No, Ocean Parkway is not a Brooklyn neighborhood, and other fake nabe names
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No, Ocean Parkway is not a Brooklyn neighborhood, and other fake nabe names

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What’s worse, calling the subway “the Metro” or calling Bed-Stuy “East Williamsburg”?

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Is it possible to ‘counteract gentrification’ while ‘living in a luxury building in Brooklyn’?
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Is it possible to ‘counteract gentrification’ while ‘living in a luxury building in Brooklyn’?

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Naming your purebred Golden Doodle Rosa Parks is in fact offensive and tone deaf and in no way makes you a more welcome area resident.

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Meet your neighbors and be an active community member at Flatbush Fest this weekend
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Meet your neighbors and be an active community member at Flatbush Fest this weekend

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Leave your apartment this weekend and enjoy the warmth of your neighborhood beneath the looming threat of gentrification at Flatbush Fest.

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Landlord cedes to local anger, will not remove Bed-Stuy Biggie mural
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Landlord cedes to local anger, will not remove Bed-Stuy Biggie mural

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The people have spoken: Biggie will continue watching over Bed-Stuy.

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Should public death memorials be treated as a right or a privilege in New York?
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Should public death memorials be treated as a right or a privilege in New York?

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A wind chime in Greenpoint is one woman’s shrine to her mother and the bane of her neighbor’s existence. Is anyone really entitled to public space?

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Park Slope’s Barbès is $70,000 in debt thanks to ‘the harsh economic reality of the new Brooklyn’
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Park Slope’s Barbès is $70,000 in debt thanks to ‘the harsh economic reality of the new Brooklyn’

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Park Slope’s Barbès has long fought the tides of change but, $70,000 in debt, it needs cash fast in order to stick around much longer.

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How to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in BK without being a culturally-appropriating douche bag
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How to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in BK without being a culturally-appropriating douche bag

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Cinco de Mayo has somewhat deplorably come to be associated with margaritas and happy hours, drink specials, tacos, and generally tone deaf […]

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6 old-school Park Slope businesses that have been in the neighborhood way longer than you
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6 old-school Park Slope businesses that have been in the neighborhood way longer than you

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Despite its rich array of multi-generation mom and pop shops, stunning historic architecture and abundance of locals, Park Slope is increasingly thought […]

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How I found self-love in Bushwick through Taoist breast massages and meditation
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How I found self-love in Bushwick through Taoist breast massages and meditation

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New month, new me is all well and good until you step outside of your apartment and onto the snow-saturated sidewalks. Then, […]

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Doc recalls beloved BK cops who ‘never fired one round’
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Doc recalls beloved BK cops who ‘never fired one round’

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In 2017 Brooklyn, the idea of having a relationship with your local beat cop feels definitively foreign: indeed, many people probably don’t […]

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