By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: The number of retail jobs that state officials say will be created by Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development ignores the reality of his two existing shopping malls directly across the street, where job performance has fallen short, according to Ratner’s own data.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Legend has it
that the inspiration for great art is substance abuse and "Hemingway
& Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers"
is a new book that delights in recognizing our country’s poets,
screenwriters, playwrights and novelists while lionizing their
concurrent abilities to put it away.
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By Sasha Vasilyuk
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, a 24-year-old
San Francisco company that appeared at City Center’s Fall for
Dance Festival last month, is now bringing two New York premieres
to Midwood’s Walt Whitman Theatre.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Heath Ledger’s role in Neil Armfield’s
new film "Candy" was a chance for the acclaimed actor
to play a character whose lifestyle is the polar opposite of
the Australian transplant’s reality amidst the leafy streets
of Brooklyn.
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In "Good to Go" [GO Brooklyn, Nov. 4], we incorrectly
listed some dishes that Chicory Brooklyn no longer offers. They
no longer prepare loin of beef, marinated golden beets or sweet
potato fries with a maple mayonnaise dipping sauce. The prices
of sandwiches are now $5-$8 and the dinner entrees are all $13.
On weekends, Chicory Brooklyn is only open for lunch and dinner
but they do have breakfast items on the menu. We regret the errors.
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By Jovana Rizzo
A musical marriage made in heaven: Capathia
Jenkins and Louis Rosen’s debut album is the soulful and personal
collaboration of the singer and songwriter’s lives.
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By Tina Barry
I opened the menu at Mike’s Kosher Steakhouse
and wanted to cry.
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By Tina Barry
The American
Cancer Society in Brooklyn has devised an ingenious idea for
mixing pleasure with fundraising. On Sunday Nov. 12, the organization
has organized the first "North Fork Wine Tour," a day
of seminars, sipping and snacking at three of Long Island’s most
respected vineyards. Proceeds from the event’s ticket sales will
go to providing vital transportation services to this borough’s
patients while they undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
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By Sasha Vasilyuk
In 1939, the 22-year-old German-Jewish
artist Charlotte Salomon fled Berlin for still unoccupied Vichy
France only to be killed in a death camp four years later.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Development: The “Avenue of Death” is even more violent than we’d imagined.
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By Paul Koepp
Who said Brooklyn doesn’t support the troops?
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By Paul Koepp
Development: Mom always told you to look both ways and wait for the light before you cross the street, but at one crazy Bay Ridge intersection, residents have learned that it’s actually safer to cross when the sign tells them to stop.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The season is finally over for the Lawnmower Man of DUMBO.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: You know what the main problem with Domino’s “Brooklyn-style” slice is? It stinks.
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By Dana Rubinstein and Christie Rizk
The city’s lone Republican Congressman, Rep. Vito Fossella, held onto his Bay Ridge-Staten Island seat even as Democrats stormed back into control of the House of Representatives this week.
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By Ariella Cohen
Bridge ‘Park’: A coalition of Brooklyn elected officials is demanding that state planners build the open space at the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront development before building the high-rise condos.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Democrat Steve Harrison not only finished second in his race against Rep. Vito Fossella on Tuesday, he finished 26,498th in the New York City Marathon two days earlier.
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By Christie Rizk
More and more Brooklynites are complaining about helicopter noise, but no one is listening, The Brooklyn Papers has learned — the hard way.
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By Samuel Goldsmith
Development: The city derailed a longshot attempt to block the Atlantic Yards development last month, rejecting a proposal to landmark a 95-year-old building that’s slated for demolition to make way for the project.
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By Ariella Cohen
Red Hook: The Queen Mary 2 has set sail from Red Hook for the last time this season — and already Brooklyn longshoremen are calling for the one-summer-old terminal to operate year-round.
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Editorial: Although many mocked it as a pointless junket, Borough President Markowitz’s fact-finding tour of England revealed the truth about how the world tourism industry views our beloved borough — and how much more work he and others need to do to put Brooklyn on the world’s tour map.
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By Paul Koepp
Development: The other day in Owl’s Head Park, a group of teen “Skateboarders for Jesus” was handing out a pamphlet titled, “Where Are You Going?”
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By Dana Rubinstein
Rep. Vito Fossella, the lone Republican in the city’s congressional delegation, held onto his seat this week in a win over opponent Steve Harrison, garnering 57 percent of the vote, despite a Democratic takeover of the House, a hard-fought campaign by Harrison, and a murky episode involving Fossella’s brother chasing down pedestrians with a baseball bat.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: Brooklyn’s tallest building is shrinking — at least for its future tenants.
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By Christie Rizk
A City Council proposal to ban aluminum bats got a “standing O” from some baseball players, while others hoped the bill would go down on strikes.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom was so impressed with the Annie Leibovitz show at the Brooklyn Museum — with its ravishing shots of Demi, Brad, Scarlett and a host of family and friends of the photographer’s — that she decided it was about time she had her very own digital camera.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn has its own professional basketball team, and Bruce Ratner had nothing to do it.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: First responders are getting first-class treatment, thanks to a fancy new EMS station in Carroll Gardens christened this week by Mayor Bloomberg.
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By Ariella Cohen
Development: City landmarks officials finally signed off on a plan to build a four-story condo in the garden of the vacant Peaks Mason Mints factory in Brooklyn Heights.
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By Ariella Cohen
Development: It’s hard to shake the idea that Assemblyman Jim Brennan kinda knew he wouldn’t be losing his job.
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