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Image via Google Maps.A new three-story office building may be coming to the corner of Flushing Avenue and Ryerson Street if the building application and permits are approved for Madison Realty Capital and Perkins Eastman. The site at 256 Flushing Avenue is currently an empty garage and sits next
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Back in 2003 — well before I was elected to the City Council, before I directed the Pratt Center, when I led the Fifth Avenue Committee — the Bloomberg Administration proposed to upzone Fourth Avenue in Park Slope. We had a simple idea: mandate that developers include some affordable units for low-
Events
(Chinese New Year celebration on 8th Avenue, Brooklyn. Photo: Jole Carliner) Update [February 13, 11pm]: The parade has been postponed until Sunday, February 21 because of extreme weather [/blog/announcements/a-weekend-of-sub-zero-wind-chills-tips-to-stay-warm-and-safe/] headed our way. Monkeys are smart, curious, innovative, and loveable, with an unruly temper and snotty attitude. This year
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Image via NYPD.Police have arrested three out of the four teens captured on surveillance video allegedly attacking a 50-year-old mailman last week [/blog/2016/02/04/assault-inside-fort-greene-deli-four-suspects/] at the Genuine Deli at 700 Fulton Street in Fort Greene and they are all young teens. Joshua Ruiz, 14, Keeshawn Ruan,
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Photo via dellamcantillion [https://www.instagram.com/p/BBiDFrAKsot/?tagged=firemonkey]Park Slope Stoop wishes you and your family a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year! This is the Year of the Fire Monkey. The last Fire Monkeys were born in 1956!
Arts & Culture
Famous theatre director Trevor Nunn is coming to Brooklyn for his American debut and he’s doing it at our very own Polonsky Shakespeare Center, by Theatre for a New Audience [http://www.tfana.org/season-2016/pericles/overview] (TFANA), which is kicking off a production of “Pericles” this Sunday, February
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Photo via lottaluggage_grace [https://www.instagram.com/p/6usYOGR-b8/?tagged=brooklynbike]A new City Council bill [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2564366&GUID=D4E7E09A-5B98-4C14-BAC8-A9D242408B26&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=menchaca] has been proposed that would allow a bicyclist to cross a street with
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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 event listing [/calendar/] to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/]. ONGOING Book Sale Donation Collection When: Through Friday, April 8 Where: Clinton Hill Library
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275 4th Avenue, rendering by Moso Studio/ODA Architecture. (Courtesy of Moso Studio/ODA Architecture)Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan — meant to address the city’s affordable housing crisis — will now move to the City Council for a final review after it was approved last Wednesday [http:
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A new City Council bill [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2564366&GUID=D4E7E09A-5B98-4C14-BAC8-A9D242408B26&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=menchaca] has been proposed that would allow a bicyclist to cross a street with the pedestrian light — instead of with the vehicle traffic lights, which they
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“Please do Not Do Any Thing Soon Or With-Out Permission” by Lance Lance Rutledge. (Courtesy of Lance Rutledge)Discussions of the many developments happening in the Gowanus neighborhood tend to spark controversy nowadays. Whether it’s public outcry of a Pre-K being built on top of a possible mass grave
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Image via Google Maps.Soon, we’ll be welcoming Carey Gabay Way to the neighborhood — a reminder that the slain lawyer and former assistant counsel for Governor Andrew Cuomo will always be a part of the Clinton Hill neighborhood that he called home. The stretch of Clinton Avenue between Willoughby