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Photo via Shape Up NYC [https://www.facebook.com/shapeupnewyorkcity/photos/pb.277429779068877.-2207520000.1437597282./705937032884814/?type=3&theater] Great news for all our neighborhood fitness buffs — and those who want to become fitness buffs! Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church [https://sites.google.com/site/flatbushtompkins/] (424 E. 19th Street, by
Calvert Vaux Park
Calvert Vaux Park (Photo by Bensonhurst Bean)Another budget season, another trashed Southern Brooklyn park. At a Parks budget hearing last week, Councilman Mark Treyger raised with Commissioner Mitchell Silver the issue of the dilapidated and overgrown Calvert Vaux Park [http://observer.com/2015/05/de-blasio-administration-wont-commit-to-bloomberg-promises-on-parks/] , which in 2007 was
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A recent report [/playground-injuries/] by Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office found that Bensonhurst Park was among those with the greatest amount of playground injury lawsuits within a 10-year period. But the park’s problems are not limited to the playground. On a recent visit to Bensonhurst Park, we found broken
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Looks like New York won’t be getting a “record-breaking” snow fall after all. The blizzard warning has been dropped for most of the New York area – though it remains in effect for Suffolk County and Long Island. Snow accumulation predictions have been downgraded [http://www.amny.com/news/blizzard-in-nyc-weather-forecast-subway-status-school-closings-and-more-from-winter-storm-juno-1.
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Source: Venkytsv via Wikimedia CommonsFrom the offices of Councilman David Greenfield: In his latest effort to spruce up local neighborhoods and help improve the environment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is hosting a free tree giveaway this Sunday, October 21 at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School. The event, held in partnership