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The final Montague Street Summer Space of the season this past Sunday offered opera, crafts, chess (courtesy of the Brooklyn Eagle) and more -- but the highlight of the day was the third annual Brooklyn Heights Dog Show. … Full Article

NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters have rescued a man who was struck between a subway train and the platform in Brooklyn. … Full Article

New development is pushing the eastern boundary of Prospect Heights beyond its city-designated border of Washington Avenue and solidly into what has traditionally been thought of as Crown Heights. … Full Article

Dos Toros taqueria will open its first Brooklyn location in Williamsburg. … Full Article

Brooklyn resident Monique Greenwood, a Bedford-Stuyvesant businesswoman, innkeeper and former editor-in-chief at Essence magazine, has opened her fourth bed and breakfast (B&B) establishment, thanks to the “ … Full Article

Four Long Island University basketball players have been suspended after they were arrested on charges of assault in a campus brawl with the track team. … Full Article

Ratner overcame court challenges, recession to build $1 billion arena … Full Article

The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) reports in its recent newsletter that at least five new neighborhood retail stores have recently opened or will open this month.

They include the following:

• Planet Fitness, which opens for business at 253 Livingston St.; … Full Article

It's got all the elements of a hit cable TV series: The return of a major pro sports franchise to Brooklyn after 55 heartbreaking years, a maverick billionaire owner who once ran for the Russian presidency, but now seems obsessed with vanquishing his crosstown rivals, a hip-hop icon who has a st … Full Article

A group called the “Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos” will be hosting two demonstrations in the Orthodox Jewish section of Crown Heights this Sunday and Monday to protest the overhead “swinging" and slaughtering of live chickens in Kaporos cer … Full Article