Brooklyn Life

In the News

• Mermaid Parade Will Be Held in Person Later This Year [BP]
• Brooklynites Call for Justice After Killing of Duante Wright [BP]
• Bay Ridge’s 5th Avenue Aglow in Ramadan Lights [BP]
• Brooklyn’s Open Streets Expose Tensions in Neighborhoods [Bklyner]
• Why Are Shootings And Murders on the Rise in NYC? [Gothamist]
• Bushwick’s The Rookery Returns After Closure [Bushwick Daily]
• Bouldering Gym With Rooftop Café, Sauna Opening in Williamsburg [TONY]
• Permits Filed for Six-Story Building at Union Avenue in Williamsburg [NYY]
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• A Disastrous Year for Brooklyn’s Chinatown [NYT]
• Fulton Mall, Other Retail Zones Have Bounced Back Amid Pandemic [NYT]
• Locals Demand More Input on Future of Marsha P. Johnson State Park [BP]
• Greenpoint Open Streets Barricades Stolen, Forcing End of Program [Streetsblog]
• City Announces New, Free Summer Education Program for All Students [Bklyner]
• In Red Hook, Fort Standard Creates Muscularly Minimal Furniture [1stdibs]
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In the News

• Over 50,000 NYC Public School Students Will Return to Classrooms [NYT]
• At East Williamsburg’s Lichen, Friends Sell Furniture With Fresh Approach [NYT]
• DoBro Should Get Third ‘Busway’ on Livingston Street, Pols Say [NYDN]
• Locals Fear Fulton Ferry Landing Overcrowding [BP]
• Locals Protest Crown Heights Supermarket-Eviction Developer [BK Reader]
• Spreading the Gospel of Masa at Bed Stuy’s All Things Good [Grub Street]
• Pop-up Vaccine Site Coming to Clinton Hill Church This Week [Patch]
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In the News

• Why the Gowanus Canal Is a Litmus Test for NYC Development [NYT]
• How COVID Turned Brooklyn Food Pantries Into ‘Mini-Costcos’ [NYT]
• How a Red Hook Arts and Food Activist Spends Her Sundays [NYT]
• Carroll Gardens Pizzeria Caught in Trademark Legal Battle [NYP]
• Coney Island Amusement Parks: What to Know Before You Go [BP]
• A Brooklyn Building Is Screeching, We Asked an Acoustician Why [Curbed]
• Coney Island’s Mr. Cyclone Is Back in the Front Car [Curbed]
• Broker Fee Ban an Error, Court Rules [TRD]
• Renderings Revealed for Three-Story Residential Building in Borough Park [NYY]
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• $2.1 Billion for Undocumented Workers Signals State’s Progressive Shift [NYT]
• To Combat Anti-Asian Attacks, Residents Join Watch Patrols [NYT]
• Here’s Where Elderly Can Get COVID Vaccines Without Appointment [NYP]
• City Announces New ‘Four Case’ Rule for Public School Closures [amNY]
• Volunteers Are Funding Open Streets Programs. Why Isn’t the City? [Curbed]
• Restaurants Struggle to Rehire Staffers Amid Reopenings Push [Eater]
• $10K Raised for Bushwick Tamale Vendor Facing COVID, Eviction [Patch]
• Bay Ridge to Get Another Elementary School [Bklyner]
• BPL Launch ‘Whispering Libraries’ Throughout Brooklyn [Gothamist]
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In the News

• Brooklyn Artist Wants Sports Fans to Wear Their Names [NYT]
• East Flatbush Has Less Parkland Than Any Other Neighborhood [BP]
• Poplar Street Community Garden Open Again in Brooklyn Heights [BHB]
• Old Coney Amusements Set to Whirl as New Rides Remain Beached [The City]
• Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Won’t Be Built Until September [Streetsblog]
• Park Slope Record Store Changes Owners, Bets on Vinyl [Bklyner]
• Plan to Install Green Energy Storage on ‘Burg Roof Raises Ire [Bklyner]
• 24-Hour Film Vending Machine Opens in Bushwick [Bushwick Daily]
• ASPCA Vet Center Opens in East New York [BK Reader]
• Pools, Beaches Will Open on Time for 2021 Season, Mayor Says [Patch]
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