By Tina Barry
The bright yellow awning providing a note
of good cheer among the bleak gray storefronts that define Atlantic
Avenue in winter belongs to Mai, a Southeast Asian restaurant
that opened in September.
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By Lee Cabot Walker
Armed with two beers worth of courage,
a notebook and pen, I entered Freddy’s Bar & Backroom in
Prospect Heights on a recent Wednesday evening.
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By Drew Pisarra
Can you invoke the Twin Towers without
eliciting a sigh of exasperation? Does a Code Orange warning
affect your behavior less than the weatherman’s forecast of rain?
Do you sometimes go days - even weeks, maybe months at a stretch
- forgetting that you’re living in a nation at war?
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By Lisa J. Curtis
If you thought that all the waterside neighborhood
of DUMBO had to offer was the Jacques Torres Chocolate Factory
and the offices of The Brooklyn Papers, and you still weren’t
enticed to disembark the F train at York Street, there’s more
temptation now than ever to visit.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Are you a Simon or a Paula?
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By Tina Barry
If the name doesn’t
give this Williamsburg canteen away, then let me explain.
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By Ariella Cohen
On the eve of a vital public hearing to discuss freezing residential development
in parts of Sunset Park and Red Hook, property owners are being actively
courted by interest groups on both sides of the issue.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
On Feb. 4, Brooklyn Center for the Performing
Arts brings DanceBrazil to Brooklyn College for the New York
premiere of "Retratos da Bahia," an evening-length
work inspired by French photographer and anthropologist Pierre
Verger.
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By Ariella Cohen
A plan to convert a historic
Cobble Hill bank into a six-story luxury condo was temporarily derailed
on Wednesday when city landmarks officials took issue with the developer’s
bid to tear down an annex to the landmarked, 83-year-old Renaissance revival-style
bank.
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In “All the Best” [GO Brooklyn,
Jan. 7], the hours of operation of Applewood restaurant were incorrect.
The restaurant does not serve dinner on Sundays. Applewood is open for dinner
Tuesday through Sunday and for brunch on Sundays, from 10 am to 3 pm. They
are closed on Mondays.
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By Susan Cosier
Big box retailers like Wal-Mart would be forced to provide better health-care
coverage for their New York employees under a just-introduced bill by
state Sen. Diane Savino (D-Bay Ridge).
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Get out your overly tight bikinis and your SPF 45 — Bruce Ratner
is bringing professional beach volleyball to Coney Island.
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By Ariella Cohen
Initial construction of the first Whole Foods supermarket in Brooklyn
— slowed since underground gasoline storage tanks were found this
fall — will be delayed even longer, state officials said.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: Hate to break
the news to you, Rubber Girl, Insectavora, Helen Melon and Kerosene Queen,
but the cliche is finally true: the good ones are all gone.
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