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• BAM Commissions Four New Works of Public Art [NYT]
• Loophole Helps East Flatbush Developers Evade Parking Mandate [Eagle]
• A Brooklyn Vigil for Mass Shootings Confronts Pain Close to Home [Eagle]
• School Officials Promise Lead Cleanup, But Offer Little Testing Advice [The City]
• Retail Tensions Flare in Bushwick [City Limits]
• Pedestrian Injuries Rise in Bushwick [City Limits]
• F Train Speeds Through ‘Ball of Fire’ in Brooklyn [Patch]
• Activists Demand 4th Avenue Bike Lane Happen Now [Patch]
• Brookland Capital Sheds Clinton Hill Church Development Site [TRD]
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• Handcrafted: Inside Brooklyn’s Tailor Shops [NYT]
• Park Slope Mortgage Deal Plunges Mayor Into Controversy [NYDN]
• Shooting at Crown Heights Vigil Injures Four [Eagle]
• NYCHA Far From Meeting Rat Fix Deadline [The City]
• Dumbo’s Getting an Acclaimed Brooklyn Vietnamese Restaurant [Eater]
• Brooklyn Cyclists, Be Careful at These Intersections! [BK Reader]
• MTA Continues Efforts to Increase Speeds on Brooklyn Subway Lines [Curbed]
• Permits Filed for Nine-Story Building on Dekalb in Bushwick [NYY]
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• These Women Are Changing Brooklyn’s D.J. Game [NYT]
• Nigerian Street Food at Suya in Crown Heights [NYT]
• Clinton Hill Residents Outraged Over Loss of Daytime Parking [NYDN]
• FDNY Records High Carbon Monoxide Levels in East ‘Burg Building [BP]
• Game Clock Ticking on Affordable Housing at Pacific Park [The City]
• Cartier’s Parent Company Heads to Timber Building in Williamsburg [CO]
• On Bushwick border in Ridgewood, Superfund Site Awaits Makeover [City Limits]
• These Brooklyn Schools Have Deteriorating Lead-Based Paint [Patch]
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• The Frankies Partners Will Open a Slice Shop in Carroll Gardens [NYT]
• Bushwick Tenants Take Landlord to Court, Alleging Hazardous Mold [Eagle]
• At Fort Greene Whole Foods, Call to Boycott Grocer for ICE Support [Eagle]
• Downtown Brooklyn to Undergo $10 Million Transformation [Eagle]
• New Jazz Bar to Open in Park Slope [BP]
• Five Firefighters Injured in Four-Alarm Greenpoint Blaze [BP]
• Two Trees Makes Pitch for Bigger Building in Gowanus [Crain’s]
• ‘Nightmare’ Bushwick Sinkhole Swallows Car [Gothamist]
• NYCHA Discussion With Salazar in Bushwick Gets Heated [Bushwick Daily]
• Gowanus Seasonal Standout Freek’s Mill Has Closed [Eater]
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• How a Brooklyn Rite of Summer Ended in Bloodshed [NYT]
• At Cyclist Vigil, Sunset Park Community Demands Change [Eagle]
• Protesters Call for Cold Water, Cold Showers, Fans at Brooklyn Jail [Eagle]
• Business Advocates Stand Up to MTA Over Bed Stuy Transit Cuts [BP]
• Locals Rally in Response to Brownsville Mass Shooting [BP]
• MTA Needs to Patch Subway Viaduct It Spent $275 Million Fixing [The City]
• How a Bed Stuy Apartment Turned Into a Renter’s Nightmare [Gothamist]
• Manhole Erupts in Flames, Smoke in Greenpoint [Patch]
• Brooklyn Museum Re-creates World-Famous Restaurant Maxim’s [BK Reader]
• City Says It Financed 25K Affordable Housing Units in Fiscal Year 2019 [TRD]
• Permits Filed for Six-Story Building on 28th Street in Flatbush [NYY]
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• Williamsburg Gets a Dominican Chocolate Shop [NYT]
• Food Hall’s Mess Leaves Prime DoBro Retail Space in Limbo [NYP]
• Brooklyn’s 10 Most Dangerous Intersections for Cyclists: Report [Eagle]
• Coney Islanders Outraged by Kaiser Park Ferry Plan [Eagle]
• Fires Engulf Properties in Sunset Park and Brownsville [BP]
• Congress Considers Banning Facial Recognition From Public Housing [Gothamist]
• After Brownsville Shooting, Call for More Anti-Violence Funding [Gothamist]
• Greenpoint Bakery Rzeszowska Closes After 34 Years [Greenpointers]
• Brooklyn School-Fundraising Portal Vanishes — Along With Cash [Villager]
• A Food Editor’s Edgy Flatbush Apartment [Design Sponge]
• Expansion Planned for Greenpoint’s Acme Smoked Fish Factory [NYY]
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