By Dana Rubinstein
Atlantic Yards: Barclays, the slavery- and Apartheid-linked financial institution that paid Bruce Ratner $400 million for the naming rights to his Atlantic Yards arena, is bankrolling African strongman Robert Mugabe, the Sunday Times of London reported last week — prompting one Brooklyn leader to say “enough is enough” with the tarnished financial powerhouse.
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Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper once again calls on Bruce Ratner to sever his relationship with Barclays, which has now been found to be propping up the dictatorial regime of African strongman Robert Mugabe.
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From a bunch of post-college nincompoops to a parrot who refused to let his human companions eat a brother bird, this year’s “Big Turkey” contest yielded a cornucopia of funny, sad, touching and embarrassing Thanksgiving stories. Here are excerpts from our four winning entries.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Someone is killing pigeons on Eighth Avenue and — wouldn’t you know it! — our columnist is in the middle of it.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Norman Mailer may have been a jerk — as many of his obituaries made clear after his death at age 84 last week — but at least he was our jerk.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Park Slope: A beloved historic preservationist who was almost decapitated by a guillotine of glass that fell from a decrepit Seventh Avenue building, won a small victory — in small claims court — over the tenement’s owner.
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Letters: Our mailbag is bursting with letters about Coney Island, the invasion of the nuthatches, Sen. Charles Schumer’s “painful’ support for new Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a gay and lesbian political group’s rejection of Atlantic Yards, and a new rivalry on the muddy Gowanus Canal.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom and her hubby finally threw out their old trash. Now, can they preserve their memories?
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the action for you and your kids!
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By Adam F. Hutton
Checkin’ in with: Our reporter sits down with mob reporter Tom Robbins to talk about the Mafia, life as a reporter, and suddenly finding himself on the other side of a story last week.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: Workers have begun making preparations for the demolition of the old International Longshoremen’s Association union clinic on Court Street — and a coalition of residents and elected officials is hoping to stop the owners of the site from building a 21-story tower.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Downtown plan: The city’s memorial to Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad history will sit atop an underground parking lot that will be built where the very Abolitionist history being commemorated is said to have actually happened.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: The Broken Angel may be topless, but don’t call her fallen.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown plan: Despite earlier reports that an apartment project on the site of the McDonald’s at Tillary and Gold streets would consist of just one building, the developer told The Brooklyn Paper this week that he’s actually going to give birth to three.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: It’s no wonder that a controversial developer now says he won’t build atop the popular courtyard at the Carroll Street entrance to the F train — he doesn’t own the land, according to a muckraking former Assemblyman.
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By Wendy Ponte
PS … I Love You: Our columnist tries to be the karma arbiter of Park Slope. Good luck with that.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: A widely unpublicized public hearing on Dec. 11 may be your last chance to save the historic houses of the Admirals Row at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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By Tom Gilbert
Beside the Point: Morgan Avenue residents are still angry at the city for not longstanding fixing sewer problems that exacerbated the floods in July and August.
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By Juliana Bunim
Heights Lowdown: Being a carbohydrate lover in Brooklyn Heights is costly — and I don’t mean having to sacrifice your size-6 jeans —Â thanks to new price hikes on wheat.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist says the anti-pigeon bill is fowl.
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By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn South: The Public Place is moving forward — and the rivalries are only beginning.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: This could be the start of something big — or hundreds of stolen umbrellas.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg: Energy giant ExxonMobil will double the amount of toxic sludge it is currently pumping out of the ground underneath Greenpoint by the end of the year, the company announced on Wednesday.
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By Loren Bonner
Bay Ridge: Victory Memorial Hospital appears to be on its deathbed: the 107-year-old Bay Ridge institution announced sweeping layoffs last week and could be shuttered by Feb. 1.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Coney Island: A state senator who opposes Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island redevelopment plan claimed victory at the first public hearing on the proposal Monday night, boasting that he was able to shut down the meeting by bussing in hundreds of people to the event.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg: The corporate-sponsored pedicabs that whisked hipsters between galleries last week during the Williamsburg Gallery Association’s monthly art tour were a smashing success —Â but the service will be short-lived unless the association can find someone to pay for it.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: It was bound to happen, but police records indicate that a Union Street resident has the distinction of being the first victim of an iPhone robbery. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Williamsburg: Another video-game-loving hipster was robbed of her pocketbook at the popular Union Avenue watering hole Barcade on Nov. 11, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct.
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By Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: The prospects for a ferry from the 69th Street pier to the Financial District are in a holding pattern, but it was full-speed-ahead on Tuesday as proponents of the service invited passengers on board for a successful dry-run.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg: A city panel says it needs to know that construction on Williamsburg’s notorious “finger building” will be safe and secure before it can allow the developer to complete the project or leave it where it is today: at the middle knuckle.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg Waterfront: Mayor Bloomberg flushed plans to demolish a seven-story sewage sludge tank on the Greenpoint waterfront last week, and 300-units of affordable housing and several acres of open space went down the toilet with it, local watchdogs say.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope: In a move that could finally diminish Fifth Avenue’s reputation as Seventh Avenue’s ugly younger sibling, business owners won preliminary approval on Wednesday to form a business improvement district.
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By Geraldine Rebollido
Fort Greene: After months of dilly-dallying, the city has finally embarked on the final phase of its plan to reduce the speed of cars on Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene.
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All the important meetings you should be going to.
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