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PLG Coffee House & Tavern counter. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Yesterday, owners of the beloved PLG Coffee House & Tavern (previously Gratitude Cafe) on at 499 Rogers Avenue announced that they’re moving to Ireland and looking to sell their cafe to locals who will keep its spirit alive.
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Derek Goodings (Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office)On Friday, 28-year-old Derek Goodings was sentenced to 24 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a man during Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert celebration in 2014. According to the defendant’s testimony, Goodings fired
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(Photo via brooklynbridgepark/instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQd0ieuALp7/?taken-by=brooklynbridgepark])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Brooklyn’s 10 most expensive homes sold in 2016. [Curbed [http://ny.curbed.com/maps/brooklyn-most-expensive-homes-sold-2016]] Woman Gives
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Photo: Raymond Campaign The 40th District has three candidates running against the incumbent Mathieu Eugene: Pia Raymond, Jennifer Berkley [/meet-your-candidate-jennifer-berkley-for-flatbushs-district-40/] and Brian Cunningham [/meet-candidate-brian-cunningham-flatbushs-district-40/]. These candidates are vying to represent Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Prospect Park, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Read our discussion with Pia Raymond below.
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(Photo by Martin Friedman)A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested on Monday after crashing a stolen car into a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens brownstone and trying to dash away from the scene. Police pulled over Anthony Hurry for a minor traffic infraction on Flatbush Avenue near Parkside Avenue around 10am, said cops.
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(Photo courtesy Little Mo Wine Shop & Spirits / Facebook [https://m.facebook.com/littlemowine/photos/a.974441029339005.1073741832.825477574235352/974441059339002/?type=3&source=54&ref=page_internal] )Little Mo Wine & Spirits, which was opened in 2015 [/blog/food/new-prospect-lefferts-wine-shop-little-mo-wine-delivers-great-vino-to-ditmas-park/] by Prospect-Lefferts Gardens resident Mark Schwartz, is celebrating
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(Photo by Carly Miller / Ditmas Park Corner)After a spending a sunny, early fall morning at Pels Pie Co [http://pelspieco.com]., 446 Rogers Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, I am completely hooked. Though I came for the food, the atmosphere at this bakery & coffeeshop was almost as delightful as
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Gratitude Cafe, coffee bar interior. (Photo by Anni Irish / Ditmas Park Corner) PLG Coffee House and Tavern, previously known as Gratitude Cafe, recently celebrated its third summer in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Originally opened as a spot for baked goods, sandwiches and coffee [/blog/food/plg-bite-day-gratitude-coffee-croissants/], Gratitude Cafe is run by husband-and-wife
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)We ventured outside of our coffee shop routine on this beautiful Wednesday morning and landed at a reputed [https://www.yelp.com/biz/plg-coffee-house-and-tavern-brooklyn]Prospect-Lefferts Gardens staple. Gratitude Cafe, 499 Rogers Avenue at the corner of Midwood Street, is undergoing a slow rebranding to become
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100 Lenox Road at Bedford Avenue. (Photo courtesy Joe Strini for PropertyShark) Another centennial Victorian home near Prospect Park is set to be swapped with a multi-story apartment building, based on Department of Buildings [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?boro=3&houseno=100&street=Lenox%20Road&
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100 Lenox Road at Bedford Avenue. (Photo courtesy Joe Strini for PropertyShark) Another centennial Victorian home near Prospect Park is set to be swapped with a multi-story apartment building, based on Department of Buildings [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?boro=3&houseno=100&street=Lenox%20Road&
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Freshly baked muffins galore. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)On a steaming, rainy Wednesday afternoon, we ventured into Prospect Lefferts Gardens’s Blue Sky Bakery [http://www.blueskybakery.org], for warm muffins and conversation with Erik Goetze — a.k.a. The Muffin Man. Blue Sky Bakery opened its second location