The Brooklyn Papers / Dennis
W. Ho
"You live in woeful times," announces
Uncle Sam from the cover of a new gift catalog. "You need
funny things."
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By Karen Butler
Decades after Bensonhurst native Harvey
Fierstein wrote and starred in the gay classic, "Torch Song
Trilogy," his groundbreaking collection of one-act plays
is still widely considered a brilliant, relevant work.
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Since 1980,
members of the Vicky Simegiatos Dance Company have been sharing
their love for ballet with the Brooklyn community by offering
performances to the public.
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By Tina Barry
It’s better not to get too attached to
a Smith Street restaurant as they come and go quickly. So broken-hearted
fans of the short-lived Taku take heart. The restaurant’s owner
and chef, Adam Shepherd, plans on re-establishing the eatery
early next year in lower Manhattan.
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By Karen Butler
At long last, music fans will get to
hear Lou Reed’s seminal 1973 album, "Berlin," performed
live and in its entirety by the rock legend himself.
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The Brooklyn Papers / Dennis
W. Kim
On a corner in a still gritty section of
Williamsburg stands a tiny bistro.
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By Kevin Filipski
The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s offering
to culminate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth is, typically
for this forward-looking institution, anything but conventional.
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Where can you
find music, complimentary cocktails and handmade gifts this time
of year? Try the spectacular "Holiday Craftacular"
held in Williamsburg on Saturday, Dec. 9.
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Brooklyn Speaks composite based on state data
Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Yards project is a threat to one of America’s national treasures — Brooklyn’s brownstone blocks — two preservation groups charged this week, citing new state renderings that show 15-story illuminated advertising billboards on either side of the development’s main building.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner is paying the rent.
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By Ariella Cohen
Coney Island: For sale: One, 1960s-era, 275-foot-tall sightseeing tower, more than slightly used.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
A hundred pounds of Iraqi dates that took more than two months to get to America — give or take 25 years — are finally being sold at an Atlantic Avenue store.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Architect Frank Gehry has said the “front stoop” at the foot of his “Miss Brooklyn” tower will be a great place to hang out and read the paper or eat a sandwich at an outdoor bistro table.
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Editorial: Now we know why state legislators fought so intensely to keep their “member items” list so secret.
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By Paul Koepp
Carroll Gardens Assemblywoman Joan Millman and Bay Ridge state Sen. Marty Golden have repeatedly given state grant money to groups and organizations whose leaders have made contributions to their campaigns, a Brooklyn Papers investigation has revealed.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Development: A real-estate developer has forked over nearly $11 million for a row of run-down, one-story storefronts near the Fulton Mall — and he’s planning something big (although how big remains to be seen).
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: One day while lunching on a turkey sub at the Subway on Seventh Avenue, Smartmom ran into a mom she knew back when Teen Spirit was in elementary school.
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By Ariella Cohen
In DUMBO, progress on Brooklyn’s tallest-yet condo means saying goodbye to a whimsical, hand-painted garden that grew along with its 33 floors.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: After the Empire State Development Corporation approves Atlantic Yards — as it is expected to do imminently — the project will be weighed by the state’s Public Authorities Control Board, whose membership is limited to New York’s three most-powerful men: Gov. Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R-Rensselaer) and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan).
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: OK, this may seem like a completely gratuitous column about my new book, but it is actually a story about how intolerant a neighborhood famously liberal Park Slope can be.
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The Brooklyn Papers / Dennis W. Ho
By Ariella Cohen
Development: A wider highway with new connections to the Brooklyn waterfront could replace the deteriorating, always-clogged decked section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that runs under the famed Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
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By Ariella Cohen and Claire McTaggart
David Yassky’s efforts to get pirated CDs off the street has run into his former rivals from his congressional run: his Council colleague Charles Barron and racial politics.
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By Barry Petchesky
One afternoon in Williamsburg recently, Gretchen Shukdinas walked over to a “No parking” signpost at Metropolitan Avenue and Roebling Street and did something amazing: she sat down on it.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope and Carroll Gardens are two of the wealthiest communities in Brooklyn, yet homeowners there have the lowest property tax rate in the city, according to a report released this week by the city’s Independent Budget Office.
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Development: Bensonhurst may soon look like a community of Michelangelo-sculpted Davids, thanks to the Federation of Italian American Organizations, which announced this week that it will begin building an athletic and cultural facility in the neighborhood this spring.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Riders of the G train are getting an unexpected bonus — their much-maligned line will soon add five more stations in train-hungry Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and Kensington.
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