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Trees Are Falling Around Ditmas Park

It didn’t take Nate Silver to predict this one. Trees that were damaged in Hurricane Sandy are now falling in Ditmas Park. Many trees in the neighborhood were declared hazardous this past week but the city is unable to collect them until after the nor’easter passed [/blog/news/

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Great Expectations at the Hotel Oak

Day three in a series [/?s=%22the+hotel+oak%22] exploring how the Hotel Oak (on the corner of East 12th Street and Avenue H) has changed through the decades. You can read day one [/blog/history/the-first-days-of-the-hotel-oak] and day two [/blog/history/the-decline-of-the-hotel-oak]. Over the course of its history,

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Fire Ravaged Building Reopened, But Not All Residents Allowed To Return

The scene of the fire at 2775 East 12th Street on Saturday evening. (Photo by Ian Sellick)Residents of the Bel-Air building at 2775 East 12th Street are being allowed to return to their homes after a fire forced them to evacuate on Saturday [/breaking-fire-on-guider-avenue-and-east-12-street/]. Sheepshead Bites visited the building

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Shopping Cart Series: A Lonely Life Away From Home (Hardware & Lumber)

Thinking that he was undetected in the early morning hours, the lone Doody’s cart was sauntering around the near-empty lot when he was secretly photographed by reader, Stefanee Rivera. After a full night quietly playing by himself behind the gates of the apartment building’s empty back lot, located