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This Week in Brooklyn Openings and Closings

For August 8 — August 14

John V. Santore, Patch StaffVerified Patch Staff Badge
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BROOKLYN, NY — Here are some of the Brooklyn opening, closing, and real estate-related stories that made headlines this week:

BoCoCa

  • A small neighborhood residential development project has been approved, with conditions designed to encourage affordable housing in the area (Patch)

Brooklyn Heights

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  • Honeygrow, a Philadelphia-based health food chain, will expand to Court Street at the beginning of 2017 (DNAinfo)

Brownsville and East New York

  • You can now apply for one of 191 new affordable apartments in New Lots (Patch)

Bushwick

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  • Two affordable two-bedroom apartments are taking applications until Aug. 31 (Patch)

Crown Heights

  • Peppa's Jerk Chicken Restaurant is expanding to Crown Heights (Patch)

Greenpoint

  • Brooklyn Night Bazaar will be reopening this September at Polonaise Terrace (DNAinfo)

Flatbush

  • A new Chipotle is coming to Nostrand Avenue in the fall (Patch)

Fort Greene

  • LaRina Pastifico and Vino is now serving modern Italian cuisine in the neighborhood (Fort Greene Focus)

Park Slope and Prospect Heights

  • The KBH Bierhalle will be opening a outdoor seating area, but on the community's terms (Patch)
  • Chipotle will be opening a new location on Flatbush Avenue this year (Patch)
  • Uptown Roasters, which sources its coffee to Peru, is headed to 7th Avenue in the fall (DNAinfo)

Sunset Park

  • A new "food manufacturing hub" in the Brooklyn Army Terminal could provide 100 jobs (Patch)
  • The Hamilton is showing off luxury apartments on 60th Street (Sunset Park Voice)

Windsor Terrace

  • Parade Café, a French coffee and sandwich spot, has opened on Caton Avenue (Patch)
  • The closing of the Market Fresh supermarket is part of a problematic local trend (Park Slope Stoop)

Williamsburg

  • 13 affordable units are accepting applications until Aug. 17 (Patch)
  • The city's $100 million offer for land needed to complete Bushwick Inlet Park has expired, with no resolution to an ongoing standoff with owner Norm Brodsky (Patch)
  • Chipotle is opening a new outpost on N. 4th Street later this year (Patch)

And a new report has shown that rents are finally dropping in Brooklyn (Patch)

Pictured at top: Parade Cafe. Photo by John V. Santore

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