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Photo via amytaryn [https://www.instagram.com/p/-hRgvIOUc-/?tagged=happythanksgivingyall]It’s T minus 8 hours to Thanksgiving Day 2015! If your’e sticking around the city to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, make sure to arrive early and bundled up for the cold — although thankfully, no
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Photo by Park Slope StoopWe’re one week away from #GivingTuesday [http://www.givingtuesday.org/], a global day following Black Friday and Cyber Monday that focuses on giving back to the community. We can’t think of a better way to give back than helping our neighborhood schools. Donors Choose
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Photo via a2jc4life [ http://mrg.bz/H9SDBi].It’s T minus 10 hours to Thanksgiving Day 2015! If your’e sticking around the city to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, make sure to arrive early and bundled up for the cold — although thankfully, no umbrella will be needed
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Fort Greene’s Academy of Arts and Letters [http://www.artsandlettersbklyn.org/] (225 Adelphi Street) will now be allowed to increase student diversity by giving priority for 40 percent of seats to students who qualify for free-or-reduced lunch. The move goes into effect for the
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Photo via 5th Avenue BIDMuch like the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, Santa immediately follows the Turkey Day festivities, and here in Brooklyn, that means the big man himself is about to start making local appearances! This Saturday, November 28, he’ll be in Park Slope as part of a
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Artists rendering of 911-917 Atlantic Avenue. (Image via Marvel Architects [http://www.280cadman.com]).We’ve known for some time now [/blog/2015/06/23/see-what-the-all-affordable-buildings-at-1041-1047-fulton-street-and-911-917-atlantic-avenue-will-look-like/] that the sale of the Brooklyn Heights Library will lead directly to a couple of affordable housing projects at 1041-1047 Fulton Street (between Downing
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Image via Dodgerton Skillhouse [http://mrg.bz/QS0kqz].A smoking ban has been proposed [http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=smoke-freepublichousing.pdf] by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), sparking questions about how exactly such a law, if passed, can be enforced by an
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Photo via Fort Greene Park [https://www.instagram.com/p/-euxiyjnyc/?taken-by=fortgreenepark].“We had an amazing day of service and volunteering with students from the Academy of Arts and Letters this morning! Over 70 new friends and their parents learned about composting, mulching, and stewardship, and raked up a
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Photo by Kathie Lou MoserNeighbor Kathie Lou Moser snapped this quiet shot outside of the Old Stone House. 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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Looking for something to do with the whole family this week? There are a lot of great kid-friendly events coming up in Brooklyn, and we’ve selected some of our favorites. See the full details below! For more things to do around Brooklyn, and to add your own [http://citykidcamp.
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Photo by xandert [ http://mrg.bz/y4c9tB].“With the conviction of his killer and the long prison sentence that he faces, justice was done. May Mr. Kelley rest in peace.” Those were the words of Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson after the conviction of Victorious Kingsberry, 20, a Clinton Hill
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December 31 marks the next deadline for real estate developers to file plans in time to qualify for a 421a tax abatement, which means that there will likely be a flurry of activity to get plans submitted. If it’s anything like what happened this May and June, when the