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FORT GREENE/SPONSORED – Hudson Jane’s Myrtle Avenue storefront logo, a bottle of wine and some glasses sitting on a shelf with knives hanging below and their motto “Life’s too short to eat sh*tty food!” pretty much sum up the restaurant’s philosophy of cooking and hygge vibe.
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Hate Has No Business HereJust in time for the Fourth of July, businesses along Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are displaying messages on their storefronts declaring, “Hate Has No Business Here” to protest racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny. Created by Amanda Neville, the owner of Tipsy [https:
Events
Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/black-artstory-month-2017-photos/?utm_source=Myrtle+Minutes+E-Newsletter&utm_campaign=9af47a2970-Tree+Lighting+in+Fort+Greene+Park+%26+more&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_942e880905-9af47a2970-74753449] February is Black History Month and there are a variety of events happening all around
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Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership & Madison Realty Capital.Some of the units in an imposing eight-story mixed-use development under construction in Clinton Hill are to be “affordable”. Twenty-eight (one-fifth) of the apartments in the building under construction at 504 Myrtle Avenue (between Ryerson Street and Grand Avenue) will
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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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Image via MTA.B54 bus riders and Myrtle Avenue drivers, take note! Beginning next Monday, March 28 until Thursday, July 28, all B54 EASTBOUND traffic along Myrtle Avenue will be re-routed between Washington and Classon Avenues. That means that if you’re heading somewhere between there on Myrtle, you’ll
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Image via dave [http://mrg.bz/RMJDt1].You may have noticed the water service cutoffs of recent weeks affecting local businesses [/blog/2015/09/14/water-service-will-be-cut-on-and-off-again-this-week-on-myrtle-avenue/] along Myrtle Avenue between Hall and Emerson, and Classon and Grand Avenues. Well, it’s continuing this week, but between Grand Avenue and Hall
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Photo via NYPD.A 10-year-old girl may have had a close call with attempted kidnappers on Monday, March 9, as she walked home from school at around 4:05pm near North Portland Avenue and Myrtle Avenue, said police. The girl was allegedly approached by a BMW X3 SUV from which
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Image courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.myrtleavenue.org/new-buildings-planned-myrtle-avenue-clinton-hill/]. The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org] (MABP) today released a list of five buildings [http://www.myrtleavenue.org/new-buildings-planned-myrtle-avenue-clinton-hill/] that are currently under-construction or seeking approval from the Buildings Department (DOB) to build along the four-block
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Moot Bar has been a long time in the making. Business partners Josh Ellis, Jake Trebach, and Matt Volner, who you may know from their Park Slope bar Uncle Barry’s [http://www.unclebarrys.com], originally planned to expand to a space on Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights–but after
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Two busy Myrtle Avenue spots have recently gotten/are starting to get a bit more welcoming for pedestrians. Workers installed signage and set up cones last week at the new jughandle turn at Myrtle and Flatbush Avenues [/blog/2014/07/07/lingering-doubts-as-flatbush-myrtle-avenue-jug-handle-turn-plan-moves-forward/] , and have painted initial markings, as the Myrtle