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Jung Sook Lee, the owner of popular Brooklyn Heights market Peas and Pickles, stands proudly inside the store’s new extension, which is opening next door to the main market on Pineapple Walk. Lee said that the new section would eventually hold a deli and a hot and cold salad bar.

A towering puppet replica of Ronnie Asbell, puppetry teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, was one of many stars in this year’s Annual Puppet Parade on Monday afternoon.

Clergy, community leaders, teachers and parents are encouraged to attend a free training seminar with Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children to learn how to protect the children in their lives from sexual abuse. 
 

The planned residential conversion of the former police precinct building in Brooklyn Heights can finally move forward, with last week’s approval by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) in Manhattan.

Its website, which is still under development, says the Ruby and Jenna Brooklyn Heights store will be opening in May. It describes the store’s offerings as “reasonably priced clothing” for women and girls.