Local Level: Trashy Yard (Brooklyn Heights); Free Grocery Delivery (Park Slope); Rooftop Farm (Navy Yard)

Houses on Smith Street, Carroll Gardens
Photo: Pardon Me For Asking

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: Trashy Yard has Neighbors Fuming (Brooklyn Paper)

“The filthiest backyard in Brooklyn Heights has gotten so bad that at least one neighbor has started cleaning it himself … Community residents have been griping about a lawn-turned-garbage dump on Henry Street for years … The rat-filled sty around the corner from Montague Street is filled with overturned furniture, plastic bottles and bags …”

PARK SLOPE: Associated Market Does Free Delivery (F’ed in Park Slope)

“Tired of heavy plastic bags cutting into the cold palms of your hands as you make your way home from the grocery store? … Fear no more! The helpful staff at Associated Market will deliver your goods — for free! Simply write your name & address on a post-it and they’ll box up your goods and send you on your way … And damn are they quick.”

WILLIAMSBURG/CLINTON HILL/FORT GREENE: Brooklyn Grange Expanding to Brooklyn (Grub Street)

World’s largest rooftop farm Brooklyn Grange … is set to expand to its namesake borough. Grub caught a glimpse of a large and currently soil-less rooftop, apparently located in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, where another farm is slated to go in by summer.

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