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The Down Low: A Train Track Rescue Effort, A Sold Orphanage & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Paul Stremple

Dec 15, 2017 — 1 min read

Why watch when you can record? Dancers and spectators at 2001 Space Odyssey this week. (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

Indoor Agriculture from a Brooklyn Startup [The Bridge BK]

Family Sues Charter School for Boy’s 40 Day Suspension [New York Daily News]

A Top of the Line Training Center for the FDNY [New York Times]

Dyker Heights Orphanage Sold To Unnamed Developers [Brownstoner Paper]

A Frantic Effort to Rescue A Man From the Q Subway Tracks [ABC 7]

When Murder Ruled New York [New York Post]

Councilmember Jumaane Williams Mulls Challenge to Cuomo in Gubernatorial Primary [Patch]

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