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Sweethearts Shop Local: Supporting Small Brooklyn Businesses This Valentine’s Day

Sweethearts Shop Local is an initiative launched by neighborhood leaders across the city to show love to our small businesses
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Lottery for Affordable Bed-Stuy Apartments Now Open

Lottery for Affordable Bed-Stuy Apartments Now Open

The Garnet building on Fulton St has 15 units for less than $1,000 per month
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Community Health Organizations Are Key to Distributing COVID-19 Vaccine, East NY Provider Says

East New York’s Doral Health and Wellness distributed COVID vaccines last week, starting with 200 seniors residing in NYCHA buildings
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Indoor Dining to Restart at 25% Capacity, But Is It Enough to Help the Struggling Industry?

The city plans to resume indoor dining at 25% capacity before Valentine’s Day, and not everyone is enamored with the idea
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After Months of Improvising, Youth-Centered Nonprofit Finds New Home in Bed-Stuy

After Months of Improvising, Youth-Centered Nonprofit Finds New Home in Bed-Stuy

The Big Apple Leadership Academy for the Arts had been operating virtually and out of public parks since the start of the pandemic before opening its new space in Bed-Stuy
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Cultivating Healthy Lifestyles: Owner of Brooklyn’s Natty Garden Opens Natural Food Store

Glenroy Mahfood has spent over a decade growing and selling plants to folks in Brooklyn and beyond
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Plans for Luxury Bushwick Development Are Illegal, Neighbors Find

At a community meeting on a 20-story luxury development in Bushwick Thursday, residents and electeds revealed they've found a way to stall developers
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Feb 7: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Big Daddy Kane

Feb 7: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Big Daddy Kane

About.com ranked the Grammy Award-winning artist #3 on its list of the "Top 50 MCs of Our Time."
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The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Bed-Stuy

Overall, crime is down in Bed-Stuy, and in Brooklyn as a whole.
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227 Abolitionist Place: The Long Struggle to Landmark the BK House Linked to the Underground Railroad

227 Abolitionist Place: The Long Struggle to Landmark the BK House Linked to the Underground Railroad

Saving the historic house from demolition was also part of a larger struggle against gentrification, and activists are now calling for the site to be turned into a heritage center
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