the city are on strike today to protest Trump’s executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. And a few of the shops are on your morning commute in Ditmas Park. Participating
Feature
Rendering for a nine-story condo building at 88-92 Linden Boulevard near Bedford Avenue. (Image via via ROART)It’s impossible not to be aware of development happening across Brooklyn — the vanished buildings, boarded-up construction sites, truck traffic and sleek towers that seem to come out of nowhere. We decided to