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> This morning’s commute, brought to you by 2017, and also, Lord Voldemort #mta [https://twitter.com/hashtag/mta?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/qs8dmJtJPR [https://t.co/qs8dmJtJPR] — beth stebner (@bethstebner) April 21, 2017 [https://twitter.com/bethstebner/status/855406910497071104] Just in time for the rain this morning,
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St. Francis Xavier Church (Photo by msusiem via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BF3xudiSe1t/?taken-at=800075777])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Contest To Name Hawks Nesting In St. Francis Xavier Church’s Steeple
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Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 (Photo by Jen Aylmer via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154150997697212&set=br.AbpghpWH6mkPghjLW5tM1X0VnaP7cvu1WjrJOsYG2Pp0f_cpAomHlxn7lAV_3mEFZkc9l6jtY5sTyCNY2XT15sEUHsSN56woBcFAVYUWu2OfoJsiI4jvlzaHlhnTkqoH98fBxgez2pAHTXVMrmiSdJXhOUH8vrrj921mk6d_cKgg14TUaPXGsxa-mWnzIYT38P3WkZ4B8vGvVwNS56_bjinJCffAVjdRD5-Y3Gsu87-bpFKZ_uCM6yoSDqa5dBZMBkI&type=3&theater] )Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Lucy Billings has ordered the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation a
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1173 Bergen Street (Photo by Nathan Haselby)On Wednesday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine once again [/judge-issues-another-block-crown-heights-homeless-shelter/] extended the temporary restraining order that prohibits a new homeless shelter from opening at 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. Two block associations and more than 40 Crown Heights residents argue that
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About twenty years ago, The New York Times published essentially a love letter to Flatbush [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/10/arts/trudging-up-the-flatbush-trail.html] Avenue. It included this bit about the New Floridian Diner, located at 2301 Flatbush Avenue: “Just past Avenue S, we spot the New Floridian Diner
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(Aerial photo submitted by reader)As of this week, 7,000 gallons of diesel oil — of the 27,000 spilled by a private fuel depot [/breaking-oil-spill-dumps-27000-gallons-toward-gravesend-bay/] — have been recovered from the Gravesend Bay using concentric booms, the State DEC told BKLYNER. However, about 20,000 gallons remain at large in
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Photo of Soho House in the Meatpacking District by Soho House & Co via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sohohouse/photos/a.10150915302623537.438190.123778398536/10151567158013537/?type=3&theater] Established in London’s Soho district in 1995, Soho House [https://www.sohohouse.com/] is an exclusive, members only club
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Photo by Daryl Lang via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151543656590140&set=basw.AbpTGzqwXPYDpdbuI_-CYEoGVnu_qN-cJNF2sgqvcLNOpC1JhT51q52Fafp6Ia5wdVPSFuEXXQsfESwYvNs_QE236wsjmcckgkh5rNkbMcK1dTcHti7MWsFV08TxXVCAEQ4EuDUSoGXvq-9fv87dfais.267454226767744.549276825095175.10151543656590140.10152994988553298.10152761709123298.592116234188263&type=1&theater] Brooklyn Bridge Park just announced that it will reopen Squibb Park Bridge [http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/park/squibb-park-b
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Stratford Road near Coney Island Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -New York Moves to Require Uber to Provide Tipping Option in Its App [New York Times [https://patch.
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Photo by Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://myrtleavenue.org/myrtle-avenue-plaza-nearing-completion/?utm_source=Myrtle+Minutes+E-Newsletter&utm_campaign=f4f68ba3b6-Tree+Lighting+in+Fort+Greene+Park+%26+more&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_942e880905-f4f68ba3b6-74753449] Just in time for summer, the Myrtle Avenue Plaza [http://myrtleavenue.org/plaza/], a four-block
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Image by Fre SonneveldIn two weeks, global thinkers about the future of cities will converge on Brooklyn to talk about what that the rapid technological change means for all of us, urban dwellers. Whether you hail your ride via app, book your reservations on OpenTable, use CityBike, monitor your home
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Spring has sprung in Ditmas Park. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -F train express service restoration remains ‘under consideration,’ MTA says [ amNY [http://www.amny.com/transit/f-train-express-service-restoration-remains-under-consideration-mta-says-1.13419860]