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Open House For Lefferts Food Coop!
I am SO impressed that Karen Oh and company got this thing off the ground. And now, on October 26 from 10-4, you can come take a sneak peak at the progress they've made on the Lefferts Community Food...
View ArticleThe Q Runs Express This Weekend
I'm too tired to look it up and properly post it. Consider yourself forewarned though. The Q goes express Kings Highway to Prospect Park, Manhattan bound, all weekend.Nighty night.
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The Best Trick or Treating In NYC Happens Right Here
Trick or treating in Lefferts Manor is the best. The cops keep it safe, the neighborhood stocks up on candy, you see lots of familiar faces...if you got kids, there's no need to go nowhere else. See...
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Erv's Open Tonight
 If y'all are in need of a cocktail, you could do worse than stop by Erv's tonight, the mini-bar on Beekman. Specialty drinks are their specialty, but I'll bet they'll make you an old-fashioned if you...
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LMA's "Echo" Out Now (Four Shot)
I'm ceaselessly amazed at what an extraordinarily high-quality paper comes out of humble Lefferts Manor each quarter. Milford Prewitt and gang always provide a stellar product at a super price. Zip....
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Development In Our Neighborhood Chugging Like A College Frat Boy
Leave it to dogged DNA.info reporter Rachel Holliday-Smith to put together a comprehensive list of new buildings 'round here. Be sure to click on the article though to see some great photos and the...
View ArticleBuffie Simmons Out as District 17 Superintendent
In some very good news for local parents, longtime District 17 Superintendent Buffie Simmons has been "promoted" to Central DoE. You may use the word promoted as a synonym for whatever you think is...
View ArticleRounding Out the Development Picture
Thanks to Mike F (Known online as whynot?) over at Brooklynian for offering up a fuller picture of what's going on in the nabe development-wise. Most of the below descriptions are outdated...click...
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A Conclusion About MTOPP
And so, with two "new construction" posts in the last two days, I hope to have painted a fairly full picture of the enormous change happening not tomorrow, but right now. If my hunch is right, it's...
View ArticleA Lazy Post
I really hope you have something better to do than read the latest nonsense from MTOPP, written in some vague sort of iambic pentameter. But say you're in the waiting room at the dentist and all the...
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More Pop-Up Yummy From Sallie Ann's
Thank goodness for other news! Shari and Doug really know how to treat the tummy. Deliciousness is their middle, maiden and married name. So, if you're hankering for some old home goodness, stop by the...
View ArticleLive Blogging the Ebola Situation
Who needs me when you've got the muscle of every news outlet in the free world?Short version: Ebola comes to NYC. Panic and Hysteria to start presently.
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Readings on Rogers
This is Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NYC. Capital of the Arts. It's easy to forget sometimes that you're living, maybe even sitting on the subway, among some of the most creative, accomplished and...
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The Q's "Wheel Appreciation Day"
yet another extraordinary useWalking back from the Office Depot with three (3) large office chairs in big boxes planted on my hand truck, passing zooming cars and bikes, a man in a wheelchair, a lady...
View ArticleGreat Essay on Disappearance of Black Bed-Stuy
From the Daily News, a moving memorial from Brooklyn College professor Ron Howell. I was particularly struck by the measured tone, choice anecdotes and the timeliness to our own Leffertsian story....
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Community Board Agenda For Tonight: A Zone Defense
When tonight's Community Board Agenda (scheduled for 7pm at Medgar Evers, all invited) was set and released last week, it turned a few heads. Last month's meeting had but one agenda item - discussing...
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District 17 - Meet Your New Chancellor
I understand that Rachel from DNAInfo has conducted an interview with him. And I'll be sure to link to that as soon as it comes out. In the meantime, after a few years under the baton of Buffie...
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Lincoln Road: Booze to Bikes
First off...the Community Board meeting was forced to shut down early. Officials at Medgar Evers were not amused by the rowdy makeshift demonstration that erupted when the auditorium we were in became...
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Chester Court Will Remain...Chester Court
No matter how you feel about 626 Flatbush, dang you gotta admit it's going up lickety split. And you also gotta admit that until you saw it there, you really couldn't imagine what it would feel like....
View ArticleParkside Plaza Project: Reaching For a New Goal
If you're like me, you were planning on donating to the Parkside project right near the end of their campaign to be a "hero." Well, they aimed low and hit the mark pretty quickly. As a fundraiser I...
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