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Today’s Links: $110M Basquiat Coming To Brooklyn Museum, Prayer Box Installed at Park Slope Church & More

Suits of Armor, Prospect Place, Crown Heights (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)

$110.5M Basquiat Painting Will Be Exhibited at Brooklyn Museum Jan. 26—March 11 [NYT]
Two Residents Injured When Ceiling Collapses at NYCHA Complex in Crown Heights [ABC7 New York]
Bed-Stuy Tenants Say Landlord Is Using Scare Tactics to Try to Drive Them Out of Their Homes [Pix11]
Park Slope’s Grace United Methodist Church Installs Prayer Request Box [News 12]
Department of Small Business Services Installing 62 New Trash Receptacles Along East New York’s Commercial Corridors [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Downtown Brooklyn’s Shake Shack Might Lose Sidewalk Seating [The Real Deal]
Will Bridge Plaza’s 19th-Century Row Houses Escape Downtown Development? [Brownstoner]
Vets Help Save Dog Who Gnawed Off Part of His Hind Leg [NY Daily News]

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