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According to Lenihan, the cover image references the main character’s childhood obsession with fire which, “becomes more and more dominant in his life.” Photos via authorEarlier this year born and bred Bay Ridge resident Rob Lenihan published his debut crime novel, set in the 1990s, Born Speaking Lies [http:
News
Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNERThe 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. –Man Who Scattered Friend’s Ashes Into Met Opera Orchestra Pit Says He’s Done It Before. [Gothamist [http:
Business
(Photo by Dan Nguyen, c/o Council Member Jumaane Williams’ Office)Last week, City Council Members introduced a bill package to curb the NYPD’s wide-spread use of Nuisance Abatement action. If passed, the package could restrict the decades-old law that allows police to shut down homes or businesses suspected
Bensonhurst
The Brooklyn, Bath and West End RR Elevated line’s Bensonhurst station in 1917. Photo via the New York Historical Society, uploaded by Oocities.org [http://www.oocities.org/thereillyfamily/neighborhoods2.htm]To understand how Bensonhurst got its name, you must go way back to when the area was farmland.
Feature
Katia Kelly’s blog Pardon Me For Asking has been documenting Carroll Gardens and Gowanus for over a decade. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)First, bookmark the blog Pardon Me For Asking [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/]. There’s something rather meta-journalistic about Katia Kelly’s role as the
Arts & Culture
Hundreds of local artists have been evicted from their studios in a cluster of warehouse buildings near the Gowanus Canal, despite their efforts to stay and support from some community members. (Photo by Donny Levit / BKLYNER.)After the eviction of hundreds of local artists, three early 20th-century warehouses near the
Animals
Photo by Jenelle BuccheriTo fish or not to fish. That is the question. There’s no question about it in Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz’s eyes when it comes to the Ocean Avenue Footbridge, according to Kings County Politics. [http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/cymbrowitz-looks-ban-fishing-off-ocean-avenue-foot-bridge/] Cymbrowitz called for an outright ban on
Central Brooklyn
</iframeAn eye on Argyle Road: Time-lapse video of trick-or-treaters by the thousands! Hundreds (if not thousands) of paradegoers and trick-or-treaters marched through the streets, decked out in costume for last night’s Halloween Parades. Do you have fabulous Halloween photos from around the neighborhood? Email them to us at
Health
A 2013 candlelight vigil at the Red Hook Houses to remember the human impact of Superstorm Sandy. Thousands of Red Hook Houses residents were left without power, and heat and hot water, for weeks after the October 29th hurricane. (Photo via Red Hook Initiative Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/
Arts & Culture
Ruth Franklin (Photo by Anthony Delmundo)Run — don’t walk — to get a copy of neighbor Ruth Franklin’s latest critically acclaimed biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. Franklin is an award-winning book critic, former editor at The New Republic, and author, whose new literary biography has been called
Bensonhurst
Photo by Kate Leonova via PropertyShark [http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Property-Report/?propkey=293026]Applications have been filed to demolish the two-and-a-half story wood frame home currently occupying 2272 82nd Street in Gravesend and to replace it with a three-story residential dwelling. The demolition application was filed in late August,
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