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Exclusive video coverage of the first (real) storm!
Podcast: It’s really snowing this time — and, of course, The Brooklyn Paper’s StormTracker 2008 team is out there. Join Gersh Kuntzman, Sarah Portlock, Mike McLaughlin and Ben Muessig as they cover the best storm of the season. With video … Comment.
Exclusive video coverage of the first storm!
Podcast: Brooklynites enjoyed their first winter storm of the season — and, of course, The Brooklyn Paper’s award-nominated StormTracker2008 team was there to cover all the action. With video … Comment.
Mmmm — We drink hot chocolate!
DUMBO: Borough President Markowitz summoned the Brooklyn press corps to DUMBO to drink Jacques Torres hot chocolate and listen to the Beep talk about the importance of supporting local businesses this holiday season. With video … Comment.
The weekender! Here’s what you should do this Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment.
Unreal! MTV invites us on the set of “The Real World”
TV: One month before the show starts airing on MTV, the music network gave us a tour of its “Real World Brooklyn” house, er set. With video … Comments (1).
Tequila sunrise! A great booze is back in Park Slope
Dining: La Taqueria on Seventh Avenue is showing off its tequila collection. Who says no one likes a show-off? With video … Comment.
The weekender! Here’s what you should do on Saturday and Sunday
Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! With video … Comment.
Beautiful noise
Music: If you hear a cacophony of chirps, beeps, buzzes and screetches this weekend, don’t worry; it’s not space invaders. With video … Comment.
Unreal world! Our critic gets a peek at MTV’s Brooklyn reality show
TV: MTV gave The Brooklyn Paper a screener of the first episode of “Real World: Brooklyn,” now filming in Red Hook. Naturally, rapier-wielding critic Sarah Portlock has a strong opinion. With video … Comments (2).
Bushwick Bob! Singer Frank Hoier’s new album is great
Music: The term “the new Dylan” gets thrown around a lot, sometimes with success (Bruce Springsteen, Bright Eyes), other times prematurely (Jakob Dylan) — but, heck, let’s do it again: Frank Hoier is the new Dylan. With video … Comment.
The bard of Bushwick
Music: Folkie-country-bluesman Frank Hoier, the bard of Bushwick, stopped by our DUMBO offices to sing his big hit, “Jesus Don’t Give Tax Breaks to the Rich,” as an exclusive to BrooklynPaper.com readers. Hoier will be at Union Pool in Williamsburg on Dec. 7, but until then, enjoy his big number. With video … Comments (4).
Morton’s offers sneak preview — and The Brooklyn Paper is there
Dining: Morton’s the Steakhouse — a national chain that will open on Nov. 21 in hopes of taking the legendary Peter Luger by the horns — offered The Brooklyn Paper a sneak preview of its Adams Street dining room and menu this week. Our full-team coverage — including Gersh Kuntzman, Ben Muessig, Sarah Portlock, Mike McLaughlin and Vince DiMiceli — bring you inside for a mouth-watering exclusive look at their lunch that you’ll only see on BrooklynPaper.com. With video … Comments (3).
McMahon and Straniere battle for Fossella’s seat
Bay Ridge: Exclusive! The Democratic and Republican rivals for the Bay Ridge congressional seat being vacated by scandal-scarred Rep. Vito Fossella battle it out in our DUMBO newsroom. With video … Comment.
Brook-Krasny vs. Capano
Bay Ridge: Now, about that time I confronted Mayor Bloomberg in a men’s room... With video … Comment.
Manhattan guys win the Vendy! Gersh cries fowl
DUMBO: Brooklyn’s own Rafael Soler was snubbed at Saturday night’s Vendy Award ceremony, but that doesn’t mean our own editor, Gersh Kuntzman, had a bad time. With video … Comment.
We win...again!
Podcast: Editor Gersh Kuntzman was about to break some big news in an exclusive Brooklyn Paper podcast, but all of a sudden, a special delivery changes the agenda in our DUMBO newsroom. Guess we’ll never find out what the actual “breaking” news story was. With video … Comments (1).
Brooklyn wins at Burger Bash!
Awesome: Our burgermeister Gersh Kuntzman brings you to the Burger Bash in this exclusive video. With video … Comment.
It’s Mike’s 1-year anniversary! A video tribute
Podcast: Senior Reporter Mike McLaughlin is marking his one-year anniversary at The Brooklyn Paper today, Oct. 8. In this exclusive video, he looks back on the great stories he covered with his boss, Editor Gersh Kuntzman. With video … Comment.
Merritt’s Monday Minute!
Art: Our correspondent, Merritt Gurley, headed to DUMBO last week for the Art Under the Bridges festival to figure out the age-old question, “What is art?” Along the way, she meets artists, sees finished work and even licks a salt sculpture. With video … Comments (1).
In the land of Hawaiian shirts! Inside Trader Joe’s
Shopping: The Brooklyn Paper takes you inside the new Trader Joe’s in Cobble Hill, five days before the store’s grand opening on Friday. With video … Comments (3).
Ale and hearty
Nightlife: It’s “Craft Beer” week, so, naturally, we needed to go drink craft beers! With video … Comments (1).
Goodbye Astroland — or maybe not?
Coney Island: Coney Island’s beloved Astroland amusement park closed on Sunday — apparently for good, despite a last-ditch city effort to eke out another year for the 46-year-old carnival. With video … Comments (1).
Mike’s shopping for a bed
The Search: This week, our senior reporter shops (optimistically, we believe) for a bed. With video … Comments (3).
Small ‘Towns’; Longtime Rep. is clueless on foreign policy
Politicrasher: Our columnist has a big problem with Rep. Ed Towns. With video … Comments (5).
Out of the swim of things
Awesome: All good things come to an end: The public pools are closed. With video … Comment.
Downtown: Ed Towns seeks our endorsement in the 10th Congressional District
Fort Greene: Rep. Ed Towns revealed a surprising lack of knowledge about foreign affairs, especially developments in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, and little enthusiasm for engagement anywhere in the world. When the discussion turned to domestic issues, he was on firmer ground, touting several bills for which he’s claimed credit over the years. With video … Comments (2).
Downtown: Kevin Powell drops by to seek our endorsement
Fort Greene: In an interview with The Brooklyn Paper, Rep. Ed Towns’s challenger Kevin Powell hyped his knowledge of the neighborhoods and said his self-acknowledged history of violence should not be held against him. With video … Comments (3).
Brooklyn Heights: Marty Connor vs. Daniel Squadron in the 25th Senate District
Politics: Can you say “Smackdown”? With video … Comments (2).
Bay Ridge: Steve Harrison vs. Mike McMahon in the 13th Congressional District
Bay Ridge: This is the race that almost never was. If police hadn’t arrested Rep. Vito Fossella for drunk driving in May, and if Fossella’s sleazy personal life had not come to light, at least one of the candidates — Staten Island City Councilman Mike McMahon — would have sat it out. With video … Comment.
Meet our Dylan winner
Event: Will Bob Dylan do a tribute to Isaac Hayes tonight in Prospect Park? If so, you can thank our Dylan ticket contest winner, Mike Wood. Meet him in this exclusive video! With video … Comments (1).
Mike’s Search
The Search: Join our senior reporter as he looks for love — and a place to live — in today’s Brooklyn. Fasten your seatbelts, readers, it’s going to be a bumpy ride! With video … Comments (7).
8-8-08!
DUMBO: Here’s ace reporter Sarah Portlock’s take on 8-8-08! With video … Comment.
Cyclone makes the Mets — a video tribute
Podcast: Our Eye of the Storm team takes you back to a great performance by former Cyclone closer — now New York Met — Eddie Kunz! With video … Comment.
Clones lose big
Podcast: Gersh Kuntzman takes you inside the Eye of the Storm and meets with some of the resurgent Brooklyn Cyclones before the team’s back-breaking Monday loss. Well, so much for those optimistic pre-game interviews! With video … Comment.
Harrison stings McMahon
Podcast: Brooklyn Paper Senior Reporter Mike McLaughlin headed to Bensonhurst, where congressional candidate Steve Harrison blasted his Democratic rival, Councilman Mike McMahon, for supporting a waste-management plan that calls for a transfer station along the Bensonhurst waterfront. With video … Comment.
Spicy vendor action
Podcast: Editor Gersh Kuntzman set out to be objective when he covered the return of the Red Hook vendors on Sunday, July 20, 2008. But when the politicians — the very people who sent the hard-working immigrants through the meat grinder of the city bureaucracy — started patting themselves on the back for “saving” the vendors, Kuntzman could take it no longer. Watch as he grills Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe so harshly that Sen. Charles Schumer had to step in! With video … Comment.
Cyclones take Yankees deep
Cyclones: Brooks win the rubber game against their nefarious cross-Narrows rivals. With video … Comment.
Man breaks Shakespeare show record in Red Hook
Podcast: OK, so maybe the one-man sword fight in “Macbeth” left too much to the imagination. And maybe the 16-comedy ferry ride felt a little rushed. And, yeah, that 25-second “Julius Caesar” lost some of the angst of Brutus’s existential struggle, but you try doing 31 Shakespeare plays in three hours. With video … Comment.
A tour of our new studio!
Podcast: The Brooklyn Paper’s award-nominated podcasts took a step towards immortality this week, as Paper reporters and editors burned the midnight oil to build a new video studio. Editor Gersh Kuntzman and reporter Ben Muessig take you on a guided tour. With video … Comment.
Kevin Powell speaks! Candidate explains Chappelle ‘no-show’
Podcast: Congressional candidate Kevin Powell promised that comedian Dave Chappelle would headline a fundraiser for him in Manhattan on Wednesday night — but when Chappelle didn’t show, Powell was left to clean up the mess. Here he is, in his own words, from the stage of the hip-hop club Eugene in Manhattan on July 9, 2008. With video … Comment.
It's official: Koby cheated! Scandal casts shadow over Chestnut victory
Podcast: Though no one noticed it at the time, former world hot-dog-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi clearly cheated in the closing seconds of his battle against champion Joey Chestnut on July 4 at Nathan’s in Coney Island. This video, shot by Kobayashi’s counter and Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman, shows the last 10 seconds of the contest. Watch how Kobayashi continues to chew new food, even after announcer George Shea has completed his countdown to the finish. With video … Comment.
DUMBO goes to the dogs (finally)!
Podcast: After a fairly egregious false alarm, DUMBO has finally achieved true neighborhood status: The area down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass now has a bona-fide hot dog stand. Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman and Señor Editor Vince DiMiceli bring you the full story, including a flashback to our prior video about the faux hot dog stand a few months back. With video … Comment.
Brooklyn goes fancy — at the Fancy Food Show
Podcast: Brooklyn-based food companies came out in force at the annual Fancy Food and Confection show at the Javits Center this week in Manhattan — and, naturally, Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman was there, schmoozing, interviewing and, of course, tasting. With video … Comment.
We need an intern!
Podcast: Devastated by the departure of our ace photo intern, Sebastian Kahnert, The Brooklyn Paper is searching for a new photo intern to work July and August under Editor of the Year Gersh Kuntzman. This is a rare opportunity for a motivated pro who wants to learn from the ground up — in Brooklyn. Whatta paper, whatta summer! With video … Comment.
The heir apparent
Podcast: Eleven-month-old cub reporter Ben Kuntzman pays his dad a visit in The Brooklyn Paper’s DUMBO newsroom on July 1, 2008 — and the young would-be scribe shows off his love of newspapers in his first ever podcast. With video … Comment.
Ikea is open!
Red Hook: It’s Wednesday, June 18, 2008 — and that can mean only one thing: Ikea’s big-box store in Red Hook is open for business. The entire Brooklyn Paper’s Ikea Bureau convened for full team coverage live from Beard Street. With video … Comment.
Ikea’s big lineup, Part II
Red Hook: It’s Day 2 of Ikea’s free couch giveaway and the three dozen people on line have settled in. Ikea Bureau Chief Gersh Kuntzman and Senior Ikea Bureau reporter Mike McLaughlin bring you the story live from Beard Street in Red Hook on June 17, 2008. With video … Comment.
Ikea’s big lineup
Red Hook: Ikea won't open until Wednesday, June 18, but people started lining up on Monday. The first 35 people on line will get a couch — and The Brooklyn Paper's Ikea Bureau brings you all the action. With video … Comments (5).
Get your Gersh on
Podcast: Our editor was in the hot seat again on Brooklyn Independent Television. With video … Comment.
Gawker: Dorky Brooklyn Paper Podcasts are totally ‘awesome’
Podcast: Just two weeks after reporters at The Brooklyn Paper started posting quick-hit Podcasts on the award-winning BrooklynPaper.com Web site, our efforts were noticed by Gawker.com. With video … Comments (1).
Sarah Portlock joins the staff!
Podcast: A new podcast to show off our new staffer, Sarah Portlock, and our new podcast sponsor, Brooklyn Wine Co. With video … Comment.
Send in the Clones
Cyclones: The Cyclones began their quest for New York–Penn League greatness on Tuesday night with a 3–1 win over their hated rivals, the Staten Island Yankees. Join Gersh Kuntzman and Vince DiMiceli in the Eye of the Storm. With video … Comment.
Red-hot intern summer
Podcast: You’ve seen them at Community Board meetings. You’ve loved their copy. Now, it’s time to meet the summer interns of The Brooklyn Paper. With video … Comment.
Babeland opens
Podcast: Park Slope’s new sex toy emporium, Babeland, is about to open on Bergen Street — and, of course, irrepressible Editor Gersh Kuntzman was there to give you an inside tour. With video … Comment.
No coffee in the newsroom!
Podcast: There’s a disaster in The Brooklyn Paper newsroom: The coffee maker is broken. With video … Comments (1).
Ikea’s herring
Podcast: Promised six varieties of herring at the Ikea press preview on June 11, 2008, our editor, Gersh Kuntzman, dove right in, devouring plate after plate of briny goodness. Watch him savor all (or at least most) bites. With video … Comment.
Inside the crypt
Podcast: Editor Gersh Kuntzman becomes part of a congressional fact-finding tour of the crypt underneath the Prison Ships Martyrs’ Memorial in Fort Greene Park on Monday, May 19, 2008. With video … Comment.
Dick loves Vito
Podcast: Vice president Dick Cheney will be in the city today, April 21, 2008, to endorse Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) for a sixth term. Will it help? Ben Muessig has the answer. With video … Comments (1).
A voyage to London
Podcast: The Brooklyn Paper takes you across the pond, thanks to the Telectroscope, a new artwork on the Fulton Ferry Landing in DUMBO that simulates a tunnel between New York and Britain. Paper reporter Marie Cunningham brings you the story. With video … Comment.
Gersh: Special friend?
Podcast: Editor Gersh Kuntzman was asked to be a “special friend” at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School’s “Grandparents and Special Friends Day” on Friday, May 16, 2008. How did Gersh do? Check out all the action here. Comment.
Bird on bird
Podcast: Following up on our controversial photo of two pigeons eating chicken parmagiana, The Brooklyn Paper presents this latest evidence that pigeons will eat anything: Here’s a rock dove on Fourth Street eating…a chicken wing! Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman brings you all the action. With video … Comments (5).
Shredfest 2008
Podcast: Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman went to the Shredfest at J.J. Byrne Park in Park Slope on April 27, 2008 to destroy incriminating documents — and to shred the competition. With video … Comment.
Gersh is back on the bike!
Podcast: His broken ankle finally healed, Editor Gersh Kuntzman is back on his bike, riding into work for the first time on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. How’s the ankle? Watch the podcast. With video … Comment.
The fleet is in
Podcast: British sailors from the HMS Richmond, docked in Red Hook, made their first liberty calls at Floyd, an Atlantic Avenue bar, on Friday, May 23, 2008 — and our Editor Gersh Kuntzman was there to go pint-for-pint with the English invaders. With video … Comment.
Alternate reality in the Slope!
Podcast: The summertime suspension of alternate-side-of-the-street parking went into effect in Park Slope on Monday, May 19 — and Brooklyn Paper reporter Sarah Portlock was there. With video … Comment.
Another award
Podcast: The Brooklyn Paper’s Web site, BrooklynPaper.com, has just been named one of the three best weekly-paper sites in the country by Editor and Publisher magazine. Editor Gersh Kuntzman and Senor Editor Vince DiMiceli talk about the latest honors. With video … Comment.
Key Food closes
Podcast: Bay Ridge’s Key Food, a fixture on Third Avenue and 95th Street, will close, leaving just one supermarket in the southern part of the neighborhood. Editor Gersh Kuntzman brings you all the drama. With video … Comments (1).
Congestion pricing: Brooklyn votes
Podcast: Editor Gersh Kuntzman and Senior Reporter Mike McLaughlin give you the inside story on how Brooklyn councilmembers voted on the mayor’s “congestion pricing” plan. See the full story in this week’s Brooklyn Paper! With video … Comments (5).
The Scribes lose!
Podcast: A team of out-of-shape writers — led by Brooklyn Paper Señor Editor took on the Brooklyn Cyclones’ front office in a charity baseball game on Friday, June 6, 2008 — and even though we lost 6–5, we gave those Cyclones a real scare. Editor Gersh Kuntzman reports. With video … Comment.
Smith Street blackout
Podcast: The power is off on Smith Street — and The Brooklyn Paper is on the story. Editor Gersh Kuntzman gives you the overview. With video … Comment.
Dylan plays Brooklyn
Podcast: Bob Dylan just announced that he would perform in Prospect Park on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Tickets are on sale now for Dylan insiders (password Tilden), and they weren't expected to last long. The remaining tickets go on sale on June 13 through Ticketmaster. With video … Comment.
Tucker Reed’s farewell
Podcast: DUMBO Improvement District Executive Director Tucker Reed is heading to Baghdad — but The Brooklyn Paper caught up with him before his farewell party on May 15, 2008. With video … Comment.
Fire at Gristedes!
Podcast: Gersh talks with newbie Brooklyn Paper reporter Ben Muessig about the fire at Gristedes on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday, April 1, 2008. With video … Comments (1).
DUMBO on the range!
Podcast: Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman gets the low down on Tom Otterman’s new art installation on DUMBO’s grassy knoll! With video … Comments (1).
Inside the monument in Fort Greene Park!
Podcast: Editor Gersh Kuntzman With video … Comment.
Ikea’s opening day!
Podcast: Brooklyn Paper senior reporter Mike McLaughlin has the scoop: Ikea’s Red Hook store will open early — on June 15, 2008. With video … Comment.
Metrotech deal debunked!
Development: It turns out that Forest City Ratner overstated a deal that it signed with that big Manhattan law firm, Weil, Gotshal. The white shoe firm just told BrooklynPaper.com that it will not be relocating its front office to Metrotech, but rather some back offices. With video … Comment.
Inside the Green Latrine
Podcast: A community garden in Fort Greene has installed a solar-powered, composting toilet — and, naturally, Editor Gersh Kuntzman loaded up on high-fiber cereal and coffee to offer his review. With video … Comments (1).
No dogs in DUMBO
DUMBO: Editor Gersh Kuntzman and Senor Editor Vince DiMiceli head for the new hot dog stand in DUMBO — but both big eaters are sorely disappointed when they get there. Watch how it all went down — or, in this case, didn’t! — on May 2, 2008 near our DUMBO offices. With video … Comment.
Vito in his own words
Bay Ridge: Rep. Vito Fossella called the press to a hotel in Staten Island to address his Thursday morning drunk-driving arrest in Virginia. Here is the six-term congressman’s opening statement, as captured by BrooklynPaper.com cameraman Ricky Barlin. With video … Comment.
Gersh’s ankle: An update
Podcast: A Brooklyn Angle exclusive: Gersh gets the prognosis from his doctor, Tom Lyon of Lutheran Medical Center. With video … Comments (1).
Ayveq is dead — a video tribute
Podcast: The Brooklyn Paper, which revered the New York Aquarium’s masturbating walrus, presents an exclusive video tribute With video … Comments (2).
A Day at Ikea
Podcast: For IKEA virgins, this podcast is a look inside the Paramus, NJ IKEA store — a preview of the Red Hook location, slated to open June 18. We shop till we drop in the showrooms, eat our fill of Swedish meatballs and even peek inside the diaper changing room! With video … Comment.
Free condoms
Downtown: Trojan was handing out free condoms in Downtown Brooklyn on Friday, June 13, 2008 — so we sent summer associate Marie Cunningham to get the story and some condoms. With video … Comment.
With Vito weakened, Bay Ridge Dems don’t know what to do
Podcast: On the same day that Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) admitted that he’d sired a child with his mistress, Brooklyn Democrats for Change gathered to endorse a candidate to take on the embattled, six-term congressman. But they couldn’t do it — an indication that the race has gotten more serious. With video … Comment.
Tales from the crypts
Bay Ridge: Workers started digging up coffins at the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church — and The Brooklyn Paper’s Ben Muessig was there. With video … Comment.
The public pools are open!
Podcast: The city finally opened the public pools on Friday — and, of course, The Brooklyn Paper swim team was there. Join Pool Bureau chief Gersh Kuntzman and Pool Bureau reporters Mike McLaughlin, Sarah Portlock, Ben Muessig and Sebastian Kahnert (he’s East German, you know!) as they take the plunge and officially christen the Summer of 2008. With video … Comment.
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