This Week On The Stoop: Outdoor Drinking, Armed Robberies, Cyclists Tickets


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Here’s a look back at some stories you might have missed this week:

• Cops are after two men they say held up a couple local businesses at gunpoint.

• All the bars where you can enjoy a drink outside.

• Union greening, park drainage, and more winners in District 39 participatory budgeting.

Lulu’s Then & Now is moving to 4th Avenue.

• Assemblymember sponsors bill to study effects of long-term care facility closures.

Preserve a part of some local buildings slated for demolition.

• The lineup for Celebrate Brooklyn is out!

• Pushing for safer streets for pedestrians by adding sidewalk bulb-outs.

• Get excited for free Shakespeare.

• Local cyclists are being ticketed for something that’s not actually illegal.

• Learn some local history trivia you may not have known.