Afropunk 2017, Soap Box Derby and Parking Your Dog in Brooklyn

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Brooklyn Bridge,1900
Private collection@Asamsakti @RitaCobix @artmajcar @LuisaM56_ @FedericaAnto2 pic.twitter.com/WYCtPGxk5M

— ludovico vico (@VicoLudovico) August 27, 2017

- Woman who was battling cancer dies alone in blaze at Brooklyn apartment building. [Daily News]

- Check out the creativity at the10th annual South Slope Soap Box Derby. [cbslocal]

- BP Eric Adams will be giving his recommendation this week on the controversial plan to develop the Bedford-Union Armory. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Afropunk 2017 Saturday pics (Solange, Soul II Soul, Little Simz, more). [Brooklyn Vegan]

- Battle of Brooklyn re-enactment held at Green-Wood Cemetery. [News12]

- A 1-year-old girl was badly burned by hot tea in East NY. [Daily News]

- Cops say gang of men made anti-gay comments and beat up a social worker in Bed-Stuy. [abc7]

- Now you can park your dog in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]



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More Than One Way to Stuff a Rat; the Beer ATM; Pols Express Alarm about Haiti and Puerto Rico; and More Brooklyn Briefs

.@myfabolouslife receives the key to Brooklyn https://t.co/Ahk9QI8iej pic.twitter.com/vq72zPtHqo

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) June 12, 2017

- Former Brooklyn prosecutor in NYPD gun permit scandal gets bail modified to allow travel for competitive dog shows. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn pols express alarm about Puerto Rican referendum, Haitian protected status. [Brooklyn Eagle]

-  A man shot by police in Brooklyn Sunday night has been arrested and charged with stabbing his roommate in front of officers. [NY1]

- Brooklyn Pride parade draws massive, boisterous turnout. Photos. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Fabrication studio Smart Department is hosting a rat taxidermy class on Saturday where you can learn to make either one- or two-headed stuffed rats. [Patch]

- A bar in Williamsburg has created one of the greatest inventions known to mankind – a Beer ATM. [Konbini]

- Former NBA star Sebastian Telfair was arrested in Bed-Stuy Sunday morning in a pickup truck stocked with loaded guns, drugs and a bulletproof vest. [Patch]

- DUMBO’s Live at The Archway this Thursday: musician Rodes Rollins, artist Melanie Hope Greenberg. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Dirty dancing: Floating company twirls on the Gowanus Canal. [Brooklyn Paper]


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Vote for NY Aquarium's New Murals

Mural by Thomas Manco

Now you can vote for the three murals which New York Aquarium will display along the Coney Island Boardwalk.

Judges narrowed down 42 artist submissions to seven finalists.

"We received incredible submissions from artists all around the New York area who want to help transform our Education Hall boardwalk facade and inspire people to protect our waters. Now we need New Yorkers to help to choose the winner,” Jon Forrest Dohlin, director of the New York Aquarium, said.

The three winning designs will be installed and unveiled the week of World Ocean’s Day, June 8.

More on this here, including some very corny puns.

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Trash Bugs in Cobble Hill

 These bags were piled up on Court Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, in front of a private school on Thursday.

Upon closer inspection, we saw they were labeled, "Trash bugs do not open."

So many thoughts. About the shape of the bags, what was in them, what kind of bugs, how many ...

We did not open the bags. We took the photos and then walked quickly away.

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Preserving Brooklyn Heights Library's Stone Friezes; That Poor Cat Shot with an Arrow; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Photo by MK Metz

- Preserving the Brooklyn Heights Library’s stone friezes (shown above). [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn subway stations on R line facing six-month shutdowns. [amNY]

- Pictures of that poor cat shot with a crossbow in Brooklyn. (Cat survived.) [ABC7]

- Brooklyn woman says she endured a decade of abuse at the hands of a former NYPD Officer that ended with her boyfriend dead. [CBS]

- Family of slain Brooklyn security guard brought to tears at trial. [Daily News]

- Some pretty dramatic photos: Portraits of gunshot survivors featured in "SHOT" photography book. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- GOP rep changes healthcare vote from 'no' to 'hell no.' [The Hill]

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Bad Date Arrested; the Turtle Lady of Williamsburg; and More Brooklyn Briefs

This is how the Brooklyn bridge was painted in 1915. pic.twitter.com/bJkqpDok7g

— Darwin Award 🔞 (@AwardsDarwin) March 21, 2017

- Bad date: A woman who murdered another woman in Russia was discovered living a glamorous life in Brooklyn, drugging and robbing men she met on dating websites. [CBS]

- A Brooklyn couple who fleeced New Yorkers out of funeral money for a 5-year-old boy who's actually alive were arrested again while using a child in another scam. [DNAinfo]

- PHOTOS: The Turtle Lady thrives in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Missing Brooklyn man with autism found in Mexico. [Pix11]

-  VIDEO: A 60-something-year-old woman walked into a jewelry store in Williamsburg and took four diamond pins while a 60-year-old man stood by as a lookout. [NBC]

- Judge in El Chapo case limits release of info, orders appointment of ‘firewall’ attorney. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Young Brooklyn woman wonders if she was in suspected serial killer’s grasp. [Pix11]

- VIDEO: Assemblywoman Diana Richardson took to Facebook Live on Thursday morning to blast Mayor Bill de Blasio, city hall and others. [Patch]

S.A.D. Party 2017 will raise money for Planned Parenthoo.

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These Hornbills at the Prospect Park Zoo Date Just like Humans, then Mate for Life

Photo: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS

These beautiful wreathed hornbills can now be seen year-round at the Prospect Park Zoo.

The zoo tells us that hornbills mate for life, and that the pair see above are bonded together.

The new exhibit was created to provide a home "conducive to breeding with hopes that they produce offspring in the future," the zoo says.

Prospect Park Zoo staff says it's looking pretty good -- they have already witnessed "courtship behavior" between the two, "with the male making food offerings to the female."

Just like humans on a date!

A few drinks might speed the process. Just saying.

The pair at the Prospect Park Zoo are in their twenties. Wreathed hornbills live to about 40 years in the wild and have been known to live into their 50s in zoos.


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Video: Drunk Man Rescued from Bathroom by FDNY; Trump's Toxic Brooklyn Properties; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Brooklyn: @FDNY and @WspuShomrim rescued a drunk man earlier this morning from a Bathroom at 264 Lee ave. VIDEO: pic.twitter.com/OLmJEDioVT

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) February 12, 2017

- Gov. Cuomo’s executive budget includes hidden $65M cut in MTA funds. [Daily News]

- The Trump organization and Jared Kusher own toxic sites in DUMBO and Gowanus that would benefit the most from EPA assistance -- but Trump wants to abolish the EPA. [Curbed]

- 2 men accused of impersonating police officers are robbing people in several Brooklyn neighborhoods.[Pix11]

- Brooklyn's U.S. Rep. Nadler uses obscure House rule to pressure Trump. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The WSJ says Brooklyn is the new hot spot for NYC office space. [WSJ]

- A dog took a bullet for his best friend — and survived — after a trio of robbers jumped his master in Crown Heights. [Daily News]

- The spy revolt against Trump begins. [Observer]

sliding into ur DMs like this actual thing I saw in Crown Heights this morning pic.twitter.com/SuE6Oxa2na

— James Grebey (@jgrebes) February 11, 2017

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12-Year-Old-Struck by Car in Brooklyn Heights; Target Protest Brings Cops; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Outside Tripoli Restaurant, Atlantic Ave. Photo: MK Metz

 - An Iranian CUNY student stuck in her native country after Trump ordered a travel ban is back in Brooklyn. [DNAinfo]

- A car slammed into a 12-year-old boy as he crossed Cadman Plaza West and Middagh St. in Brooklyn Heights at about 8:10 a.m. Monday. [Daily News]

- A group called People's Monday says they "shut down" Target in Atlantic Center Mall Monday night, somehow connecting Target to the 8-year-old girl killed in Trump's first military venture. [Twitter]

- Mwanwhile, hundreds of people packed into a Brooklyn synagogue, at Congregation Beth Elohim, to discuss fighting Trump agenda. [Twitter]

- In response to Trump, NY state Assembly passes 'sanctuary state' bill. [Politico]

- An appeals court will hear oral arguments Tuesday evening on whether to restore President Trump’s executive action on immigration and refugees. [The Hill]

-  Our information is being stolen: The FDA has not published any Federal Register notices in two weeks. They are supposed to be published daily. [Twitter]

- Missing cat alert: Waldo, black, 10 lbs, at 2 Grace Court at Hicks St, Brooklyn. Chip: 985113000126811 Call: 8884663242

This bill from a Brooklyn restaurant is going viral for its message about immigrants. @nbcnewyork https://t.co/z47DFCcpNA pic.twitter.com/j0ufWm2aCi

— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) February 7, 2017

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Another Body Found in Prospect Park Lake; Incurable Disease Hits Brooklyn Oak Trees; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Linus, Dachshund (10 m/o), Dekalb & Portland Ave., Brooklyn, NY • "He barely graduated dog school." pic.twitter.com/dJmEOb6yaf

— The Dogist (@thedogist) January 1, 2017

- A search for a missing person ended tragically Monday, when the body of a 19-year-old man was pulled from Prospect Park’s lake. [Daily News]

- Deadly, incurable & fast spreading oak wilt disease detected in Brooklyn trees. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn cheerleaders need help getting to the national championship in Orlando. [abc7]

- Cops are looking for a man who tried to rip off a woman’s pants in an elevator in Ditmas Park. [Daily News]

- The big-money developers who lavished cash on Mayor de Blasio’s nonprofit appear to be behind the planning of the multibillion-dollar Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) trolley line. [NY Post]

- Brighton Beach is brought to life through the lens of Franck Bohbot in this 'Little Odessa' series. [fubiz]

- Brooklyn to show up in force at post-inauguration protest. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- To kick off the Trump era, the House votes to get rid of the Office of Congressional Ethics. [TPM]

WATCH: Nicki Minaj performs "Starships", from "The Pinkprint Tour: Nicki Minaj Live From Brooklyn" concert special. pic.twitter.com/HNJmWsqMVf

— Minaj Society (@MinajSociety) January 2, 2017

Nicki Minaj performs "Starships", from "The Pinkprint Tour in Brooklyn.

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Domino Sugar Factory Affordable Housing Lottery Starts Today, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Derrick Hamilton and Shabaka Shakur met in prison, serving time for murders that neither of them had committed https://t.co/OFatiCLdsK

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) November 26, 2016

- A Congolese boy who was severely disfigured in a chimpanzee attack is thriving in Brooklyn fter surgery. [ABC]

- NYC affordable housing lottery opens for Williamsburg’s former Domino Sugar factory site today. [amny]

- NYPD recognizes Brooklyn rapper for saving girl from alleged sexual assault on Queens bus. [Daily News]

- Madonna spends Thanksgiving at a LGBTQ youth homeless center in Brooklyn. [EW]

- Cops are searching for a missing Brooklyn mother, 39, and her baby son last seen a week ago. [Daily News]

- Video: 7 Billion People in 6 Minutes: Watch the world’s human population soar over 200,000 years. [Slate]

***PLEASE RE-TWEET.***WE NEED THIS PHOTO TO GO VIRAL. SPECIAL CATEGORY MISSING PERSON. LAST SEEN EAST NEW YORK BROOKLYN. WE NEED YOUR HELP! pic.twitter.com/M719ovl9gD

— NYPDBrooklynNorth (@NYPDBklynNorth) November 26, 2016

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Trump Fallout, Greenpoint Christmas Lights, Sharks, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Hate and violence will NEVER be welcome here. If you see harassment call 911. We won’t stand for it. #NotInOurCity https://t.co/8lhVjqWyNH

— Chirlane McCray (@NYCFirstLady) November 14, 2016

Male Trump supporter reportedly punched a woman in the face at Bar Tabac in Cobble Hill after he overheard her supporting Clinton. [NY Mag]

- Brooklyn guys kick anti-Semetic Trump supporter off subway in Downtown Brooklyn. [Patch]

- Brooklyn's green cab drivers share their insight about the presidential election. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Councilman Lander is holding a town hall in Park Slope focused on "how we can prepare for the Trump presidency, and get organized to defend the progress we’ve made and the values we hold."[Patch]

 - Major retailers set their sight’s on Brooklyn’s Court Street. [NY Post]

- Greenpoint real estate broker donates money to keep the neighborhood's Christmas lights bright. Kind of heart warming, actually. [CBS]

- Shark research vessel docks in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [NY1]

- Cuomo signs bill seeking to move NY to a variation of the popular vote. [Brooklyn Eagle]


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Election Night Parties, LICH, DUMBO Knifing, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Live in Brooklyn #tcsnycmarathon pic.twitter.com/siPviwbzAI

— TCS NYC Marathon (@nycmarathon) November 6, 2016

- Woman, 80, dies after accidentally setting herself on fire in Brooklyn apartment. [Daily News]

- Here are all the cheap Brooklyn election night parties where you can drink until you drop. [Brokelyn]

- And one more election night party -- for cats. [BHB]

- Fortis drops plan for affordable housing at Long Island College Hospital (LICH) site. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Cops nab man who allegedly knifed ex-girlfriend near Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO. [Daily News]

- Police search for man who stole scepter, other items from Brooklyn church. [CBS]

- Brooklyn Bridge Park advisory group calls on park to rescind vote approving Pier 6 towers. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Shock over arrest of a state assemblywoman from Brooklyn who is charged with hitting her 13-year-old son with a broom handle. [NY Times]

- Ted Nugent inexplicably gropes himself while opening a Trump rally. [The Hill] 

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Brooklyn Politics Gets Weird; Spike Lee's Block Party; Stolen Puppy Returned and More Brooklyn Briefs

In Brooklyn, a West Indian parade of ice cream flavors, including the ever-popular greatnut. https://t.co/IArOd2uVsz pic.twitter.com/YoSjlNy6Gq

— NYT Metro Desk (@NYTMetro) August 25, 2016

- Politics gets weird: Ramona Johnson, a Republican and Conservative Party candidate running for 41st Assembly District seat has baffled a Facebook group with her online campaign tactics and claims of discrimination. Johnson also "threatened to defame" Sheepshead Bites for reporting on the confrontation. [Sheepshead Bites]

- A longtime investigator is calling out Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson for firing her because she’s a close ally of his predecessor, according to a new $20 million lawsuit. [NY Post]

- Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson block party is coming to Bed-Stuy on Saturday. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- The much-anticipated opening of Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse on Fulton Street has been delayed. [DNAinfo]

- What's to be done about Brooklyn's post offices? [Brokelyn]

- A man in East New York is lucky to be alive after a freak accident resulted in him being struck by a steel beam on Thursday. [abc7]

- Brooklynites: Take a survey about the role of historic districts in NYC. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Mothers who lost infants in daycare deliver petitions to Hillary Clinton's campaign HQ. [BHB]

- Puppy returned 3 days after being stolen from Brooklyn laundromat. [CBSlocal]


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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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BK Dog Day: 'One Doggone Day in Brooklyn' this Sunday

Prospect Park is literally going to the dogs on Sunday morning with 'One Doggone Day in Brooklyn.'

The event includes a doggie fashion show, giveaways, a doggie buffet and more.

See poster for info.

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Man Jumps in Front of R Train in Brooklyn; Getting Drunk with Your Dog; and More Brooklyn Briefs

A painting on a building in Manhattan's East side depicts a view from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo by MK Metz

 - Man dies after jumping in front of R train in Bay Ridge. Train operator in deep shock.  [Daily News]

- Police officer who shot a motorist in Brooklyn was stripped of his badge and gun. [Observer]

- The Brooklyn Historical Society will host a panel discussion Tuesday night featuring writers, activists and entertainers reflecting on the experience of being a Muslim woman in America. [Patch]

- The 14 best places to get drunk with your dog in Brooklyn. [BK Mag]

- Seagull crap is spoiling the waters off Kingsborough.  [Sheepshead Bites]

- No more drills? Now there's an antimicrobial liquid that can be brushed on cavities to stop tooth decay, painlessly. [NY Times]

- NYC patient first to be infected with superbug resistant to antibiotics. [abc7]

- "The sense that something is wrong runs deep among the history community" in New York. [Times Union] 


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Bastille Day in Brooklyn; A Huge Shark Off Sheepshead Bay; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Bastille Day on Smith Street. Photo: MK Metz

 - Bastille Day 2016: Brooklyn’s Smith Street preps for its annual French invasion. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Check out the huge shark caught this weekend off Sheepshead Bay. [Sheepshead Bites]

- A crew of NYPD nincompoops who pulled a locker-room prank on an ambitious rookie in Brooklyn may be facing departmental charges. [Daily News]

- Brooklyn artists’ installation to melt away during conventions. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 1970s Brooklyn, when horses roamed Gowanus and kids played stickball (photos). [Brownstoner]

- At least six children have been crushed to death by toppling Ikea chests, prompting the voluntary recall of about 29 million chests and dressers. [ABC]


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Brooklyn Is the Most Unaffordable Place in U.S., Goats at BBP, and More Brooklyn Briefs

These goats are eating weeds on the berm in Brooklyn Bridge Park. (Link to story below.)  Photo: MKMetz

- Report: Brooklyn is the most unaffordable place to live in the U.S. [Market Watch]

- A herd of four Nubian goats has taken up residence on the steep berm near Pier 3 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Brooklyn BP Eric Adams met with tainted lobbyist Capalino 29 times to talk about Airbnb. [DNAinfo]

- The principal of the troubled Boys and Girls High School said on Thursday that he is leaving the post. [WSJ]

- A limo stopped on the Brooklyn Bridge to retrieve tiny dog under car. [GoodNewsNetwork]

- The Brooklyn Public Library has been awarded a grant for nearly $400,000 to place inmate video calling services in a dozen libraries. [The Verge]


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E-Cigarette Blinds Boy; Coney Island Hospital Sited; Bernie, Hillary, Trump & Cruz; and More Brooklyn Briefs

The NYPD, police officers from partner agencies & PERF discussing increasing officer/public safety during a crisis pic.twitter.com/rjHzEJN03Y

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 13, 2016

(Above) Cops are working on planning for a future crisis, thank goodness.

- Crowd cheers as Bernie Sanders joins Verizon workers’ picket line in Brooklyn. [Raw Story]

- All eyes on Brooklyn -- with more voters than any other borough -- ahead of New York primary. [WSJ]

- And ... Ted Cruz should lighten up in Brooklyn. [The Federalist] 

- 14-year-old blinded after e-cigarette explodes at the Kings Plaza Mall. [Pix11]

- Coney Island Hospital hit with 6 violation after grandmother's death. [Sheepshead Bites]

- A Brooklyn principal the city tried to fire for cheating was cleared by an independent arbitrator on Wednesday. [Daily News]

- Jehovah’s Witnesses reach $700M handshake deal for Brooklyn Heights plot. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- WATCH: Brooklyn Fire Inspector mauls bodega clerk -- and nobody cares. [Patch]

- Confusion in Trump world: Wounded Donald Trump is hiring Republican fixers to professionalize his operation and sidelining his original team. [Politico]

- Our hero: Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean. [Washington Post]

- Did they lie to us about vegetable oil being healthier for you than meat fat? [Huff Post]


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