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Macon Street wins Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest

A block in Bedford-Stuyvesant is being recognized as the greenest street in the borough. Macon Street between Ralph and Howard avenues beat out about 200 other streets in Brooklyn in the Brooklyn Botanic

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Aug 6, 2014, 10:38 PM

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