By Dana Rubinstein
One people’s celebration is another people’s catastrophe.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Last week,
Hepcat woke Smartmom at midnight.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Sahara Meer
is still angry. Place a copy of Bruce Ratner’s recent Atlantic
Yards mailing on the table, and she’ll put her handbag over it.
Show her the pictures of happy Brooklynites smiling for Ratner’s
cameras and she’ll cringe.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: The “bride” will wear aluminum.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Architect Robert A.M. Stern will work as a consultant to the Brooklyn
Bridge Park waterfront development.
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Atlantic Yards: Develop Don’t
Destroy Brooklyn unveiled a star-studded advisory board this week featuring
some impressive names (unless you’re Andrea Peyser of the New York
Post, that is). Several members of the board shared their reasons for
opposing Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project with The Brooklyn
Papers.
Michelle Williams, actress, Boerum Hill
“His vision will increase traffic, pollution and asthma. If Mr. Ratner
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By
Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: A petty snub by the borough president or a show of respect for his mother
— you decide.
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By Ariella Cohen
Chase bank has pulled out of deal to open a branch in a converted DUMBO
industrial building owned by the same developer whose Greenpoint warehouse
burnt down last week in a suspicious fire.
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By Tina Barry
Cube 63 is not your average, dimly lit
sushi bar. Instead it’s a comfortable, family-run space, furnished
to attract a youngish crowd who isn’t looking for attitude with
their sushi.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
If there was anything BK Fashion Week(end) - a marathon of live
music performances and runway shows featuring Brooklyn’s up-and-coming
designers - taught us, it’s that the borough is long on style,
creativity and attitude.
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The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
(BWAC) launches its 14th annual spring art show at the Red Hook
pier on Saturday, offering an opportunity for the public to see
the work of over 300 local artists. One of these, Russell Mehlman,
is among the borough’s premier primitive artists.
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By Kevin Filipski
For its final spring season concert,
the Brooklyn Philharmonic performs a world premiere and welcomes
back a conductor who made a splendid 2005 debut with the orchestra.
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By Karen Butler
If watching fictional gay gangster Vito Spatafore
shimmying around a bar with a bunch of guy pals to the tune “It’s
Raining Men” is your idea of fun, the new Williamsburg dance show,
“Sopranos Live!,” might be the perfect night out for you.
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