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From Monday, March 20 to Thursday, March 30 , restaurateurs and foodies across the borough will be participating in Dine In Brooklyn, the borough's official restaurant week.

With the exception of dance, recreational activities for girls are non-existent in Brownsville, one of New York's poorest neighborhoods.

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I know, I know, it's St. Patrick's Day weekend and you're gonna go bananas. You're gonna drink copious amounts of Jameson and Guinness, scream and shout with your friends and make a complete fool out of yourself.

photo credit: gothamist.org On Wednesday, Crown Heights residents voiced their concerns about the newest homeless shelter, Bergen Houses, confirmed to open later this month.

New York City's homeless population is the highest it has ever been since the Great Depression.

photo credit: The New York Times Nearing the completion of a much needed renovation, the Billie Holiday Theater , a Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood institution, is slated to open its doors again this May.

Janie Washington-Bennett (4th from right) with volunteers who are campaigning for signatures to turn Belmont Avenue in Brownsville to "Dwayne Pearl Washington Way.

photo credit: poematisnaturalis.org Mayor Bill de Blasio made a $1 million pledge for the funding of a long-awaited community center for Marcy Houses, according to a recent report by DNAinfo .

Photo: Ars Technica In 2008, Verizon promised that every New York City household would have access to its fiber-optic FiOS service by June 2014. It's 2017, and the telecommunications conglomerate has not come close to fulfilling that promise.