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Brooklyn Daily: Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007

94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens

Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).

‘Lonely’ tourists heading for Brooklyn

Lonely Planet, a popular tourist guide, is heralding Brooklyn as a visitors’ paradise. Comment.

It’s still not a damn park!

Editorial: Opponent of the plan for the Brooklyn Heights waterfront played right into the state’s hands. Comment.

Bush delivers for Young Republicans

Bay Ridge: Group hears president out over beers at Peggy O’Neil’s Comment.

Riding safe on Fifth Avenue

Bay Ridge: A local group teamed with the city to give out free bicycle helmets. Comment.

PLO on the move in Bay Ridge?

Bay Ridge: Is a gang of Arab youths called “the PLO” stalking the streets of Bay Ridge — or is this a case of post-9-11 paranoia? Comments (7).

Slow roasted fine

A court has ruled that the smell of roasting coffee beans is pollution. Comment.

Slope mugging draws national eye to Brooklyn

Park Slope: One blog’s account of a Christmas crime has set off a firestorm of internet excitement. Comment.

A Connecticut liberal in Kings County’s court

Development: A growing mob of local officials is circling in on a liberal Connecticut politician who is trying to evict rent-stabilized tenants from five buildings in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

It’s war over 16th Street condo

Park Slope: The battle over one South Slope development is no longer just business, it’s personal. Comment.

Rev. Liz speaks: Garden must go

PS … I Love You: Rev. Liz Alexander, pastor of the Church of Gethsemane, is fighting back: “We are talking about trees versus people here,” she told me. Comment.

Finally, last call for Liquors

Fort Greene: The popular Fort Greene eatery has, at long last, closed for good. Comment.

Thrift shop set to replace Fishs Eddy

Downtown: A merchant says high rent forced the closure of the popular shop. Comment.

Al Gore meets my babysitter

Yellow Hooker: Some 12-year-old girls are worried about 12-year-old boys. And some 12-year-old girls are worried about Al Gore. Comment.

A bagel with a smear on Clark

Heights Lowdown: As Mel Gibson can tell you, making anti-Semitic remarks is just not a good move. Comment.

The bitter story of a sugar plant

Brooklyn South: To be inside a factory on the verge of demolition is like visiting a place of worship emptied by earthquake. The ceilings are high. Unfiltered sunlight washes over everything: chairs that once held people, stray leather shoes, a suit jacket, ink-stained ledgers, bashed-up books. A sapling grows in the arch of a broken, scroll-shaped window. Comment.

Babies storm Fort Greene

Greene Acres: In their insatiable desire to devour all of Brownstone Brooklyn, the Babies are infiltrating Fort Greene. Comment.

City: No hotel on Red Hook shore

Red Hook: City officials dashed several developer’s hopes this week by declaring part of the Red Hook waterfront a hotel-free zone. Comment.

Court Street loses a gem

Downtown: Casale Jewelers is closing down. Comment.

Have you seen this doggie?

Park Slope: A distraught Kensington family is facing a new year without its old pal. Comment.

Skeeters have hoods buggin’ out

Fort Greene: The warm winter has mosquitos buzzing in Brooklyn. Comment.

Suburban pals a memory

Smartmom: Smartmom misses her friends that have fled from Park Slope. Comment.

All Drawn Out

Vito to city: Stop dread

Bay Ridge: The city refuses to cover cesspools at the Owls Head sewage treatment plant. Comment.

Andrews lands Spitzer job

Politics: The electorate closed a door, but Gov. Spitzer has opened a window to his pal Carl Andrews, giving the former state Senator a job in his new administration and earning complaints from critics, who call the position a cynical “quid pro quo.” Comment.

Coney Bears fight heat

The Coney Island Polar Bears protested global warming by not taking a dip. Comment.

It’s snow problem now

Politics: The city should use the money it saved this winter because of global warming to combat global warming, says one politician — and it’s not Al Gore. Comment.

Pol: Don’t dredge

Bay Ridge: Assemblyman William Colton is fighting to stop the dredging of polluted Gravesend Bay Comment.

Yea and nay for Marty, Atlantic Yards reports

Letters: Readers react to our interview with Marty Markowitz. Comment.

March on Washington

Politics: Rep. Yvette Clarke is sworn into office. Comment.

Civic Calendar

This week’s commmunity meetings. Comment.
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