This Week In BKLYNER: Tattoo You, Trumping Hate, Tex-Mex Fate, And More
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• Hateful, Pro-Trump graffiti in Adam Yauch Park replaced with neighborhood love.
• ‘It’s Activism or Fascism’: Packed community meeting addresses ‘Trump’s America’.
• Cops find second dead body in area parks within two weeks.
• Tattoo You: Fort Greene’s Electric Lotus is your friendly neighborhood tattoo shop.
• Slope’s 5th Avenue Loses Two: Backyard disappears, Lobo Tex-Mex to close in days.
• Brooklynites Support Love: Neighbors unite to show ‘Love Trumps Hate’.
• Park Slope Thanksgiving: Where to buy a turkey.
• Here’s your Thanksgiving pie plan: Where to order delicious pies in time for the big day.
• Cops search for suspects who pistol whipped and robbed driver.
• Bandit strikes at two 5th Avenue banks in Slope, cops say.
• This Old House: Four 19th century houses preserved in Downtown Brooklyn.
• Can declining voter turnout in Brooklyn be reversed?
• Real Estate Round-up: Welcome Back Kotter edition.
• Question the Chutzpahdiks: Brooklyn welcomes the first edition of Jewish Comic Con.
• Deal reached on controversial tax credit for affordable housing construction.
• ‘Full Force of Law’ will be used to address spike in hate crimes, day Brooklyn DA & Gov.
• Dining Review: Hibino hits and misses but mostly hits.
• Tony Danza talks his new play, growing up in Brooklyn, and fresh mozzarella.
• Help neighbors in need have a plentiful holiday season with a canned food donation.
• Donate a pie to help local seniors have a sweet Thanksgiving.
• With impending fare hike for subways & buses, riders to have limited input (Vote).
• Councilmembers join call for MTA fare reductions for low-income riders.
• Local council members introduce 421-A oversight bills.
• Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company returns to BRIC (Sponsored).
• Greenmarket Recipe: Thanksgiving Sides.
• Adoptable animal of the week: Patches the cat.
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, November 14: Meat cleavers and sucker punches over election, beautiful seahorse, and other stories you shouldn’t miss.
• Tuesday, November 15: Sun rays power Brooklyn and other stories you shouldn’t miss.
• Thursday, November 17: Sexy taxi driver models and other stories you shouldn’t miss.