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The Week in Park Slope

What happened this week on Park Slope Patch.

It was another week of exciting developments and happenings in Park Slope. Here's our roundup of our biggest neighborhood headlines. 

On Monday, early morning by a park-goer, officials said. Police ruled it a suicide.  

On Tuesday, Patch reported that The Pavilion, in an unceremonious way, , , rolled it up into a ball and put it in a plastic bag.

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On Wednesday, we reported how Irene LoRe, the executive director of the Park Slope Business Improvement District, . In a statement she sent to the City Council, LoRe wrote:

“Small businesses with little individual power and not much collective influence are getting the short end of the stick.”

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On Thursday, Patch learned that food, drink and music festival is coming to Prospect Park the weekend of May 19 and 20. And it's free.

On Friday, we took a look at at the . The machine offers library patrons instant access to over eight million titles printed in any language, and allows Brooklyn authors to self-publish their work on site.


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