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Today’s Links: Avocado Bar, Speeding Tickets and Who’s To Tell Us How To Live

Bklyner Staff

14 Feb 2018 — 1 min read

AECOM & the Chamber of commerce want to tell us how to live, an essay by George Fiala (Red Hook)

Blackface photos used in Brooklyn PTA fund-raiser message ignite outrage (Park Slope)

Avocaderia on ‘Shark Tank’: A Look Inside the World’s First Avocado Bar (Industry City)

Driven to death: Carting company’s overworking and law skirting leads to fatal accidents, workers claim (Bushwick)
Help for homeowners: Bill would aid in getting cheaper flood insurance

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams calls on de Blasio to bring back solitary confinement for violent inmates (Daily News)

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