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Place: Brooklyn
Seeking a Cure for Jonah
Jonah Weishaar is in a race against time. The two-year-old Brooklyn boy has a rare, incurable disease. His parents are helping organize a study that they hope will lead to a cure.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Final Rest for a Voice From the Past
The speed of sound is 340.29 meters per second, but it took more than 100 years for Eugenia Farrar’s voice to get back to Brooklyn.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Art’s the Heart of Therapy Approach
A naked woman sits in a wooden chair that rests on a cloud amid a blue sky…
via Crain's New York Business
Brooklyn’s Producing a Recovery
The expansion of Steiner Studios – where the musical version of "The Producers" was filmed – is one sign that Brooklyn is on the rebound.
via The Local
Digging Into Community Garden Plan
Local gardeners are trying to figure out what proposed new rules could mean for their patches of paradise.
via The Local
Penny Poet Offers Streetwise Prose
Robert Samuel Snyderman types up original poems on the spot in return for donations.
via Explain the Plan
Inside Brooklyn’s Bat Cave
Squatters and graffiti artists turned an old MTA power plant along the Gowanus Canal into their own playground, named after Batman's old haunt.