By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: The mystery of the “Bride of Fourth Street” has been solved: she was not, in fact, about to get married. But she did have a wedding ring.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Politics: Borough President Markowitz, who for months has been openly toying with a run for the mayoralty in 2009, is trailing his would-be opponents badly in the only race that matters right now: money.
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Bridge ‘Park’: Summer fun — but not for long — at the Floating pool in the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront development.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Pastry lovers are safe — for now. A local Chock Full of Nuts was recently shut down after it was discovered that the popular coffee and pastry franchise was selling stale donuts given to the owner by a competitor.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Arena Bagels — the Atlantic Yards–area bagelry that ran afoul of Bruce Ratner’s opponents because the shop’s name suggested that the mega-development was inevitable — is now officially A.R.E.A. Bagels.
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By Rachel Corbett
Williamsburg Waterfront: The tilted yellow “Domino Sugars” sign on the old Williamsburg waterfront refinery could still be salvaged even though the building to which it’s attached will likely be knocked down during the site’s impending 11-acre redevelopment.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: The universe is expanding — and so is BookCourt!
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By Claire Levenson
Downtown: A Brooklyn Heights community board, citing a rash of requests, is poised to make it tougher to rename streets after everyday people.
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By Michael McLaughlin
After thinking it over, Curtis Sliwa decided not deploy the Guardian Angels to Carroll Park after rock and water-balloon slinging teenagers made headlines by terrorizing families and park employees last week on two straight days.
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By Beethoven Bong
Park Slope: Fourth Street was abuzz on Sunday when neighbors awoke to find a woman — in full wedding attire — asleep on a ledge above the door of a Park Slope brownstone.
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By Harry Cheadle
Heights Lowdown: DUMBO is getting its own post office — sort of.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist encounters an urban skunk.
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By Tom Gilbert
Beside the Point: Our columnist enjoys the $2-million view from atop Williamburg’s tallest tower.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown: What’s with those new green bike lanes?
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By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn South: When did hot Red Hook go cold? Our columnist examines.
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By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn novelist and occasional amateur pugilist Jonathan “Herring Wonder” Ames is in the fight of his life against a writer 11 years his junior. No, really.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: Mobay, purveyor of the finest veggie-chicken roti from Fort Greene to Montego Bay, is dead. Our columnist mourns.
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By Jimmy Wallenstein
PS … I Love You: Our columnist finds that some people think Park Slope goes all the way to 24th Street!
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Editorial: The Paper opposes a bill that would criminalize the distribution of leaflets and circulars.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: The Oh So Feisty One has been away at summer camp for more than a week and Smartmom hasn’t received a letter. Not one friggin’ letter.
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By Chris Cascarano
Park Slope: After months of debate and negotiations with neighbors, an affordable housing facility has finally been approved for the corner of Fifth Avenue and 16th Street.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope: A new chocolate maker in town wants Park Slope’s picky foodies to know that “kosher” and “gourmet” needn’t be as incompatible as oil and water.
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By Brian J. Carreira
Williamsburg Waterfront: The Parks Department asked North Brooklynites to “go to town” at a meeting earlier this month to discuss the future of Greenpoint’s long-shuttered McCarren Pool — and residents let their imaginations run wild to envision everything from a sandy beach to summer movies to urban kayaking.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Carroll Gardens: Terrified residents of Boerum Hill say that crack dealers and their customers are operating out of a St. Marks Avenue building — a building that is actually owned by the city!
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: The parking lot that claimed the life of a much-loved bowling alley on 86th Street is one step closer to reality.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Club Shadows, the embattled Fourth Avenue nightclub that pleaded not guilty to four violations earlier this year, now wants to make a deal after getting hit with a new set of charges.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: A modernist riff on the courtyard-centric style of Mediterranean architecture is rising in Clinton Hill.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: There’s no way Edward Baker is 70 years old. Look at him. He’s chiseled. Watch him: he can run the 100 meter dash in 15.2 seconds — faster than men half his age. And now he’s wearing a gold medal from the Empire State Senior Games around his neck.
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Letters: Our mailbag runneth over with missives about the new Trader Joe’s, traffic, our Cyclones coverage, a stolen tricycle, a cellphone tower on 81st Street, and, of course, Atlantic Yards.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Rezoning: The city is only one step away from making it more difficult to build towering, out-of-scale buildings in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, like the 18-story building threatening to rise on a residential block of Washington Avenue.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: The Department of Buildings has halted work on a wall that came between two 87th Street neighbors.
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By Ariella Cohen
Downtown: Councilman Bill DeBlasio vowed to stop one of the borough’s most prolific architects this week, charging designer Robert Scarano with endangering the safety and aesthetic character of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods.
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By Harry Cheadle
Art: Anyone who has passed by the steps of Borough Hall and thought, “There ought to be some turquoise, L-shaped, table-like things here,” is going to get his wish.
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By Beethoven Bong
Downtown plan: An health center for women will move into a Downtown that has increasingly become known less for its social service agencies than for its rising population of luxury residential towers.
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By Michael McLaughlin
Park Slope: The Prospect Park Y wants to build a new pool — and Community Board 6 wants to let them!
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay and Harry Cheadle
Parenting: All the fun for you and your family.
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