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Tuesday lunchtime linkage

Here are Clinton Hill's generic grocery store-replacing apartments [NY YIMBY] There's such a thing as subway ads that are too…

David Colon

New Big-Ticket Purchases? That’s One Reason to Update Your Insurance

Make your policy match your possessions | Nick Keppol via Flickr [sponsored_by name="Gotham Brokerage Co., Inc" url="http://gothambrokerage.com/" logo="http://brooklynbased.com/app/uploads/2014/01/Gotham-Logo-Final1.png" byline="Let Gotham show you…

Jeff Scherer

It’s Free Cone Day, if you feel like braving Times Square

Looks like the weather may finally have turned this week, which means you can start thinking of things like eating…

David Colon

Worst pothole photo contest: win a puncture-resistant tire from Bike Slug!

With spring finally upon us, brokesters, we recommend you get back in the saddle and ride your bike again. Temperatures…

Sam Corbin

New Music Tuesday: Hanging around with Heliotropes

https://youtu.be/t_CgpFY66rg Heliotropes released their debut album A Constant Sea on Manimal Records in 2013 and their video for "Everyone Else"…

Kelly McClure

Sweet job alert: Brokelyn is hiring

As you know, if you're a regular reader of the site, we are often a clearinghouse of good jobs that…

David Colon

The Man wants to take away our fire escapes

A lot of New York icons have been vanishing lately, only to be replaced by condos and piles of artisanal spam.…

Camille Lawhead

Bars We Love: There’s flower power at Sycamore!

Sycamore 1118 Cortelyou Rd. (between Stratford Rd & Westminster), Ditmas Park, 347-240-5850 Facebook • Twitter • Website What it is: Sycamore has been called the “coziest…

Faye

Una LaMarche on getting awkward life lessons published

Una LaMarche hasn't just powered through the face-palming, unibrowed crucible of adolescence and the sloppiness of rookie adulthood--she's published the…

Camille Lawhead

Monday lunchtime linkage

Take a tour through the ruins of Gowanus [New York Magazine] Anti-Hillary Clinton street art hits Brooklyn Heights [Brooklyn Heights…

David Colon