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Photo by BKLYNERThe Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) released its Winter 2017 Brooklyn Retail Report [https://www.rebny.com/content/rebny/en/research/REBNYRetailReport/Winter_2017_Brooklyn_Retail_Report.html] yesterday, revealing that the average asking rents for available ground floor retail spaces have increased in seven of
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Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25. Below is a list of the 15 project proposals on the ballot for Council Member Stephen Levin’s District 33 [http://council.nyc.gov/district-33/] (Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry, Greenpoint, Vinegar Hill,
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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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Image via Red Apple Group [http://www.catsimatidis.com/red-apple-real-estate/#1455640280595-56277235-8879] Red Apple 86 Fleet Place, Downtown Brooklyn [http://www.catsimatidis.com/red-apple-real-estate/#1455640280595-56277235-8879] Hurry—applications for the 29 affordable apartments available at 86 Fleet Place are due in two weeks! This eye-catching 33-story tower has a total of 440
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300 Ashland (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)With all the rental towers rising in Downtown Brooklyn, developers are reportedly having difficulty renting out all their luxury apartment units. Curbed New York [http://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/6/14828646/downtown-brooklyns-rental-oversupply] broke down some of the new developments Downtown. At 55
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Image via Aufgang Architects [http://portfolio.aufgang.com/water_front.html]181 Front Street, DUMBO [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/dumbo/181-front-street/64824] Starting today, applications are available for 21 affordable rental units at 181 Front Street, a sleek warehouse conversion in DUMBO. Twenty percent of the building’s 105
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Four new foodie venues are coming to Northern Brooklyn including a new Mexican restaurant in Prospect Heights, a Katz’s Delicatessen outpost at City Point, a smaller offshoot of Peck’s Specialty Foods in Fort Greene, and a brewery in Sunset Park. Check out the list below for more details
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Tesla Showroom in Red Hook (Photo by cjh51109 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BD-fJ4TKu4O/?tagged=teslaredhook])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Thief Nabs Tip-Jar From Fort Greene Cafe. [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.
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120 Nassau Street (Photo by bvglazingsystems via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQRPF4eD7xr/?tagged=120nassaustreet])New York YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2017/02/facade-installation-underway-after-33-story-tower-tops-out-at-120-nassau-street-downtown-brooklyn.html] reports that facade installation has begun for 120 Nassau Street, the new mixed-use tower located on the corner of Nassau and Jay Streets
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Brooklyn Borough Hall rally. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYER)Last night, an estimated 7,000 thousand Yemeni-Americans, Muslims, and supporters peacefully rallied at Brooklyn Borough Hall to protest Trump’s “Muslim ban” and stand with Yemeni-American New Yorker whose family members are stranded overseas. Yesterday’s protest marked the culmination
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Brooklyn Federal Courthouse (Photo by archtober.org via Pinterest [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/326229566727981452/])announced today that Raul Granados-Rendon, who has been on ICE’s most wanted list since 2010, was extradited to the United States last Friday.One of ICE’S 10 most wanted fugitives has been arrested
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Photo by dfirgs via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BP1CmVLAW1t/?tagged=cadmanplaza]Demonstrators gathered outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse early Saturday evening after word got out via social media that an emergency hearing [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/federal-judge-grants-emergency-stay-thwart-trump-refugee-ban-article-1.2958483] was taking place regarding President Trump’s executive