![[Updated] Flatbush Avenue Bike Lane Petition Builds Momentum This Week](/content/images/size/w600/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screenshot_20161124-093607_0.png)
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(Sample 2-way bike lane image via Transportation Alternatives petition [https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/two-way-protected-bike-path-flatbush]) [Updates 12/7 & 12/8: We spoke to the petition’s founders and added in their story throughout] Local Council Members take note: A petition for a 2-way protected bike lane on Flatbush Avenue
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Stop & Frisk forum at the Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Judges, NYPD, pols, and activists landed in East Flatbush last week to learn how residents feel about the NYPD’s use of ‘stop & frisk’ and how to improve police-community relationships in a predominantly
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Stop & Frisk forum at the Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Judges, NYPD, pols, and activists landed in East Flatbush last week to learn how residents feel about the NYPD’s use of ‘stop & frisk’ and how to improve police-community relationships in a predominantly
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(Photo credit: Cari Ann Shim Sham)On the cusp of releasing a new album, Afro-jazz fusion band Molly Tigre [http://mitchmarcusmusic.com/molly-tigre/] is returning to Bar Chord, where they’ve locked-in many of the improvisations that shaped the songs they’ve recorded. The quintet, which features the compositions of
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Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.It was a brisk morning on Sunday when a crowd of outraged Brooklynites rallied on the corner of Avenue J against the new prohibition of right turns at certain key intersections on Ocean Parkway. The “Save Ocean Parkway” protest was organized by State Assemblymember
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Felted creatures at the Brooklyn Brainery. (Photo via BK Brainery [https://www.facebook.com/brooklynbrainery/photos/a.150010301688252.20394.111153138907302/1273353926020545/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Whether you’re looking to get crafty, attend a zoning forum, hear ghost stories or live music — this is your spot for the best
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Opponents to the renewal of the 421-a tax credit for developers, including members of the Flatbush Tenant Coalition, rallied outside of City Hall Thursday. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)Tenants groups and some local officials are asking the state and city to think twice before they renew a long-standing tax credit
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(Screenshot via Google Maps)A 30-year-old man was thrown from his motorcycle after crashing into a car near 12th Avenue early Sunday morning, cops said. The biker was riding his Kawasaki motorcycle east on 40th Street in Borough Park when he collided with a Toyota Camry at the intersection of
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The 10th Avenue entrance facing west on the Prospect Expressway. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6552498,-73.9789981,3a,75y,290.35h,93.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEwGK9owW1NN7UfGnTQJVnw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] )The body of a man was found dead early yesterday morning near an
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Seen at the Avenue H train station. (Photo by Sean Egan)This week in Ditmas Park, find where to buy Christmas trees in the neighborhood [/blog/holidays/get-christmas-trees-near-ditmas-park-kensington/], two city workers were busted for drunk driving on Thanksgiving weekend [/blog/crime/nypd-fdny-employees-busted-drunk-driving-thanksgiving-weekend/], Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney turns herself in for
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(Photo via _tamarapeterson [https://www.instagram.com/p/BNZfssqA4bz/?taken-at=142868] / instagram)Catch up on the essential Brooklyn news this week with the best stories from our sister sites: * ACU under fire after child beaten into coma three days after tip-off about abuse. [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/acs-investigated-after-child-beaten-into-a-coma-three-days-after-tip-off-about-abuse/
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