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After School Ice Cream

It was 3 p.m. in Brooklyn Heights. School had just let out at PS8 and parents and nannies scrambled to collect their children as they walked out of the gates.

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Video – Behind the Brine

Before Guss’ Pickles moved to Borough Park and became Ess-a-Pickle, Pat Fairchild took TheBrooklynInk.com on a briny odyssey from hot peppers to sauerkraut, and explained how a cucumber becomes a pickle.

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So Indie, They Don’t Even Know It

By Yepoka Yeebo Last year, five 12-year-old girls from Brownsville, Brooklyn recorded an exuberant, electro-tinged song that would see them featured in music snob bibles ‘Pitchfork,’ and ‘The Fader.’ By a bizarre twist of the record industry, it became the soundtrack to luxury label Proenza Schouler’s show at Fashion Week in February. But only one...

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Your Weekend Subway Misery

The C is not running, the D isn't running between Herald Square and Pacific Street, there are no trains between 71 Av and Court Sq. Broad St-bound J trains will skip Flushing Av, Lorimer, and Hewes Streets