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Image via liliah3 / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BNpQMThD3om/?taken-at=61172945&hl=en]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. –Subway Rat Takes on Gigantic Dinner Roll. [New
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Rendering of Red Hoek Point. (Courtesy: Thor Equities)Brooklyn’s historic industrial waterfront continues its transformation — this time in Red Hook. Red Hoek Point [http://www.redhoekpoint.com/], an 800,000 square foot-plus “tech-complex” is slated to rise on the former site of the Revere Sugar Refinery. As first reported
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The organization City Year with a van full of food for needy neighbors. Photo via RCS-Reaching Out Community Services’ FacebookIn a time of general lack of funds and food at food pantries citywide, an allocation of $4 million by the City Council for pantries in 2017 can be anticipated to
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The Daily News dug this photo up from Jaden’s mother’s Facebook page.What happened to Jaden Jordan [/jaden-jordan-toddler-life-support-pronounced-dead/], allegedly at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend, Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, can only be described as vicious, senseless, and tragic. The details of this heart-wrenching story have raised more
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The Daily News dug this photo up from Jaden’s mother’s Facebook page.What happened to Jaden Jordan [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/jaden-jordan-toddler-life-support-pronounced-dead/] , allegedly at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend, Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, can only be described as vicious, senseless, and tragic. The details of
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Courtesy of Nargis CafePark Slope is about to get a taste of Uzbek food. The noted restaurant, Nargis Cafe [/yelpers-place-nargis-cafe-list-brooklyns-top-100-eateries/] in Sheepshead Bay, will open another location at 155 5th Avenue [/quintet-of-new-restaurants-playing-soon-on-slopes-5th-avenue/] (Lincoln Place and St. John’s Place) in March 2017. It is something owner and head chef, Boris
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Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.It was a brisk morning on Sunday when a crowd of outraged Brooklynites rallied on the corner of Avenue J against the new prohibition of right turns at certain key intersections on Ocean Parkway. The “Save Ocean Parkway” protest was organized by State Assemblymember
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Alastasia Bryan. Photo via Facebook/Sergeants Benevolent Association.In a drive-by style shooting, a New York City Corrections officer was shot to death while sitting in her car on Avenue L and East 73 Street on Sunday night, according to police. Alastasia Bryan, 25, was off duty when she was
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Alastasia Bryan. Photo via Facebook/Sergeants Benevolent Association.In a drive-by style shooting, a New York City Corrections officer was shot to death while sitting in her car on Avenue L and East 73 Street on Sunday night, according to police. Alastasia Bryan, 25, was off duty when she was
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Photo via Dyker Heights homeownerDespite much effort and energy to quell the ever growing safety issue wrought by tour busses blocking traffic to ogle the Dyker Heights lights [/the-locals-guide-to-dyker-heights-christmas-lights/], uninformed, out-of-state busses continue to be a problem. To dispel the issue this year, local police created a “tour bus parking
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A still from surveillance footage [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/suspect-b-spumoni-gardens-owner-murder-arrested-article-1.2856990] of suspected, and now indicted, murderer of L&B Spumoni Gardens owner Louis Barbati“We allege that this defendant was lying in wait outside the victim’s home, then ambushed and shot him to death in cold