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Protest outside Errol’s Caribbean Bakery, Saturday, December 17. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)‘Errol’s bakery has to stay! Errol’s bakery has to stay!’ chanted 20 longtime and new neighbors, who trudged through the slush to protest the eviction of a beloved, 15-year-old Caribbean Bakery on Flatbush Avenue.
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(Photo by Vincent Gulizio [http://www.gulizio.com/vincent-gulizio-christmas-lights-dyker-lights-dyker-heights] )Three years after an article in the New York Times’ [/ny-times-spotlights-dyker-heights-suggests-gentrification/] “Living in” real estate feature called Dyker a “place that people deeply care for [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/realestate/dyker-heights-brooklyn-a-neighborhood-for-all-seasons.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&
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The Edwards, Deme, Ellis and Blakney families at a rally to save the Fort Greene Day Care & Senior Center in April, 2015. (Photo: Fort Greene Focus)The lease for 966-972 Fulton Street, which houses the Young Minds Day Care and Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center, has finally been signed
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Marine Park’s historic Hendrick I. Lott House. Source: Lotthouse.orgBoasting a wide-open skyline, pretty, modest homes and the largest park in Brooklyn, we all know that Marine Park — the neighborhood — is seriously underrated. A New York Times profile this week [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/realestate/marine-park-brooklyn-block-parties-bocce-and-salt-air.
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The chicken burrito at Pequeña. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.)Here’s a recap of what went down this week. Follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/ftgfocus], like us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], and check out our Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and subscribe to
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535 Carlton (Courtesy COOKFOX)Starting tomorrow, 298 below-market units at 535 Carlton will become available via affordable housing lottery at NYC Housing Connect [https://a806-housingconnect.nyc.gov/nyclottery/lottery.html#current-projects]. The all-affordable 18-story building (535 Carlton Avenue between Dean Street and Pacific Street) is being developed by Greenland Forest
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Photo courtesy of Bosc d’Anjou [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boscdanjou/6445274743].A new plan lays out a vision of how to keep Downtown Brooklyn’s place as an artistic hotbed amidst the massive change [/?s=development+watch] currently enveloping the area. Culture Forward [http://assets.downtownbrooklyn.com/documents/
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Patrons of Greenlight Bookstore (Photo by Menglin Huang)Below 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/]. WEDNESDAY JULY 6 Gymnasts often start
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Image via papakila [https://www.instagram.com/p/BEcowvDpgkP/?tagged=sunsetpark]. Cushman & Wakefield [http://www.cushmanwakefield.com/], a commercial real estate company, recently published a report called “Cool Streets,” [http://cushwakemarketing.com/cs/comms/CWRetail-CoolStreetsReport/#12/z] identifying the “edgiest” and most potentially profitable neighborhoods in the country. Our
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816 58th Street. Courtesy of Google Maps.Eastern Sunset Park might be going through a growth spurt pretty soon if developers get approved on their plans, reports Yimby [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/06/permits-filed-78-amity-street-cobble-hill.html] . A permit was filed to the Department of Buildings [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/
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Rendering of 643-645 5th Avenue. (Image via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/06/revealed-645-5th-avenue-greenwood-heights.html] )A seven-story building will be rising up on a street less known for luxury residences than for quiet neighbors and small, independent businesses. The new residence will replace two low wooden-framed buildings at 643
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Photo via Putnam’s Pub and Cooker [https://www.facebook.com/PutnamsPub/photos/a.575152522573301.1073741829.132875773467647/978401142248435/?type=1&theater] .Below 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
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Kelso Beer Co. is likely on the move. (Courtesy Instagram/KelsoBeer [https://www.instagram.com/p/bojnZAn-SS/])Kelso Beer Co. [/?s=kelso] is likely to leave Clinton Hill, citing rent. The brewery, founded in 2006, is currently housed at 259 Waverly Avenue, between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue, but it
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The DOT makes its presentation in favor of the bike lane last month. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)There are meetings scheduled this week to address community input regarding a pair of local transit projects. Community Board 2 [/?s=community+board+2]‘s Transportation Committee will be holding a
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461 Dean Street (Courtesy BerlinRosen.)The ever-changing skyline [/?s=pacific+park]could get even taller if a new bill [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/s5469/amendment/original]in Albany passes. Senate bill S5469 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a7807/amendment/original] and Assembly bill A7807 [https:
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461 Dean Street (Courtesy BerlinRosen.)The ever-changing skyline [/?s=pacific+park]could get even taller if a new bill [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/s5469/amendment/original]in Albany passes. Senate bill S5469 [https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a7807/amendment/original] and Assembly bill A7807 [https: