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Photo by NYPD 88th Precinct via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/NYPD88pct/photos/a.435918270099056.1073741831.410827789274771/453337105023839/?type=3&theater] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Raccoon Captured And Euthanized In Clinton Hill
Central Brooklyn
Let’s face it — many of us live in apartment buildings and don’t have the luxury of a backyard. But it’s summertime and once in awhile you’ll crave that BBQ smell. So you go to the park all excited with your grill and see this sign: Photo:
brighton beach
Big Bazaar Supermarket, 100 Brighton Beach Avenue. Owners Ajay Sarin and Tony Parashar with building proprietor Louise Bonsignore and her new employee at the grand opening, July 18 2017. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)Brighton Beach residents finally have a discount grocery store within walking distance, in an area that
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(Photo via NYC Buildings/twitter)Looks like it’s going to be a scorcher today. Update: The heat advisory has been extended through Friday, July 21 The National Weather Service [http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=okx&wwa=heat%20advisory] has issued a Heat Advisory for New
Police & Fire
Intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue M, July 18, 2017 (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)On Sunday, an elderly man was struck and killed by a car while walking across Flatbush Avenue near the Marine Park border. The 83-year-old man was struck by a Toyota driving southbound on Flatbush Avenue,
Arts & Culture
From the report Artists in Schools: A Creative Solution to New York’s Affordable Space CrunchA recent study released by the Center for an Urban Future [https://nycfuture.org/research/more-NYC-artists-fewer-studios-schools] has revealed that artists have been choosing to move to Brooklyn over Manhattan over the past few years. The
Police & Fire
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)A 19-year-old father was indicted on murder charges yesterday for allegedly beating his 16-month-old daughter to death [/little-girl-severely-beaten-fathers-day-father/] on fathers day, officials said. Shaquan Taylor’s charges include second-degree murder, manslaughter, and assault. If convicted
Central Brooklyn
4th Annual Freddy’s Bar and Backroom Doggy Fashion Show (Photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. -Gambino enforcer abandons life of crime to save animals with Brooklyn shelter [ NY Daily
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(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The N train shuffle returns: Prepare for another year [/n-train-shuffle-man-bound-stations-re-open-monday-closures-ahead/] of station closings on the century-old N line in southern Brooklyn. From July 31 to the end of 2018, seven Coney Island-bound platforms will be closed for a $395.7 million MTA renovation project, officials
Announcements
By Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10095118]Martin Landau, an Academy-winning actor and old school Brooklynite, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 89. He died of “unexpected complications,” his publicist said in a statement. Landau was a brilliant actor known
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via BKLYNER reader)A Mill Basin man has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting on Parkside Avenue Friday morning [/2-men-shot-near-parade-grounds-gunmen-bikes-cops-say/] that left one man dead and another wounded, said cops. Damani Thomas, 29, was arrested and charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, and two
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDA man was robbed in broad daylight at gunpoint in Sheepshead Bay last week while on his way to make an $80,000 ATM deposit, said cops. The robbers approached their 24-year-old victim at about 1pm on Monday, July 10 near East 21st Street and Avenue U, said