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The Down Low: Forest Schools, Expensive Rooftop Wine & Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Paul Stremple

Nov 21, 2017 — 1 min read

Inside the old Pavilion Theater as it’s being renovated (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.

Bensonhurst Brothers Cornered the Online Market for Appliances and Big Ticket Buys [Crain’s New York]

Park Slope’s Pavilion Theater is Drawing Closer to Reopening As Nitehawk [Brooklyn Paper]

Man Tries Food From 114 Nations While Staying in the Five Boroughs [Timeout]

Hipster Parents Send Their Kids To Forest Schools [NY Post]

Syrian Refugee Family Resettles in Bay Ridge [Voices of NY]

Rooftop Vineyard in Navy Yard Produces $1,000 Bottle of Wine [CNBC]

Sweeping Changes Announced for Bedford Armory Project [Patch]

Brooklyn Commons Screens Films Highlighting Caribbean Immigrant Experience [Voices of NY]

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