By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist notices that the Conservative Party isn’t all that conservative anymore.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Hallelujah and praise the Lord! A new preacher is coming to town — and he is making big promises of doling out “miracles and prophecies.”
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By Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: More than a dozen subway stations in Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights are in line for a sprucing up, but residents had a clear reaction to the news: It’s about freakin’ time.
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides.
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By Ariella Cohen
The Brooklyn Paper / Greg Mango
Carroll Gardens: Controversial DUMBO-based designer Robert Scarano has scrapped a plan to erect a flashy, steel-skinned building on Smith Street and Second Place in favor of a brick edifice with a green roof and “gigantic apartments perfect for families,” he told The Stoop this week.
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By Ariella Cohen
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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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: A 60-foot tower rising above a Cobble Hill historic district will likely move forward, despite a unanimous rejection from Community Board 6 at a public hearing last week.
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By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper / Magdalene Perez
Fort Greene: David Dyson, pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church wants to put the green back in “God’s green earth,” beginning with his own house of worship.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: The sidewalk on one edge of Fort Greene Park is sinking — and our columnist goes deep to figure it out.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: A nearly century-old Fort Greene building, home to a warren of municipal offices and a day care center, has been temporarily spared the fate of its similarly historic neighbors: the dreaded conversion into luxury condos.
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By Nica Lalli
PS … I Love You: It’s summer in the Slope — and our columnist loves it.
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By Michael McLaughlin
Park Slope: A controversial supportive housing facility proposed for Fifth Avenue moved forward last week when the City Planning Commission gave its approval for the five-story, 49-unit building at what is currently a municipal parking lot on 16th Street.
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By Beethoven Bong
Park Slope: The mysterious high-pitched wail that irked residents near New York Methodist Hospital earlier this month reemerged last week — but only for some people, apparently.
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By Harry Cheadle
Park Slope: Hurricane Katrina hit almost two years ago, but the Big Easy is still hard up — and now two Prospect Heights women want to help.
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