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Fireworks, BQE Doom, Election Results, and more
Happy Independence Day weekend! Macy's Fireworks will be above the East River, starting around 9:25 pm, and will continue for about 25 minutes. Best spots to see:
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Baby Bird, Taiwanese General Store, Traffic Calming, School Budgets, Lots of Real Estate
This newsletter is a little heavy on real estate and school news, and there's some good stuff in the food section. The city attacks mosquitoes, and southern Brooklyn will likely get a lot more pedestrian-friendly street corners. You get a chance to tell MTA what you think about
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Chili Dogs, Working From Brooklyn, PLG and Crown Heights Assembly Race, Food, Rooftop Movies, and More.
Brooklynites don't want to commute into the city, so more and more employers are setting up offices in Brooklyn. A Park Slope Church is looking for the stolen Tabernacle, a Flatbush Church is to be redeveloped to bring coworking spaces to the neighborhood, Park Slope may get two
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Redistricting, Special Election, New Food To Try, Lots of Events
This weekend we celebrate Notorious B.I.G. across the city; Open Stages - 15 of them - will bring lots of music to Park Slope; and Brooklyn Half returns on Sunday for the 40th time, so plan on that. Oh, and it will be hot, 90 degrees hot this
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Real Estate, Politics, and Poop Patrol
Lots of stuff this week, including another Special Election, two parades, food with a side of politics and so much more.
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We Don't Know What We Don't Know, Old School Italian, Pizza and other tidbits
Polls, crime, e-bikes, cash for kindergarteners, oxtail pizza, Flatbush Sears redevelopment plans, history of Sea Gate, and more.
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Vote, Vote, Vote, and Vote again, Food, Books, Five Boro Bike Tour, and more
New York's voters can be forgiven for not being able to keep up with all that is happening. Just when you thought you knew what congressional or senate district you live in, that changed this week after New York's highest court tossed out the Democrat-drawn lines
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Crime, Education, Affordable Housing, and more.
The subway shooting in Sunset Park that injured over 20 people [https://bklyner.com/subway-terror-in-sunset-park/] was the biggest thing that happened in Brooklyn this week. Thankfully, no one died, and the shooter was apprehended the next day [https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/] . But yesterday, just around 5:30
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Let's talk about Ana María, housing, and how much rent is up.
The average rent in Brooklyn is over $3,000 a month, and year-over-year rental prices are up across-the-board with studio, one- and two-bedroom units up by 20.98%, 25.16%, and 23.66%, respectively, MNS real estate report shows.
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Cuomo Resigns and Other News
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Restaurant Week, Buses, Free Summer Camp, COVID numbers, and more
Good evening, and Mubarak Eid al-Adha [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha]. What better excuse to treat yourself than NYC Restaurant week. This year 46 Brooklyn restaurants [https://www.nycgo.com/restaurant-week/?neighborhood=bay-ridge,bedford-stuyvesant,boerum-hill,bushwick,cobble-hill,crown-heights,downtown-brooklyn,fort-greene,gowanus,gravesend,park-slope,prospect-heights,sunset-park,williamsburg,windsor-terrace,east-williamsburg&