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Dates To Know In Crown, Prospect Heights This Week
Here's a round-up of meetings, events and other happenings in the neighborhood for May 16 through 17.

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Here's a round-up of meetings, events and other happenings in the neighborhood for May 16 through 17.

Here's a round-up of meetings, events and other happenings in the neighborhood for May 16 through 17.
Here's a round-up of meetings, events and other happenings in the neighborhood for May 16 through 17.
Also: Brooklyn Libraries Open For In-Person Service | Prospect Park Clean-Up Initiative Launches | Landlord Charged With Fatal Fire
Also: Park Slope Dips Below 1% COVID Rate | Fried Chicken Joint Coming To Seventh Ave | Prospect Park Launches Clean-Up Initiative
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Here are the must-read Patch NYC stories for Friday, May 14.
In a sign of a return to normality, subway service changes are making weekend travel a nightmare.
New staff, trash bins, upgraded restrooms and more will help the park recover from a year of "more love than it can handle," officials said.
Half of adults are now partially vaccinated in four of the five ZIP codes that make up the neighborhood, data shows.
The 42-year-old man was on his phone when a stranger came up behind him and punched him in the face, video shows. He landed in the hospital.
The man was found unconscious at an intersection in East Flatbush, according to police.
Michael Gordon was last seen leaving his home on Madison Street on May 6, police said.
A tenant who was trapped in his room with no way to escape a fire in the building jumped from the third floor to his death, officials said.
Here are the must-read Patch NYC stories for Thursday, May 13.
A duo that has run fried chicken pop-up restaurants will open their first permanent eatery on Seventh Avenue, records show.
The Brooklyn Film Festival will screen its 147 movies both in-person in Greenpoint and virtually this year, organizers announced.
The community board is set to vote Thursday on a project that would replace a McDonald's on Atlantic Avenue with an 18-story complex.
Daniel Biggs had been in the hospital since he was found with multiple gunshot wounds on May 2, according to police.
The NYPD officers were responding to a fatal shooting a few blocks away when a man opened fire on them near Saratoga Park, police said.