Page 1: The print edition of The Brooklyn Paper will be on the streets tomorrow, but here’s your chance to read it all today! As usual, it’s jam-packed with the great journalism you’ve come to expect, but we even toss in a few surprises, like a full preview of Tuesday’s primary elections, including the bitter state Senate contest in Brooklyn Heights and rare congressional free-for-alls in Bay Ridge and central Brooklyn. Also in the issue, read all about three men who got tickets for drinking beer on their own stoop (!), a group of Bergen Street residents who saved an injured (and wayward) sea bird, and updates on all our ongoing arborcide coverage — plus all our regular police blotters, calendars and features. That Brooklyn Paper. Man, they’re onto something!
By Sarah Portlock
Enjoying an ice cold one on your warm stoop could send you to the cooler — as one Park Sloper found out on Aug. 27.
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By Sarah Portlock
Art: Under fire from local groups and one of the city’s most-romantic restaurants, city officials have cut the hours that the “New York City Waterfalls” exhibit can propel its salt-laden water onto nearby trees — but the decision many not come in time to save some of the victims of Olafur Eliasson’s four-pronged arborcidal artwork.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Dining: Are you craving a big night out, but feeling the pinch of inflation? Do you want to get away from it all, but can’t bear to get on a plane and witness how little the U.S. dollar now buys? Well, as close as Gravesend, there is a Russian nightclub where your dollar seems to have all of the purchasing power of the ruble, circa 1989.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: Another victory — the team’s 10th in its last 11 games — keeps the Cyclones one-half game ahead of their wild card rivals.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
DUMBO: “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh to read from his new book, “Crime,” in DUMBO.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist loves barbecue, but not at the expense of Prospect Park, which saw a massive spike in illegal grilling this summer.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Coney Island: Coney Island Sideshow star Insectavora to release a new DVD. And she’s singing?
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By Mike McLaughlin
Red Hook: Plans to bring BJ’s Wholesale Club, potentially the second big box retailer in Red Hook, sent a shiver of excitement and mild horror through the neighborhood this week.
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Cinema: “Flow,” a new documentary by Brooklyn filmmaker Irena Salina about one of our most necessary — and endangered resources — water, will finally get a run in a theater, beginning Sept. 12.
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By Sarah Portlock
Brooklyn Heights: All the leaves are brown — but the gray cement is finally gone.
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By Lisa J. Curtis and Rabiyya Smith
Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news!
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By Ben Muessig
Crime: Crooks made the most of students’ summer vacation, snagging thousands of dollars of electronics from Brooklyn schools in at least three separate heists.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg: The fat lady — or, more accurately, the guy in skinny jeans — hasn’t sung for the final time in Greenpoint’s McCarren Park Pool.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: The developer behind an embattled Carroll Gardens condo building thinks he can beat back neighborhood opposition this time with some New Math.
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By Ben Muessig
Bay Ridge: The “Green Church” might be coming down — but it’s also going up for sale.
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By Sarah Portlock
DUMBO: The smasher just got collared — but the car thefts and break-ins have proliferated in his absence!
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Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — this time with letters from the mother of that artist who got arrested by the Chinese, the Asian Tiger Mosquito invasion, a crackhouse in Williamsburg and, of course, how great The Brooklyn Paper is.
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By Sarah Portlock
Art: Grand Army Plaza is a traffic nightmare — but starting next week, it’ll host a tantalizing exhibition of what might lie in store.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Books: Park Slopers may feel like they’re married to Park Slope author Joshua Henkin over the next two weeks.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
Parenting: All the fun you could be having with your kids.
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Event: All the local events you should be going to.
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Editorial: Our editorial board endorses newcomers to replace longtime incumbents in the state Senate and in the House of Representatives, plus a veteran city councilman to represent Bay Ridge in Washington.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: The Cyclones are going to make the playoffs (ya gotta believe, right?), so the team will begin selling post-season tickets on Thursday morning at 10 am.
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By Michael Lipkin
Carroll Gardens: Rest assured Brooklyn — Nov. 11 will be a scream-free day.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: If it’s Wednesday, that must mean it’s crime day at BrooklynPaper.com, so find your neighborhood below or start in Park Slope, where a gunman gives a driver the fright of his life.
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By Sarah Portlock
Red Hook: Red Hookers will get to join the suspended alternate-side-of-the-street parking fun on Monday, Sept. 8, when the city moves to its fourth and final round of swapping new parking signs in Community Board 6.
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By Sarah Portlock
Shopping: The fat is no longer in the fire for the beloved A&S Pork Store in Park Slope, now that the venerable shop has announced it will move within the sausage-loving neighborhood rather than close.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
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Boerum Hill: A badly injured sea bird had firefighters scrambling on Bergen Street in Boerum Hill on Tuesday morning — but New York’s Bravest were eventually able to coax this scared and wounded cormorant into safe hands.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: The Brooklyn Cyclones — once written off for dead — have turned their season around and now lead in the race for the league’s lone wild-card spot with just five games to go. The Cyclones won their ninth game in a row last night.
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By Sarah Portlock
Shopping: The Ikea bus-aster at Borough Hall and in Park Slope has been resolved.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: Kids head back to schools — and The Brooklyn Paper is there.
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By Thurston Dooley III
Dooley Noted: Our puppetry reviewer weighs in on the new show at Puppetworks, “Hansel & Gretel.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
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Art: The tree-killing “New York City Waterfalls” project, which has enraged plant-loving Brooklynites by damaging local flora near the River Cafe in DUMBO and along the fabled Brooklyn Heights Promenade, will be turned off half of the time starting next week.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Awesome: Pools and parades mark Labor Day today.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: It was a huge weekend for the once-languishing Cyclones, as the team won all three of its games to move just one game behind in the race for the New York-Penn League’s lone wild-card berth. The three-game sweep raised the Cyclones win streak to eight games and put the squad three games back of the hated Staten Island Yankees.
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By Ben Muessig
Fort Greene: A billboard hyping the sexy teen drama “90210” has some members of Williamsburg’s Hasidic Jews all worked up.
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By Sarah Portlock
DUMBO: Police arrested a man they believe has been smashing car windows in the DUMBO area after the DA tied his DNA to a crimescene.
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