Page 1: Why wait until Friday to grab your NY Post and get our paper inside? Or why wait until you’re shopping on Saturday at your favorite Key Food to pick up The Brooklyn Paper’s award-winning print edition. Get the entire document — a historic, collectors edition! — simply by downloading it right here, right now! And this week’s edition has everything that you’ve come to expect from The Brooklyn Paper: great graphics, scintillating articles, award-nominated columns and all the news coverage that keeps us ahead of the times and on top of the news. And as we say in our Metrotech newsroom, keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper has put incoming Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio on notice, thanks to his quite-un-public effort to help a Carroll Gardens school last week.
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By Stephen Brown
Shopping: Every Brooklynite has a discount card for his friendly neighborhood coffee shop — buy 10 coffees, get one free. Finally, this vital customer service has come to live poultry.
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By Stephen Brown
Atlantic Yards: Get ’em while they’re hot! The tax-exempt bonds that are critical to financing the Atlantic Yards arena are set to go on the market next week — and they’re expected to sell faster than you can say “land grab.”
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By Aaron Short
Bushwick: The City Council’s Land Use Committee passed the controversial Broadway Triangle plan this week, all but clearing the way for approval from the full body — despite continuing outrage from a Bushwick councilwoman who opposes it.
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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.
Letters: We received letters about the ongoing restaurant labor controversy in Park Slope, Fresh Direct trucks, Norah Jones’s windows, shoddy construction and, of course, ourselves!
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By Andy Campbell
Music: At ease, hipsters, it now looks like the “pool parties” will be back this summer.
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By Thomas Tracy
Carroll Gardens: A musician is found dead in his Carroll Gardens apartment. Plus all the crime news from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct.
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By Stephen Brown
Williamsburg: It looks like an instrument out of the Mos Eisley cantina in “Star Wars,” and appropriately enough, its eccentric inventor has dubbed it “Guitar2-D2.”
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By Andy Campbell
Bridge ‘Park’: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s ill-fated Piers 2 and 3, which were essentially put on the back-burner when the park’s price tag topped $300 million last year, would be back in the picture if the city is given control of the long-delayed greenspace.
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By Andy Campbell
Boerum Hill: The governing body of local Lutheran churches has finally fired back — albeit in the form of a press release — against charges that it illegally locked out the congregation at Bethlehem Lutheran Church.
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By Andy Campbell
Brooklyn Heights: Hundreds of residents of a Brooklyn Heights apartment tower hailed the return of their beloved letter carrier, four months after their building had been removed from his route amid supposed budget shortfalls.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: When Luvbud’s mom bails, Smartmom is called in to be the chaperone for a five-girl sleepover.
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By Gersh Kuntzman and Andy Campbell
Bridge ‘Park’: So much for that Daily News “exclusive” this morning.
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By Andy Campbell
Williamsburg Waterfront: Here’s another reason why the would-be developer of an 800-unit apartment complex on the South Williamsburg waterfront is so desperate to get his site’s zoning changed from manufacturing to residential: He’s belly up.
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The Butcher has his yuletide hatchet out
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The two pre-eminent Brownstone Brooklyn theater companies — the Heights Players and the Gallery Players — have trotted out hoary old Christmas “classics” this season. How do they stack up? Click on the reviews below to see what our Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension thought of both.
By Andy Campbell
Dining: Take a fashion guru’s interior design skills and mix it with the small plates of Spain and the cocktails of a hipster lounge and you have Bar Celona, the hot new tapas bar in Williamsburg.
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Cleaning the Gowanus: Hopes for the Gowanus Canal to quickly be designated a Superfund site were reined in last Thursday night as a top federal official cautioned that it is very rare for a proposal to be approved in less than a year.
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The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Cate Blanchett
is Blanche DuBois in BAM’s production of “Streetcar Named Desire,” but Liv Ullmann’s direction fails to rely on the kindness of strangers.
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By Stephen Witt
Dance: Move over Lincoln Center, Baryshnikov’s old ballet company is coming to Brooklyn.
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By Andy Campbell
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Brooklyn Heights: A Brooklyn Heights small business owner faces thousands in fines — even though she only posted one thing on a Court Street lamppost.
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By Andy Campbell
Coney Island: The main opponents of a city plan to rezone Coney Island’s faded amusement area in hopes of encouraging the development of housing, retail and a new 12-acre ocean-front amusement park have sued the city on the grounds that the new theme park isn’t big enough to attract the hordes of tourists needed to sustain the long-sought revitalization.
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