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Crime News
While I hate to burst the holiday vibe, it would be remiss of me not to note to major crimes in the area. Last week, an armed robbery occurred at 618 Flatbush, which I believe is the Rochdale Pharmacy...
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Yes!
A Victory for Capital C CommunityThanks to every Q reader who gave to the Kwenci Jones mural project. He hit his $4,000 total goal, and can now protect the mural with a fancy high tech coating and...
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Sign A Petition For Maple Street School
The MTA is taking applications for use of the space inside the train station at Prospect Park, where the Maple Street nursery school now resides and has for a decade. In order to let them know that we...
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road on Affordability
You've heard the Q extol the virtues of the Crown Heights Tenants Union and the Flatbush Tenants Coalition. I urge you to support their march this Saturday in the lead-up to the showdown in June in...
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Hilarious, But True
So you move to NYC. You've got barely a trunkfull of belongings. You drive from Lafayette, or Omaha, or Eugene 'cross the heartland. Your heart skips a beat when you see the Empire State Building,...
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Lefferts Gardens South! A New Name Takes Flight!
The Q Loves Martense! Follow it to Nostrand for the world's best Meat Market, Michael's!An eagle-eyed Q reader noted the below description of an unusual looking house on Martense described as residing...
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115 Ocean Goes for a Boatload: What's Next?
115 Ocean and Yankelovich: Article/Photo - Claire MosesAn eagle-eyed reader noted the sale of 115 Ocean in The Real Deal, and while the sale of a big apartment building is hardly news in these heady...
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Mamary Bounces; LPT to Move?
Jim Mamary is closing Lincoln Park Tavern. Well, as I've said here before, that's the plan. Landlord Rong Ge wants serious coin, and now that Mamary has Bluebird Cafe up and running, he's probably...
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Shooting Mars Leadup to Holidays
WTF?In the middle of the day, yesterday around 4pm, gunfire rings out on the Flabenue. Clearly some kind of beef is getting mighty serious that people pull weapons on a sunny Thursday afternoon. The...
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Wanted Poster For Flabenue Shooting
The cops have released a picture, from video surveillance, of the probable shooter in Thursdays broad daylight shooting on Flatbush near the bus stop and the diner-counter Chinese Food place and what...
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Flatbush. Rogers. Nostrand. Throw in Lenox near Rogers and you've got a lot of gunplay in just one week. Enough to bring back memories of 2013. Related? Probably not. Except by proximity. Does it...
View ArticleBedford at Hawthorne Shooting
Now it's complete. Flatbush, Bedford, Rogers, Nostrand all played host to a shooting in the span of just one week. Last night around midnight, a male was shot on Bedford near Hawthorne.Merry Christmas,...
View ArticleFlipping Out
The Q's neighbors are flipping out.In Flatbush, Apt 3F at 41 Clarkson Ave., was bought in May for $202,800 and unloaded in September for $360,000. The 77.5 percent profit made it the second highest...
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2014: A Race To the Bottom
This is the first of two year-in-review posts. Tomorrow I'll do a more "here's what happened" thing, if only for my own memory, which is notoriously short. Another reason to write a blog...plus it's...
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1. A Zoning CatastropheThe year started on an upbeat note, despite the digging of an enormous hole into which our beloved 626 Flatbush was to rise. Is it not huge? I mean ABSURDLY huge? A lot of folks...
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Qomments
So starting now, anyone can comment. No need to be a Google user or anything, and you don't have to fill in those silly letters. But I'll be moderating, so keep it somewhat clean and yeah, certain...
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Wanted for Parkside Shooting
Lotsa times I'm wary of posting these pictures because the faces are so obscured, and this is no exception. However...the jacket is pretty darn recognizable. Seen this guy?
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Terrific Show at Tugboat
A neighbor with the handle Anton Gold is putting up some of his photographs at Tugboat today. He sent me some pictures that are really stupendous that I thought I'd share. The opening is Saturday, so...
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Zoning Update
Some of y'all have emailed asking about where we're at with a zoning study. CB9 members were invited to a special training session by the Brooklyn Department of City Planning on Tuesday, where we were...
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