This Week In BKLYNER: Mermaids, Supermarkets, Film Shoots & More
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Coney Island: Coney Island’s 36th Annual Mermaid Parade [PHOTOS]
Downtown Brooklyn: 17-Foot-Tall Sculpture Depicting Endangered Rhinos Moves to MetroTech Commons
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: Man Sentenced For Assaulting Homeless Man And Streaming Attack On Facebook Live
Clinton Hill: Myrtle Avenue Plaza Debuts This Thursday With Free Public Events All Summer
Flatbush: Kmart opened at Sears on Beverley on Saturday
Brownsville: Brownsville Parks Report Shows Need for Investment, Advocacy
Northern Brooklyn: Assemblymember Lentol Passes L Train Mitigation Bill, Calls for Plan from MTA
DUMBO: Low-Income, Supportive Housing Coming To Former Jehovah’s Witnesses Hotel
Park Slope: Ansonia Chemist: Another 7th Avenue Institution Shutters
Brooklyn-wide: Is Marijuana Legal Now? Not Quite… What The Mayor’s Announcement Means
Park Slope: 78th Precinct NCO Sector C Build The Block Meeting: Lock Up Your Bikes
Crown Heights: Two Men Charged With Assault in Hate Crime Attack on Rabbinical Student
Sheepshead Bay: Brooklyn’s Largest Eastern European Market Has Opened To Never Close
Gravesend: Foodtown on Stillwell Avenue Opens on Friday
Gravesend/Ditmas Park: “The Kitchen” Filming Through Friday in Gravesend, “Crashing” in Ditmas Park
Central Brooklyn: Four Schools Will Pilot Kosher And Halal School Lunches Next Year
Prospect Park: “The World Needs More Heroes” — What An Actual Summer Camp Teaches Kids
Park Slope: District 15 Middle Schools May Eliminate Academic “Screening” In Effort To Integrate
Bushwick: Silvershorted! How A Tenant Shamed One of NY’s Worst Landlords Into Returning His Security Deposit
Downtown Brooklyn: Man Hit By Q Train This Morning At DeKalb
Boerum Hill: HIV/AIDS Center Moves From 80 Flatbush Site Providing Short Notice To Clients
Bushwick: Anti-Gentrification Protestors Break Up Bushwick Community Board Meeting
Park Slope: Sir D’s Cafe To Reopen As The Slope Lounge
Brooklyn-wide: Thank You For Making Good Community Journalism Possible!
Downtown Brooklyn: Brooklyn’s Old Paramount Theatre Is New Again
Park Slope: 9th Street Redesign: A Step Closer To Reality
