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PHOTOS: Building Benches (and Bridges) on Washington Avenue
Longtime merchants and new arrivals got together to build benches and tree guards. Help fill them with flowers on Saturday.

Former Patch Staff. Bio: Amy Sara Clark was born in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, and attended P.S. 139, Ditmas J.H.S. and Midwood High School before earning a B.A. and M.A. in history at the University of Michigan.
Longtime merchants and new arrivals got together to build benches and tree guards. Help fill them with flowers on Saturday.

Would-be thief drives bus off Dean Street lot, leading driver and cops on a chase that ended in a Fort Greene backyard.
NYC public schools are closed for staff development, but there are special concerts, kids theater and other events going on all day right in Prospect Heights.
Two seater was on the curb on Pacific Street between Carlton and Sixth at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Get the blow-by-blow of Wednesday night's meeting is on sanitation issues around Barclays Center.
Prospect Heights' Green Party candidate for congress thinks it should be.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
The six-concert series includes everything from samba-ing sea lions at the zoo to swing lessons at the library to a dance party under the Grand Army Plaza arch.
Prospect Heights-area subway, alternate side and event information you won't want to miss.
Brooklyn children's events in and around Prospect Heights, North Park Slope and South Fort Greene.
Chooses East New York councilman over Prospect Heights Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries in 8th District congressional race.
Williamsburg man was struck at Troy Avenue shortly after midnight Sunday.
Blaze broke out just before 2:51 a.m. Sunday in three-story wood-frame house.
Victim died within minutes after he was struck at the intersection of Troy Avenue.
Launched Saturday, the group plans to tackle such issues as raising the minimum wage, back-wages at Golden Farm and the area's lack of open space.