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685 4th Avenue. (Image via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6621616,-73.9961817,3a,75y,93.78h,100.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6yShe0bdYPp_ulGJAsLcag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] )Plans have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 685 4th Avenue (corner of 22nd Street), The Real
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Photo via Quarter Bar [https://www.facebook.com/149982888380865/photos/a.149984478380706.25916.149982888380865/331996206846198/?type=3&theater] South Slope is known for some of the great watering holes in the area. And now, the whole country knows. That’s because Esquire Magazine has named Quarter Bar one of
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Tanya Kinne with her fiancé Chris Kovacs were struck in a hit and run on Saturday, May 21 on 3rd Avenue. (Courtesy of the Kinne/Kovacs family)A pedestrian severely injured due to a hit and run incident [/blog/transportation/pedestrian-hospitalized-green-taxi-flees-hit-run-gowanus/] on Saturday, May 21 in Gowanus returned to her
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Pig Beach opened just before Memorial Day weekend. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The “Gowanus Riviera” is full of curiosities, so a BBQ joint shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. The banks of the Superfund site [/blog/art-music/joseph-alexious-gowanus-canal-just-swim/] are becoming more and more of a
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Left to Right: Public Advocate Leticia James, 78th Precinct Deputy Inspector Frank DiGiacomo and Eric McLure from Park Slope Neighbors unveil the new Michael Ameri bike lane sign on Bergen Street and 6th Avenue in Brooklyn. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Elizalde / Park Slope Stoop)The 78 Precinct Community Council and local
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Images courtesy of NYPDCops say a man punched a 61-year-old woman as she exited a subway elevator, and now police are asking for your help in identifying him. The incident took place Monday, April 4 at 7pm, at the subway station on Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, according to authorities.
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A Prospect Park Residence tenant holds a protest sign in a 2014 rally to stop elderly evictions. (Credit: Prospect Park Residence/Facebook)More than 125 senior citizens, including Holocaust survivors and dementia patients, at the troubled Prospect Park Residence were forced out of their apartments under an eviction notice from
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‘Quality Wood’ by Karen Gibbons is one of many pieces of local artwork for you to take home this Thursday from ArtWorks 2016 – A Benefit for Arts Gowanus. (Courtesy of Arts Gowanus)Welcome to the week, which features very engaging events to say the least: A Morbid Anatomy book launch,
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Photovia Assemblymember James Brennan [https://www.facebook.com/27523202673/photos/pb.27523202673.-2207520000.1464707281./10153140018207674/?type=3&theater] After 32 years of service, Jim Brennan will no longer represent our area in Albany. State Assemblymember James Brennan, whose district includes sections of Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Park Slope and Windsor
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(Courtesy Rob Nguyen via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_nguyen/5472622043/in/photolist-9kABSt-8xnCfp-8xqE3j-3WxDap-8xqEfN-8xnBVX-8xnC2D-8xqEpq-8xnC8k-aW5w3k-8xqEn5-48ryw6-8xnC3T-3WBZZy-e81Gwj-8xnBYr-ahArv2-4S9LNZ-5pobLc-aW5vJK-bccaBr-6BocX7-6aUsbU-xxUHyU-aqKKfn-8pN9LD-xVn4N-8CK2U4-dzoygh-8fQaJF-4S9L5t-gSkCZZ-uELuhW-gSkwy1-KzfYi-99PjyB-8gvqhs-9SfdEF-4oJrGi-ckTaqA-ckTadw-6aUrT5-hjw2oP-3WxGf8-6aQgvp-6aUruL-6VBhQb-8xqEsb-7umc2c-yT9Z] .)A man was found dead of a drug overdose at Junior’s [
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Eastern Effects employees. (Photo via Eastern Effects [https://www.facebook.com/EasternEffects/photos/a.548178442009519.1073741828.548036835357013/575280759299287/?type=3&theater] )A successful film studio in the Gowanus neighborhood which has close to 230 employees could be forced to close if a proposed environmental cleanup plan moves forward. Under
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Josephina Tacos opened as a pop-up at The Pines. (Photo via Twitter [https://twitter.com/brooklynmag/status/732982791479123969])The heat showed up quickly late last week, and we have some openings and “coming soons” that seem to have come out of nowhere as well. We’ve even seen some surprising