By Gersh Kuntzman
The Census Bureau said the 300 millionth American was born on Tuesday at 7:46 am — and that he or she was not born in Brooklyn.
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By Ariella Cohen
Development: Affordable housing advocates called on Mayor Bloomberg this week to quit subsidizing the construction of luxury apartments, saying his long-awaited reform proposal for a controversial property tax break didn’t go far enough.
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By Dana Rubinstein
A respected environmental group celebrated the green values of New York City’s congressional delegation — except for one member, Rep. Vito Fossella.
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By Christie Rizk
Development: Build a school, get aboard the Fourth Avenue gravy train.
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By Paul Koepp
Randy Asher is young, cocky, and brash — and he wants your kids back.
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Editorial: Calls to restore trolley service to Brooklyn probably started the day after trolley service — like the Dodgers — left Brooklyn.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Friends for Vito Fossella has ended its online “friendship” with The Brooklyn Papers, following a Papers report showing that a Web site for the four-term Republican congressman’s campaign was filled with lurid content.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: Nearly a year has passed since Mayor Bloomberg promised to staunch the stench from the Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant, and the update is … it still stinks.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fresh from his last-place finish in a race to succeed his father in Congress, Chris Owens is preparing his next campaign: to be your next borough president.
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By Tania Haas
Police dragged a quirky Clinton Hill artist — and building code scofflaw — out of his home Wednesday, after the city declared his jerry-rigged, self-built mansion unsafe for him and his neighbors.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: You don’t see this very often. A group of Muslim men is bowing towards Mecca, kneeling in prayer and chanting “Allahu akbar” in the basement of a synagogue.
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By Paul Koepp
Development: Cobble Hill will lose another of its colorful institutions when the Musician’s General Store closes at the end of the month, squeezed out by soaring rents in the fast-changing neighborhood.
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By Ariella Cohen
Downtown plan: If you build it, they will come — but with two-million-square feet of office space being built in Downtown Brooklyn, planners still don’t know who “they” are.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom was in one of her rages after attending Tuesday night’s discussion at the Seventh Avenue Barnes & Noble with the authors of The Case Against Homework: How Homework is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown plan: The Brooklyn Marriott’s 280-room annex has swung open its doors on Adams Street, bringing its total number of rooms in the often sold-out hotel to 660.
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By Ariella Cohen
Red Hook: Elected officials from Washington to City Hall this week derided Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to turn the Red Hook and Cobble Hill waterfront into a maritime-themed tourist attraction as “Disney on the Waterfront.”
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"Brooklyn Bites:
Court Street" [GO Brooklyn, Oct. 7] incorrectly listed the
days Mexicali is open for business. The restaurant is open every
day. We regret the error.
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By Karen Butler
Even though cinematographer David Tumblety
loves his life in Prospect Heights, he admits it is nice to get
out of town once in a while.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
A photographer
who snares headlines in her own right for securing access to
the world’s most sought after celebrities - such as Tom Cruise
and Katie Holmes’s baby Suri for the September issue of "Vanity
Fair," Annie Leibovitz has now drawn the attention of the
Brooklyn Museum, which opened an exhibition of 200 of her photographs
on Friday.
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By Karen Butler
Those looking
for a little Halloween fun that won’t result in a sugar-fueled
frenzy and a trip to the dentist, might want to drop by the Plymouth
Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights on Friday for a special
screening of the 1925 horror classic, "The Phantom of the
Opera."
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By Sasha Vasilyuk
When Christopher
Eaves of Park Slope’s eavesdrop theater collective heard that
he was one of the six recipients for the highly coveted Space
Grant from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), he was jumping up
and down with joy. The rehearsal space he got at BAX Annex, located
in the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, "couldn’t have
been more perfect," the 39-year-old theater director told
GO Brooklyn.
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By Karen Butler
Even though cinematographer David Tumblety
loves his life in Prospect Heights, he admits it is nice to get
out of town once in a while.
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By Tina Barry
Call it beginner’s luck. Call it the right
place at the right time. However you view it, The Farm on Adderley,
a new restaurant in Ditmas Park, is getting off to a fine start.
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By Tina Barry
You want French, Italian, Thai and good
old American bistro fare? Head to Fifth Avenue in Park Slope
and there are plenty of options to chose from. But if you’re
looking in this area for vegan dining, we wish you lotsa luck
finding a soy burger.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is following
up the triumphant success of the March production of Henrik Ibsen’s
"Hedda Gabler," with another Ibsen classic, "The
Wild Duck."
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