By Ariella Cohen and Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: More than 50 opponents of Atlantic Yards rallied on Monday morning in front of three buildings that Bruce Ratner plans to demolish this week, arguing that the developer should wait until pending litigation on the project is resolved before tearing them down.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Bring on the wrecking ball — a federal judge has ruled that Bruce Ratner can start knocking down buildings in the Atlantic Yards footprint, even as several court cases aimed at stopping the mega-development percolate through the court system.
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All the important meetings you should be going to.
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By Christie Rizk
Park Slope: It was the high rent, not the high prices, that did in the popular D’Agostino supermarket on Seventh Avenue.
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Letters: Lots of anger over our coverage of a supportive housing facility in Park Slope, plus all our other letters.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: The Boys — actually, the boys and girls — of Summer have finally taken the field for the 68th Precinct Youth Council’s baseball league.
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By Michael Giardina
Park Slope: Lots of Earth Day excitement all over the place.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Crime: The Brooklyn motorcyclist left brain-dead after a hit-and-run accident earlier this month was removed from life support and died last Wednesday.
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By Christie Rizk
Downtown: The toughest corner in the history of Brooklyn Heights — the so-called “Corner of Cranberry” on Henry Street — is about to welcome some new victims … er, tenants.
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By Christie Rizk
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist on the latest effort to save some historic — and possibly slave-linked — houses on Duffield Street.
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By Michael Giardina
Downtown: Can a French delicacy — made by an Israeli — make it on Brooklyn’s meanest street?
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By Nica Lalli
Park Slope: In the past week, Seventh Avenue between 10th Street and 12th Street is buzzing with new activity.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights got theirs, now Bensonhurst wants “in” on the downzoning frenzy.
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By Josh Saul
Bay Ridge: Angry Bensonhurst residents made a stink about a proposed garbage-transfer station on the shore of Gravesend Bay — but city officials say they’re pushing on with the plan.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: Profiles of some Gowanus Canal–zone businesses that would be affected by a city bid to encourage residential development along the waterway.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: The merry pranksters behind David Letterman’s late-night hijinks have drafted their own “top 10 list” for what they want from the city — and there’s only one entry: stop the proposed residential rezoning of the area around the Gowanus Canal.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Politics: Extra, extra! Former Congressman Major Owens is getting into the newspaper business.
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By Lilo H. Stainton
Carroll Gardens: Someone swiped a half-dozen pairs of Chanel sunglasses from an optician — plus other crime news from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook.
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By Adam Rathe
Event: Spring semester begins at the Jewish Learning Institute.Â
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By Lilo H. Stainton
Downtown: A vicious stabbing — and all the other crime news from the Heights, Downtown and DUMBO.
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By Matthew Lysiak and Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: A popular Chinese take-out restaurant was robbed after thieves crawled through a hole in the wall — plus all the other crime stories you love.
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By Joe Pompeo
Music: The Brooklyn Philharmonic offers you the stars.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Our columnist heads to the cosmetics counter for a midlife spruce-up.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: A huge haul of computers and cameras from a Fifth Street apartment — plus all the other Park Slope crime.
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By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn South: A Red Hook artist, who just wants a quiet neighborhood, once again installed his “Traffic Stopper” piece. Reviews from police were negative.
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By Sarah McCormick
Fashion: Bottling Brooklyn's scent.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Is the physical structure of a church sacred ground that should be preserved at all costs? Or is it merely mortar and stone that has nothing to do with its congregation’s larger mission?
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By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Is Bay Ridge becoming the new Park Slope? And what will it mean for Dyker?
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By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown plan: Talk about the Manhattanization of Brooklyn: A new mega-development slated for the booming border of Fort Greene and Downtown is being built by the same real-estate giant that built a luxury Xanadu with a Whole Foods in the lobby on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: Win a free composter … and a free lesson on how to use it!
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill activists are pulling out all the stops to protect the “character” of their rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.
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By Nica Lalli
PS … I Love You: Our columnist, a renowned leadfoot, supports a city plan to add bike lanes to Ninth Street.
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By John O'Connor
We take on the Brooklyn board game.
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By Mat Probasco
Carroll Gardens: An arsonist lobbed a firebomb through the window of Chop Chop, a Smith Street grocery store early Monday.
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By Christie Rizk
Park Slope: Whose Ninth Street is it anyway? That’s what Park Slope residents are asking after the neighborhood clashed this week over a suddenly controversial city plan to add bike lanes and left-turn bays to Ninth Street.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: The mother who allegedly left her newborn baby girl outside to die has been charged with murder.
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By Christopher Murray
Theater: GO Brooklyn reviews the Sackett Group's production of
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By Christie Rizk
Downtown: The Montague Street hamburger wars have begun! A new joint, Five Guys, will soon open right near two beloved neighborhood greasy spoons, Grand Canyon and Happy Days.
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By Chris Varmus
Nightlife: The Atlantic Frantic enters its infancy.
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By Christie Rizk
Park Slope: The 120-year-old Montauk Club — founded during Park Slope’s first “golden age” — is trying to retool for a new epoch.
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By Tina Barry
Dining: Williamsburg’s PT Restaurant has the whole package.
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By Ariella Cohen
Bridge ‘Park’: A futuristic, pod-like pedestrian bridge has emerged as a likely solution to an urban design problem that has vexed planners for years: how do you connect the famed Brooklyn Heights Promenade to the waterfront below — and avoid angering the posh neighborhood’s various interest groups at the same time?
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By Christie Rizk
Politics: Some of the borough’s bold-faced names came out this week to celebrate, well, themselves — and all the hard work they did to make Brooklyn the hot, happening place it is today.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: The Brooklyn Cyclones will “honor” Borough President Markowitz with his own bobblehead doll this season.
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Editorial: Former Borough President Howard Golden was honored for saving the borough on Monday night — but The Brooklyn Paper has a slightly different view of who deserves the credit.
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By Tina Barry
Dining: Park Slope’s Miriam expands to Court Street, brings along great food.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Dom DeMarco is back behind the ovens at DiFara — and the world is back in order.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: Heroic Con Edison workers rescued sheep, goats, llamas and a cow named Aggie at the Prospect Park Zoo during the “Nor’easter of the Century.”
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Inspired by three days of “sky-is-falling” hysteria from the local networks, The Paper geared up for its exclusive team coverage of the great Nor’Easter of 2007.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Carroll Gardens: The whale that became an instant celebrity in the Gowanus Canal has died.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Brooklynites are shaking their heads at the latest evidence that their borough is the new Upper West Side: news that the Hampton Jitney is coming to Brooklyn.
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By Rebecca Flint Marx
Dining: Stinky helps us pair cheeses to our new favorite wine.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
There’s something not so kosher going on at Junior’s: The legendary cheesecake purveyor has lost the coveted Orthodox Union seal of approval.
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By Emily Farris
Dining: Park Slope wine shop launches ‘Brooklyn’ vintage.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: Everyone loves bar games, but one Red Hook bar has decided it can no longer afford the price of fun.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s wrecking ball was stopped this week — and it was the developer himself who decided not to do the swinging.
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