News
Photo via porterhovey [https://www.instagram.com/p/_YFrULLrjI/?tagged=parkslope] After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. A 62-year-old woman
Animals
Photo by Chris Cobb.Errant rat traps laced with rat poison are being left out in the open sidewalk and catching not rats, but birds, squirrels, and even pets, say residents from across Brooklyn, including Fort Greene. Here, along South Oxford Street and around Cuyler Gore Park on Fulton Street,
Kids & Family
Looking for a way to touch the lives of Brooklyn families this holiday? Consider donating a Target gift card to new teen moms at CHiPS [http://chipsonline.org/]. “I met 4 of the 5 moms who reside with their babies at CHiPS on Tuesday at a holiday party,” wrote Park
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464 Clinton Avenue, #1F (Photo via Cesar Hidalgo [http://streeteasy.com/building/464-clinton-avenue-brooklyn/1f])Looking for a new place to call home, or a spot to start your business? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Fort Greene and Clinton Hill apartment listings, plus one commercial space — take a
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Images via NYPD.The two women pictured here in surveillance photos from the Nostrand Avenue A/C station are wanted by police for assaulting an MTA worker at around 8:56am on Monday, November 9 — last month — with a purse and fists. The 48-year-old employee was cleaning the northbound side
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64 St Johns Place, #4 (Photo via Space Real Estate [http://streeteasy.com/rental/1696391])Looking for a new place to call home, or a spot to start your business? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Park Slope apartment listings, plus one commercial space — take a look at
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Image via NYC Economic Development Corporation.Good news: the Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights — just south of the border with Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy — will be transformed into affordable housing, community and office space, a multi-sport recreational facility, and commercial space that will be open to the public. This
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Image via NYPD.The second week in December saw a slight increase in crime compared to the week before [/blog/2015/12/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-30-december-9/] (16 versus 12 incidents [/blog/2015/12/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-30-december-9/] ), although felony assaults, housing crimes, and petit larceny went down. Shootings jumped up to 2 victims in
history
Park Slope Plane Crash, December 16, 1960. (Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S64?/Xpark+slope+plane+crash&m=k&searchscope=64&SORT=D/Xpark+slope+plane+crash&m=k&searchscope=64&SORT=D&SUBKEY=park+slope+plane+crash/
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Wikimedia CommonsBY CHRISTINE BUSH Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez overturned a 2013 health code amendment on Thursday that required New York City children between the ages of 6 and 59 months to receive the flu vaccine before they could attend certain types of preschool or daycare programs. Five mothers
Education
Volunteers help out with Senator Jesse Hamilton Holiday Book DriveAs your kids grow out of some of their beloved books, other kids are looking to enjoy them as well. Senator Jesse Hamilton [https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/jesse-hamilton] has teamed up with community partners for a holiday book drive that
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1930s era Walt Whitman Library, then known as the City Park branch. (Photo via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.instagram.com/myrtleavebklyn].) The Walt Whitman Library branch has been serving our community and schoolkids for over a century — originally referred to as the City Park branch, until 1943 — and