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Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a suspect in an incident involving a 91-year-old woman who was choked, robbed, and threatened with a handgun. On Wednesday March 2, 2016, at approximately 1:00pm, the suspect approached the victim from behind as she entered 551 9th Street (between 8th Avenue and
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopThe tip wars [/blog/food/cuppa-cuppa-roots-cafe/] are always raging at Roots Cafe [/blog/neighbors/debut-overheard-in-the-slope/]. Care to vote? We bet it will be less stressful than Super Tuesday. Tell us your pick in the comments section below! And for a refresher, here you go.
Food & Drink
BBQ and Banchan at Insa. (Photo by Craig LaCourt)It’s a rare group of Brooklynites who can say they’re able to invite a hundred of people over for a sophisticated Korean barbecue. And perhaps even more rare — delighting in that meal, and then retiring to a room to
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Sometimes all you need is a quick, no fuss, affordable bite for lunch or dinner and Lafayette Grocery and Deli’s (Lafayette Avenue) is the perfect spot. As any local knows, the corner deli boasts the usual snacks, drinks and some fresh produce, as well as a limited deli counter,
Business
Photo via jasond97214 [https://www.instagram.com/p/zaMZBqLHuU/?taken-at=538650&hl=en]Owners Laura and David Shea of Applewood [https://www.facebook.com/applewood-146263862119839/] (501 11th Street) announced yesterday that their restaurant has closed after 12 years. “The response has been overwhelming in the last 24 hours,” says
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Photo via FAB Alliance [http://www.instagram.com/fabfulton].Farm-to-table, vegetable-driven, 1920s Berlin-inspired [/blog/2016/01/27/coming-soon-the-cynical-schnauzer-a-restaurant-and-bar/] restaurant The Cynical Schnauzer [http://www.thecynicalschnauzer.com] (884 Fulton Street) is ready for its close-up on Instagram feeds around the neighborhood: it opens for dinner and a celebratory happy hour TONIGHT
News
Police have released the identity of the victim who was struck and killed Sunday morning [/blog/crime/updatedcorrection-pedestrian-killed-on-5th-avenue-this-morning-in-apparent-hit-and-run-cops-say/] in a hit-and-run incident. 41-year-old Bahtiyor Khamdamov was pronounced dead after EMS brought him to Methodist Hospital. Police had arrived at the scene to discover him unconscious and unresponsive with severe trauma
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Co-founders Abigail Palanca (left) and Teresa Lagerman of Founders Workspace. (Photo credit: Scott Salembier)Freelancers rejoice. A co-working space is scheduled to open in Windsor Terrace in mid-April at 553 Prospect Avenue on the corner of 10th Avenue, at last putting to use a storefront that once housed a fire-extinguisher
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March is here and in a couple of weeks, so will a brand new New York spirits-focused bar named Cardiff Giant, in the former Splitty space at 415 Myrtle Avenue. What is “Cardiff Giant” and what does it have to do with alcohol? Well, nothing really, except for the New
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Photo via nycgo [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJcgh3u03k/?tagged=ftrain&hl=en] Some of our local Councilmembers, along with a group of business, labor, and transit advocates, will be pushing the de Blasio administration and the MTA tomorrow on the issue of renewed F express service in Brooklyn.
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Photo via rasura_fotography [https://www.instagram.com/p/BCQ5A5LE-BP/?taken-at=222330146]Wouldn’t it be wonderful if construction in the neighborhood was as aesthetically pleasing as this photo? Take any photos in the neighborhood lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr
jobs
Freelancers work away at Kos Kaffee. (Photo via Yelp [http://www.yelp.com/biz/kos-kaffe-roasting-house-brooklyn])Are you a freelancer who is struggling to get paid in a timely fashion? New York City Councilmember Brad Lander wants the city to go to bat for you. The City Council’s Consumer Affairs