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Thousands Evacuated From Brooklyn Bridge Park Tuesday Due To Rowdy Crowds

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 (Photo by Brooklyn Bridge Park via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/brooklynbridgepark/photos/basw.Abq3og2M0Ab1AGPhk6pDtVtTPRa1bLDek0wJxtnsCSLN06ZukBIulSsVemQWItMf8LzMMjubJM_GKsbAeKtSa1bZpSxB-eMBuobeZoFcrj-Y8wOa7vFgSaO-b0H4b_2kP9TH7ldO-RV1-c7CDbjurwRPOSnujwuteRdyjqdCxavo-w.10154628023528298.10155606341568298.1003812539666509.10153095872678298.10155584518953298.10153196384954699/10155584518953298/?type=1&theater] )Police evacuated Brooklyn Bridge Park Tuesday aftern

Business

City Pols Fight To Save The Kensington Stables

Boro President Eric Adams with reporter Emily Smith at the Kensington Stables. (Photo via BPEricAdams/twitter)City officials are leading the charge to save the historic Kensington Stables from condo developers bidding since the building went up for sale in February [/historic-kensington-stables-sold-bankruptcy-auction-week/]. The stable was pulled from a bankruptcy auction

fort greene

Man Arrested For Fatal Stabbing In Fort Greene

Ingersoll Houses at Navy and Myrtle by snapitschelsea via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRd6wyxlUah/?taken-by=snapitschelsea]Police have arrested 42-year-old David Haigh of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the murder of a Fort Greene man early Sunday. On Sunday, April 9, at approximately 6:03am, police responded to a call

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FDNY Responds To Another Fire In Prospect Park Monday

> Prospect Park pic.twitter.com/grfT9iHBVh [https://t.co/grfT9iHBVh] — Adam Gurri (@adamgurri) April 9, 2017 [https://twitter.com/adamgurri/status/851158752699064321] A second brush fire broke out in Prospect Park Monday evening at approximately 6:20pm, the FDNY reports. Twelve engines and 65 firefighters arrived at the scene

Central Brooklyn

Our Schools Are Too Hot To Learn – Sign The Petition!

Seth Low middle school (IS 96) in Bensonhurst.If you have a child at a New York City public school, or if you work at one, you know this only too well – on too many days, too many rooms are simply #TooHotToLearn. In the winter – it’s the heating: some

Central Brooklyn

The Down-Low: Hammer Attack, Thwarted Kidnapping & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

7th Ave in Park Slope. (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. Meet Peter Dorosh, Prospect Park’s Resident Bird Man. [Village Voice [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/meet-peter-dorosh-the-bird-man-of-prospect-park-9847663] ] Hillary Clinton

Holidays

Chag Sameach In Brighton Beach

Senior citizens gathered at the 8th Annual Passover Food Distribution event at Restaurant National in Brighton Beach (Photo by BKLYNER)About five hundred seniors in Sheepshead Bay will have a brighter Passover celebration thanks to the caring of Be Proud Foundation and its small army of volunteers, who assembled bags

Central Brooklyn

Former Southern BK Assemblyman Indicted In $6.3M Narcotics Scheme

(Photo via Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny’s Office, 2015)On Friday, a former Coney Island pol was indicted for involvement in a scheme pumping $6.3 million in narcotics onto the black market, officials said. Alec Brook-Krasny, formerly representing Coney Island, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Brighton Beach, was charged, along with

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Squibb Park Bridge Bounces Back

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] Squibb Park Bridge [http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/park/squibb-park-bridge], the bouncy, wooden pedestrian walkway that conne

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FDNY Extinguish Brush Fire At Prospect Park Sunday

> Prospect Park pic.twitter.com/grfT9iHBVh [https://t.co/grfT9iHBVh] — Adam Gurri (@adamgurri) April 9, 2017 [https://twitter.com/adamgurri/status/851158752699064321] Brooklynites out enjoying Sunday’s pleasant weather got a surprise when a fire ignited in a wooded area in Prospect Park. Three engines and one ladder responded

Big Story

Local Pols Say They Were Kept In The Dark On Gravesend Oil Spill; DEC Responds

(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)“Stop Dumping On Us” shouted local pols, civic leaders, and advocates this morning near the site of a 27,000-gallon diesel oil spill into the Gravesend Bay last week [/breaking-oil-spill-dumps-27000-gallons-toward-gravesend-bay/] — shaming environmental protection agencies for failing to notify them about the spill. “The Gravesend Bay

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Gravesend Thief Walks Off With $100K+ In White Bag

Last Sunday, April 2, a 46 -year old neighbor returned home to find his fine watches and jewelry gone. A total of $78,000 worth of watches, and another $31,000 worth of jewelry. The thief, an unidentified man, broke the kitchen window to get into the apartment in a