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In the News

• Gridlock on the Brooklyn Bridge? Blame El Chapo [NYT]
• Bushwick Drivers Are Dumping Their Cars in the Middle of the Street [NYP]
• One Year in, Brooklyn Heights Library Almost a Third of Final Height [Eagle]
• Plan to Close Rikers Will Double the Space Needed in Brooklyn’s Prison [Eagle]
• The Million-Dollar Gowanus Rowhouse That No One Owned [The Outline]
• Intersection of Cortelyou and Coney Island Avenue to Get Redesign [Bklyner]
• Japanese Fusion Eatery Lands in Former Brewery in Crown Heights [CO]
• MTA Could Make Cuts to Select Bus Service, Subway Cleanings [Curbed]
• New Five-Story Commercial-Office Building Coming to Williamsburg [NYY]
• Cypress Hills Is Getting a 14-Story High-Rise [NYY]

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