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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Just northeast of downtown Brooklyn sits the Brooklyn Navy Yard [https://brooklynnavyyard.org], home to a museum, a whiskey distillery, carpenters, fashion designers, and fishmongers, situated not far from three NYCHA developments—Whitman, Farragut, and Ingersoll Houses. Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 92, 63 Flushing Avenue (Photo: Ann
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(courtesy NYC Department of Transit [http://nycdotfeedbackportals.nyc/content/project-proposal])The DOT has pulled out all the stops in promoting its new plan to create a protected bike lane on Clinton Avenue. The transportation agency is doing it differently this time. The proposal [http://nycdotfeedbackportals.nyc/clinton-ave] — which would turn
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Image via NYCDOTThe city Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/current-projects.shtml#plaza-program] (DOT) revealed its preliminary design proposal for the extension and landscaping of Times Plaza to the public at the Brooklyn YWCA last week [/blog/2016/01/26/public-workshop-for-future-development-of-historic-times-plaza-to-be-held-wednesday-january-27/] , asking for community input,
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Sammy Norrito and Eric Spruiell at the CB2 Youth and Education Committee meeting.Dozens of new members were inducted into Brooklyn’s 18 community boards by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at Borough Hall last month — including one civic-minded young woman from Fort Greene. Sammy Norrito, 16, has become Brooklyn
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Image via MetroTech BID [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/about/metrotech-bid].The MetroTech Business Improvement District (BID) is hoping to expand its boundaries [http://downtownbrooklyn.com/about/metrotech-bid] from Downtown Brooklyn to include some cultural institutions in part of Fort Greene next Tuesday, May 5 will be your chance to learn more
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This Thursday, February 19 at 6pm, a coalition of neighborhood groups, merchants associations, and elected officials — including the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership [http://www.myrtleavenue.org], Community Board 2 [http://www.nyc.gov/html/bkncb2/html/home/home.shtml], and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon [http://www.simonforbrooklyn.com/] — is hosting
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By Melisa Stumpf Only two people were arrested in the 88th Precinct two week, down from three the previous week, but two random assaults, along with 19 other felonies, were reported in the precinct. A 22-year-old woman was walking at 1:40 p.m. between Cumberland Street and Park Avenue
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The sweet weather should stick around until this weekend, so be sure to get out and enjoy that sunshine. (Photo by Francisco Daum)Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Brownstoner featured Speedy Romeo [http://www.speedyromeo.com/], a Clinton Hill auto parts store-turned-eatery, in its Design Brooklyn column yesterday