Editorial: Our editorial board says that the federal stimulus package has changed the equation and it’s now time to build the Atlantic Yards arena on Washington’s dime. A rare signed editorial by Publisher Ed Weintrob!
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Link: This is another unbelievable print edition of The Brooklyn Paper. We’ve got coverage of the metal detector ban in Prospect Park, an artist’s plan to live on a green barge this summer, the Museum of Modern Art’s Brooklyn invasion and all the arts, news and features you’ve come to expect from Brooklyn’s real newspaper. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
By Mike McLaughlin
Art: The Museum of Modern Art — with more masterpieces than an art history textbook — took a shot across the Bauhaus of the Brooklyn Museum this week, plastering a Downtown subway station with ads that will turn it into a month-long annex of the Manhattan institution.
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By Ben Muessig
In the wackiest work of aquatic art since Olafur Eliasson’s controversial “Waterfalls,” a team of local artists are planning to live aboard an eco-friendly floating habitat all summer long. Call it the “Freegan flotilla.”
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By Ben Muessig
Politics: Two Brooklyn lawmakers got their names — and maybe even their stamp — on the most important piece of legislation since the Great Society.
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By Zeke Faux
Books: Williamsburg hipster chicks will eat you alive, says this graphic artist in a new collection of comic stories.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Our cartoonist Cristian Fleming takes a look at the Macy’s on Fulton Mall.
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Letters: The mailbag is filled as usual. The highlights this week include a missive about Steve DiBrienza’s attempt to win back his old City Council seat, plus letters on the Miss America pageant, Brooklyn Bridge “Park,” and campaign fundraising.
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By Ben Muessig
Shopping: Retailers and restaurateurs on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope are putting their hearts on sale for Valentine’s Day.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg: Williamsburg’s “People’s Firehouse” is one step closer to living up to its name.
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More readers react to Smartmom’s declaration that she will keep writing about her kids.
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By Ben Muessig
Dining: Park Slope restaurateur Spiro Hiotis named Athena Mediterranean Cuisine after the Greek goddess of wisdom (and, perhaps more important, his daughter) — and it seems that his newly opened eatery has been blessed with some divine intelligence.
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Parenting: All the fun you could be having with your kids.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Park Slope: Abe Lincoln will soon be back where he belongs.
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By Zeke Faux
Dining: Prohibition is over in Community Board 2!
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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.
By Mike McLaughlin
Shopping: Just take those old records off the shelf and make room for new vinyl in your collection, because dozens of vendors are again storming Warsaw on Feb. 15 in what is fast-becoming a major musical event in the borough.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Event: This article is too long to win a Shorty Award.
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By Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: A string of traffic lights has turned a Dyker Heights drag into a demolition derby, according to neighbors who are calling on the city to remove the signals.
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By Zeke Faux
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Shopping: Macy’s will be laying off thousands of workers nationwide — but the several hundred employees at the chain’s Brooklyn flagship on the Fulton Mall are safe.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Shopping: LeNell’s, the Red Hook liquor store with more kick than downhome moonshine, will close on Feb. 21, but could possibly reopen near its Van Brunt Street location soon, its owner told The Brooklyn Paper.
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By Zeke Faux
Books: Ben Karlin, a former “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” writer, will read from his book about bad breakups on Feb. 13 in DUMBO.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Our critic raves about “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at the Gallery Players.
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Podcast: The award-winning Brooklyn Paper has added more trophies to an overflowing display case, picking up top honors in five editorial and design categories from the Suburban Newspapers of America, a leading newspaper professional and trade organization.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: Former Councilman Steve DiBrienza sent shockwaves through the race to succeed Bill DeBlasio, jumping into a race that already has six capable candidates.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Bridge ‘Park’: Mounting costs to build Brooklyn Bridge Park with no completion date in sight incensed critics during a presentation of long-sought budget figures for the controversial park-and-condo project on Thursday night.
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By Ben Muessig
Transit: Politicians, transportation activists — and a bagpipe player — buried the M and R train in a pre-emptive funeral service for the lines, which face severe service cuts under the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s proposed “Doomsday Budget.”
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Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
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By Evan Gardner
Music: It will be remembered as the day the music died: After five years of free music, one year of free stand-up comedy, and lots of noise complaints, Sound Fix, a Williamsburg record store, is closing down its bar and live-music space.
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By Ben Muessig
Bay Ridge: There’s trash everywhere in Bay Ridge, and soon there won’t be a place to put it.
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