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Meet the Farmer Expanding Her Fish and Veggie Farms Across Brooklyn

Meet the Farmer Expanding Her Fish and Veggie Farms Across Brooklyn

Brooklyn's Oko Farms is teaching New Yorkers how to cultivate their own food using aquaponics - a farming system that uses fish to nourish plants, and vice versa.
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Bed-Stuy ZIP Codes Have Most Vacant Apartments in BK, Census Data Shows

Bed-Stuy ZIP Codes Have Most Vacant Apartments in BK, Census Data Shows

The area roughly between Throop and Sarotoga Avenues has more than 3,000 empty apartments
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Pawfect Pairings: BK Animal Care Center Matches Prospective Owners with Pets For Adoption

Pawfect Pairings: BK Animal Care Center Matches Prospective Owners with Pets For Adoption

An increase in pet surrenders has created urgent needs to find forever homes.
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BK Renters Least Likely to Get Rental Discounts as Rents Climb

A new StreetEasy report shows Brooklyn rents were the least discounted of the five boroughs as rental prices closed in on 2019 highs
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Brooklyn Boy, 16, Dies a Week After He’s Shot Behind Wheel of Mercedes in Unsolved Drive-By

Brooklyn Boy, 16, Dies a Week After He’s Shot Behind Wheel of Mercedes in Unsolved Drive-By

A 16-year-old boy shot behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz in Brooklyn has died, police said Wednesday.
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Brooklyn’s Best Window Boxes Celebrated in Annual Greenest Block Competition

Brooklyn’s Best Window Boxes Celebrated in Annual Greenest Block Competition

The annual competition was delayed last year due to the pandemic, but this year organizers persevered with an adapted focus: the window box.
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What do we Know About the City's School Reopening Plan?

This year, New York City's public school students are being sent back to the classroom with no remote learning option. So how does the City plan to keep them safe?
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A BK Grandfather Subjected to Deed Theft Can Keep His Home

A BK Grandfather Subjected to Deed Theft Can Keep His Home

Dairus Griffiths had been in his Bed-Stuy home almost 30 years when he says he was duped into signing over the property's title to a development company
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Devastated Son Raises $10K for Mother Fatally Shot in Crown Heights

Devastated Son Raises $10K for Mother Fatally Shot in Crown Heights

Limose Dart was shot while she was coming home from work last Thursday night
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Emergency Rental Assistance Is on the Way, Sen. Persaud Says

After long delays, the BK senator expects the state agency administering the program to expedite the process.
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