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One Brooklyn Bridge Park, image via Street Easy [http://streeteasy.com/building/one-brooklyn-bridge-park]Brooklyn is slowly but surely edging its way into the New York City luxury real estate market. Property Shark recently released a new report on the city’s condo market, compiling the 50 top-selling condo buildings of
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It’s June and you know what that means! It’s officially Caribbean Heritage month. To celebrate it this year, Caribbeing [https://twitter.com/caribbeing?lang=en], a Brooklyn organization focused on film, art and culture is teaming up with LinkNYC [https://www.link.nyc/]. Together, for four weeks, they
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Let the kids run around this summer with Brooklyn’s amazing sports camps. Sign up for a different one each week, or commit to one for the whole summer. Either way, your young athlete is bound to have a great time. Some of our favorites Photo via Brooklyn Bridge Fencing
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Rendering via Jonathan Rose Companies [http://www.rosecompanies.com/projects/caesura/]The lottery launched yesterday for 49 affordable rental units at Caesura [http://www.caesurabklottery.com/], a newly constructed development located at 280 Ashland Place consisting of affordable, middle-income, and market-rate apartments. Located across from BAM on the corner of
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Photo provided by Brooklyn Bridge Fencing ClubDoes your child like sword fighting? Do they love Star Wars and lightsabers? At Brooklyn Bridge Fencing Club [http://www.brooklynbridgefencing.com/brooklyn-bridge-fencing-camp/]— the best fencing club in Brooklyn — they can learn to fence for real. Our full-day, fun, and safe summer camps are
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Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/dekalbmarkethall/photos/a.1348582261918129.1073741829.918732738236419/1348582281918127/?type=3&theater] City Point’s much-anticipated food hall, DeKalb Market Hall [http://dekalbmarkethall.com], opens this Friday, June 16 [https://www.facebook.com/events/436822653350212/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22ref_newsfeed_
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Photo via shinya [http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyasuzuki/8858800731/sizes/z/in/photostream]A 36-year-old Brooklyn Heights man was killed by a charter bus in Chelsea while riding a Citi Bike Monday morning. Dan Hanegby, an investment banker at Credit Suisse, was cycling on West 26th Street between 7th
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(Photo via Flatbush Fest/Facebook)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -MTA reveals plan to deal with ‘summer of hell’ [Crain’s New York [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170612/TRANSPORTATION/170619985/mta-reveals-plan-to-deal-with-summer-of-hell] ] -The Lice
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A sign on the door of Dixon’s Bicycle Shop asking neighbors to sign a petition to save the mural (Photo taken June 7, 2017 by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)A representative of St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights has confirmed to BKLYNER that the college is not merging with St.
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Greenland Forest City Partners hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday morning to launch 535 Carlton [http://affordable.535carlton.com/], a 100 percent affordable residential property located at Pacific Park. 535 Carlton, located on Carlton Avenue between Pacific and Dean Streets in Prospect Heights, was designed by the New York-based architectural firm
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Sirens Women’s Motorcycle Club, one of the 21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade’s Grand MarshalsSirens Women’s Motorcycle Club, one of the 21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade’s Grand Marshals21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade, Photo by Nathan Haselby21st Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade, Grand Marshal Ron BBrooklyn Pride Parade, Grand
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