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The Down Low: Election Coverage, Gentrification Stats & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Paul Stremple

Nov 6, 2017 — 1 min read

Brooklynites cheer on runners near Mile 13 of the NYC Marathon in Greenpoint (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.

A Voter’s Guide to Tomorrow’s Election [WNYC]

An Unabashedly Opinionated—And Good—Guide to Tomorrow’s Election [The Bridge BK]

NYPD Cop Wayne Isaacs Found Not Guilty In Road Rage Killing of Delrawn Small [NY Times]

Fraudulent Deed Transfers Frustrate Family in Bed-Stuy [NBC NY]

Ride Hailing App Via Expands to All of Brooklyn Following User Poll [NY Times]

A Holocaust Survivor in Midwood [NY Times]

Remembering the Suffragettes Who Marched 100 Years Ago [WNYC]

Daily News Witholds Endorsement from De Blasio [NY Daily News]

Bo Dietl’s Racist, Islamophobic Tweets Spark Trump Comparisons [NY Daily News]

Gentrification Drives Hispanics Out of Brooklyn To Outer Boroughs [NY Post]

Everyone Cuts Footloose After Cabaret Law is Repealed [NY Times]

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Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

If you want your district to have the best possible representation in the city council right away, you should look beyond politics and pick Justin Brannan, a moderate Democrat.

Should Kagan or Brannan Represent Bay Ridge and Coney Island in City Council?

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After seven inches of rain punished New York City on Friday, Mayor Eric Adams took almost a whole day to make his first comments about a storm that effectively ground his city, the country’s largest, to a halt. After having seven separate public events without acknowledging the storm, Adams

Streets, Migrants, And More

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The weather has turned pleasant and just about every neighborhood in Brooklyn wants you to come out and enjoy all it has to offer — from Atlantic Antic Downtown, 3rd Avenue Fair in Bay Ridge, art crawls in Ditmas Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, to lots of literary events to go