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Documents show Secret Service kept tabs on Swartz

August 13 | Shlomo Sprung

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New institute’s focus: preserving Brooklyn’s untamed beachfront

August 12 | Raanan Geberer

Plans for a new Science and Resilience Institute for Jamaica Bay were...

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Thompson unveils plan to combat hate crimes

August 12 | By Paula Katinas

Calling the statue of Brooklyn Dodgers immortal Jackie Robinson and teammate Pee...

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Queer Marriage for the Straight Couple? I Do!

August 12 | By Beth J. Harpaz

No, it wasn’t just an excuse to avoid getting hitched...

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Assemblyman Cymbrowitz hails federal project to restore sand lost to Sandy in Brighton Beach

August 9 | Shlomo Sprung

The sand lost to Sandy is coming back. Brighton Beach residents will...

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Little is rebuilt at Breezy Point, 9 months after being burned during Sandy

August 9 | By Meghan Barr

On a desolate stretch of sand and concrete rubble in a beachfront...

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High-heeled horticulture: Gardening with flair pays off for Sterling Street

August 7 | By Lore Croghan

Take a tip from the winningest gardeners in Brooklyn: High-heeled shoes...

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Jackie Robinson statue at MCU Park vandalized

August 7 | By Raanan Geberer

The well-known statue of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese in...

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Three kids, one adult struck by taxi in Downtown Brooklyn

August 7 | By Mary Frost

Three young boys and one adult were struck by a taxi on...

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INTERAGENCY MEETING ON BUSHWICK NIGHTLIFE ISSUES: Ongoing quality of life issues and the tensions that arise between businesses catering to nightlife, other merchants and residents are the focus of a Bushwick Nightlife Interagency Meeting, scheduled for next Tuesday August 16, Community Board 4 has announced.

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CHANCE TO PLAY ON SESAME STREET: Sesame Street is seeking real New York City families, including one that is intergenerational and multi-ethnic for a documentary project on which Caitlin Jones (CDJ Casting) & Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick, DPD Casting, are working. 

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CON EDISON INITIATES VOLTAGE REDUCTIONS: ConEd is reducing voltage in parts of Brooklyn, impacting the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Ocean Hill, Brownsville, and East New York. 

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What Brooklyn author
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Brooklyn Bird Watch

The Double Crested Cormorant, spotted in Brooklyn Bridge park. Photo by Heather Wolf, text by Joseph Palmer.

On Buddy Scotto

If Buddy Scotto had his way, there would be gondolas plying the waters of the Gowanus Canal...

— Helen Klein, opening remarks in a remembrance of Buddy Scotto, at the recent renaming of a Carroll Gardens Street

Ice Ages & Climate Change

Could humans live through another ice age? Probably. But like the frog in the frying pan, they may have more trouble with the man-made,  incremental warming of oceans and the LOSS of ice in glaciers.

— Environmentalist, commenting on a
discussion of ice age cycles.

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“The Brooklyn Museum has taken some major steps “The Brooklyn Museum has taken some major steps in transformative changes to reach audiences in the new century. Just one among many is the hiring of a visionary capital projects executive, Brooklyn native Brigham Keehner, to redesign and reinvigorate some of the museum’s public spaces in tandem with the 200th anniversary of its founding. “I came to the museum because of a shared passion for serving the city, its people and its environment with a broader impact on social justice,” says Keehner, who grew up on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. “It’s an organization that is adept at envisioning how places can heal, restore and reimagine the physical and social fabric of our urban spaces.”’ Read the rest of our “Young Architect, With Deep Roots At Brooklyn Museum, Becomes Lead on $55M Renovation” article, which is linked in our bio.
“Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed Monday after, prose “Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed Monday after, prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York say, he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in a pending federal drug conspiracy case. Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, told the man, “Imma kill you and everybody you with,” and flashed a gun during the Dec. 11 video call about two months after his arrest in the drug case, prosecutors said.” Read the rest of our “Rapper Fetty Wap jailed after making FaceTime threat” article, which is linked in our bio.
“A Manhattan judge ruled Friday to throw out the “A Manhattan judge ruled Friday to throw out the New York City education department’s budget and allow the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams to reconsider how to fund schools this year. Judge Lyle Frank ruled in favor of two teachers and two parents who filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court last month, claiming that the city violated state law when it approved the education department’s budget for this fiscal year.” Read the rest of our “Judge orders redo for NYC schools budget” article, which is linked in our bio.
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