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WATCH: The World's Largest Rooftop Farm Is Coming To Brooklyn

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: New York Impact, Brooklyn Grange, Video, Ny News, Urban Farming, Paul Lightfoot, Ny Impact, Rooftop Farms, New York News, Bright Farms, Marty Markowitz, Sunset Park, New York News

Brooklyn will soon to be home to the world's largest rooftop farm. Bright Farms, a company that builds greenhouses, has announced they will build ...

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Urban Chinatowns Across Nation Decline In Suburban Migration

AP | HOPE YEN and BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: San Gabriel Valley Chinatown, Los Angeles Chinatown, Video, Chinatown, Chinatown Suburban Migration, D.C. Chinatown, Fairfax Virginia Chinatown, San Francisco Chinatown, New York Chinatown, Sunset Park, DC News

WASHINGTON — America's historic Chinatowns, home for a century to immigrants seeking social support and refuge from racism, are fading as rising...

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Violence Against Women: Keeping Up Our Resolve

Brad Lander | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Park Slope, South Slope, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, Sunset Park, Greenwood Heights, Feminism, Sexual Assault, New York News
Brad Lander

Over the last several months, a string of sexual assaults shook the Park Slope, Sunset Park, and Windsor Terrace communities. This is an important moment to reflect on the plague of violence against women, in Brooklyn and beyond.

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Brooklyn Sexual Assault Suspect Arrested

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Video, Safe Walk, New York Crime, Park Slope, Nypd, Brooklyn Safe, Brooklyn Gropings, Adolfo Martinez, Sunset Park, Brooklyn-Sexual-Assaults, New York News

A suspect in Sunset Park's Monday night groping has been arrested. Police charged 26-year old Adolfo Martinez with forcible touching and sexual abuse ...

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WATCH: 300 Rally In Brooklyn Against Serial Sex Attacker

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Safe Slope, Brooklyn Sex Attacks, Video, Nypd, Park Slope, Park Slope Protest, Ny News, New York News, Bay Ridge, Sexual Assault, Sunset Park, New York News

300 people showed up at a rally in Brooklyn Wednesday night as a show of force against sexual predators who have raped one woman and sexually assaulte...

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Audio Walking Tours With Contemporary Literature As Your Guide

fsgworkinprogress.com | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: The Hours, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Cunningham, Americana, Paul Auster, Freedom, Electric Literature, Audio Walking Tour, Do Delillo, New York, Sunset Park, Books News

There’s a passage in Don DeLillo’s Americana where he describes walking down a busy sidewalk among a throng of New Yorkers. He captured this feeli...

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New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 2

David Serchuk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apartments, Brooklyn, Orthodox Jews, Park Slope, Real Estate, Bay Ridge, New York City, Sunset Park, New York News
David Serchuk

Sunset Park is one or two subway stops further away from Manhattan than Park Slope, so it's gentrifying accordingly. It is a less pretentious area, but, then again, it has less to be pretentious about.

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Artlog's Top Art & Culture Picks

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Forbidden City, Brooklynite, Governors Island, Warehouse Party, Artlog, Nyc Art, Escape, Peter Feigenbaum, Trainset Ghetto, Secret Project Robot, Art, Nyc, Art Fair, September Art Shows, Shepard Fairey, Artlog.com, Sacred Gallery, Slidepollajax, Paradise Lost, Sunset Park, c215, Eelus, New York News
Artlog

Before the artworld hits its frantic peak, why not delve a bit further afield?

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Magnus Saethre, 97-Year-Old WWII Veteran, Faces Eviction (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eta Eckstein, Magnus Saethre, Jack Geula, World War II Veterans, NYC Real Estate, Sunset Park, New York News

A controversial landlord wants to give a 97-year-old World War II veteran the boot from his rent controlled apartment. Magnus Saethre pays just $63-a...

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A New Dawn in Sunset Park?

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Greenway, Brooklyn, Federal Building No. 2, Gowanus Expressway, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Jonathan Sederstorm, The New York Times, Cross-Harbor Frieght Tunnel, New York City, Sunset Park, New York News
John Petro

A building up for sale could spark a rebirth of Sunset Park's rich industrial legacy.

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Steven Arizmendi, Brooklyn Science Teacher, Sells Book Warning Of Satan To Junior High Students

nydailynews.com | Meredith Kolodner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Arizmendi, Science Teacher Sells Satan Book, Junior High School 220, Brooklyn, New York City, Sunset Park, New York News

A Brooklyn principal has reprimanded Steven Arizmendi, a sixth-grade teacher, for selling students a book that tells how to "recognize those serving S...

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Eating Club: D/M/N/R to 36th Street, Sunset Park

The MTA Dining Car | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carne Asada, Mexican Food, New York Restaurants, Eating Club, Sunset Park, Tacos, Foodies, New York News
The MTA Dining Car

The MTA Dining Car heads to Sunset Park in Brooklyn for a taco tour on a warm and breezy Sunday afternoon.

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The Narrows: A Double Life in Brooklyn

Tim McLoughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vincent D'Onofrio, Brooklyn, Eddie Cahill, Park Slope, The Pavilion Brooklyn, Hipsters, Francois Velle, Kevin Zegers, The Beatles, The Narrows, Shea Stadium, Andy Warhol?S Frankenstein, Coney Island, Sophia Bush, Sunset Park, Entertainment News
Tim McLoughlin

The Brooklyn we drove through back then from our apartment in Sunset Park to the theater, around the corner from my mother's family on 17th Street, was a diorama of post-war, working class urban life.

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