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Brooklyn comedienne Joan Rivers dead at 81

September 4 | By Lynn Elber

Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated...

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A first edition of the first baseball novel, “Our Base Ball Club and How it Won the Championship,” published by E.P. Dutton, Inc., New York, in 1884.

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Bernard Gavrin will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 12.

Brooklyn soldier missing since WWII identified

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Participants salute the flag at the Sept. 11 ceremony at the 69th Street pier in Bay Ridge last year.

Bay Ridge prepares to commemorate Sept. 11 victims

September 3 | By Paula Katinas

Bay Ridge, a neighborhood that lost 36 of its residents in the...

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September 3 | By Jennifer Peltz

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Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis speaks to her intern, Greg Copolla, during an inspection visit she paid to the 76th Street step street last week. The city’s Department of Transportation has started a repair project to address safety issues on the staircase.

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September 2 | By Paula Katinas

Bay Ridge residents navigating the tricky concrete staircase separating Ridge Boulevard from...

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Fort Greene Park advocates aim to revive gift of Spain lost to vandalism

September 2 | Shlomo Sprung

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Borough President Eric Adams announces his $6.92 million capital budget investment in libraries and cultural institutions at a press conference at Bay Ridge Library

Adams pumps $6.9 million into borough’s cultural institutions

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Keeping history alive in revival of key retail blocks of Montague Street: "What we really want," said Calfa brothers," is the Brooklyn Women's Exchange..."

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CITY OF WATER DAY IN GOWANUS: A set of events centered around the Gowanus Canal will be part of the 15th annual City of Water Day coming to New York and New Jersey’s shores on July 16. 

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CENTRAL LAWN REOPENS AT FT. GREENE PARK: The Central Lawn at Fort Greene Park has reopened, just in time for the Fourth of July, but with different rules in two sections of the lawn.

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CAFFEINE APP FOR MOVIE SERIES: “Summer Movies Under the Stars,” hosted at Fort Greene Park in July and then in Prospect Park in August, will have a new Brooklyn-born culinary feature for coffee aficionados. 

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