By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun you could be having with your kids.
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All the important meetings you should be going to.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Harvey Schultz, a prominent Prospect Heights resident, longtime city official, and influential developer, died on Sept. 6. He was 66.
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By Linzi Sheldon
Fort Greene: New Fort Greene Association Chairwoman Ursula Hegewisch ran through a laundry list of priorities as she made her debut at the group’s first meeting of the fall on Monday night —Â and then she promptly got an earful from residents eager to discuss their own projects and concerns.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown: Sgt. James Glancy, Officer Carlos Peralta, Officer Washington Mosquera and Officer Francisco “Frank” Tejada are the cops of the month!
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Downtown: James Hurley receives a free health screening from nurse Louisa Murraine of Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center at Monday’s kickoff for Borough President Markowitz’s annual “Take Your Man to the Doctor” campaign.
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By The Brooklyn Paper
Our own inimitable editor, Gersh Kuntzman, slid into the moderator chair for another action-packed episode of BCAT’s “Reporter Roundtable” this week.
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Downtown: Are there new security gates going up near the Office of Emergency Management?
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: Pratt has a fancy new building.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The sleek rendering you’re drooling over is a corridor that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has just started building underneath Downtown, a $162-million passageway that will allow free transfers between Jay Street–Borough Hall’s A, C and F trains and Lawrence Street’s M and R trains.
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By Travis Stewart
Williamsburg: Check out Ken Butler’s crazy slot cars at artMovingProjects.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Repairs have started in earnest at the Alpine Cinemas, and even critics are giving the owner four stars.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Checkin’ in with: Our reporter checks in with the man who is going to market Lexuses to rich black women.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown: A century-old Brooklyn Heights mansion that was once a communal home for monks and prostitutes — at different times, of course — could become a single family home again if the right buyer comes along.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: A high-octane development company that bought two rent-subsidized buildings in Fort Greene is fighting back against charges that it is trying to push out tenants to make room for bigger-bucks residents.
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Letters: Letters: This week’s mailbag features two letters attacking our recent criticism of the Heart of Brooklyn “trolley,” plus letters on our F-train coverage and the Khalil Gibran International Academy (what else is new?).
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By Dana Rubinstein
DUMBO: Los Papi’s, the Spanish-American eatery that’s been dishing out rice and beans for nearly a quarter-century, will close to make way for a seven-story residential tower.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: A “No Parking Anytime” sign in front of a shuttered Dean Street fire investigation facility has Cobble Hill residents all hot and bothered.
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By Ed Shakespeare, Gersh Kuntzman and Patrick Hickey Jr.
Cyclones: It’s time again for the Seventh Annual Clonie award ceremony — the only award show guaranteed to not feature an embarrassing performance by Britney Spears (though we can’t promise the same for relief pitcher Steve “Impeach” Cheney).
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist delights in the tastes of fall.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: The (old) New St. Clair Restaurant on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street has been sold for an upgrade — and locals are already feeling heartburned.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Move over, 1960s Boston Celtics, 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, and 1400s Ming — there’s a new dynasty in town. A team from Areo restaurant has just won the Bay Ridge Restaurant and Bar Softball League Championship for the seventh consecutive year.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: Our columnist sees hope rising from the ashes.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg: Up for a nature walk? The city is building one right next to the sewage treatment plant.
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By Daniel Goldberg
Bay Ridge and Downtown heat up with these street fairs.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: This photo says it all: Broken Angel is coming down.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg: Cops in Williamsburg still haven’t found two 9mm handguns that disappeared from a secure area at the 90th Precinct stationhouse three weeks ago.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown: Could drugs —Â and, more important, drug crime — be returning to Downtown?
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: A burglar broke into a church on Court Street near Luquer Street and left without closing the fridge behind him. Plus all the other crime from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Williamsburg: Three roommates lost thousands of dollars in computers and other electronics when a thief broke into their Maujer Street apartment during the day on Sept. 14. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct.
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By Matthew Lysiak and Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: A local jewelry store was robbed in broad daylight on Sept. 15 — but the clerk never saw who did it. Plus all the crime news from Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: A gunman held up a popular Fifth Avenue video store shortly before closing on Sept. 11 and took close to $1,000 and 200 video games, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct.
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By Daniel Goldberg
Books: Walt’s first and only novel comes out of the vault.
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By Harry Cheadle
Fort Greene: A couple was brutally attacked with a pipe — plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct!
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By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn South: Our columnist weighs in on the Court Street McDonald’s debate.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom learns to rely on the kindness of her friends, not strangers.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Councilman Vince Gentile thinks he’s solved the mystery of Bay Ridge’s great hum-conundrum. But our columnist isn’t ready to award him a MacArthur grant.
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By Tom Gilbert
Beside the Point: Our columnist — a Greenpoint insider — concludes his two-park series on the McCarren Park pool.
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By Adam Rathe
Books: GO Brooklyn hits the Brooklyn Book Festival.
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By Paula Bernstein
PS … I Love You: Our guest columnist tells an amazing tale —Â soon to be a major book! — about meeting the twin sister she never knew she had.
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By Adam Rathe
Theater: Lear-ing at the Harvey Theater.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: We tolerate raccoons going through our garbage and roaming the streets at night, but when they start screaming at the kids, someone has to draw a line. Mike McIntyre is that someone.
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We finally caught up with author Jonathan Safran Foer, the greatest writer of his generation, at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Thanks, Marty!
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By Ariella Cohen
Park Slope: Looks like gritty Third Avenue is trying on big sister’s clothes now that the developer of Hotel Le Bleu and architect Karl Fischer are planning a glitzy office tower.
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By Ariella Cohen
Coney Island: Embattled Coney Island developer Joe Sitt will allow the carnie attractions that line the fabled Boardwalk to remain open another year without a raise in rent — and it looks like Astroland may be next to get the long-awaited stay of execution.
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By Christopher Murray
Nightlife: GO’s guide to a gay old time in Brooklynl.
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By Tina Barry
Dining: At Park Slope’s Sidecar, classics are the main attraction.
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By Ed Shakespeare
Play’s the Thing: The Bard of Brooklyn baseball mourns the passing of the Cyclones’ 2007 season.
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By Ed Shakespeare and Patrick Hickey Jr.
Cyclones: The amazing run of the 2007 Brooklyn Cyclones ended in ignominious fashion: a clean two-game sweep by the Auburn Doubledays in the New York–Penn League championship series.
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By Chris Varmus
Williamsburg: There’s a new game in town: The owners of Barcade have opened a bowling alley (yes, a bowling alley). How are they doing? Well, for now, a sign above the shoe counter reads, “Please be patient while we learn how to run a bowling alley. The Management.”
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By Tina Barry
Dining: A rare reopening in Cobble Hill and Tina Barry says, ‘Well done!’
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Editorial: Editorial: The city ceremonially co-named Duffield Street “Abolitionist Place” on Thursday. Forgive us if we didn’t celebrate.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: A coalition of community-based urban planners will unveil a new alternative to Bruce Ratner’s state-approved, already-under-construction Atlantic Yards mega-project on Monday, calling it the last best hope for sensible development on the controversial Prospect Heights site.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Park Slope: It’ll soon be a whole lot easier to park in Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook, thanks to a new street sweeping plan.
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By Maggie Serota
Music: Our review of the Care Bears’ new record.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Brooklyn bid “bon voyage” to the so-called Floating Pool Lady on Sept. 13, as the barge-bound oasis set sail for New Jersey.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Park Slope: People who have spotted that eight-foot tall, Plexiglas-walled greenhouse-looking thingy attached to the bed of an old Mazda pickup truck have speculated that it’s everything from an art project to a mobile organic vegan commune. But Austin Shull just wanted to do some gardening.
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The Brooklyn Paper
The Brooklyn Paper, which was named “Newspaper of the Year” by a trade association this summer, has now been honored for its keen-eyed, razor-tight editorials.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: One byte-sized rumor about an Apple store coming to Brooklyn sparked a borough-wide fit of drooling as iMac lovers fantasized about caressing Steve Jobs’s latest products without having to leave the borough.
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By Chris Varmus
Music: Nevermind the adults, here’s the Care Bears on Fire.
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By Adam Rathe
Brooklyn Eats, which has showcased scores of restaurateurs at the Brooklyn Marriott for nearly a decade, has been postponed.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Politics: Borough President Markowitz’s choice for a Civil Court judgeship won Tuesday’s Democratic primary, but Markowitz lost something far bigger: the gay vote. “We now regard him with universal disdain,” said one activist.
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