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461 Dean Street (Courtesy BerlinRosen.)The 32-story residential building at 461 Dean Street [/?s=461+dean+street] has long dominated the skyline; It also dominated the discussion at Wednesday’s community board meeting. Neighbors bombarded representatives from Forest City Ratner, the developer behind the project, about affordable housing in the
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Govinda’s promises to fill and fulfillLike any nice Jewish boy ought to, I decided to have lunch at a Hare Krishna temple. Govinda’s Vegetarian Restaurant [http://www.radhagovindanyc.com/govindas/] opened in 2007 in the basement of the ISKCON New York Hare Krishna temple at 305 Schemerhorn Street
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226 St. James Place, home of the Notorious B.I.G. (Courtesy Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/226+st+james+place+brooklyn/@40.6835497,-73.9638132,3a,75y,260.58h,105.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szJLYihMFwcmDxplPnHeCew!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb6fdca03a8049ded!6m1!1e1] )Clinton
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Duckface is best face… Or not. (Courtesy of Justin Fox)We’d like to extend a warm welcome to Justin Fox, Fort Greene Focus’ new editor. The city-born, Jersey-raised writer graduated from NYU and Seton Hall Law School. After spending his most of his early career working in commercial law,
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(Courtesy City Parks Foundation.)Fun youth summer programs are coming to a park near you! The City Parks Foundation [http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/] is offering free tennis, golf, soccer, track & field and fitness instruction at nearly 60 locations across the city. The programs begin in early July and run
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You can help spruce up Fort Greene Park on May 21. (Courtesy Instagram/MyrtleAveBk)Here’s a roundup of press releases and other mishegoss that came through the mailbox and deserves a mention: * The Myrtle Avenue Partnership will convert over 40 tree beds into sidewalk gardens as part of its
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Commodore Barry Park would see significant changes. (Courtesy Downtown Brooklyn Partnership [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/Brooklyn-Strand-Community-Vision-Plan.pdf] .)Following a two year community input process [/blog/2015/10/20/brooklyn-strand-community-workshops-come-to-fort-greene-this-week/] , Downtown Brooklyn Partnership has released its full plan for the Brooklyn Strand waterfront revitalization project [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/
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Newly released surveillance video, obtained [http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Retired-Correction-Officer-Throws-Tantrum-in-Deli-When-She-Doesnt-Get-Penny-Back-378490965.html] by NBC, related to last week’s cop impersonation incident [/blog/2016/05/06/mischievous-corrections-officer-arrested-impersonating-cop/] shows the suspect’s deli meltdown was sparked over a single penny! Retired corrections officer Joyce Fields, 48, was at the store
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(Courtesy Brooklyn Borough President Adams)“A baby does not arrive in the delivery room with an instruction manual,” said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Adams, as part of his recent initiative to encourage breastfeeding in New York City, was speaking at the Brooklyn Hospital Center [/?s=brooklyn+hospital+center] on
Arts & Culture
Photo by José BayonaBelow you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/]. TUESDAY, MAY 10 What’s old is new again. #SartorialAndOtherwise (Courtesy
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Isaac Gomez (front row, second from left.) (Courtesy SEIU)Local workers organized protested outside 490 Myrtle Avenue on May 5 after the firing of a doorman who tried to unionize his building. Isaac Gomez claims that he was fired from his job as a doorman at 490 Myrtle Avenue, a
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Perp Walk: [L-R] Joe O’Carroll (guitar), Roger Clark (drums), Bunny Hirsch (bass). (Photo Credit: Grumpy Bert)In a recent interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross [http://www.npr.org/2016/05/02/476449645/a-personal-history-of-l-a-punk-it-was-a-free-for-all-for-outcasts] , Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X [https://youtu.be/Exs-mcKApxI], along with guitarist