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  • The First “Towers” of Bay Ridge

    The literal rise and fall of the 65th Street Gas Tanks, which dominated the local landscape for decades.

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  • How an Ancient Cemetery Survived in Bay Ridge

    The Barkaloo Cemetery, home to at least one veteran of the American Revolution, has been at the corner of Mackay Place and Narrows for almost 300 years.

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  • Could the Oldest House in Bay Ridge Be Destroyed?

    Teunis Bergen's old homestead is for sale, and the realtor suggests the buyer could knock it down.

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  • The Bad Old Days: A Man with a Grenade and the Siege of Fifth Avenue

    In 1982, George Dalton threatened to detonate multiple explosives near 77th Street, leading to an almost 10-hour standoff that ended on a dark hill in Owl's Head Park.

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  • Will Bay Ridge Subway Stations Ever Have Elevators?

    The short answer: probably, sort of, eventually, maybe.

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"this is my body, this is my blood"

In Bay Ridge, an Artist Builds a Home Out of Collagen, Glycerin and Her Own Blood

Magdalena Dukiewicz hints at the impermanence of home with her bodily constructions.

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In Bay Ridge, Artists Explore the Immigrant Experience

At Stand4, a powerful and striking collection of 21st-century immigrant women’s art.

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Tumult at Stand4 gallery

In Bay Ridge, an Art Show About the Dire Urgency of Right Now

Elena Soterakis’s TUMULT is full of dispatches not from a distant future but a desperate present.

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The Bay Ridge Canon: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (interview)

Talking to the author of one of the year’s buzziest books about its use of Bay Ridge as one of many settings.

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Who Rides the R Train Downtown, Anyway?

30,000 people, that’s who.

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Near Bay Ridge, Artists Create One-of-a-Kind “SciArt” Space

The new exhibition space at BioBAT, at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, mixes art with science.

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76th Street stairs

The Hidden Histories of the Step Streets and Glorious Mansions on Bay Ridge’s Eponymous Ridge

Everything you could want to know about the 74th Street and 76th Street stairs, including who built and lived in the houses above them.

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Cannonball Park

The Full, Epic History of “Cannonball Park”

A few acres at the tip of Bay Ridge provide a microcosmic history of that part of the neighborhood, from Coney Island-like amusements to Vietnam-era protests.

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Andrew Gounardes

Andrew Gounardes on the Arts: “A Lot of Candidates Don’t Talk About This Because They Don’t Understand”

An in-depth interview with the state senate candidate about the value of the arts and what government can do to support them.

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Andrew Gounardes

Primary 2018: The Case for Andrew Gounardes

Why you should vote for Andrew on September 13 and give him a shot to unseat Marty Golden.

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  • 65th Street Gas TanksThe First “Towers” of Bay Ridge
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  • George Dalton Fifth AvenueThe Bad Old Days: A Man with a Grenade and the Siege of Fifth Avenue
  • Accessibility protest in Bay RidgeWill Bay Ridge Subway Stations Ever Have Elevators?
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