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This past year, have you enjoyed participating in the Wallabout History Walking Tours [http://bit.ly/FREELocalTours] this past year? Or seeing local seniors be able to take fitness classes [http://bit.ly/InvestinLocalSeniors] designed for them? Do you want to partake of the Farragut Fresh Pantry [http://bit.ly/
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Rendering courtesy of Friends of the Brooklyn Queens ConnectorIn Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois tells Mitch, “I’ll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people.” While this is Brooklyn, and not New Orleans, this borough could use some
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Photo via yesmini_ [https://www.instagram.com/p/BAKTnbanTbC/?taken-by=yesmini_]. Never underestimate the power of just walking aimlessly. Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram [http://instagram.com/
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Photo via thesavorylining2 [https://www.instagram.com/p/_SDNLIN9_t/?tagged=parkslope]Who’s going to rescue this poor frog? Take any photos in the neighborhood lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag
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Photo by whiterussian [ http://mrg.bz/yGN3E8].BY CHRISTINE BUSH It might feel like the frozen tundra out there, but spring baseball will be here before we know it. If your future Yankee is already dusting off their cleats, note that many of the Brooklyn leagues have started registration for
Events
Trees from 2015’s Treecycle on 4th Avenue event. (Photo courtesy of S.J. Avery) Want to make sure your Christmas tree becomes mulch, but don’t want to drag it to Mulchfest 2016 [http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest?utm_source=CornerMedia&utm_medium=SponsoredPostAd&utm_
Arts & Culture
Brooklyn artists and performers will be gathering at JACK theater in Clinton Hill for a fundraiser benefit in support of the family and community of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy who was shot and killed by a police officer shortly before Thanksgiving 2014. The benefit [https://www.facebook.com/
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Photo by Park Slope StoopThe story doesn’t have the gravitas of a Puccini opera, however the players in this tale are singing arias that have created quite a drama. The landlord versus owner kind of drama. And their stories are in extreme opposition. The setting is 160 7th Avenue
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Image courtesy of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.myrtleavenue.org/new-buildings-planned-myrtle-avenue-clinton-hill/]. Going into the new year, there are several street redesign projects around Brooklyn that are still underway, delayed for one reason or another. Among those are the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza (between Hall Street and Emerson Place) and
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Rendering courtesy of Friends of the Brooklyn Queens ConnectorIn Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois tells Mitch, “I’ll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people.” While this is Brooklyn, and not New Orleans, this borough could use some
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Jermaine Fowler performs at Union Hall on Thursday, January 7. (Photo via Jermaine Fowler [https://www.facebook.com/jermaine.fowler/photos/pb.229913330520123.-2207520000.1452141132./506582836186503/?type=3&theater] )January has come, but you don’t need to be in post-holiday doldrums for long! We have dirty waltzing, hellishly
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Photo via NYPDAccording to the police, on Sunday, December 6, 2015, at about 5:25am, a 24-year-old female was walking on Bergen Street in Park Slope. Cops say a suspect approached her from behind, grabbed her buttocks, and attempted to pull down her pants. The victim screamed and the suspect