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Brooklyn South: A graffiti artist wants to create a football-field-sized gallery in Red Hook.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist examines Abercrombie & Fitch’s “Cobble Hill” sweatshirt and finds it, um, uncomfortable.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist’s father goes in search of the Brooklyn he once knew, but finds he can’t even get an Italian ice anymore.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist finds that history has become a low priority in Red Hook.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist tries to save a popular Laundromat but ends up only saving the sign above the entrance.
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Brooklyn South: Our baby-mocking columnist finds herself in the belly of the beast after her sister gives birth.
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Brooklyn South: Some want the wild dogs to return to Brooklyn — if only to keep home prices down. Our columnist has a different take.
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Brooklyn South: Will the weather — and the neighbors — finally allow our columnist to drink outdoors?
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Brooklyn South: A traffic light now burns on Van Brunt Street, yet so does the rubber.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist can’t understand what the city has against her beloved Red Hook taco vendors.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist solves the mystery of Brooklyn Inn — and it’s staying in business!
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist explains why a hotel plan on Atlantic Avenue died — and why it’s a good thing.
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Brooklyn South: Two gardening centers fight a war of the roses in Red Hook.
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Brooklyn South: A used-book store on Columbia Streets needs a new partner. Only book lovers need apply!
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist gets the scoop on the man who saved a beloved bookstore.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist’s friend helped nab a wanted bar robber. Here’s the saga.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist gets the scoop on a local plan for the future of the Gowanus Canal zone.
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Brooklyn South: A medieval legend tells of a Jew cursed to wander until Judgment Day because of a bad run-in with Jesus. In Brooklyn, it’s a karmic — and financial— arrangement with real-estate developers that keeps one pair of so-called Wandering Jews on the move.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist debunks a recent Observer article about biker babes.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist confronts crime — and her own white guilt.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that the venerable D’Amico’s coffee shop on Court Street is considering a jump into Starbucks’ territory: flavored coffee.
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Brooklyn South: Why does the new Starbucks have two espresso machines while the old Starbucks three blocks away have one?
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist weighs in on the Court Street McDonald’s debate.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that people say the craziest thing in the sauna.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist gets behind the call for a restaurant atop the Smith–Ninth Street subway station.
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Brooklyn South: The Public Place is moving forward — and the rivalries are only beginning.
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Brooklyn South: An army travels on its stomach — so, naturally, do the papusa partisans who support the Red Hook food vendors.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist — a dancing fool from way back — says Red Hook is the perfect place for a club scene.
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Brooklyn South: A Red Hook artist, who just wants a quiet neighborhood, once again installed his “Traffic Stopper” piece. Reviews from police were negative.
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Brooklyn South: Just off our Stoop, there are two public pools to choose from. Our columnist tells you where to go.
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Brooklyn South: A teen rocker gets in trouble. Finally!
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist mediates the Boerum Hill banh mi smackdown.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist braves the most rat-infested block in Boerum Hill.
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Brooklyn South: It’s too bad Borough President Markowitz can’t be on
every voyage of the Queen Mary 2 — because cruise ship passengers want to know about Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn South: I guess we all wish we had a place to put our car — amound other things.
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Brooklyn South: A psychic on Atlantic Avenue just went out of business. Our columnist examines why she couldn’t predict her own future.
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Brooklyn South: When did hot Red Hook go cold? Our columnist examines.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist crunches the numbers and figures out her favorite summertime pick-me-up is too expensive for everyday use.
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Brooklyn South: A tale of a landlord who may or may not have sniffed his tenant’s panties.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist searches for meaning — and guilt-free snacks — at Trader Joe’s.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist tours Carroll Gardens with a top-ranked barista [sic!] and learns that we’re drinking swill.
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Brooklyn South: To be inside a factory on the verge of demolition is like visiting a place of worship emptied by earthquake. The ceilings are high. Unfiltered sunlight washes over everything: chairs that once held people, stray leather shoes, a suit jacket, ink-stained ledgers, bashed-up books. A sapling grows in the arch of a broken, scroll-shaped window.
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Brooklyn South: Our columnist takes a bite out of the $11 toothbrush that’s now on sale on Smith Street.
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