CB2 sent info about National Night Out Against Crime in their area of Brooklyn, which includes Fort Greene, Bushwick, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Park Slope and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Here are the precincts:
88th Precinct:
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Police Service Area 3
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78th Precinct
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84th Precinct
Join the 84th Precinct Community Council, the 84th Precinct, elected officials, merchants
and your neighbors on Tuesday, Aug. 1 at 5 p.m. in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 5 Picnic area.
Come on out let's get together to celebrate our united community!
Entertainment:
Blenman Steel Sounds - Pianist Kay Sublime
Gowanus Wildcats Drill Team
Plus:
Police bicycle and scooter registration
Bicycle helmets distributed by DOT
Refreshments, Cookout - Ice Cream, Games and Face Painting
Transportation will be provided to the elderly and disabled by the 84th Precinct
Phone 718-875-6850 to reserve a few days in advance.
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Showing posts with label Bushwick. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 30, 2017
National Night Out Against Crime Activities in Brooklyn Tuesday
Thursday, March 2, 2017
'Muslim Slayer' Threatens Mosque; Shot in the Back in Bushwick; Catsimatidis Explores Run for Mayor; and More Brooklyn Briefs
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| The Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Eric Frazier Productions will present the first-ever Fort Greene Park Winter Jazz Festival, at The Five Spot on March 12. |
- Fire rips through Brooklyn family’s nearly-finished new home, further displacing them less than five years after Hurricane Sandy. [Daily News]
- Five (more) important takeaways from Brooklyn Heights Assn's annual meeting. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Police hunt for ‘Muslim Slayer’ who threatened Brooklyn mosque. [Daily News]
- Brooklyn BP Eric Adams launched the website for the 2017 edition of Dine In Brooklyn. 60 restaurants have signed up so far. [Dine In Brooklyn]
- The curious case of the woman walking along the train track in Brooklyn. [NY Post]
- Bitingly funny 'Skin of Our Teeth' at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Meet the people who spend countless hours making the macabre masks of J'ouvert and the sexy spandex of the West Indian Parade. [Vice]
- John Catsimatidis is exploring another run for the position of mayor. [Gothamist]
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Sex in a Bushwick Bathroom; Love Comes to Babeland; Valezquez Calls for Russian Investigation; and More Brooklyn Briefs
Spreading the love on Valentines Day, by handing out Valentine Day cards to our community. Its the Brooklyn North Way @NYPDnews @NYPD79Pct pic.twitter.com/jHafBjhBSL— NYPDBrooklynNorth (@NYPDBklynNorth) February 14, 2017
- Elderly cabbie leaves 65-year-old man clinging to life after he strikes him in Marine Park crosswalk. [Daily News]
- 27 percent of those surveyed by Bushwick Daily reported having sex in a Bushwick bar or restaurant. [Bushwick Daily]
- Love comes to Babeland sex boutiques just in time for Valentine’s Day. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- New York City is investigating three recent cases — one of them fatal — of a rare disease transmitted through rat urine. [NY Times]
- Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Velazquez has renewed her call for a Special Counsel to investigate Russian hacking of election given Flynn's resignation. [Letter]
- Brooklyn man campaigns to house Muslim refugees in Trump Tower. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Former Brooklyn HS hoops star arrested in Jersey City on fraud, identity theft charges. [NJ.com]
- Members of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election. [NY Times]
Someone in Brooklyn is projecting a pregnant Trump, and Putin, on the side of a building. pic.twitter.com/vRxX37rTLO— Internet Palace (@InternetPalace) February 15, 2017
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Monday, January 23, 2017
Road Rager Runs Down Boy; Glowing Sex Stuff; El Chapo; and More Brooklyn Briefs
Happy birthday, Sam Cooke!— Otis Redding (@OtisRedding) January 22, 2017
Photo: Poster from when Otis and Sam played together at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, NY in 1963 #SamCooke pic.twitter.com/m2cpLfr6mc
- Road-rage driver hits boy, 14, on Greenpoint sidewalk, then yells at other driver as boy writhes in pain. [Daily News]
- A feminist-sex-shop-gift-shop-book-shop-mini-gallery operates behind a glittery curtain in a laundromat in Bushwick. It specializes in "cosmic, glowing sex stuff." [TCP]
- No tunnel out for Mexican drug lord El Chapo, facing justice in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- 15-year-old shot in East Flatbush, 2 suspects flee: NYPD. [NBC NY]
- East Flatbush man arrested for hiding a dismembered corpse in the Bronx. [NY1]
- A Brooklyn solution to Islam's law forbidding women from showing their hair to men outside of their own families, even while getting a haircut. [Refinery29]
- Nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus, and 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers, a national survey indicates. [KRQE]
- Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in an op-ed that insurance companies in New York will have to continue offering birth control for no co-pay even if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. [Gothamist]
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
DJ Jinx Paul Killed in Brooklyn; Bushwick Inlet Park Celebrated; Morbid Anatomy News and More Brooklyn Briefs
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| Courtesy Brooklyn Historical Society |
- Proponents of Bushwick Inlet Park triumphant as final piece falls into place. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- The Morbid Anatomy Museum has ceased operations. [Gothamist]
- Brooklyn residents and advocates fear that the MTA’s next round of fare hikes will increase fare-beating in the borough. [amNY]
- Brooklyn is the number 1 city for female entrepreneurs, including the creator of Toymail. [Fortune]
- The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival presents a screening of Brooklyn documentaries on Dec. 21. (Photo above) [The BHA]
- Check out this new Brooklyn hotel’s stunning Christmas lights. [Time Out]
- Job of the week: Tall, athletic person wanted to wear huge bird costume. $20/hr. [Brooklyn Eagle, ad upper left]
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Two Last-Chance Oktoberfest Celebrations in Brooklyn Tonight and Tomorrow
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| Courtesy Brooklyn Brewery |
* The Brooklyn Historical Society is holding an Oktoberfest party on Friday, October 21st between 5:00 and 9:00 pm. The event promises “an evening of beer appreciation with a home brewing workshop, beer tastings, a Beauty and the Beer film screening, and more!” Brooklyn Heights. More info at Historical Society.
* Blocktoberfest presented by NYC Brewers Guild: Come out and meet your favorite New York City breweries over a beer at the annual fall fundraiser in support of New York City Beer Week. This event is coming to Bushwick, taking over the backyard at craft beer spot, The Well, on Saturday, Oct. 22. More Blocktoberfest details here.
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Monday, October 17, 2016
Brooklyn School Lockdown; Karate Family Rescues Woman; Kanye West Tour and More Brooklyn Briefs
- Gunshots prompt brief lock-down at nearby Brooklyn school. [Daily News]
- Downtown Brooklyn construction update: Century 21's City Point debut. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- This Brooklyn coffee shop charges by the minute rather than by the cup. [Business Insider]
- Karate teaching father and stepson rescue woman being beaten in Bushwick. [CBS]
- Kanye West announces tour, New Year's Eve at Barclays Center in Brooklyn included. [Brooklyn Vegan]
- Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn will open October 28. [indiewire]
- See the hidden murals inside Brooklyn's Black Lady Theater. [Gothamist]
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Brooklyn Prison on Lockdown; Fire in Downtown Brooklyn; Matt Damon Tours Brooklyn Heights Mansion; and More Brooklyn Briefs
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| Joycleen Franklin, 79, was last seen Tuesday wearing a brown beret and a blue jacket. She was last seen near Flatlands and Pennsylvania avenues in Brooklyn. If you see her call 9-1-1. |
- 76th Precinct criticized following 4-car collision on Clinton Street Tuesday night. [PMFA]
- Public comment period opens on a cleanup plan for contaminated site on the Gowanus Canal. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- 4 films to get excited about at this year’s Bushwick Film Festival. [Brokelyn]
- Flames tore through a line of storefronts along Fulton Street near the intersection of Fulton and Flatbush Avenue on Wednesday. [Patch]
- Two former River Café employees claim they were subjected to homoerotic harassment by a manager at the landmark restaurant in Fulton Ferry. [Daily News]
- Cranberry Street Fair returns to Brooklyn Heights this Saturday. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- The historic Lundy’s Brothers Restaurant building on Emmons Avenue will be getting some much needed improvements. [Sheepshead Bites]
- Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso toured the most expensive home in Brooklyn — the $40 million BH mansion at 3 Pierrepont Place. [NY Post]
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Brooklyn Hospitals Get Terrible Rating from Federal Gov; Laundromat Dog Stealer; and More Brooklyn Briefs
RT @NYPDTransit: This guy is wanted for forcible touching on 8/12 on the Q train in Brooklyn- Call #800577TIPS pic.twitter.com/CJy5KWvVIs— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) August 23, 2016
- Unhealthy Brooklyn: Brooklyn hospitals fare abysmally in disputed federal rankings. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Woman shot while playing with grandchildren at Brooklyn playground. [Daily News]
- The Coney Island Circus Sideshow school has opened to train people in the classic art of freaking people out. [Sheepshead Bites]
- Police are searching for a man who stole a dog from a laundromat in Bushwick. [CBSlocal]
- Pictures: Coney Island’s 26th annual sand sculpting competition took the classic beach activity to a new level on Saturday. [Bensonhurst Bean]
- Here's what a million dollars worth of frozen eels looks like. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Glass artist tags Brooklyn Heights with colorful pigeons. [BHB] And this is the guy who makes the beautiful glass mosaics on lampposts in the East Village. [Open Culture]
- Venus and Jupiter are converging for a spectacular conjunction in the sunset sky on August 27th. [NASA]
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Monday, August 8, 2016
Interview with Brooklyn Bridge Climber, Sewer Spelunker; Rally for Bushwick Inlet Park; and More Brooklyn Briefs
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| Photo of mural ad by MK Metz |
- A Talk With Steve Duncan: Brooklyn’s urban explorer, daredevil and sewer man. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Rally at City Hall to save Bushwick Inlet Park on Mon., 8/8. [Greenpointer]
- Moped-riding 80-year-old man fatally struck by car in Brooklyn. [Daily News]
- Brooklyn prosecutor busted for drunken driving after running red light. [Daily News]
- Goodbye Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn Heights. [Brooklyn Eagle|
- Game-changing asthma drug comes out. [Tech Times]
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Where to Find Harry Potter Parties in Brooklyn; De Blasio and LICH; Apple's First Brooklyn Store; and More Brooklyn Briefs
#Brooklyn residents speak out on the probe into #deBlasio's role in the closure of #LICH. https://t.co/OVuqLRWia6 pic.twitter.com/wIWle4aOFg— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) July 29, 2016
- The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has reportedly lied about the horrific water quality of Newtown Creek in city reports—and former employees may sue. [Greenpointers]
- How to die in Brooklyn: This NYC woman gave her former teacher a powerful lesson on coping with mortality. [Daily News]
- Peek inside Apple's first Brooklyn store. [Fast Company]
- A string of brutal sex attacks took place in north Brooklyn over the past week. [NY Post]
- Online finance school opens branch in Downtown Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Mugglemania! Where to celebrate the new Harry Potter release in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Paper]and [Brokelyn]
- Members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers were spotted shooting a music video for “Go Robot” on 86th Street wearing (almost) nothing. [Bensonhurst Bean]
- This Bushwick Pokemon Go party features a celebrity trainer and free booze. [Brokelyn]
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Friday, June 10, 2016
$100,000,000 in NYC Budget to Complete Bushwick Inlet Park
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| Photo by Daniel Avila, courtesy of NYC Parks Dept. |
The CitiStorage facility burned in a massive fire in 2015, taking Brooklyn's medical records and other paperwork down with it.
Councilmember Stephen Levin said in a release Thursday that the Williamsburg and Greenpoint communities "are beyond overjoyed." with the news.
More here.
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
Boy Detective of Carroll Gardens; Cobble Hill's Problems with LICH; and More Brooklyn Briefs
#Brooklyn will celebrate Biggie's birthday w/ @barclayscenter concert featuring @iamdiddy https://t.co/49cuLaQL8d pic.twitter.com/o8Sr986yjr— Brooklyn Daily Eagle (@BklynEagle) March 30, 2016
- Meet the boy detective of Carroll Gardens. [DNAinfo]
- Cobble Hill still awaiting answers from Fortis and NYU about LICH development plans. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- The city on Tuesday bought a seven-acre lot along the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront for $53 million, to be used for the expansion of the long-promised Bushwick Inlet Park. [Brownstoner]
- A Brooklyn realtor has been arrested for allegedly pocketing deposits on apartments. [Gothamist]
- New York City bridge climbers may soon be faced with up to a year in the slammer. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Karate championship hopes dashed after Bushwick fire destroys dojo. [DNAinfo]
- Meet the guitar repair king of Greenpoint. [Brooklyn Magazine]
- Join the Prospect Park Alliance for Opening Weekend in Prospect Park on April 2 + 3, with food, festivities and family fun. [Sheepshead Bites]
- New York native's brilliant performance on "Wheel of Fortune" is going viral. [abc7]
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Cop Caught in Friendly Fire in Bushwick; Transgender Bathroom Access; 36-Hour Party and More Brooklyn Briefs
- A New York City police detective was shot on Tuesday, apparently in a crossfire with a sergeant, as they sought to make a drug arrest in Bushwick. [NY Times]
- Troubling allegations about Bay Ridge's new top cop. [Bensonhurst Bean]
- New York City sheriffs have seized control of a troubled Bay Ridge hotel — and the hotel may get shut down after the owner failed to pay more than $100,000 in fines. [Daily News]
- De Blasio orders transgender bathroom access in NYC. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Brooklyn pol Brad Lander wants you to have to pay for your plastic bags at the store by Earth Day. [Patch]
- Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Brooklyn properties see price surge. [Post]
- Police search for missing 13-year-old Brooklyn girl, Dijenay Nelson. [Brooklyn12]
- The Brooklyn Eagle sent a reporter to Cuba, and he brought back photos of amazingly preserved American cars from the 40s and 50s. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Calling all techno fiends: Unter and the Bunker are throwing a 36-hour party in Brooklyn. [Thump/Vice]
- House Of Cards doesn't know where the Brooklyn Bridge goes. [Gothamist]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
BAM Park Toxic? Landmarks Looks at Green-Wood, and More Brooklyn Briefs
Is this Brooklyn criminal defense attorney the real-life Better Call Saul? [Vice]Is this Brooklyn criminal defense attorney the real-life Better Call Saul? https://t.co/wjJNa4dbZl https://t.co/1J20h0zPDS— VICE Videos (@VICE_Videos) February 23, 2016
- Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson is moving to vacate the second-degree manslaughter conviction of Vanessa Gathers, convicted in 1998. [Pix11]
- The scene at the wake for 'Big Ang' Raiola in Bensonhurst. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Nicole Byrdson has written an in-depth look at gentrification in Bushwick, as personified by artists with galleries "named for themselves in a neighborhood they recently came to inhabit." [Brooklyn The Borough]
- Neighbors: What’s under the ground at BAM Park? (Hint:It's toxic.) [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Tesla Motors’ very first showroom in Brooklyn will open in Red Hook, at the former Golten Marine Terminal. [Curbed]
- Study: Some creams, shampoos, after-shaves and toothpastes made by groups such as L'Oreal and Procter & Gamble, may contain potentially harmful substances. [Reuters]
- Landmarks Preservation Commission will decide the fate of seven Brooklyn historic sites on Tuesday -- including Green-Wood Cemetery, Lady Moody's House and others. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- 100 reasons everyone should live in Brooklyn. Reason #4: Because if you don’t live here for at least a little while, how will you ever write your own “Goodbye to All That” essay? [Brooklyn Magazine]
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Robot Shop in Williamsburg; Community Gardens to Developers; and More Brooklyn Briefs
- A 15-year-old Brooklyn girl was charged Monday with murdering her mom and her mom’s boyfriend in Sheepshead Bay. [Daily News]
- Two robbers who viciously beat a 60-year-old man in an attack in
Midwood last week are under arrest, but police are still looking for the getaway driver. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- New Williamsburg pop-up shop Geek Forest is a one-stop shop for robots. [Fox]
- There's a lot of opposition to the Bushwick 200 project. [Bedford and Bowery]
- At least 9 community gardens in Brooklyn and Manhattan will be turned over to developers. [City Limits]
- You're probably entitled to commuter benefits now that could save you up to $1,000 a year. [Brooklyn Eagle]
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Monday, December 28, 2015
New Years Eve in DUMBO, Mystery in Williamsburg, and More Brooklyn Briefs
A sergeant at NYPD's 67th Precinct rescued a French Crevecoeur rooster named "Mo Justice" https://t.co/jANj1wTSsw pic.twitter.com/fRBUvKUnHE
— DNAinfo.com New York (@DNAinfo) December 27, 2015
- New Years Eve in Dumbo! Where to go, from $25 to $665. [DumboNYC]
- Mystery deepens: The Department of Buildings has no plans on file for a luxury rental in Williamsburg that experienced an emergency vacate order last month because of structural defects. The building at one time belonged to murdered developer Menachem Stark. [Brownstoner]
- New York Magazine's cover pictures a shrunken Mayor de Blasio. [NYM]
- Cops have arrested a 40-year-old Jewish Brooklyn man who threatened four men of middle eastern decent Saturday night. He yelled, "I want to see blood in the street!" [JPupdate]
- TSA worker and friend wounded in crossfire after picking up Chinese take out in Canarsie. [NY Daily News]
- A Bushwick couple sort of made their apartment into a treehouse. [Racked]
- Brooklyn Magazine gives us suggestions for no-fail first dates in Brooklyn ... AND 10 Brooklyn bars with fireplaces.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Brooklyn Rat Takes Selfie; and More Brooklyn Briefs
- Stop the presses: Rat takes selfie in Brooklyn subway station. [Rapid News]
- Brooklyn Arabs outraged by rhetoric on Syrian refugees. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- The massive Brooklyn projects that beat the 421a clock. [TRD]
- A gym with an IMAX screen is opening in DUMBO. [Patch]
- GQ interviews the 20-year-old Brooklyn rockers the fashion world "is a little obsessed about." [GQ]
- Man, 27, stabbed after fleeing to Bushwick L train station. [Daily News]
- Library controversy continues: Levin pushes for bigger Brooklyn Heights Library at City Council hearing. [Brooklyn Eagle]
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
7-Year-Old Girl Brain Dead After Choking at School; 'Dwight Schrute' Coming to DUMBO; and More Brooklyn Briefs
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| Watching the World Series Game 1 at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo: MK Metz |
- Velázquez introduces gun bill that would tax sales, and fund anti-violence and mental health programs. The NRA is going to hate it. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Police are looking for a Canarsie man wanted for allegedly shooting his wife in the face. [NY1]
- A man was charged Tuesday night in a shooting in Bushwick that left one man dead and two others hurt. [CBS]
- Rainn Wilson -- beet farmer Dwight Schrute on “The Office” -- is coming to DUMBO to talk up new book. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- After a surge in ridership, Coney Island’s elected officials are calling on the MTA to restore F train express service. [Sheepshead Bites]
- A "mixed-race" wedding in 1907 in Bed-Stuy attracts unwanted attention. [Brownstoner]
- A list of all the weird things that happened during the first game of the World Series last night. [Slate]
- Florida man is in a coma after e-cigarette explodes in his face. [Daily News]
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Monday, October 5, 2015
Suing Over a Parking Space, School Rezoning Squabble, and More Brooklyn Briefs
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| Just another naked guy on a cross in Union Square, Manhattan. Photo: MK Metz |
- Brooklyn neighbors battle over parking spaces in court. [NY Post]
- Squadron: ‘DOE has pitted neighbor against neighbor’ in Brooklyn Heights/ Vinegar Hill rezoning battle. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Man dies after jumping in front of oncoming L train at Bushwick subway station. [Daily News]
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor storms Brooklyn, shattering eardrums and psyches. [Billboard]
- IHOP comes back home to Downtown Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]
- Photographer merges photos from the past with today's Brownstone neighborhood pix. [Brooklyn Based]
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