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Judge Orders Cuomo to Call Special Election for Grimm’s Seat [Capital NY]
Affordable Housing at 88 Jefferson Street in Bushwick Is Accepting Applications [Bushwick Daily]
De Blasio Takes New Tack After Grand Jury Decision on Akai Gurley Shooting [Eagle]
Williamsburg, Greenpoint Residents Demand Park, Plan Rally [BK Paper]
Meet the Prospect Park Alliance’s New President and Hear Her Vision for the Park Tomorrow [DPC]
More Pile Driving and Noise This Week at Lightstone’s Bond Street Construction Site [PMFA]
77-Year-Old Found Dead on Coney Island Boardwalk During Freeze, Police Say [DNA]
$4.4 Million Manhattan Beach Home One of Brooklyn’s Priciest January Sales [Sheepshead Bites]
Another Grand Renovation Sells for $4 Million-Plus: 162 Bergen Street [BK Fullest]
Dream-Dissolving Map of Brooklyn Shows Rental Prices by Neighborhood [Gothamist]
First Look at the Camlin, Serving up Bourbon-Braised Lasagna in Williamsburg [NY Mag]

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Christmas in Bay Ridge [Forgotten NY]
Barclays Fixture Who Danced Court-Side Dies [BK Paper]
Red Hook Ferry Service Expands to Midtown [DNA]
This Abandoned Graffiti Warehouse in Sunset Park Is One of NYC’s Most Beautiful Spots [Animal]
Lefferts Gardens South! A New Name Takes Flight! [Q Parkside]
Red Hook Property Nabs $16 Million [NYO]
How Local BIDs are Boosting Neighborhoods [Crain’s]
With Sweet Potato Falafel and Chicken Schnitzel, Batata Celebrates Its Grand Opening [DPC]
Join the Flatbush Tenant Coalition for a Housing Justice March This Saturday [DPC]
Shop Talk with Brooklyn Makers: In the Seam [BHS]
Closings of Note: Crown Heights Gets Over $3 Million [BK Fullest]
“Starrs” of Bushwick Collide for Some Literary-Musical Performance [B+B]
A Peek Inside Bricolage, Opening Soon in Brooklyn Fish Camp Space [Here’s Park Slope]

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Stunning and Historic Clinton Hill Mansion Sells for $6.5 Million [Curbed]
Revised Resolution [Q Parkside]
Stunning Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Will Renew Your Faith in Con Ed [Gothamist]
Permits Filed: 228-Unit Hasidic Housing Complex on Myrtle Avenue in Bed Stuy [NYY]
We’ll Never Be Royals, But We Have Some Dropping by the Hood Tonight [FIPS]
538 Union Avenue Launches Sales, Starting at $789,000 [Curbed]
Vice’s Birthday Party at the Brooklyn Navy Yard [NYO]
South Franklin Holiday Stroll December 13 [Brooklynian]

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The Barclays Effect [Capital NY]
Greenpoint Xi’An Famous Foods Opening Saturday With Free Noodles [DNA]
Gravesend Pol Says Lady Moody House Needs Protection, Public Hearing [Sheepshead Bites]
Howl and Meow With Infinite Hope’s Year-End Celebration [BHB]
Annual Art Exhibit and Sale on 9th Street This Weekend [South Slope News]
Drop by the Coat Drive and Potluck Today at The Living Gallery [Bushwick Daily]
Fight for Affordable Housing at the Flatbush Tenant Coalition Fundraiser at Bar Chord [DPC]
Preservation Greenpoint Beer Crawl This Friday! [Greenpointers]
Your Brooklyn Jury Duty Survival Guide [Brokelyn]
After Loan Default for B2 Tower, Forest City Gets Four More Months to Recover [AYR]
Dumbo Architects Ask “What If Poor Neighborhoods Could Sell Their Air Rights?” [Technically BK]

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Cream Doughnuts Makes Its Debut in Bay Ridge [BK Based]
Windsor Terrace Is One Step Closer to Becoming Park Slope [FIPS]
Amira’s Is Closed “Until Further Notice” [South Slope News]
Tsob-Tsobe! Restaurant Replaces Back to USSR on Coney Island Avenue [Sheepshead Bites]
Q & A with Greenpointer Eric Weiner of the Wild Honey Pie [Greenpointers]
Neighbor: Vacant Building in Brooklyn Heights Is Trespasser Magnet [BK Paper]
Catch a Ride on the Nostalgia Train [Bensonhurst Bean]
Space Robot Company Lands in Brooklyn Navy Yard [DNA]
Christmastown Brings Artist-Created Christmas Village to Bushwick [BK Daily]
Checking in at 626 Flatbush [Q Parkside]

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How One Couple Soundproofed Their South Slope Brownstone [BU]
Campaign for Verrazano Bike Path Picks up Speed [BK Paper]
Brooklyn Merchants Kick off Holiday Campaign “Shop Local CB9” This Weekend [DNA]
Protesters in Crown Heights Say Loophole Allows Unlawful Rent Increases [BK Brief]
T-Shirt-Toting Brooklynite Is NYC’s Top Property Buyer [Bloomberg]
Permits Filed: 406 Prospect Place, Crown Heights [NYY]
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge Stuck in up Position [Sheepshead Bites]
Community Board 11 Addresses Illegal Home Conversions [Bensonhurst Bean]
High Street Station Artifacts, Downtown Brooklyn [Forgotten NY]
Vendôme Macaron Bar Opens Pop-up Shop on Smith Street [PMFA]
5th Avenue’s Associated Market Set to Open in December [South Slope News]
Ideas for the Brooklyn Strand Include a Permanent Home for Smorgasburg [Eagle]

Photo by Eric Konon

 

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Coney Island Brewing Co. Applies for License for Surf Ave Brewery [ATZ]
Of Councilman Brad Lander and the Final Bridging Gowanus Meeting [PMFA]
Celebrate Brooklyn ARTery’s Second Anniversary With Chocolate and Wine Tonight [DPC]
What the 70th Precinct Is Doing About Robberies in Ditmas Park [DPC]
Books and Drinks: What to Read in Greenpoint’s Local Hangouts [Greenpointers]
15th Street Cafe Reopens on 6th Avenue as OS Cafe [South Slope News]
Will de Blasio’s Bike Lane Network Keep Pace With Citi Bike Expansion? [Streetsblog]
Coney Island’s Untamed Creek, Caught Between Past and Future [Curbed]
Pol Calls for Upgrades at Sunset Park’s Pier 4 [DNA]

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Nerds, Rejoice! Rivals Board Game Cafe Is Open for Play [B+B]
Shuttered Pete Zaaz Will Once Again Serve Weird Pizza in Crown Heights [Eater]
Park-ing Spaces: Plazas Pop up Curbside Downtown [BK Paper]
OHNY Weekend Comes to Bushwick October 11 – Visit TroutHouse! [Bushwick Daily]
Anonymous Rant Against “Yuppies and Hipsters” Posted Around Carroll Gardens [PMFA]
Amidst a Row of Pristine Brownstones, a New Townhouse Rises on Clinton Street [PMFA]
14-Story Tower Planned for Downtown Brooklyn, 285 Schermerhorn Street [NYY]
The Hobbit Doors of Dennett Place in Carroll Gardens [Untapped]
Residents Fear for Midwood Smokestack, Last Remnant of Silent Film Studio [BK Brief]
Forest City Formally Discloses That Lender for B2 tower Has Suspended Disbursements [AYR]

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Revealed: 95 South 5th Street, Williamsburg [NYY]
A Free Place in Bushwick [New Yorker]
Squadron Announces Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill Traffic Safety Measures [BHB]
Underground Party Rubulad to Be Held at Ridgewood’s Gottscheer Hall [Bushwick Daily]
“The Intern” Brings Rats, Trash, and Congestion to Cheever Street – Or Not at All [BK Brief]
P.S. 130 The Parkside School Will Hold Annual Fall Festival October 18 [Kensington BK]

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Eyes on the Street: The Evolution of the Bergen Street Protected Bike Lane [Streetsblog]
25 Years in 25 Days (1991): A Report from the Crown Heights Riots [WNYC]
Inside the 64-Year-Old Time Capsule Fail in Downtown Brooklyn [Animal]
This Crown Heights Development Site on Prospect Park Is Asking $5 Million [Buzz]
Witness: Park Slope Police Tell Black Teens “Get out of the Neighborhood” [DNA]
Parole Office Doesn’t Belong in Industrial Gowanus, Borough President Says [DNA]
Williamsburg Trolley Remnant [Forgotten NY]
Lenox Road Block Association Alliance: Meeting Tomorrow [Q at Parkside]