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A boarded up home. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Elected officials called on Brooklyn landlords Wednesday to help the city reach the finish line for Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts by opening available apartments to homeowners enrolled in the Build it Back [http://www.nyc.gov/html/recovery/html/homeowners/rebuild.
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Image via Department of City Planning.It’s a stalemate. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan — meant to address the city’s affordable housing crisis — may have been approved last Wednesday, February 3 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/zqa/zoning-for-quality-and-affordability.page] by the City Planning Commission,
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Image via mconnors [ http://mrg.bz/nKQ7ZD].Television film crews will be taking over parking along Clinton Avenue this Thursday evening, February 11, to film an episode of NBC’s “BlindSpot [http://www.nbc.com/app_link/blindspot/episodes?utm_source=search].” The affected areas will stretch between Willoughby and
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Mayor Bill de Blasio. Photo: Ditmas Park CornerMayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan — meant to address the city’s affordable housing crisis — has moved to the City Council for a final review after it was approved last Wednesday [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/zqa/zoning-for-quality-and-affordability.page]
Animals
After 145 years, the “greatest show on earth” is reinventing itself. On March 15 2015, Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, announced the retirement all elephants from their traveling circus, two years ahead of schedule. Legends, the latest performance coming to the Barclays Center
Kids & Family
It took its sweet time in getting here, but winter appears to have settled in around the five boroughs. Whether you’re a fan of the cold temperatures or not, this weather tends to send stir-crazy families on a desperate quest for Brooklyn play spots. Not just any play spot,
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Maintenance crews at East 14th Street and Sheepshead Bay Road. (Photo provided by Facebook User Crafty Carol)Two manhole covers erupted Monday morning at a busy commercial intersection near Sheepshead Bay Road and East 14th Street, Con Edison confirmed. The explosions were reported at 8:10am and knocked out power
Education
Some great news: the Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center and Young Minds Day Care are officially safe from being evicted from their building at 966-972 Fulton Street. A new lease has been signed, although as of this posting, we currently don’t know the terms of the lease or how
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Image via Friends of Brooklyn Queens Connector. Elected officials slammed the mayor’s plan to build a fancy streetcar [/31635/] along the East River waterfront for offering further proof the city is willfully neglecting the transportation needs of southern Brooklyn residents. Following Mayor Bil de Blasio’s State of the
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Entrance to Church Avenue B/Q stop at Saint Paul’s Place and Caton Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)An attack on a 44-year-old white man at an area subway station over the weekend is being classified as a hate crime, according to authorities. The assault, which occurred at roughly 9:
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A reminder of the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene (Photo by Mickey Whitley) City Councilman Chaim Deutsch is urging federal and state agencies to pick up the pace on planned resiliency measures after an unusually strong high tide flooded parts of Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay this morning. “I’ve
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Members of Community Board 15. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Are you passionate about engaging in significant decisions in your community? Do you have opinions about real estate development, educational institutions, city-wide policies, and the future of our neighborhood? If you are a New York City Resident and passionate about