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Farragut Houses (Photo by planetbklynacademy via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/_fhV3PNJU6/?tagged=farraguthouses])Trash piling up from countless construction sites in and around the Brooklyn Navy Yard is causing a massive rat infestation in the neighborhood. An increasing number of creative and tech businesses moving into the Brooklyn
Central Brooklyn
Maple Street Community Garden, 237 Maple Street between Rogers & Nostrand Avenues. (Photo by Ali Jacobs)In just one year, the beloved Maple Street Community Garden [https://maplestreetgarden.org] could turn a completely new leaf. NYC Parks announced the completion of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) certification for
Big Story
Aerial footage of the Gravesend Bay spill site, Saturday, April 1.(Photo by Hugo Smith.)A Brooklyn company quietly spilled thousands of gallons of heating oil into Gravesend Bay, BKLYNER has learned. The 27,000 gallon spill at Bayside Fuel Depot [http://www.baysidedepot.com] began before sunrise on Thursday,
Central Brooklyn
Photo by avocaderia via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BSFHN9ugGmE/?taken-by=avocaderia]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Avocaderia, An Avocado Bar, Opens In Industry City. [NY Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/
Central Brooklyn
Last night in Washington, Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York 8th Congressional District, Brooklyn, Queens) took to the House floor demanding that President Trump release his tax returns. Jeffries, a member of the House Judiciary and House Budget Committees, presented a privileged resolution which would delay any tax-reform legislation until the
Arts & Culture
It’s almost hump day. Break out of your weeknight routine rut and check out some of the cool events scheduled for the middle of this week! Film still from George Polk Documentary Film Award winner “Hooligan Sparrow” screening at BAM Rose CinemasHooligan Sparrow [http://www.bam.org/film/2017/
Announcements
Louis Valentino, Jr. Pier in Red Hook (Photo by Eddie Cheaz via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205353122345978&set=br.Abq4yba1hYwK3czo1s7hVEgPokIwS2VHlfhTREoxDHJqY8olUUG7Nm5lG1Oke9hftEaPrECCzgaFyUzz8TwOhIvU1AC7bBFtrYah0Gh40i3FawdL4w7iAuWIQ0jBUQGhwbn3CMliVqmpiMvJaiMvviKXOyY9CMwZdzqcT39zJHIuViOPiMZus9g73lpF2eG-Pbly9a0GwTyohx7RdsvONkh7Wk_lva2MY9pjtR74XLPtChC5bDchAqtEb_U-BVNUJo4&type=3&theater] )Dust off your portfolios and CVs, Brooklyn creatives! The NYC Department of Cultura
Arts & Culture
Kings Theatre reopening. (Photo by Anna Gustafston/corner media)When the Kings Theater opened in 1929, there was a full orchestra on hand to supply the soundtrack for the silent movie “Evangeline,” starring the glamorous Dolores del Rio. On April 8, a little more than two years after a $95
News
The Clock Tower Penthouse at One Main Street in DUMBO (Image via Corcoran [http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/listings/display/2546956])A stunning, 6,813-square-foot, triplex penthouse at DUMBO’s Clock Tower building located at One Main Street has sold for $15 million [http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/listings/display/
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> LAST DAYS FOR LOVE LETTER BROOKLYN. The garage at hoyt and livingston closes today. Thank you @chinobyi and @icysigns and @colossalmedia and @macys and most of all BROOKLYN for making me the man I am today (IN A 3/4 shearling) [https://www.instagram.com/p/BAcYkyorCtT/] A post
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(Rendering via New Empire Real Estate Development [http://www.usnere.com/development/new-empire-9th-2128-ocean/])The southern Brooklyn development boom [/bays-tallest-sky-scratching-condo-tower-open-soon/] continues, stretching to the northern corner of Madison with a new mix-unit condo tower. Developers revealed renderings of a nine-story, 56-unit building under construction at 2128 Ocean Avenue between Kings Highway
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Photo by BKLYNER[Updated: Monday, April 3 at 9:30am] City Council Member Brad Lander’s office released an announcement [http://bradlander.nyc/news/updates/agreement-reached-for-neighborhood-supermarket-affordable-housing-at-5th-avenue-key-foo] on Thursday, March 30 regarding the agreement reached [/bye-bye-key-food-deal-closed-construction-begin-year/] with Avery Hall Investments on the Key Food site located at 120 Fifth Avenue. “The