By Juliet Linderman
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
The Year of the Dragon is supposed to be a fruitful and auspicious year, according to the Chinese Zodiac — and plenty of brownstone Brooklyn foodies are hoping some of that luck goes toward improving their neighborhoods’ dismal Chinese food offerings.
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By Dan MacLeod
Music: The famed director will join Greenpoint-based avante garde lute player Jozepf van Wissem at Issue Project Room on Feb. 3 to celebrate the duo’s first album, “Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity.”
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By Bill Roundy
Bar Scrawl: It’s beer o’clock at Greenpoint’s newest bar and growler shop.
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By Aaron Short
Prospect Heights: State Sen. Eric Adams might be forced to pack up his apartment and move thanks to new district lines drawn up by his political rivals in Albany.
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By Dan MacLeod
Bay Ridge: If you’re looking for a man, Bay Ridge is a buyer’s market.
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By Sarah Zorn
Dining: We were already fans of Bravo’s “Top Chef Season 4” and “All-Stars” contestant Dale Talde going in — a fact we tried hard not to convey when interviewing him about Talde, his new Asian-fusion eatery on Seventh Avenue and 11th Street in Park Slope.
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By Sarah Zorn
Foodie-in-Chief: Get this week’s hot, juicy food gossip!
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By Natalie O’Neill
Meadows of Shame: A shadowy bird expert poached from the same federal agency that slaughtered hundreds of geese in Prospect Park is scheduled to start a new job with the city next month.
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By Dan MacLeod
Weekend Watch: The MTA will be working on almost every line in the borough this weekend. Enjoy!
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Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some tips for a great weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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By Natalie O’Neill
Meadows of Shame: The city axed more than half a dozen tree houses in Prospect Park in an attempt to save a delicate lakeside ecosystem — but then tossed the lumber into the water, creating a whole new environmental no-no, environmentalists allege.
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By Kate Briquelet
Clinton Hill: The scariest bar in Brooklyn is about to become home to two of America’s blandest corporate chains — a high-speed overhaul in Wallabout that’s skipping typical steps in the process of gentrification.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Park Slope: For Park Slopers, it’s the day the music died.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Ditmas Park: For a free cup of Joe, Coffee will make sure you get to work on time.
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Page 1: Paper or PDF? At The Brooklyn Paper, you have your choice. Sure, you could head out bright and early tomorrow morning and pick up a fresh copy of this week’s paper, and read it at your leisure. Or, you can click on the link above and have the miracle of the digital newspaper in the palm of your hands (well, on your iPad or in living color on the screen in front of you) in seconds. So make your decision, Brooklyn. Paper or PDF. You won’t be let down either way. Oh, and keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
By Natalie O’Neill
The MTA will add more rush-hour buses to the flaky B61 route — and Red Hook straphangers say don’t stop there.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Artists and business owners say the proposed Whole Foods at the corner of Third Avenue and Third Street would disrupt the delicate balance of manufacturing and creative enterprise that makes the neighborhood so special.
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By Kate Briquelet
A new Downtown historic district is sailing toward approval despite outcry from residents, businesses and powerful landlords who claim it will hurt commerce and make things more expensive.
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By Daniel Bush
Bay Ridge: A marauding vandal targeted the beep’s wheels — and nine others belonging to government officials.
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By Juliet Linderman
Theater: In a musical rendition of “A Man of No Importance,” The Gallery Players explore themes of love, acceptance and equality.
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By Aaron Short
Veggie-loving North Brooklynites are trying to put the green in Greenpoint.
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By Kate Briquelet
Event: NPR’s newest game show combines the airs of geeky troubadour Jonathan Coulton and storytelling of comedian Ophira Eisenberg. Be part of the live tapings at the Bell House through April 23.
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