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• MoMA PS1 Warm Up kicked off their 2017 season with rain & a rainbow (pics, video)

  03-07-2017 21:15
  
  The first weekend of this year's season of MoMA PS1 Warm Ups featured music from Jackmaster, DJ EZ, Tiger & Woods, Shanti Celeste, and VHVL, as well as people dancing in the rain.
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• Nipped in the bud: Combo bar and florist forced to quit the plant biz by health department

  03-07-2017 20:31
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThis flower shop is pushing up daisies.
  The owners of a hybrid florist and bar in Ditmas Park quit the plant trade after city inspectors temporarily closed the business due to health concerns over its odd marriage of foliage, food, and booze, forcing them to make a Sophie’s Choice to lose the stems in order to save the bar, according to a representative.“The whole situation has been a very disturbing and emotionally dif
  
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• Nipped in the bud: Combo bar and florist forced to quit the plant biz by city

  03-07-2017 20:31
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThis flower shop is pushing up daisies.
  The owners of a hybrid florist and bar in Ditmas Park quit the plant trade after city inspectors temporarily closed the business due to health concerns over its odd marriage of foliage, food, and booze, forcing them to make a Sophie’s Choice to lose the stems in order to save the bar, according to a representative.“The whole situation has been a very disturbing and emotionally dif
  
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• Found leg believed to be part of butchered body discovered last week in Red Hook

  03-07-2017 19:29
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperA leg that washed up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday is believed to belong to the headless, brutally dismembered woman whose torso surfaced in water near Red Hook last week, according to reports.A jogger found part of the limb — which had pink toenails and was not decomposed — on a Manhattan riverbank, the New York Daily News reported.The torso of the woman who the leg is thought to belong to was found n
  
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• Clones win one, lose one in double-header against Connecticut

  03-07-2017 18:09
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperCyclones 7Connecticut 6July 2 at MCU (Game one)Hip, hip, Jose!Cyclones right fielder Jose Miguel Medina tore up the Tigers’s pitchers, hitting a home run and a triple that scored two runs and drove two in, all of which helped the Clones kick their seven-game losing streak and take their first home victory of the season.
  The Clones picked up the game postponed due to weather right where they left off when Carlos Sanchez score
  
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• stream Broken Social Scene's first album in 7 years, 'Hug of Thunder'

  03-07-2017 16:16
  
  'Hug of Thunder' features Feist, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars, Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric, and the rest of Broken Social Scene's original 15 members, as well as newcomers like Ariel Engle. It comes out on Friday (7/7), but you can stream it now.
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• Zine queen: Cartoonist preps for small press festival

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyYou ain’t zine nothing yet!The boroug1h’s longest-running zine festival is breaking out some heavy hitters for the sixth annual Pete’s Mini Zine Fest on July 8. The self-publishing showcase will add a smattering of bookstores and college clubs to its usual indie artists, which will just help everyone to shine, said a fest organizer.
  “This year we’re going to have some slightly bigger organizations,
  
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• Surreys by the shore: Bike rental opens shop in Bensonhurst

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyRide a bicycle built for two — or four or six!Southern Brooklynites can hop into pedal-driven carriages and toodle along the Shore Parkway promenade with their families at the new Wheel Fun Rentals location in Bensonhurst.
  Riders can choose from a traditional pair of wheels to a four-seater surrey to a three-wheeled chopper that looks more like a souped-up Big Wheel, for hourly, half-day, or full-day outings. It’s f
  
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• Robber uses pepper spray, sledgehammer in attempt to steal gun

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyPolice are searching for a would-be robber who pepper-sprayed a gun store clerk and smashed a display case full of firearms at a sporting goods store on New Utrecht Avenue in Bensonhurst on June 28.
  The goon entered DF Brothers Sports Center between 17th Avenue and 80th Street at 10:30 am when he asked a worker to take a closer look at a firearm locked inside the display case. But when the 60-year-old victim asked to see the ma
  
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• Nipped in the bud: Combo bar and flower shop forced to quit the plant biz by health department

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThis flower shop is pushing up daises.
  The owners of a hybrid florist and bar in Ditmas Park quit the plant trade after city inspectors temporarily closed the business due to health concerns over its odd marriage of foliage, food, and booze, forcing them to make a Sophie’s Choice to lose the stems in order to save the bar, according to a representative.“The whole situation has been a very disturbing and emotionally diff
  
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• Murder mystery: Medical examiner can not determine how killer’s brother died, concludes investigation

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThe bizarre death of a convicted child-murderer’s brother just got even more mysterious.The medical examiner can not figure out what killed Tzvi Aron, who was found dead and bound with duct tape in the basement of his mother’s Kensington home on June 2, and ended its investigation with no definitive findings, a spokeswoman said on June 27.“The cause of death is undetermined, and the manner of death is undetermined
  
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• It’s time to put an end to free parking

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Lenore SkenazyBrooklyn DailyWhat if you could rent a place to store a giant pile of your stuff in New York City for free?
  The bad news is you can. If you own a car, you can park it on the street in many neighborhoods without paying a cent. All you have to do is move it once or twice a week.Of course, that seems totally normal — but maybe it shouldn’t. As Paul Steely White, executive director of the non-profit Transportation Alternatives, points
  
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• East Flatbush getting its first community center!

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyThe kids will be alright!
  The city plans to build East Flatbush’s first community center for teens to kick back, relax, and stay out of trouble — the Shirley A. Chisholm Community Center — named after the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968, who also made a historic run for the White House a few years later.
  The local pol wanted kids to have a safe spot to hang out, but the nearest community center is m
  
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• Body found in Bay Ridge Channel

  03-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyPolice fished the body of a man who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge out of the Bay Ridge Channel on June 29, according to a police spokesman.Drivers spotted the distraught man pacing on a beam at 3:30 am. Police tried to talk the man down from the bridge, but he dove off the span at 4:30 am, officials said.The current dragged the man’s body near Bay Ridge where officers with the harbor unit discovered the corpse and brough
  
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