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Aug
16
City Will Test Dedicated Street Parking For Carshare Companies This Fall In Brooklyn

City Will Test Dedicated Street Parking For Carshare Companies This Fall In Brooklyn

(Courtesy Twitter/ReachNow [https://twitter.com/reachnow/status/856562079561601026])Will a City supported carshare program help reduce car ownership in
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Aug
15
Groundbreaking At Carroll Gardens’ St. Mary’s Playground

Groundbreaking At Carroll Gardens’ St. Mary’s Playground

St. Mary’s Playground groundbreaking (L-R: CB6 Parks Chair Mark Shames, Gowanus Canal Conservancy’s Executive Director Andrea Parker, Brad
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Aug
14
Get Free Daffodils For Neglected Brooklyn Spots!

Get Free Daffodils For Neglected Brooklyn Spots!

Daffodils on Flatbush AveRegistration [http://ny4p.convio.net/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=2020]
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Aug
03
Gowanus Green Team: Preparing Young Apprentices For ‘Green Jobs’

Gowanus Green Team: Preparing Young Apprentices For ‘Green Jobs’

Brad Lander and the Gowanus Green Team (Photo courtesy of the Office of Council Member Brad Lander)On Wednesday morning,
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Jul
31
Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill & Sunset Park Take Home The Gold For ‘Greenest Block In Brooklyn’

Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill & Sunset Park Take Home The Gold For ‘Greenest Block In Brooklyn’

Stuyvesant Avenue between Bainbridge and Chauncey Streets. (Photo via Brooklyn Botanic Gardens [https://www.bbg.org/community/greenestblock])Congratulations to
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Jul
14
Modernizing Brooklyn’s Gas Stations With Sustainable Fuel Options

Modernizing Brooklyn’s Gas Stations With Sustainable Fuel Options

(L-R) Toyota Motor Sales Fuel Cell Vehicles National Manager, Geri Yoza: BMW of Brooklyn Genius, Justin Silverman; Whole Foods Northeast
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Jul
12
Formula E Championship Races Into Red Hook

Formula E Championship Races Into Red Hook

The electric cars that will be racing in this weekend’s FIA Formula E Championship at Red Hook’s Brooklyn
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Jul
11
Brooklyn Historical Society Exhibit Traces Prospect Park’s 150 Years

Brooklyn Historical Society Exhibit Traces Prospect Park’s 150 Years

Carriages at Grand Army Plaza, 1900 (Courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance)In honor of Prospect Park’s 150th Anniversary [/prospect-park-turns-150/
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Jun
26
Can A Superfund Site Be Transformed Into ‘NYC’s Next Great Park’?

Can A Superfund Site Be Transformed Into ‘NYC’s Next Great Park’?

Rendering by SCAPE [http://www.scapestudio.com/projects/the-gowanus-lowlands/] Last week the Gowanus Canal Conservancy [http://www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org/ee/
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Jun
20
Century-Old Wellhouse Reopens As NYC Parks’ First Compost Restroom

Century-Old Wellhouse Reopens As NYC Parks’ First Compost Restroom

The renovated Wellhouse, near the Vanderbilt Street park entrance. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)City officials are helping Brooklynites do
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