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All the important meetings you should be going to.
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By Harry Cheadle
Fort Greene: A pizza place was robbed … and all the other 88th Precinct crime.
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By Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: A 43-year-old man lost everything … and all the other 62nd Precinct crime.
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By Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: Two mic’d-up bandits held up a local eatery … and all the other 68th Precinct crime.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Park Slope: Two men, one carrying an automatic gun, robbed another man … and all the crime in the 76th Precinct.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Park Slope: A man fingers his estranged daughter as the person who burglarized his house … and all the crime in the 78th Precinct.
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Editorial: It’s time for legislatures to open their eyes and put an end to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards subsidies.
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By Harry Cheadle
Downtown: The new restaurant’s staff coat rack was rifled through … and all the crime in the 84th Precinct.
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By Michael McLaughlin
Downtown: A Brooklyn Heights man was hit with a 132-count indictment.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: Latin American food vendors will bid to keep their concessions at the Red Hook ballfields.
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GO Brooklyn
Be an intern! Go Brooklyn is now interviewing candidates for our spring internship program.
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By Dana Rubinstein
After his son was killed while bicycling across the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Brewery’s Steve Hindy has shepherded nearly $40,000 to a group working to make city streets safer for bikes.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg: One day after his car was stolen, the victim saw it being gassed up at service station.
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By C.W. Thompson
Dance: We have it on good authority that “Liaisons” will soon be taking place in living rooms around Park Slope. Beginning Saturday, Bedford-Stuyvesant-based choreographer Edisa Weeks’s Delirious Dances will be presenting her latest work, “Liaisons,” within the intimate confines of Brooklyn apartments.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope: Developers who purchase land next to Gethsemane Church are promising ‘family condos.’
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By Adam Rathe
Fashion: Across the East River, New York Fashion Week is happening beneath the tents in Bryant Park, but back in Williamsburg, designer Arthur Arbit claims he’s already sewing the future.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: The city promises to study rezoning in an area facing large-scale development
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By Joe Jordan
Bay Ridge: When the 100-year-old ‘Green Church’ is torn down, the limestone parsonage next door is likely to fall as well.
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By Kevin Filipski
Cinema: It might not be everyone’s idea of the perfect Valentine’s Day date movie, but don’t let that deter you from seeing Milos Forman’s bittersweet Czech New Wave classic, “Loves of a Blonde,” a gentle but probing look at relationships that’s as far away from those typically sappy Hollywood chick-flick romances as it’s possible to be.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Carroll Gardens: Five connected lots across the street from the Brooklyn House of Detention will go on the auction block on Feb. 14. The minimum bid is $16 million.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Downtown: Plans by New York University to takeover Brooklyn Polytechnic University were put on hold Thursday.
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By C.W. Thompson
Art: A good kiss is unforgettable, and to prove it, Lori Baker and David E. Brown are displaying 76 photographs of kisses from their personal collections at Williamsburg’s City Reliquary through March 31.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope: The Prospect Park Y may operate a new rec center in an old armory.
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By Adam F. Hutton
The Prospect Park zoo kangaroo has a new joey.
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By Adam Rathe
Music: While The National will take the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Feb. 22 and 23, there are 175 shows that comprise “Brooklyn Next,” and you can be sure to find your new favorite band at one of them.
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By Susan Rosenthal
Parenting: Things to do this week with your kids!
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By Adam Rathe
Music: When local rock bands begin selling out the usual venues — Galapagos, Southpaw, The Music Hall of Williamsburg — they tend to move on to the super-sized concert halls of Manhattan and stadiums across the country. The National, however, is taking a step sideways. Instead of playing for a room of wild, crowd-surfing fans — like they’ll do on tour with Modest Mouse and R.E.M. this summer — on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23, everyone who goes to see the band will be seated and a mosh pit will definitely be discouraged.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Our favorite son would never try such shenanigans if Hepcat were home. But Teen Spirit know that Smartmom is a world-class pushover.
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By Deirdre Donovan
Theater: Hat’s off — from fedoras to cloches, from feathered caps to top hats — to The Gallery Players, for reviving the flamboyant musical, “The Wild Party.” The racy production kicks off the New Year in high theatrical style and stirs up a real musical tempest in Brooklyn.
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By Linnea Covington
Dining: As we write, the heady scent of homemade chocolate treats is wafting from every corner of the borough. Among the sweets emporiums we visited for freshly made Valentine’s Day gift-giving ideas were a 61-year-old chocolate shop in Midwood that has been handed down from father to son, a less-than-year-old-kosher chocolate store in Park Slope, and everything in between.
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By Gersh Kuntzman and Dana Rubinstein
Politics: State lawmakers are about to hand themselves a big pay raise. Here’s what they say about it.
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Letters: After a reader was seriously injured in a hit-and-run, he went to Gersh’s new ankle man — and all was right with the world.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Despite an ankle injury that would deter lesser men, our Editor of the Year hit the beach in Mexico this week, cast and crutches be damned!
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By Adam Rathe and Linnea Covington
Dining: There’s nothing romantic about spending Valentine’s Day in front of the stove. And while making dinner for your sweetheart is certainly an admirable gesture, why not leave the cooking to the professionals? Across the borough, chefs are preparing meals that might prove once and for all that the way into someone’s heart is through his stomach.
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By Mike McLaughlin
An outgrowth of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing scheme, residential permit parking may come to Brooklyn.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Politics: Brooklyn Democrats are far more divided than their counterparts across New York State, backing Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, 50 percent to 48 percent.
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Downtown: A DUMBO supermarket doesn’t want its neighborhood’s name changed to “Bums Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.”
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By Ben Muessig
Park Slope: A robber pistol-whipped a beloved 67-year-old doctor.
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Photos from Ash Wednesday and the Lunar New Year.
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