This Week From BKLYNER: Citi Bike Calm, Gowanus Scooped, Analog Cats, And More

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• Here’s your spooky and ghoulish list of Halloween events.

• BKLYNER Real Estate Round-up: Apartments Under $3K. Any Questions?

• Overflowing, passionate, and civil crowd pack Citi Bike hearing, and it’s about more than just spokes.

Next to Whole Foods, submerged shopping carts and boats scooped up in Gowanus Canal Pilot Project.

• Dining Review: Steve’s Key Lime Pie obsession in Red Hook will make you ‘swingle’.

• Dining Review: Dean Street’s freaky good fried chicken.

• Colorful skeletons on 9th Street smile for Día De Los Muertos and frown on Trump.

• Queens company fined for dumping sewage into the Gowanus Canal.

• Not only for the stroller set, Park Slope just got a lot more age-friendly for older neighbors.

• Native Americans & activists protest Dakota Access Pipeline at Clinton’s Brooklyn Headquarters yesterday.

• Six-Hundred school bus routes could be affected by possible driver strike next week.

• Park Slope 5th Avenue BID’s Mark Caserta knows that Real Men Wear Pink.

• NYPD continues to investigate noose & anti-semitic graffiti found at Fort Greene Park.

Cinema, medical horrors & Victorian cocktails come together in Downtown Brooklyn.

• Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus And BAMcinématek in Fort Greene take on analog cats.

• Community Board 6 reviews proposal for substance abuse center in Gowanus.

• Album Release: From New Orleans to Duke Ellington to Sing Sing Prison, it’s Slavic Soul Party!

• First official notices sent out to city stores for controversial Plastic Bag Bill.

• Adoptable animal of the week: Brenna the Shepherd.

• Have a Happy Halloween! Stay safe with these helpful tips.

The Down-Lows from this week, our new round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

• Monday, October 24: City Geeks Are Kinda Sexy and other stories you shouldn’t miss.

• Tuesday, October 25: Santa Clause gets drunk and other stories you shouldn’t miss.

• Wednesday, October 26: Do not vaguely joke about killing Trump and other stories you shouldn’t miss.

• Thursday, October 27: Pavilion was the worst movie theater ever and other stories you shouldn’t miss.