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Photo via Screenshot from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” [https://youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0]You know you’re cool when you won’t even bother [http://nypost.com/2016/10/17/nobel-prize-committee-cant-seem-to-find-bob-dylan/] to pick up your Nobel. Of course, some folks are innately cool and Bob Dylan is definitely one of them. So,
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Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.If you haven’t noticed yet, it is raining. Pretty hard. The U.S. National Weather Service has put out a coastal flood statement [http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york-ny/10007/weather-warnings/349727] that will be in effect from 12pm until 4pm today.
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“Elliot Gould was filming a movie on 86th Street,” Manno said of this cover. Courtesy of Frank MannoIn a different age of news media and Brooklyn, there was the original incarnation of The Brooklyn Graphic. Old timers will remember the newspaper for its hyper-local southern Brooklyn beat, and for being
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Photo via Google Maps. Bay Parkway and Bay Ridge ParkwayAfter well over a year of waiting, the Department of Transportation has finally responded to local pressure and, in a letter to a Brooklyn School of Inquiry parent, Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Keith Bray confirmed that they will install a Leading Pedestrian
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Photo via Flickr/NYC Water.Jamaica Bay [/?s=jamaica+bay] used to be blanketed with oysters. This was long before all the dredging, pollution, and erosion caused them to become functionally extinct. Oysters are an essential tool in establishing a healthy and diverse marine ecosystem. [http://twistedsifter.com/2014/10/
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopThe 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. –These Teen Girls Are Giving Donald Trump a Piece of Their Mind. [New York Magazine [http://nymag.
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Photo by Amanda SantilloThe South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week: Coney may get its first homeless shelter [http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2016/43/bn-neptune-homeless-shelter-2016-10-17-bk.html] [Brooklyn Reporter] Letitia James emerges as frontrunner to be named Brooklyn DA
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Carly Miller, editor of Ditmas Park Corner, at work on Cortelyou Road. (Photo: Sarah Crean/DPC)We at Ditmas Park Corner depend on your support [/community-partners/]and the support of our advertisers to tell the stories nobody else tells about our neighborhood. We thought you’d like a look behind
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A home in Seagate after Sandy. (Photo by Erica Sherman)There is an extremely important meeting happening tonight at Coney Island Hospital regarding the Build it Back recovery program. The meeting will be held from 7pm-9pm in the auditorium of the Coney Island Hospital at 2601 Ocean Pkwy. Build it
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopIt is our joyless responsibility to report the passing of Brooklyn Hot Dogs [https://www.yelp.com/biz/brooklyn-hot-dogs-brooklyn], a long-time and gentle Gowanus neighbor located at 149 9th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues). While the official time of death cannot be confirmed,
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The Metropolitan Detention Center, on 29th Street near the waterfront, houses 1,800 inmates. (Photo via U.S. Bureau of Prisons)On June 3rd, 2016, four judges — Robin S. Garson [https://ballotpedia.org/Robin_S._Garson], Cheryl J. Gonzales [https://ballotpedia.org/Cheryl_Gonzales], Brenda P. Murray [https://www.federalpay.
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Photo by Joseph De La Cruz.Deanna Maffeo was analyzing her own artwork in the Avant Garde [http://avantgardeles.com/], a hip art gallery in lower Manhattan, as visitors admired her oil paintings, pointing out the detail in her depiction of some retro video game cartridges. Maffeo has a child-like