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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APolice_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Over the last few months, we’ve reported a series of different crime events in order to alert the public of incidents which have take place in our neighborhood. And while these reports can
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Photo via Putnam’s Pub and Cooker [https://www.facebook.com/PutnamsPub/photos/a.575152522573301.1073741829.132875773467647/978401142248435/?type=1&theater] .Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your
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Thousands packed surrounding areas of the iconic Stonewall Inn in the West Village on Monday, June 13. (Photo via francis_ellen [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGoppKSnTZ9/?tagged=stonewall&hl=en])Public Advocate Letitia James will join several other politicians and advocacy groups tonight at Grand Army Plaza [https:
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(photo via katerha / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/])The City Council’s controversial plastic bag fee legislation — which passed on May 5 [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=484894&GUID=B22E7F6F-30CC-4A14-9BF8-A6F55432642E&Options=&Search=] — is being held up in Albany thanks to opposition from
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Raffles and revelry marked Mekelburg’s first anniversary (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.)“We’re aggressively looking to expand,” said Alicia Mekelburg, co-owner of Mekelburg’s [/?s=mekelburgs], as her grocery/bar/restaurant celebrated its first anniversary over the weekend. Mekelburg’s opened in June of 2015 at 293
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P.S. 321 and P.S. 9 students wished the late-author illustrator Ezra Jack Keats a H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R–T-H-D-A-Y in the Imagination Playground in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where a statue of two of his beloved characters, Peter and Willie, was declared a Literary Landmark. Joining them, from L to R,
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Photo via mn_stagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGTIEGpPKdn/?tagged=pizzaslice&hl=en]We’re a relatively well-behaved group here in Fort Greene — or so they think… I’t’s time to roll up our sleeves, because we’re going slice against slice with the Park Slope neighborhood.
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Carl Smith (Courtesy Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson.)A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to up to 18 years in prison for stealing three properties, including one in Fort Greene, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson. [/?s=ken+thompson] Carl Smith, 50, was sentenced on June 13 to a minimum
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Photo via mn_stagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGTIEGpPKdn/?tagged=pizzaslice&hl=en]We’re a relatively well-behaved group here in Park Slope — or so they think. I’t’s time to roll up our sleeves, because we’re going slice against slice with the Fort Greene neighborhood.
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Wendy Xiao [left] and Susann Friedrich, Co-founders of CoHatchery. (Photo courtesy of CoHatchery)A summer program will soon begin that gives adults their workspace and the kids their playspace. And while the deal sounds much better for the kids, their parents get the peace of mind that the youngins’ are
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Everybody loves ramen. (Courtesy Instagram/Gotham West Market [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFwZFESxBAk/?taken-by=gwmarket].)Epicureans rejoice: there’s a new food hall coming to Fort Greene. Gotham Market at the Ashland, brought to you by the purveyors of Gotham Market West [http://gothamwestmarket.com/] in Hell’s Kitchen,
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Photo via cmykpz_z [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGiFnK_Hpjv/?tagged=brooklynpride&hl=en]Only hours before the despicable attack took place in Orlando Saturday night [http://nyti.ms/25Svj4b], our neighborhood celebrated Brooklyn Pride 2016 [http://brooklynpride.org/], a festival which culminated in a celebration of the