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8th Annual Latke Festival Burns Brightly With Innovative Flavors

Growing up, my bubbe would implore me to essen ein bissel (“eat a little”, or “ta

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Are you a black-owned business in Brooklyn? Add it to this new map to help people find you

Breukelen Coffee House is just one of the great black-owned businesses in BK you can find ou the map

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Gun-Toting ‘Drugstore Xanax Cowboy’ Pinches Clinton Hill Pharmacy

Video via NYPD. A daylight robbery at a Clinton Hill drugstore yielded cash without the desired drug

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A case of nostalgia: BookCourt is selling off its shelves on Craigslist for $500 each

Living room decor, anyone? via Craigslist The announcement earlier this month that BookCourt was cl

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Warm your heart with this video of drag queens reading to kids at the Brooklyn Public Library

It’s hard, even in this week before the holidays, to look at the news and the great undulatin

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City Debuts App Letting You Pay Parking Meters From Your Phone

At last: thanks to a new app announced by the de Blasio Administration yesterday, you can now pay th

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Cruelty free 2016! The best of vegan news in Brooklyn this year

Screamer’s Pizza set about dominating the city with vegan pizza this year. Via Facebook. This

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Meet Nivedita Kulkarni, creator of the biggest listserv for women in comedy

Kulkarni in a 2013 interview. via screenshot As this train chugs ever closer and more miserably towa

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The Down-Low: Beloved DJ Death And Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all o

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National Grid Customers: Here’s How To Save Money In The Face Of Next Month’s Rent Hikes

Beginning in January 2017 National Grid customers in Brooklyn, Staten Island and some parts of Queen

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