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Fire Rips Through Art Studios, Small Businesses in Historic Red Hook Warehouse
While some art survived the fire, many of the artists, makers, and retailers in the building “lost everything,” as more than one put it.
Daily Links: Fake Brokers on Social Media Are Scamming Renters Out of Thousands
Trash bin install may take years due to parking concerns, NYPD arrests eight activists at Brooklyn Navy Yard protest, and more Brooklyn news.
Long-Awaited Red Hook Coastal Resiliency Project Kicks Off With Groundbreaking
Long in the works, the project will include a series of flood walls and other measures meant to protect the low-lying neighborhood from coastal flooding.
Daily Links: Greenpointers Fear Asphalt Plant Will Keep Polluting
Greenpoint’s BE Yarn to close after more than 30 years, New York’s rental market felt squeeze after FARE Act, and more Brooklyn news.
Bay Ridge ‘Super Speeder’ Crash Spurs Calls to Curb Reckless Driving
Street safety advocates are asking state pols to pass a stalled bill that would target reckless driving.
Oh no! I was a member of BWAC for many years. This is a great loss for the arts in Brooklyn.
Fire Rips Through Art Studios, Small Businesses in Historic Red Hook WarehouseI went to Midwood High School in the 1980s, and it seems to me back then that the students from the neighborhood who were Jewish were not orthodox. So it is interesting when I'm in the area nowadays, it seems there are only orthodox Jews. It is good to read that I'm not seeing things, that a long-term resident has noticed the changes.
Cocaine Break-ins and Broadway Strolls: The Life of a 1960s Brooklyn PharmacistGreat, but this is only a half measure if they don't start clamping down on all of the various forms of obscuring or altering license plates.
Bay Ridge ‘Super Speeder’ Crash Spurs Calls to Curb Reckless DrivingCulture is the reason that another of these folks are not in their country of origin !
Flatbush Frolic to Celebrate the Richness of Neighborhood’s Cultural Offerings