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• Donald Trump Jr. Probably Just Did Something Colossally Stupid

  11-07-2017 18:47 via bkmag.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr. just did something colossally stupid. It’s actually unfathomable to think that he actually did what he just did, which, to be quite fair is saying a lot. It is quite difficult to make any sense of why this happened, and many in the know are also confused.
  In an attempt to pre-empt a New York Times piece detailing direct contact and solicitation between the Trump campaign last year and the Russian government—believed to be working specifically to help t
  
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• Discover Global Sounds at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival This Week

  11-07-2017 17:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Artists from around the world and around the block take to the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival this week, showcasing a wide range of musical stylings that will continue throughout the rest of the summer.The locals kick things off on Thursday, July 13, when New Jersey native Robert Randolph and Grammy Award-winning Eric Krasno, a New York native, take the stage. After spending his childhood in the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey, as a young pedal steel player steeped in
  
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• DUMBO’s Empire Stores is Flush with Illustrious Food Tenants

  11-07-2017 17:03 via bkmag.com
  
  While not exactly a food court, per se, Empire Stores presents an impressive gathering of unique culinary concepts, in one of the city’s most breathtaking locations—a 19th century warehouse complete with original architecture (brick masonry façade, 14-foot ceilings, schist stone walls), abutting DUMBO’s waterfront panorama of the Empire State building, Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.
  Here’s a look at the recently debuted complex’s lucky new tenant
  
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• What a jerk! Caribbean food fest celebrates all the islands

  11-07-2017 15:19
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperCurry on down to Canarsie!A new food festival in Canarsie aims to showcase the wide variety of Caribbean cuisine, featuring culinary favorites from more than a dozen different islands. The organizer of the New York City Caribbean Food Festival, happening on July 15 at Pacplex, says that she wants the event to do away with stereotypes and preconceived notions of what the region’s cuisine is like.“I want people to appr
  
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• An illustrated guide to Brooklyn condo buildings

  11-07-2017 15:00
  
  Illustrator David Ostow was inspired by Brooklyn building boom to create a guide to the condos you see popping up all over the borough.
  The post An illustrated guide to Brooklyn condo buildings appeared first on Brooklyn Based.
  
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• Win a pair of tickets to Conor Oberst July 20

  11-07-2017 14:59
  
  We’re giving away a pair of tickets to see Conor Oberst July 20 at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Fest. Enter below by Sunday, July 16 at midnight, we’ll announce the winner July 17.
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• You’re hired! Local pol kicks-off city’s Summer Youth Employment Program

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn PaperHe’s putting these kids to work!
  Seventy thousand New Yorkers in their teens and early twenties received summer jobs through a city-wide youth employment program kicked-off by Councilman Mathieu Eugene (D–Flatbush) on July 5 that teaches the young adults skills to build successful careers and stay out of trouble, according to the pol.“Jobs are very important ways to learn discipline and respect for others,&rdqu
  
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• What a jerk! Carribbean food fest celebrates all the islands

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn DailyCurry on down to Canarsie!A new food festival in Canarsie aims to showcase the wide variety of Caribbean cuisine, featuring culinary favorites from more than a dozen different islands. The organizer of the New York City Caribbean Food Festival, happening on July 15 at Pacplex, says that she wants the event to do away with stereotypes and preconceived notions of what the region’s cuisine is like.“I want people to appr
  
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• Run the world: Clara Barton grad ready for next challenge

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Laura AmatoBrooklyn DailyHe’s got his sights set on the finish line — and he’ll race anyone to get there.Clara Barton grad Ronaldo Griffiths has been running for as long as he can remember. Now, the award-winning hurdler is anxious to take the next step — onto the track at Mississippi State University.“When I put up the times that I have, I’m confident,” said Griffiths, who won the Wingate Award in boys outdoor trac
  
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• Ridgites party at Arab American Bazaar

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyCall it a bazaar sight.
  Some 3,000 revelers packed into Shore Road Park to enjoy the Arab American Association of New York’s annual bazaar on July 9 with a medley of food, dance, and crafts. It was the Bay Ridge-based association’s 11th-annual party in Shore Road Park that showcases a growing part of Brooklyn’s — and particularly Bay Ridge’s — ethnic mosaic, said one fest-goer.
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• Park and no ride! Mayor bans cars from Brooklyn’s Backyard for season

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperIt’s wheel-y happening!
  Mayor DeBlasio on Monday announced a ban on all cars inside Prospect Park from July 17 to Sept. 11, and while the administration described the embargo as temporary, local leaders who support a vehicle-free meadow said they are optimistic that the seasonal restriction is a prelude to full-on prohibition.
  “Hopefully, it will lead to a permanent closure,” said Eric McClure, Chairman of Communi
  
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• Out on the Cape: Brooklyn baseball star seizing summer-time opportunity

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Troy MaurielloBrooklyn DailyLet the good times keep rolling.That’s what former Berkeley Carroll baseball star Richie Palacios wants, because that’s what he’s experienced since he left Brooklyn. After high school, he made his way to Towson University in Maryland, where he has excelled in his first two seasons for the Tigers. As a freshman in 2016, Palacios became the first player in Towson history to be named Colonial Athletic Association R
  
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• Oldtimers: Film shines light on baseball’s historic beginnings

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Troy MaurielloBrooklyn DailyCall it the all-but-forgotten sport.The names of athletes who played it are not remembered, their statistics were never recorded, their highlights never preserved on film.Brooklyn filmmaker Jay Cusato is working to change that, by shining a new light on the long-dormant urban sport of stickball with his documentary “When Broomsticks Were King.” He’s getting help from theBrooklyn Cyclones, which held its second a
  
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• Old-timers: Film shines light on baseball’s historic beginnings

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Troy MaurielloBrooklyn DailyCall it the all-but-forgotten sport.The names of athletes who played it are not remembered, their statistics were never recorded, their highlights never preserved on film.Brooklyn filmmaker Jay Cusato is working to change that, by shining a new light on the long-dormant urban sport of stickball with his documentary “When Broomsticks Were King.” He’s getting help from theBrooklyn Cyclones, which held its second a
  
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• Hole new problem: City doing poor job repairing Ridge sinkhole, say locals

  11-07-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyTalk about a sinking feeling.The city has finally filled in a recurring sinkhole that swallowed most of a Bay Ridge bike lane, but locals gripe that because the street’s asphalt continues to sag, it’s just going to cave in again. Shoveling asphalt is just a temporary fix unless something is done about the underlying cause, said one community leader.
  “This particular pothole has been there for some time. It&rsq
  
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