Editorial: Our editorial board looks back on an award-winning, opinionated year.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is skeptical of a Municipal Art Society scheme for Coney Island.
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Editorial: Our editorial board supports David Walentas’s new 18-story building in DUMBO.
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Editorial: Our editorial board wants to you — to spend locally. But not for the obvious reason.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is horrified by the city plan to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer money — and subvert the very notion of a free market — on Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island folly.
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Editorial: Our editorial board supports cuts to the borough president’s office — but opposes recent calls to eliminate the office altogether.
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Editorial: Our editorial board concludes: The election of Barack Obama is a major big deal!
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Editorial: The way Councilman David Yassky handled his vote on term limits stands out — for all the wrong reasons.
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Editorial: Often on Election Day, the voters’ choice boils down to which of the two candidates is the least objectionable. Fortunately, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst voters have a chance to cast their ballots for a worthy candidate for Congress on Tuesday, Nov. 4: Councilman Mike McMahon.
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Editorial: Our editorial board explains why our esteemed leaders must be questioned at all times — because they lie.
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Editorial: Our editorial board says that Mayor Bloomberg’s scheme to rezone Coney Island is actually an end run around the community.
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Editorial: The New York Sun closes — and our editorial board ponders the role of the print product in this supposedly online age.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is opposed to politicians’ backroom maneuvers to gut the current two-limit for city office holders.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is opposed to politicians’ backroom maneuvers to gut the current two-limit for city office holders.
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Editorial: Our editorial board endorses newcomers to replace longtime incumbents in the state Senate and in the House of Representatives, plus a veteran city councilman to represent Bay Ridge in Washington.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is horrified by the condition of the Prison Ships Martyrs Memorial in Fort Greene Park.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is outraged over more incompetence — and yet another delay — at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Editorial: Our editorial board is outraged over more incompetence — and yet another delay — at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Editorial: Our editorial board weighs in on the city’s new anti-flier law — one that will create more trash than the pamphlets and menus it seeks to prevent.
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Editorial: Our editorial board slams the MTA for a lack of common sense in the latest Metrocard snafu.
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Editorial: Our editorial board think the city could have done better in dealing with the Red Hook vendors.
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Editorial: Our editorial board comes down against drivers who complained about getting tickets now that the long “No Parking” suspension is over in Park Slope.
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Editorial: Our editorial board shares its disappointment in the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an Atlantic Yards appeal.
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Editorial: It is tempting to see the opening of Ikea in Red Hook as a sort of “retail therapy” for a neighborhood in the doldrums — but locals should not be tempted into inviting more big box stores to play in the Hook sandbox.
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Editorial: On the eve of Ikea’s grand opening in Red Hook, our editorial board restates its support for a Wal-Mart in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Editorial: Why the pro–Atlantic Yards rally on Thursday at Borough Hall was a sham.
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Editorial: We have long had a problem with the funding scheme from Brooklyn Bridge Park — and this week, state and city officials freshly validated our suspicions.
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Editorial: Borough President Markowitz admits that he has failed on his signature issue — tourism!
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Editorial: We’d prefer a campaign on the issues — rather than one focusing on how a “law and order,” “family values,” “fiscal conservative” candidate got himself into such a mess.
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Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper calls for Rep. Vito Fossella to resign now rather than drag his constituents through the ongoing scandal over his drunk-driving arrest and extra-marital affair.
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Editorial: A community board hearing about a supposedly menacing Park Slope bar offers a chance to debate the future of our neighborhoods.
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Editorial: Rep. Vito Fossella — the city’s lone Republican congressman — called in a much-hated vice president to help him raise money. He’s banking on two things: Cheney’s pull with billionaires and voters’ short memories come November.
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Editorial: The future of Coney Island looks brighter than ever, thanks to a deal between the city and Joe Sitt — an agreement that The Paper long advocated.
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Editorial: He’s already getting $2 billion in public subsidies — and now Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner “wants more”? The Paper’s Editorial Board offers a handy place to put that request.
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Editorial: The Brooklyn Museum has every right to give Bruce Ratner an award. But the institution should not be shocked when its neighbors get angry about it.
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Editorial: Atlantic Yards is officially dead. Now, the state must grab the corpse from Bruce Ratner and save the project.
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Editorial: The Parks Department has moved to evict a few dozen judges from parking in Columbus Park — and The Paper cheers.
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is political. That old 1960s-era women’s movement mantra comes to mind anew, thanks to the abrupt resignation of Gov. Spitzer.
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Editorial: The Gowanus Canal is a national disgrace — and here’s how to clean the toxin- and sewage-filled corpse of water.
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Editorial: It is becoming clearer and clearer that Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner will not be able to build much of the below-market-rate housing at his mega-development.
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Editorial: He’s played the race card, he’s lobbied and he’s out and out lied. But now Bruce Ratner is doing something he hasn’t done in years: buying off our elected representatives in Albany. Yes, it’s ugly.
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Editorial: It’s time for legislatures to open their eyes and put an end to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards subsidies.
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Editorial: Lawsuits against Atlantic Yards are not a delay tactic, but a legitimate search for the truth about this shady back-room deal.
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Editorial: Before Bruce Ratner follows up his victory in state Supreme Court by bringing in construction cranes, it’s worth one more attempt to make some sanity of the ongoing misinformation campaign that state officials continue to conduct at Atlantic Yards.
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Editorial: Our editorial blasts a city plan to put a middle school in the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn House of Detention.
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