Afternoon Links: East New Yorkers Fight Street Safety Changes, Want Parking Spots

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Park Sloper Makes Trash Stylish [NYT]
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East New York May Lose Safety Improvements to Parking and Gentrification Red Tape [Streetsblog]
How This Brooklyn Agency Went Completely, Totally Nuts for the Star Wars Premiere [AdWeek]
Splitty and Chez Oskar Are Closing up and Shipping Out in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene [BK Mag]
Behind the Scenes With Sleater-Kinney at Brooklyn’s Reopened Market Hotel [Vulture]
Preliminary Work Begins on Half-Demolished Brooklyn Heights Eyesore at 100 Clark [Eagle]

What very important part of winterizing a home should you not forget? Click through to see…

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And, for those of you who do not winterize or shut down, if you have programmable thermostats, make sure you have fresh batteries. More heat failure and frozen pipes are due to these thermostats not working once the batteries die than for any other reason. And shut the water off at the main anyway each time you leave.

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