While we haven’t seen Brooklyn Eagle mascot Eddie for a while (hopefully that rascally bird will turn up for Bastille Day this July), the paper does take a walking tour of Boerum Hill in today’s edition:
Brooklyn Eagle: Last Sunday, Joe Svehlak, a longtime neighborhood preservationist who leads many walking tours for the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, took a group from that organization around Boerum Hill. If there is a main street of Boerum Hill, it’s Atlantic Avenue. One of our first stops was a colorfully decorated Arab mosque and bookstore. This area, he told us, is part of a recent wave of Arab immigration. An earlier, more established wave settled a more western part of Atlantic Avenue, outside the Boerum Hill boundaries, that still is known for its Arab restaurants.
Cobble Hillbilly “Sweet Melissa” Murphy not only runs one of the 
is out now. We’re thrilled/shocked that she took time out of her busy schedule to answer 5 questions for us: 
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