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Image via NYPD.Christmas week was a good one in terms of crime rates in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Reports dropped across the board compared to the previous week (December 14-20) [/blog/2015/12/28/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-december-14-20/], except for grand larcenies (which stayed the same at 5 incidents) and rapes
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Photo via new_york_somewhere [https://www.instagram.com/p/BALJroQQoEn/?taken-by=new_york_somewhere].Seen in Clinton Hill. 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 donut_strong [https://www.instagram.com/p/_zHfUBnQUL/]Passing by layers of political ideology in Gowanus. 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 them #parkslope
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We’re currently growing, and we’d love to add some new staff members to our crew! If you are passionate about the Brooklyn neighborhoods [http://cornernewsmedia.com/] that we cover, please get in touch about the possibilities for full-time and contributing writeropportunities, and a digital advertising operations manager position.
Education
The city Department of Education’s proposed zone change for PS8 and PS307 in School District 13. (Image via NYCDOE).Community Education Council District 13 (CEC 13) voted 6-3 in favor of supporting the city Department of Education’s (DOE) plan to rezone school boundaries for PS 8 and PS
Business
Image via Spice and Grill [https://www.instagram.com/nepaleseindianrestaurant/]. How about a little spice to warm up and chase away your winter blues? Well we can get that and more at Spice And Grill (441 Myrtle Avenue), one of the first new businesses of the new year! Their doors
Announcements
Our parent company, Corner Media Group, is currently growing, and we’d love to add some new staff members to our crew! If you are passionate about the Brooklyn neighborhoods [http://cornernewsmedia.com/] that we cover, please get in touch about the possibilities for full-time and contributing writer opportunities, and
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Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst BeanSouthern Brooklyn’s decrepit N line stations [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2015/01/post-apocalyptic-n-line-get-repairs-screwing-commute/] will finally get some TLC this month, but unfortunately that comes with a price for local commuters. The first half of the MTA’s planned four-year renovation [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/
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President Barack Obama’s announcement that he is taking executive action to strengthen gun control laws [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-unveil-new-gun-restrictions-slams-congress-for-inaction/2016/01/04/81d539e8-b2fb-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html] , increase background checks, and provide financial and human resources to implementing these new rules, along with existing rules, has been met with
Arts & Culture
Photo via ImprovEverywhere.com [http://improveverywhere.com/]What is it with January and stripping down? The cold weather must bring out the exhibitionist in all of us. Just a few days ago, the Coney Island Polar Bears took the plunge [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/01/heres-what-it-feels-like-to-take-the-new-years-day-polar-bear-plunge/] in their annual
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Image via NBC.Don’t worry: the crime scene around Myrtle and Clinton Avenues is fake. It’s a film set for “Law & Order: SVU,” which is filming all today, through 8:30pm, shooting interiors and exteriors at 196 Clinton Avenue. Cast and crew are taking up parking spaces
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Photo by dimstergram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BABaGPmEHTw/?taken-by=dimstergram].Walking in a winter wonderland at Putnam Plaza in Clinton Hill. 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