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Faye Penn is the founder of Brokelyn and publisher of the Brooklyn and Queens Beer Books, the Brooklyn Cocktail Book and other stuff you ain't seen yet. She lives in Ditmas Park. Get at her at [email protected]

Buy a cool photo, help Japan relief efforts
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Buy a cool photo, help Japan relief efforts

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Our friends over at the wonderful Brooklyn photo blog For the Love of Brooklyn (bookmark it, kids!) are selling a print that shows a view of Manhattan from the Standard Hotel rooftop, with Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji rising in the background

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Giveaway: 300 free cherry and dogwood trees tomorrow
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene

Giveaway: 300 free cherry and dogwood trees tomorrow

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NY Restoration Project and MillionTreesNYC are giving away free cherry and dogwood trees at the Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill (Fulton Street at Grand Avenue) on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 10 a.m.

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Woo hoo! Electronics recycling comes to Brooklyn
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Woo hoo! Electronics recycling comes to Brooklyn

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GrowNYC is just out with their spring electronics recycling dates in Brooklyn, and they include Park Slope this Saturday (March 26), Clinton, Dyker Heights, Gravesend and Cobble Hill.

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Half off plants at Liberty Sunset’s going out of business sale
Red Hook

Half off plants at Liberty Sunset’s going out of business sale

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If you’re anything like us, you’ve got the gardening bug BAD this year, and here’s a little good news/bad news for all […]

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Spotted: groovy spring wedges at Payless
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Spotted: groovy spring wedges at Payless

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We spotted these Lela Rose for Payless shoes in the April Real Simple and man are they groovus!

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Everyone’s a winner in our gross photo contest (except the rat and the bird)
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Everyone’s a winner in our gross photo contest (except the rat and the bird)

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Brokelyn readers’ send “Great Thaw” pics of dead birds, hypodermic needles, umbrella graveyards, a soundboard thingy, a purple marital aid, and much much more.

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200 meal deals: Dine in Brooklyn is back!
Food & Drink

200 meal deals: Dine in Brooklyn is back!

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From March 21 – March 31, more than 200 of Brooklyn’s eateries will serve three-course dinner menus for $25, three-course lunches for $20.11 and even some “two for the price of one” deals at participating restaurants.

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LAST DAY! The best of the Great BK Thaw
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LAST DAY! The best of the Great BK Thaw

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The snow is gone, at least for a few days, and two months’ of trash-bag spillage is emerging from its wintry slumber. What unsightly or perhaps even beautiful horrors hath the Great Thaw of 2011 wrought on your block?

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For retailers, there’s gold in them thar Etsy
Shopping

For retailers, there’s gold in them thar Etsy

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We’d heard that big retailers troll Etsy for crafsy-looking merch and now we know why: they can charge gigantaur mark-ups on the […]

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Would you give Carrot Girl $1 to move to Brooklyn?
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Would you give Carrot Girl $1 to move to Brooklyn?

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This is Laura Zamora, an art-school grad, printmaker and apparent crudité enthusiast who has been trying since last summer to scrape together […]

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