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The weekend before Christmas is on the quieter side, but you can still celebrate the winter solstice, sing along to your favorite carols, or salsa and merengue at Grand Prospect Hall. Check the BKLYNER Calendar [/calendar/] for more events happening around town or to list one of your own. Via
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Mazzola BakeryCARROLL GARDENS – Rows of earthen-red brownstones line the path to Mazzola Bakery in Carroll Gardens. The neighborhood has changed since the bakery’s start in 1928, but the familiar scent of freshly baked bread, now mixed with coffee, still fills the air as you approach the intersection of Union
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Photo from archives.The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) was added to the list that since 2010 has focused on the city’s worst private landlords, for the first time, and turns out the largest landlord in the city, is also its worst. Of the NYCHA buildings listed [https:
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PARK SLOPE/WINDSOR TERRACE – NITEHAWK Prospect Park opens today in the building last occupied by The Pavillion movie house at 188 Prospect Park West with a 3:30 PM screening of The World Before Your Feet. The beautifully restored movie house has 7 theaters to show movies to 650 patrons
Bed Stuy
An 18-year-old was found murdered on the roof of a Brevoort Houses building yesterday (Screenshot via Google Maps)Two men are dead at housing developments on opposite ends of Brooklyn, police confirmed. One was murdered, the other apparently fell. BED-STUY – This morning, police announced that a teen found dead on
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RED HOOK – Brooklyn Community Board 6 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] unanimously approved a proposal from the NYC Department of Transportation [https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] (DOT) during a general board meeting on Wednesday, December 12, to install pedestrian safety enhancements along
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DOWNTOWN – Downtown Brooklyn will be economically productive as well as safe this holiday season, promised Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at a press conference at Borough Hall on Monday afternoon. Following a series of shootings in the area – one of them fatal – public officials and business leaders have begun coordinating
Central Brooklyn
PS 110 seen from McGolrick Park on a cold evening last week (Courtesy of Paul Stremple)Long before the age of GIFs and Live Photos, people still found a way to get 3D with their images—check out this amazing repository of stereographic images of Brooklyn from 1933! [https://brooklynstereography.
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CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Celebrate the winter solstice—the longest night of the year—on Friday, December 21, with the return of Make Music Winter [http://www.makemusicny.org/winter-parades/], an annual outdoor celebration featuring free participatory musical parades across the city. Launched in 2011 by Make Music New York
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Following a series of articles detailing issues at Winterfest at Brooklyn Museum, merchants participating in the event ask, despite the controversies, for locals to visit the holiday market to support the small businesses there. Winterfest at Brooklyn Museum (Photo: Nathan Haselby)“As a vendor here I can attest
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – After plans to erect a nine-foot-high brick wall [/cb6-tables-developers-planned-9-foot-high-wall-at-lich-condo-site/] along Amity Street were tabled at a Brooklyn Community Board 6 Landmarks & Land Use Committee [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] meeting in October, Fortis Property Group [https://fortispropertygroup.com/] developed an alternate plan to
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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Just northeast of downtown Brooklyn sits the Brooklyn Navy Yard [https://brooklynnavyyard.org], home to a museum, a whiskey distillery, carpenters, fashion designers, and fishmongers, situated not far from three NYCHA developments—Whitman, Farragut, and Ingersoll Houses. Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 92, 63 Flushing Avenue (Photo: Ann