Capital New York

Flatbush Avenue freakout: How a race-baiting hoax hooked Bobo Brooklyn, briefly

The former Royal Video storefront wraps around Brooklyn's bustling Flatbush Avenue, where it marks the boundary between Park Slope to the south and Prospect Heights to the north, right where the broad commercial thoroughfare busts diagonally through the perpendicular intersection of Sixth Avenue and St. Mark’s Avenue, both picturesque streets of brownstone homes and limestone apartment buildings.

And it's here that, for a moment, it seemed like a longstanding perception that racial tension in the increasingly gentrifying area might break the surface and spill out, a thought that tantalized the city. More

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By Michael McLaughlin