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Cut above! Why barbers are a man’s best friend

By the GO Brooklyn Hair Club for Men

The Brooklyn Paper / Mike Short

As we approach Father’s Day, it’s time to ponder the humble barber. Comments (3).

Sitt on this! Joe says Bloomy’s Coney rezoney is baloney

By Mike McLaughlin

Coney Island: Coney Island’s would-be savior, Joe Sitt, broke a two-year silence to skewer the city’s controversial Coney Island redevelopment plan, just as Mayor Bloomberg’s rezoning proposal got a rubber stamp from the City Planning Commission on Wednesday. Comments (3).

Nasal maneuver! Ridgites want a trained nose to sniff out Ft. Hamilton Pkwy problem

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: This one stinks all the way to the top! Comment.

City needs to solve bike lane problem

Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board, which supports cycling, still has a problem with some parts of the city’s bike lane policy. Comments (36).

Born to be mild! Behind the wheel of Brooklyn’s first electric Mini Cooper

By Gersh Kuntzman

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist got to test drive a 100-percent electricity-powered car. It was cool. With video … Comments (4).

PS 133 parents don’t like new kids on the block

By Ben Muessig

Park Slope: A controversial city plan to tear down a historic schoolhouse on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope and build a new one with triple the capacity just doesn’t add up, neighbors say. Comments (9).

‘C’ is for cookie — on Father’s Day!

By Melissa Murphy

Dining: Our top chef gives us a great Father’s Day recipe. Comment.

Web readers ask: What WAS that pro-arena editorial?

Letters: Our readers react. Negatively, in case you were wondering. Comments (7).

Feeding frenzy! Man vs. elephant in new Coney eating spectacle

By Mike McLaughlin

Coney Island: Through the eons, the human race has never faced a challenge like this before — an eating contest against elephants! Comments (11).

Meet the winner of our Wilco ticket giveaway!

Music: And the winner is... With video … Comment.

Marty’s concert series rocks — of ages!

By Joe Maniscalco

Music: Borough President Markowitz’s summer concert series lineup is out — and it features some big names…from the past. Comments (2).

Ballet high — on Downtown!

By Thomas Nocera

Downtown: Ballet has a new home in Brooklyn. And it’s Downtown. Comment.

Playing with fire? NYPD says you’ll get burned!

Park Slope: Please read this important message from our friends in uniform. Comment.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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The trash talk ends in Red Hook as Van Brunt gets its garbage cans!

By Mike McLaughlin

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

Red Hook: Finally, the city has agreed to install trash cans on Red Hook’s main drag. Comments (4).

Yards foes ‘suit’ up for another appeal

By Mike McLaughlin

Atlantic Yards: Nine property owners inside the Atlantic Yards footprint moved last week to appeal last month’s Appellate Division ruling that said the state could use eminent domain to seize privately owned land for the controversial arena and skyscraper proposal. Comments (18).

Armed and ready? This year’s Clones think they have the right (and left) stuff

By Gersh Kuntzman

Ridin’ the Cyclones: We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field. But will the Brooklyn Cyclones avenge last season’s debacle? Comments (2).

Here they are — your Police Blotters

Link: If it’s Wednesday, it’s Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list.

Un-charter-ed territory at PS 15

By Mike McLaughlin

Red Hook: A second schoolyard fight is underway between a new Red Hook charter school, which needs at least an extra year in PS 15 until its own facility is built, and the public school’s parents and teachers who want total control of the entire Sullivan Street elementary building. Comments (1).

Freedy Johnson will be at Union Hall!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Music: Sorry for the late notice, but Freedy Johnston is playing Union Hall tonight. Comments (1).

Rats! This new zoo specimen is cute!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: Meet a rat you can really love. Comments (1).

Stein’s way: This photographer shot from the art

By Ben Muessig

Art: Mike Stein’s newspaper photos from the 1980s are worth checking out at the Brooklyn Public Library. Comment.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Union haul! Vendors upset over city plan to relocate McCarren greenmarket

By Ben Muessig

Shopping: The McCarren Park greenmarket is slated to move a few blocks away from its current location because vendors are tearing up the grass. Comments (15).

MTA vows to figure out what the ‘F’ is going on

By Gersh Kuntzman

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

Transit: We all know that something is wrong with the F train — but soon we’re going to know exactly what. Comments (11).

The Mermaid Parade — a very special preview!

Event: Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island, performs his stirring and ageless classic, “The Mermaid Parade.” With video … Comment.

Fort Greene parents love PS 20’s bad boy principal

By Mike McLaughlin

Fort Greene: Parents are rallying in support of a controversial principal of a Fort Greene elementary school accused of hitting a kindergarten teacher last month — but he faces a long road back into the front office. Comments (8).

Call it ‘Barroom Hill’ on this Boerum Hill drinking tour

By Mike McLaughlin

Nightlife: Next Tuesday, Boerum Hill becomes “Barroom Hill,” thanks to a guided jaunt that will stop at three popular watering holes, each with its own link to a different historical age. Comments (3).

Ringling ain’t the only ‘greatest’ show in town

By Thurston Dooley III

Dooley Noted: Our kids music, mime and puppetry reviewer checks out another installment of CIRCUSundays at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook. Comments (1).

Same as it ever was — Hepcat and Teen Spirit bond over David Byrne

By Louise Crawford

Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Hepcat takes Teen Spirit to the David Byrne show in Prospect Park for some surprise bonding. Comment.

Monday, June 15, 2009

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‘Green Church’ school approved

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper / Joe Marino

Bay Ridge: Plans to build a school on the site of the demolished “Green Church” earned an A+ last week. Comments (8).

New signs of life at Bridge ‘Park’

By Mike McLaughlin

Bridge ‘Park’: The proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park showed new signs of life last week as officials moved to take the reins of its first piece of actual parkland — the existing Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. Comment.

Bigger is better in Fort Greene

By Mike McLaughlin

Fort Greene: In the midst of one of the most severe economic crises in decades, two real-estate developers are moving ahead, albeit slowly, to build hundreds of new apartment buildings in Fort Greene. Comments (2).