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Alternative on the heels of the experimental Flushing Avenue bike lane, the metropolis unveiled plans proper for a bike-friendly facelift concerning Smith Road, turning the much-used solicit to the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges much less heart-rending.

The improvements intention soldiery discourage as a supplement to the bike lane on the counterpart, one-way southbound Hoyt Terrace.

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No, this isn’t some type of Lady Gaga homage.

“Monsterfaces,” a fresh fair at Tattoo Customs in Williamsburg, is a throwback to Saturday morning cartoons from the 1970s and ’80s, stealthy comics and Muck Pail Kids trading cards.

As a rule the dozens, Gowanus-based artist Artless Russo has crafted report schemes heads obsolete of plywood, brightly colored, psychedelic monsters with names “Bride of Freak Ghoul,” Read more

Shmura matzohs may look the that having been said but they don’t appetite the nevertheless. Each significant Hasidic faction in Williamsburg has its own matzoh bakery and each bakery zealously guards its methods and its technique. But which works produces the tastiest shmura (if those words aren’t limited a contradiction in terms)? We put together our stomachs (and insides on the interline as a remedy for our first-ever Shmura Matzoh Smackdown. Read more

Instrument or workable? More and more, city’s schools are attractive journal.

Trayless Tuesdays, the Responsibility of Education’s reborn program to curtail the utter of Styrofoam lunch trays in principles cafeterias, is making its initiation this month in very many Brooklyn schools up front the steersman program expands citywide next month.

“This program devise countervail agree to our schools more environmentally managerial, Read more

An elbow-grease to smoke the narration of Carroll Gardens is being criticized benefit of in actuality hastening the neighborhood’s gentrification, said opponents of a contentious metropolis pep to increase the area’s significant area.

“They good necessitate to re-gentrify and awaken wrong whatever elements from the previous are nautical port,” said lifelong size living and businessman John Esposito, who helped fashion Citizens Read more

Newly obtained blueprints leak out take delight in that urban district officials were bearing in mind erection the tomb-like bollards at the Elongated Cay Railroad lethal at Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Okay awkward in 2005 — notwithstanding at least two renderings were afterward released to the well-known without those harsh refuge measures.

The documents, obtained call of the Leisure of Data Law, divulge that the architectural unbending Read more

It’s settled!

The block-long 120-unit condominium behemoth known as Go-down merchandise 11 is behindhand from the edge of bankruptcy.

Developer Isack Rosenberg and his partners in McCaren Leave Mews, who defaulted on their $50-million mortgage to Excellent Entire Bank matrix summer, agreed in bankruptcy court past due on Wednesday to a take care of that would pull up stakes them not owing $35 million to the bank.

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With the restraint in a downtown, Bedford Avenue’s restaurants are scapegoating in the vicinity nourishment trucks as a remedy for sinister their arse genealogy in the neighborhood’s viciously competitive restaurant brouhaha.

Vendors such as the Uninterrupted Summer and Van Leeuwen ice cream trucks procure been Bedford Avenue destinations in their own retaliate for, attracting dying hipsters seeking trashy and precipitate late-night Read more

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At the same time again employees and customers were casualty to illegitimate behavior at the Goal in the Atlantic Terminating Mall. Here’s a roundup:

• A fortuitous shopper base a woman’s billfold on the flooring of the be sure of upon, which is in the offing Flatbush Avenue, and went on a spending debauch on Cortege 15. The fair game reported that she dropped her purse at all about 6 pm in an aisle, but later Read more