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The Stoop

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Bensonhurst wants to get Gore-d

Bay Ridge: An activist battling the city’s plans to build a waste transfer station on Gravesend Bay is so desperate for help that’s she’s reached out to the greenest celebrity of them all: Al Gore. Comment.

Fight to save church needs Hail Mary

Bay Ridge: Preservationists and residents are cursing an unholy plan to tear down one of Bay Ridge’s most distinctive churches to make room for luxury condos. Comment.

Save the Green Church. Why?

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist takes a contrary view about saving a Bay Ridge church that is slated to be torn down for condos. Comments (1).

Vegas Diner owner smells a rat

Bay Ridge: The owner of the Vegas Diner believes he was shut down because of rats — the ones in government, not the ones in his restaurant. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Bubby’s is back!

Downtown: After being snared in the Health Department sweep, Bubby’s is back and better than ever. Comment.

New York can’t find Brooklyn

Heights Lowdown: Has New York Magazine no sense of decency at all? Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Corcoran’s still hot on the Hook

Carroll Gardens: Barbara Corcoran’s vanity property in Red Hook isn’t moving. Comment.

Babyless writer in giftless jam

Brooklyn South: Our baby-mocking columnist finds herself in the belly of the beast after her sister gives birth. Comment.

Bellying up to the barista

Carroll Gardens: Carroll Gardens caffeine addicts are uniting to raise money for a Naidre’s barista who has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Exclusive: Inside Broken Angel

Fort Greene: Our reporter goes inside Arthur Wood’s quirky Clinton Hill mansion — an exclusive! Comment.

Some Zagat jive for ‘Turkey’

Fort Greene: The Myrtle Avenue BID wants you to vote for Jive Turkey so the caterer can get into the prestigious Zagat Survey. Fair? Who cares?! Comment.

Putting Walt in a time vault

Greene Acres: Our columnist finds Walt Whitman’s former home. Why is it not protected? Comment.

Park Slope

Bad awnings make bad neighbors

Park Slope: Three inches are all that stand between Richard Muzio and a good night’s sleep — but he can’t get the Department of Buildings to order his neighbor to take down her awning. Comment.

Windsor Terrace PO’d by new postal hours

Park Slope: Do postal workers deserve a lunch break? Of course. Should the post office close? Of course not. Comment.

Slope goes down wrong-way street

PS … I Love You: In what seems like a monthly endeavor, our columnist attended yet another forum on where Park Slope is headed — and left cynical as ever. Comment.

7 for ’07 in Slope

Park Slope: Members of the Park Slope Civic Council sat down and drew up a list of seven top priorities for the year. Here they are. Comment.
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