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Music: This band has eclectic beats!
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Fiddling with schools again!
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By Julianne McShane
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Awesome: A floating farm on a barge docked at Sunset Park’s Brooklyn Army Terminal offers locals a slice of nature in the concrete jungle by allowing them to freely pick fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables.
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Dining: Want to get really high?
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Editor’s Picks: This week we’ve got a pride parade, a Broadway bash, and a reading from “The Red Hook!” Brooklyn is the place to be!
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By Julianne McShane
Bay Ridge Nights: The stars are out in Bay Ridge this weekend!
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Navy smoke-eater and Brooklyn native Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Arien Brett, simulates putting out a fire during a crash and salvage drill on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65).
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Park Slope: A Park Slope pol wants to pull cars belonging to thousands of law-breaking motorists from city streets and force the rogue riders to go back to drivers’ ed before their wheels are returned, according to legislation he announced last week.
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Changing Brooklyn: The developer that last year abruptly abandoned its controversial request to rezone two Brooklyn Botanic Garden–adjacent sites to build taller towers on the land quietly resubmitted the application in April, according to a city spokesman.
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Art: This is an ivy-league sculpture!
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By Julianne Cuba
Party Line: Critics across the aisle are blasting the Bay Ridge congressman for hitting peoples’ doorsteps with what they charge is offensive anti-immigration propaganda just to win some votes in a contentious Republican primary election that has President Trump and his controversial policies at its center.
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By Joanna DelBuono
Standing O: A special thank you to borough son Andrew Contrino. The Eagle Scout candidate of BSA Troop 310, as part of his community project, conceived and organized a beautification project to give Barkaloo Cemetery a much needed make-over on May 19.
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By Stephanie Thompson
Fearless Living: Look, everybody has their “Xanadu” moment.
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Digital editions: Every Wednesday, as the Paper readies the pages of its latest print issue, it often cannot believe how much has happened in the few short days since its previous press run. Just last week, for instance, Gowanus was an old-fashioned manufacturing hub, but in the blink of an eye the city announced plans to make way for shiny towers as tall as 17 stories there, and suddenly its industrial days seem as distant as that isle across the East River! And in Brooklyn Heights, where locals have pined for a permanent pool for years, no such swimming hole existed seven days ago, then – boom! – plans to build one in Squibb Park dropped faster than Coney Island’s new Astro Tower ride. Yes, Kings County may constantly change, but its metamorphoses never escape the Paper – so if you ever have trouble keeping up, you know where to turn. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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Coney Island: He wants to give the elderly a lift.
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Bay Ridge: It’s the day when Fifth Avenue becomes Bay Ridge’s Main Street!
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Flatbush: These kids really roared!
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Brooklyn Heights: These activists wore their fiery passion on their sleeves.
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Bensonhurst: Police are searching for a man wanted for questioning in connection with a May 25 sex-abuse incident that occurred on a Manhattan-bound D train, near the 25th Avenue station in Bath Beach.
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Mean Streets: New street-safety signs the city installed on a bicycling corridor in Prospect Park are anything but, because one of the moveable placards sent a cyclist to the hospital after he crashed into it within a week of its arrival, furious locals claim.
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Crown Heights: Paramedics rushed three victims to local hospitals after flames raged through the top floors of a four-story Crown Heights building on Friday.
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By Julianne McShane
Crime: Police are searching for a man who stole a chain off the neck of a 73-year-old man on 48th Street in Sunset Park on May 27.
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By Adam Lucente
Canarsie: Three men are facing decades in prison after their indictment in connection to an alleged fatal drive-by shooting in Canarsie.
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Women of Distinction: Courier Life Publications and Community News Group honored 26 of the borough’s most worthy women at a May 31 awards gala at Sirico’s Caterers in Dyker Heights, celebrating of our Brooklyn Women of Distinction, class of 2018.
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Mill Basin: Call it a shot across the bow.
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Brooklyn Heights: A long-awaited pool will soon arrive — and stay — in Brooklyn Heights, inside a paved city park just above Brooklyn Bridge Park, leaders of Brooklyn’s front yard announced on Friday.
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Williamsburg: A fiend waved a pipe like a handgun in order to swipe a wad of cash from a Williamsburg store on May 26, police said.
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Event: Call it a Memorial Day walk down memory lane.
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By Bill Roundy
Music: The websites for at least seven music spots in Brooklyn have gone blank this weekend, but the shows will go on!
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By Colin Mixson
Park Slope: A man exposed himself to children playing at Prospect Park’s Imagination Playground on Wednesday, but police let him go with a slap on the wrist after the nanny who spotted him refused to press charges, according to a mommy blogger who frequents the play space.
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Mean Streets: A motorcyclist died after plowing his two-wheeler into a double-parked car in Bushwick earlier this week, police said.
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Bensonhurst: The police arrested a 65-year-old man who allegedly grabbed the buttocks of an 11-year-old girl on 66th Street in Mapleton on May 23.
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