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Brooklyn Bridge Park is a very different place, in both larger and smaller elements, since the first “American Landscape” plan in the form of a Harbor Park, sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Association and designed by Terry Schnadelbach, was presented in 1988. … Full Article

Cooper Square Realty reports it has been selected to manage the new 62-unit rental building at 111 Kent Ave. on the Williamsburg waterfront. … Full Article

Doug Steiner of Steiner Studios has acquired another residential development for his firm’s portfolio. This one, at 142 North 6th St. in Williamsburg, is a fully-leased rental conversion. … Full Article

The Empire State Development Board of Directors has approved funding for two construction projects in Brooklyn — the Bush Terminal Industrial Complex in Sunset Park, which was awarded $10 million; and the  Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Green Manufacturing Center, which received $5 million. … Full Article

An auction is scheduled in November for the former Slave Theater on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The theater, which hosted countless African-American political and cultural events, was founded and owned by the late Brooklyn Judge John L. Phillips, who died in 2008. … Full Article

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Christ Church-Cobble Hill for many years has hosted summer feast day Eucharist liturgies and cookouts, on the Fourth of July and on Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for the Deanery of St. Mark, a cluster of Episcopal parishes in western Brooklyn. … Full Article

Eleven years after four members of the same family were killed by a drunk-driving police officers on Third Avenue, relatives, friends, local residents and elected officials gathered in a park named in their honor to pay them tribute. … Full Article

The nearly complete Barclays Center has already announced a full slate of men's college basketball events for the upcoming 2012-13 season, including four LIU-Brooklyn home games, the Legends Classic Championship Rounds in November, December's much-anticipated Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival and t … Full Article

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz recommends that more bicycle parking, more affordable housing and more housing for active seniors be tied into a zoning amendment designed to reduce the underutilized parking garages in new Downtown Brooklyn residential buildings. … Full Article