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Williamsburg: Meet the new face of medical science in Williamsburg: A “chief imagineer” who is more inspired by the Apple Store than the old adage about an “apple a day.”
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Bay Ridge: Preservationists intent on saving Fourth Avenue’s so-called “Green Church” were praying for help from state Sen. Marty Golden — but even after they showed him 1,179 signatures in support of rescuing the 109-year-old house of worship, they couldn’t convert the influential politician.
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Digital editions: This week’s print edition of The Brooklyn Paper is a juggernaut, packed with stories on the latest delay at Brooklyn Bridge Park (plus our editorial), a yogurt war on Court Street, news from Coney Island, our Eye of the Storm Cyclones coverage, Bob Dylan’s show in Prospect Park and all the happenings in our award-winning GO Brooklyn section.
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Bridge ‘Park’: The highly touted first phase of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park — a grand, Euro-style piazza and skating rink under the Brooklyn Bridge that was supposed to open next fall — will be delayed at least five years.
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Cinema: The new feature film “Cult of Sincerity” is like a National Geographic documentary on the feeding, mating and social rituals of Williamsburg’s twentysomething hipsters. And sometimes, the truth hurts.
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Downtown: Court Street will get a brain freeze in the next few weeks when three different upscale frozen yogurt shops open within four blocks of each other.
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Brooklyn Heights: Mayor Bloomberg — a billionaire former Republican — has inserted himself into the Democratic race for a Brooklyn Heights state Senate seat, endorsing a well off newcomer against longtime incumbent Marty Connor as payback for votes against him in Albany.
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Theater: Theater for the New City’s latest show, “It’s the Economy Stupid! or The Turning Point” — their 32nd annual Summer Street Theater production — is a musical writ large as a children’s allegory that follows the earnest adventures of the Angel Gabriel. The heavenly production comes to Prospect Park on Aug. 23.
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Atlantic Yards: Legal experts agree on one thing about the latest lawsuit to block the Atlantic Yards project — the plaintiffs have put together a crafty argument to combat the project.
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Shopping: Business owners on Grand Avenue in Clinton HIll are banding together to throw a truly grand block party on Saturday.
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Cinema: The 2008 New York Korean Film Festival comes to Fort Greene on Aug. 29 with Korea’s answer to “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Once Upon a Time.”
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Cyclones: The Cyclones were asleep on their bats on Wednesday night.
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Cartoon: Each week, award-winning cartoonist Cristian Fleming gives us his take on the issues of the day. This week, Fleming pokes fun at our self-aggrandizing, bike-riding editor.
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Park Slope: It’s the story of our time: A once-forsaken urban strip becomes a nightlife hangout — and residents who were there through it all are angry.
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Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news!
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The Search: Our columnist — newly dumped and homeless — begins his quest to solve both problems in our new weekly feature.
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Music: It’s hard to believe that the final show of the Seaside Summer Concert Series is upon us, but that night — Aug. 21 — is drawing near.
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Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — this time with letters about Long Island College Hospital’s finances, a city plan to expand a Brooklyn Heights elementary school, a congressional race in Bay Ridge, legislative pay raises, and a controversial developer in Carroll Gardens.
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Parenting: All the fun you could be having with your kids.
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Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gives his review of the event of the season: Bob Dylan in Prospect Park.
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Park Slope: Famously biking Editor Gersh Kuntzman is back on top — of a set of two wheels, at least. After a cigarette-toting thief stole his bike last month, Kuntzman was forced to ride the F train until he finally purchased a new (old) set of wheels through the Park Slope Parents Web site. Now Kuntzman is back to his old self again, showing up sweaty in the office and cursing about aggressive drivers, rather than lame F service. Nothing like a death-defying ride to the office to get you going, we always say. Here’s a video tour of Gersh’s new wheels.
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Cyclones: The Cyclones got great hitting, better pitching — and three errors by the Auburn Doubledays in their 6–2 win on Tuesday night.
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Politicrasher: Our columnist gets a free meal off of mayoral wannabe, Rep. Anthony Weiner.
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Park Slope: If it’s Wednesday, it must be Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. From our Park Slope bureau, a mom and daughter foil a robbery — plus all the other crime news from the neighborhood’s 78th Precinct. Find your neighborhood below.
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Carroll Gardens: A wider swath of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill — plus the Columbia Street Waterfront District — will now get the same freedom from the stresses (and joys!) of alternate-side-of-the-street parking starting on Monday.
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Event: Will Bob Dylan do a tribute to Isaac Hayes tonight in Prospect Park? If so, you can thank our Dylan ticket contest winner, Mike Wood. Meet him in this exclusive video!
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Coney Island: Coney Island’s historic Astroland will close up for the season in just over a month — and when it does, it may be closing for good.
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Red Hook: When the rail-car-style Cheyenne Diner relocates to Red Hook from Manhattan next month, it will have waterfront views, a beer garden and an upgraded menu from the standard greasy spoon fare, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.
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Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom Day on BrooklynPaper.com. In this week’s installment, Smartmom reveals what it’s like to have a strong-willed, moody 17-year-old in the house.
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By Ed Shakespeare
Ups & Downs: Twelve women attended the Cyclones’ fifth annual “Ladies’ Clinic” at Keyspan Park on Sunday, a tutorial run by Cyclones’ director of communications Dave Campanaro, and Brooklyn pitchers Scott Shaw and Chris Schwinden.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: Two out of three ain’t bad — especially when one is a bottom-of-the-10th win.
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Bay News: Allowing suspected al-Qaeda terrorist Salim Ahmed Hamdan to speak with his wife by phone from Guantanamo Bay – plus providing him with reading material and fish sandwiches – seems a pretty friendly way of getting him to spill the beans about Osama bin Laden.
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By Tom Tracy
Bay News: Thanks to a carefully placed surveillance camera, cops have perfect pictures of three fresh-faced hooligans wanted for breaking into a Sheepshead Bay law firm last week.
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Bay News: By the time this column goes to press, Senator Barack Obama will have spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Iraqi Prime Minister Noural al-Maliki and several top
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Bay News: Taking our daughter to the Jonas Brothers concert this past weekend transported me back 43 years to an August day in 1965 — when I was a tween, and was screaming, crying and jumping up and down in response to the band. But instead of listening to three boys from Wyckoff New Jersey, my hysteria was directed at four fabulous lads from Liverpool, namely John, Paul, George and Ringo.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Gowanus: Whole Foods is “revising” its secretive plans for their first Brooklyn store, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.
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Politicrasher: Our political insider covers a councilman’s ribbon-cutting at a post office. Man, how the mighty have fallen.
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Bay Ridge: Congressional hopeful Mike McMahon is a little bit of Al Gore, a lot of Barack Obama and even a little bit of Richard Nixon on energy and the environment.
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Bloomy in the ’Hood: A fifth pet store in the neighborhood has tails wagging and humans talking.
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The Search: Join our senior reporter as he looks for love — and a place to live — in today’s Brooklyn. Fasten your seatbelts, readers, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
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Bay Ridge: Students at Bay Ridge’s venerable Adelphi Academy may have to find a new place to hit the books come September — and famed billionaire developer and mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis is right there in the middle of it.
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DUMBO: Here’s ace reporter Sarah Portlock’s take on 8-8-08!
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DUMBO: Here’s ace reporter Sarah Portlock’s take on 8-8-08!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: The Cyclones traveled to Taxachussetts to take on the Lowell Spinners — and the weaving industry-inspired team was punchless all night, getting only one hit and falling 2–0.
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Kings Courier: Iffath Hoskins, MD, Lutheran Medical Center’s chair of OBGYN, was elected to serve as vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). ACOG, a national medical organization representing more than 52,000 members who provide health care for women, announced the selection at their 56th Annual Clinical Meeting in New Orleans.
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Kings Courier: A leader in education, outreach, treatment and patient support, Brookdale University Hospital’s multidisciplinary sickle cell disease program is one of 17 programs in the country to have received a much contended grant from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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By Stephen Witt
Kings Courier: The upcoming 21st Senate District Democratic primary on September 9 is turning ugly.
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Kings Courier: The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals will hold its Pet Adoption Festival, August 2 in Prospect Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain or shine) to find welcoming homes for the cats and dogs awaiting adoption from the alliance’s participating shelters and rescue groups.
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Kings Courier: The summer may be coming to an end but the excitement has only just begun at Brooklyn Public Library. There are tons of activities, programs and events that the whole family can enjoy. All programs are free and open to the public.
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By Stephen Witt
Kings Courier: Brooklyn’s Federation of Italian American Organizations (FIAO) can soon break ground on their planned community center thanks in large part to the recently passed 2009 fiscal year city budget.
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Kings Courier: Sporting challenges, family frolics and more fanned the flame of friendship as residents gathered for block party festivities in Bergen Beach.
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Kings Courier: Maimonides Medical Center has been recognized with a five-star rating for clinical excellence in women’s health services, based on a recently published study by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings company. This designation places Maimonides in the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation for women’s health programs in stroke, cardiac and maternity services.
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Kings Courier: Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation, will be among the speakers at the next quarterly Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable Luncheon, August 5.
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By Stephen Witt
Kings Courier: City employees called to serve in Afghanistan or Iraq will now receive a little more financial security thanks to a recently signed state law.
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By Gary Buiso
Kings Courier: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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Kings Courier: One issue that often is overlooked is the importance of sexual intimacy. It may be surprising to know that approximately 40 million American women suffer from some type of sexual disorder — the most common being Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD), sometimes referred to as low sex drive.
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By Gary Buiso
Kings Courier: Food stamp use at city Greenmarkets has skyrocketed, an encouraging development that could help bridge the nutrition gap, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said last week.
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By Thomas Tracy
Kings Courier: One would think they were “giving way” to future changes.
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Kings Courier: Young water warriors beat the heat with cooling dunks in the aqua slide while mom and dad fired up the grill for a sizzling block party in Marine Park.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Kings Courier: If it’s really a victory, Marine Park residents haven’t been able to enjoy it yet.
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By Thomas Tracy
Kings Courier: Friends and family members of Marine Park divorce attorney Mark Schwartz and his wife Christine Petrowski-Schwartz prayed for justice Sunday as detectives continued to pour over evidence that may lead them to the killer who took their lives.
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Kings Courier: Lutheran Medical Center officially launched into service its latest high tech ambulance units at a special unveiling ceremony attended by EMS workers and members of Lutheran’s executive staff.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Kings Courier: You wouldn’t think anything was wrong with little Jewel Sulker when you first meet her, but her mother and a state senator have been desperately scrambling to save her life.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Kings Courier: There are vacancies on several Community Education Councils (CEC) but parents seem unwilling to fill the spots.
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By Aaron Short
Brooklyn Courier: In the wake of several fatal crane accidents on construction sites in Manhattan, the New York City Council passed stringent construction safety legislation this week that will have a significant effect on large development projects in downtown Brooklyn and on the Williamsburg waterfront.
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Brooklyn Courier: The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum at 5816 Clarendon Road is searching for descendants of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff and Gretje Van Ness Wyckoff, who established the farmhouse in 1652.
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Brooklyn Courier: The Finer Life Golf Foundation is offering free golf clinics to children ages eight to 17, July 26 and August 2, 9, 23 and 30 at the Von King Park on the Large Lawn at the corners of Greene, Marcy, Lafayette, and Tompkins avenues. The clinics will begin promptly at 11 a.m. and last approximately two hours.
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Brooklyn Courier: Staten Island became the latest site to host the Polish American Congress’s 2008 Voter Registration Drive. The PAC’s mobile registration unit visited Holy Rosary and St. Stanislaus Kostka
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Brooklyn Courier: Waste Management, North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management services, launched ThinkGreenFromHome.com (www.thinkgreenfromhome.com), a streamlined online service for the recycling of universal household waste including compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), batteries, and eventually other household electronics.
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Brooklyn Courier: A New York City Councilman, who was gunned down in a peculiar instance of skewed political rivalry inside City Hall, was recalled for his charisma and anti-violence measures at a prayer vigil in Fort Greene on the fifth anniversary of his assassination.
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Brooklyn Courier: Controversial soul reggae group Judah Tribe invades the Brooklyn Museum for Target 1st Saturdays, August 2. Judah Tribe is already stimulating a debate over its soon to be released single, “Judgment.” Written in tribute to Sean Bell, killed by NYPD officers, “Judgment” features guitarist and father-in-law of Sean Bell, Les Paultre. The show will take place as part of the Reggae Retro/Revival Reggae Sundays outdoor dance party featuring Judah Tribe, DJs Silence, Jase and Styff.
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By Gary Buiso
Kings Courier: Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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Brooklyn Courier: New York Methodist Hospital will sponsor a community health fair and blood drive, August 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Brooklyn College Student Center, East 27th Street and Campus Road.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: City employees called to serve in Afghanistan or Iraq will now receive a little more financial security thanks to a recently signed state law.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: The New York City public school system could undergo a drastic makeover next year — and now’s the time for parents to play a part in the redesign process.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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By Thomas Tracy
Brooklyn Courier: Residents from across the borough are about to mark the longest-running war in the nation’s history.
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By Tom Tracy
Brooklyn Courier: What’s happening, Tootsie!
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Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz played camp counselor as a group of young campers gathered at Borough Hall to enjoy “bug juice” and other camp goodies and to help kick off another season of Camp Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Courier: Obesity is an epidemic that impacts more than nine million Americans. More and more people who are affected by obesity are seeking to learn about surgical weight reduction.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: City Councilmember Lew Fidler has proven to be a productive lawmaker and an even better son.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Brooklyn Courier: How does sautéed tilapia with a side of grilled zucchini served on a bed of fresh Bibb lettuce and arugula sound? Imagine then that it was all grown organically and purchased locally right here in Brooklyn. Sounds tasty, right? So tasty, you wouldn’t even know the secret ingredient is fish poop.
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By Thomas Tracy
Brooklyn Courier: State Senate hopeful Daniel Squadron is smiling all the way to the bank.
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Brooklyn Courier: The Federation of Italian American Organizations of Brooklyn (FIAO) is sponsoring free ballroom dance instruction for youngsters and seniors in its popular inter-generational dance classes at FIAO’S Beacon Program at Seth Low IS 96, 99 Avenue P between West 12th and West 13th streets.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Shirley Fineman, executive director of the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: City Councilmember Lew Fidler has proven to be a productive lawmaker and an even better son.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Courier: Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: While the newly crowned Miss New York, via Miss Brooklyn, may not actually be from the borough, she has planted some roots here and expressed gratitude for being allowed to represent Brooklyn.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Brooklyn Courier: How does sautéed tilapia with a side of grilled zucchini served on a bed of fresh Bibb lettuce and arugula sound? Imagine then that it was all grown organically and purchased locally right here in Brooklyn. Sounds tasty, right? So tasty, you wouldn’t even know the secret ingredient is fish poop.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn parents are forming a citywide coalition to examine mayoral control.
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Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (BCBC) was selected as Brooklyn’s Best Place for Family Bonding as part of Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect’s First Annual Parents’ Picks Awards.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Despite neighborhood complaints, city officials and Fort Greene Flea Market organizers remain confident that issues surrounding the popular Sunday event can be worked out.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: The New York City public school system could undergo a drastic makeover next year — and now’s the time for parents to play a part in the redesign process.
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By Greg Hanlon
Brooklyn Courier: The intersection of McDonald Avenue and Windsor Place is an accident waiting to happen, according to neighborhood residents who are pressing the Department of Transportation (DOT) to install a traffic light.
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Brooklyn Courier: Obesity is an epidemic that impacts more than nine million Americans. More and more people who are affected by obesity are seeking to learn about surgical weight reduction.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Flatbush: You wouldn’t think anything was wrong with little Jewel Sulker when you first meet her, but her mother and a state senator have been desperately scrambling to save her life.
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By Tom Tracy
Flatbush: Police in riot gear converged on Rugby Road Friday after a scooter cop was injured during a break-neck chase with a car in Flatbush, officials said.
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Flatbush: Come to the Hoyt Street Association’s free “Stories in the Garden” series, every Tuesday at 7 p.m., now to July 29 at the Hoyt Street Garden, corner of Hoyt Street and Atlantic Avenue.
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Flatbush: A deejay provided the musical spark and dancing in the streets ignited it when block residents shared the spirit on block party day in Flatbush.
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Brooklyn Courier: New York City College of Technology (City Tech) hospitality management student Theresa Gwizdaloski, left, was awarded the 2008 Les Dames d’Escoffier/International Culinary Center’s “Make a Difference Scholarship” valued at $40,000.
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Brooklyn Courier: Baseball fans are welcomed to the Isle of Coney (that’s Coney Island) in the Kingdom of the Brooklyn Cyclones for Medieval Times Night, August 4 at 7 p.m.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Courier: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn Children’s Museum On-The-Go takes a walk on the wild side in August.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Greenpoint: The New York City public school system could undergo a drastic makeover next year — and now’s the time for parents to play a part in the redesign process.
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By Stephen Witt
Kings Courier: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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Kings Courier: Broadway and Off-Broadway lovers can now get their discounts right here in Brooklyn without any of the crowds and elbow-shoving of Manhattan.
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By Meredith Deliso
Kings Courier: April 29, 1933. December 27, 1979. July 24, 1982.
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Kings Courier: City conservators undertook the tall task of preserving a pair of heralded sculptures at Cadman Plaza Park with painstaking detail as part of a restoration program to reclaim the handsome limestone statues from the ravages of time.
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Kings Courier: “Mr. Brooklyn” received a warm borough welcome on block party day when he stopped by East 58th Street for a bite to eat and a smile to share with residents of East 58th Street.
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Kings Courier: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz played camp counselor as a group of young campers gathered at Borough Hall to enjoy “bug juice” and other camp goodies and to help kick off another season of Camp Brooklyn.
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Kings Courier: New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. joined the NAACP Brooklyn Branch, elected officials, clergies, advocates, and homeowners recently as they gathered on the steps of City Hall to highlight the issue of discriminatory lending practices by the mortgage industry and to support the lawsuit filed by the NAACP against 14 of the country’s largest lenders.
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By Gary Buiso
Kings Courier: The city’s method for billing private hospitals for water use is headed for the ER unless steps are taken to resuscitate it soon, an audit released this week concluded.
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Kings Courier: Heart of Brooklyn (HOB), a partnership of six leading cultural institutions in central Brooklyn, welcomes Carol Enseki as its newest board president. Enseki is a founding Heart of Brooklyn board member, and the long-standing president of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue at St. Mark’s Avenue.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Kings Courier: Brooklyn College is nurturing some of the brightest minds in the borough.
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By Helen Klein
Kings Courier: On a sultry July day, passersby sauntering in the vicinity of Third Avenue and 76th Street might have noticed something a bit unusual -- a fleet of slightly humpback trucks, each emblazoned with the Graffiti Free NYC logo -- parked curbside, as a group of workers, clad in orange, milled about.
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By Stephen Witt
Greenpoint: Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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By Aaron Short
Greenpoint: After being displaced from their Greenpoint apartment building for nearly four years, tenants could soon be moving back to 202 Franklin Street, as attorneys neared a settlement in housing court this week.
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Greenpoint: The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals will hold its Pet Adoption Festival, August 2 in Prospect Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain or shine) to find welcoming homes for the cats and dogs awaiting adoption from the alliance’s participating shelters and rescue groups.
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By Aaron Short
Greenpoint: With the one-year anniversary of the Newtown Creek Nature Walk fast approaching, Greenpoint community members made suggestions to Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Parks Department officials for making the walk more accessible to residents and tourists alike.
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By Stephen Witt
Greenpoint: Once known for its putrid odors, the former Fountain and Pennsylvania landfills are being transformed into a lush greenery with birds and butterflies fluttering on bluffs overlooking Jamaica Bay.
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Kings Courier: In the interest of promoting active healthy lifestyles for mature adults, 55 and above, Millennium Development has created an Outdoor Marine Park Active Adults Program (MPAA), open to all seniors, near the tennis courts in Marine Park, Fillmore Avenue & Stuart Street.
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By Aaron Short
Greenpoint: Father Joseph Fonti approached the altar to lead one of dozens of celebration masses in honor of San Paolino and Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the last time last week.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Kings Courier: Parents: you can tell the city Department of Education (DOE) how to spend $63 million.
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Williamsburg: Tillie’s of Brooklyn, 248 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene, offers music and art events throughout August.
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Williamsburg: Sweet treats amounted to more than just cake when Fort Greene uber-baker Cake Man Raven held his annual block party – complete with cash prizes, scholarships and a “cupcake” parade.
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By Stephen Witt
Williamsburg: The borough’s hometown brewery squeaked and now it appears the city is applying some grease.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Williamsburg: How does sautéed tilapia with a side of grilled zucchini served on a bed of fresh Bibb lettuce and arugula sound? Imagine then that it was all grown organically and purchased locally right here in Brooklyn. Sounds tasty, right? So tasty, you wouldn’t even know the secret ingredient is fish poop.
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Williamsburg: Armed with bamboo rods and corn bait – and cheered on by Cyclones mascot Sandy the Seagull – a horde of eagle-eyed anglers had big fish to fry as they challenged mettle in the four-day-long Macy’s Fishing Contest at Prospect Park.
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By Aaron Short
Williamsburg: In the wake of several fatal crane accidents on construction sites in Manhattan, the New York City Council passed stringent construction safety legislation this week that will have a significant effect on large development projects in downtown Brooklyn and on the Williamsburg waterfront.
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By Gary Buiso
Williamsburg: The city’s method for billing private hospitals for water use is headed for the ER unless steps are taken to resuscitate it soon, an audit released recently concluded.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Williamsburg: Democracy has suffered under mayoral control.
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Williamsburg: LB Brown, founder and director of the Clinton Hill Art Gallery, far right, congratulates the gallery’s guest curator Anna Annus Hagen, third from right, at the recent artist reception for the BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition) group exhibit. Also pictured at the reception and exhibit, held at the Clinton Hill Art Gallery, 154 Vanderbilt Avenue between Myrtle & Willoughby, were curator and artist Gwen Black and curator Linda Salavaria.
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Williamsburg: Rallyers protest soaring gas costs and douse John McCain’s presidential bid in displeasure in front of a Shell gas station in Brooklyn Heights. The placard-toting group crusaded against the Republican candidate, who when asked recently by the Orange County Register about the last time he pumped his own gas and how much it cost, replied: “Oh, I don’t remember. Now there’s Secret Service protection. But I’ve done it for many, many years. I don’t recall and frankly, I don’t see how it matters.”
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Letters: I think a very serious problem has been created by the switch to digital television.
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Letters: Joe Maniscalco is correct in his assessment that Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries’ plan to create a new governance structure for the Forest City Ratner Corporation’s Atlantic Yards project proposal ‘went over like a lead balloon.’
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By Gary Buiso
Williamsburg: or a film about a wise-cracking, cigar-chomping demon, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” manages to mingle gravitas with humor, and tenderness with frenzied, fantastical action.
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Williamsburg: The Brooklyn Indie Market brings together a couple of distinctive craft artisans working in wood, introducing a new addition to the primarily fashion and art focus of the market.
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Williamsburg: The Brooklyn-based Big Onion Walking Tours hosts a number of walks spotlighting the borough.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Williamsburg: Ahh, the finer things in life…but who can afford ‘em? Yeah, we all know that you’re not benefiting from all those tax breaks the guys running the White House love to brag about. Heck, you’re not a millionaire – you work for a living. But you can appreciate beautiful things just like the blue blood elites even though you’re only a blue collar guy, or gal. How? By being a savvy consumer.
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Williamsburg: Allowing suspected al-Qaeda terrorist Salim Ahmed Hamdan to speak with his wife by phone from Guantanamo Bay – plus providing him with reading material and fish sandwiches – seems a pretty friendly way of getting him to spill the beans about Osama bin Laden.
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By Joanna P. DelBuono
Williamsburg: Taking our daughter to the Jonas Brothers concert this past weekend transported me back 43 years to an August day in 1965 — when I was a tween, and was screaming, crying and jumping up and down in response to the band. But instead of listening to three boys from Wyckoff New Jersey, my hysteria was directed at four fabulous lads from Liverpool, namely John, Paul, George and Ringo.
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IT’S ONLY MY OPINION
By Stanley P. Gershbein
Williamsburg: By the time this column goes to press, Senator Barack Obama will have spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Iraqi Prime Minister Noural al-Maliki and several top
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GUEST OP-ED
By John J. Doherty
Williamsburg: Property owners know the feeling: They come home after a hard day’s work or back from vacation only to find piles of unsolicited and unwanted advertising material on their lawn. This unwelcome material, which the homeowner has no choice but to gather and pick up, can be more than an annoyance and an enormous waste of paper. As it piles up while the homeowner is away on vacation, this material does its job in an unexpected way, “advertising” the fact that no one’s home, giving would-be robbers the green light to come in and help themselves.
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Williamsburg: Carroll Gardens bopped to the tune of community camaraderie when mom, dad and the kids helped fan the flame of friendship during a block party along Douglass Street.
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Williamsburg: Baseball fans are welcomed to the Isle of Coney (that’s Coney Island) in the Kingdom of the Brooklyn Cyclones for Medieval Times Night, August 4 at 7 p.m.
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Williamsburg: usic At The Bridge, a new free summer music series being presented in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, continues to attract huge crowds.
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By Meredith Deliso
Williamsburg: rooklyn talent unites on July 20 to help JDub celebrate five years of promoting Jewish artists here and aboard.
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Williamsburg: AM and MetroTech Center conclude their 2008 BAM Rhythm & Blues Festival at MetroTech this month and next.
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Williamsburg: fro Jazz Sundays is Brooklyn’s newest summer event for live music from African, Caribbean and Latin traditions woven into jazz.
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Williamsburg: he Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) New York Aquarium is now offering free admission every Friday from 3 p.m. until closing.
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Williamsburg: he Seaside Summer Concert Series, celebrating an incredible 30 years of the very best in free entertainment, continues at Asser Levy/Seaside Park with consecutive Thursday night concerts featuring some of the biggest names in music.
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By Meredith Deliso
Williamsburg: arlez-moi d'amour. Il m'a vue nue. Presque oui.
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By Meredith Deliso
Williamsburg: ast year everyone was singing the Siren Festival's swan song.
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By Stephen Witt
Williamsburg: City employees called to serve in Afghanistan or Iraq will now receive a little more financial security thanks to a recently signed state law.
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By Greg Hanlon
Williamsburg: A summer heat advisory was not enough to prevent the successful kickoff of “Williamsburg Walks” last Saturday, the first of four Saturdays this summer during which Bedford Avenue will be closed to traffic.
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Williamsburg: Heart of Brooklyn (HOB), a partnership of six leading cultural institutions in central Brooklyn, welcomes Carol Enseki as its newest board president. Enseki is a founding Heart of Brooklyn board member, and the long-standing president of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue at St. Mark’s Avenue.
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By Aaron Short
Williamsburg: Father Joseph Fonti approached the altar to lead one of dozens of celebration masses in honor of San Paolino and Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the last time last week.
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By Stephen Witt
Williamsburg: Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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By Stephen Witt
Williamsburg: Once known for their putrid odors, the former Fountain and Pennsylvania landfills are being transformed into a lush greenery with birds and butterflies fluttering on bluffs overlooking Jamaica Bay.
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Williamsburg: It’s open season for vendors hawking delectable delights at Red Hook Park.
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By Greg Hanlon
Williamsburg: Thanks to a $40,000 grant, the School Settlement Association day camp (120 Jackson Street) will take better field trips than ever before.
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By Greg Hanlon
Williamsburg: The close-knit block of S. 3rd Street between Marcy Avenue and Havemeyer Street is still reeling from the loss of resident Richard Duran, 22, who died last Monday from gunshot wounds sustained after midnight Friday at the MTA bus depot on Broadway and Roebling Street.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Williamsburg: Brooklyn College is nurturing some of the brightest minds in the borough.
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Williamsburg: The best family fun ride in the heart of Brooklyn just got better: Prospect Parks 1912 Carousel is free for kids under the age of 12 every Thursday in August, courtesy of Astoria Federal Savings.
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Williamsburg: Naturalist and author “Wildman” Steve Brill will lead one of his world-famous “Wild Food and Ecology Tours” of Prospect Park, August 3 and again on August 30. Prospect Park is a great place for wild foods, and the summer is an especially rich season.
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By Greg Hanlon
For a minute last week, it looked like the Brooklyn Cyclones were ready to turn the corner on their disappointing start to the 2008 season.
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The Northeast Conference named St. Francis College graduated senior Katja Bavendam (Hambergen, Germany/Osterholz-Scharmbeck) its 2007-08 Women’s Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Bavendam, a women’s basketball player, receive the honor by virtue of her exceptional 4.00 grade-point averages (GPA).
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With the Summer Games less a week away, members of the US Olympic Beach Volleyball team bumped in some last-minute practice by spiking a few rounds on Coney’s famous white sands in the AVP Pro Volleyball Crocs Tour.
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Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (BCBC) was selected as Brooklyn’s Best Place for Family Bonding as part of Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect’s First Annual Parents’ Picks Awards.
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By Greg Hanlon
John Servidio’s professional baseball career got off to an auspicious start. During the season’s first couple weeks, the 26th round draft pick hit his way to the Cyclones regular right field job, providing a spark for the offensively-challenged Cyclones with his line-drive stroke and extra-base pop.
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Xaverian’s High School’s “Dr. Jack Kuhn Alumni Golf Outing” at the Richmond County Country Club, an all-day golf outing honoring the legacy of the beloved Bay Ridge resident and avid golfer, was successful in its endeavors to raise funds for the school’s Jack Kuhn Memorial Scholarship.
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By Jordan Siegel
Williamsburg: During the July and August months of 2008, Brooklynites will be seeing jazz. That is, of course, works of visual art inspired by the rhythms and tones of jazz music.
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Williamsburg: The 37-year old Narrows Community Theater (NCT) has opened a full arts education program this summer. On August 7 at 8 p.m., NCT sponsors “How to Audition for the Professional Theatre,” a pair of workshops designed to expand on the art of auditioning.
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By George Napolitano
This past week on Irish Heritage night at Keyspan Park, Brad Holt put on one of the most dominating pitching performances in Brooklyn Cyclones history. Facing the Vermont Lake Monsters, Holt allowed no runs and recorded 14 strikeouts in 6 innings of work to improve his record to 3-2.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: All the hype about MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Red Hook may not be so real.
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Brooklyn Courier: The Muscular Dystrophy Association is seeking volunteers to answer phones and help out behind the scenes at this year’s Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, airing on MY-9 WWOR-TV August 31 and September 1.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn parents are forming a citywide coalition to examine mayoral control.
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Brooklyn Courier: FIDO in Prospect Park invites pet owners and pet lovers to the 10th anniversary of off-leash in Prospect Park from 7-9 a.m., August 2 in the Long Meadow below the Picnic House.
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By Greg Hanlon
Brooklyn Courier: Shockingly, the summer is half over. But for Windsor Terrace youngsters ages 4-6, it’s not too late to take advantage of two free programs designed to foster appreciation of their neighborhood and natural environment.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Courier: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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By Greg Hanlon
Brooklyn Courier: The intersection of McDonald Avenue and Windsor Place is an accident waiting to happen, according to neighborhood residents who are pressing the Department of Transportation (DOT) to install a traffic light.
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Brooklyn Courier: The Old First Reformed Church presents “Free Summer Concerts” every Wednesday in July at 8 p.m.
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Brooklyn Courier: New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. joined the NAACP Brooklyn Branch, elected officials, clergies, advocates, and homeowners recently as they gathered on the steps of City Hall to highlight
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn College is nurturing some of the brightest minds in the borough.
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Williamsburg: Fire!, a new play festival, opens August 6 at 7 p.m. at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene.
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By Helen Klein
Williamsburg: A pirate with more than a passing resemblance to Captain Jack Sparrow opened the treasure chest.
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Williamsburg: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz continues his 30th Annual Seaside Summer Concert Series at Asser Levy/Seaside Park and the 26th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series at Wingate Field, with some of the biggest names in music coming to Brooklyn to celebrate an incredible three decades of free music.
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Williamsburg: Burkina Electric, the first electronica dance band from the West African country of Burkina Faso, brings traditional Burkinabe music and Western club electronica dance to Brooklyn.
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Williamsburg: The annual summer concerts series, in parks throughout from Bay Ridge to Marine Park, continues with the performances sponsored by State Senator Martin J. Golden, the Bay Ridge-Bensonhurst Parks Task Force and CERT1NYC.
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Williamsburg: The acclaimed singer, songwriter and American roots rocker Will Hoge will continue to trek across North America this summer after returning from his first-ever tour of the UK.
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By David Chiu
Williamsburg: For over the last ten years, you may have come across the work of illustrator and portrait artist Michael Deas.
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Williamsburg: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is offering a number of special events and activities this summer. Just a few include.
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Williamsburg: The Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars returns to Brooklyn this week, with performances now to August 3 at Aviator Sports and Recreation.
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Williamsburg: The Center for the Urban Environment (CUE), now at its new location at 168 Seventh Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, continues its current season with a host of walks throughout the borough and beyond.
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Williamsburg: The New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) presents a special advance screening of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an exciting new addition to the Star Wars universe and the first animated feature film from Lucasfilm.
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By Stephen Witt
Williamsburg: Sheepshead Bay residents and visitors may not know Kenny Schaffer personally, but they certainly know and appreciate his work.
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Williamsburg: The audience at Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Prospect Park Bandshell (corner of Prospect Park West and Ninth Street) is turned over to the kids, August 2 at 4 p.m., when The Sippy Cups return with a musically fresh, theatrically ambitious whirlwind of a show for kids and families.
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Williamsburg: Long Island University’s Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, located at the University’s Brooklyn campus, invites you to “Building Community for Change, Are We Democracy?”, August 2 at 2 and 4 p.m.
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By Meredith Deliso
Williamsburg: The internationally renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings its contemporary works to Brooklyn with a performance from its troupe, Ailey II, this month in Prospect Park.
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Williamsburg: Before the summer months slip away, families in search of artistic and recreational refreshment can take advantage of Bank of America’s “Museum on Us” program, August 2-3. The program provides an opportunity to visit more than 70 leading cultural institutions across the United States, including museums, historical sites and science centers, on the first weekend of each month for free.
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Williamsburg: Brooklyn College is hosting “Stitch by Stitch: Works in Fabric,” a colorful art exhibition of 25 quilts crafted by members of the Quilters Guild of Brooklyn, on display at the Brooklyn College Library at 2900 Bedford Avenue, through August 22.
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Williamsburg: The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition presents “Relative Environment,” the 26th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show, now to September from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Flatbush: Police are looking for a knife-wielding fiend responsible for a sex attack in East Flatbush.
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Williamsburg: Communicable Arts presents William Shakespeares “Much Ado About Nothing,” the bard’s tale of love gone wrong until it goes right.
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Williamsburg: The Brooklyn Museum offers family programs in August. The Target First Saturdays August event is Caribbean Carnival-Wave Your Flags!
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Brooklyn Courier: The Ursula C. Schwerin Library exhibit at New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary) in Downtown Brooklyn celebrates the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883. The exhibit features a detailed scale model of the bridge, multimedia displays on its history, and facsimiles of photographs from the collection of Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger. The exhibit is free and open to the public Mondays through Fridays through the end of August when the college is in session.
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Brooklyn Courier: Come watch the animals at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo get into the ‘swing’ of things.
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Explore the history of Manhattan’s Lower East Side between 1820 and today with historian Thorin Tritter as he traces wave after wave of immigrants who settled there, explaining why they came to this particular part of New York, the lives they made for themselves, and what remains of their communities today.
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Here’s a listing of what’s on tap at Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s favorite greenspace, this month.
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By Stephen Witt
An insurgent candidate for the 46th Assembly District’s female leader slot is finding out just how hard it is to buck the Democratic machine in southern Brooklyn.
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Army Master Sgt. Isaac Alexis, a Houston native, has the fast-flowing lips of a rap artist whose lyrics don’t stumble. His songs tell stories instead of just describing hanging emotions and he rhymes with passion and recites his own words as if he were creating them on the spot.
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Deployments usually separate families, but for two brothers from Arkansas, deployment to Iraq actually brought them closer.
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The 146th Airlift Wing at the station in Port Hueneme isn’t equipped to drop fire retardant, but the California Air National Guard unit has found another mission that will keep them involved in the effort to battle wildfires.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn public schools are thousands of dollars richer.
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By Stephen Witt
Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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No it’s not the title of a Sci-Fi movie, it’s the real deal - Giant Squids land at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
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By Stephen Witt
“Mayor Marty” continues to have a nice ring to it with city voters, according to the latest poll related to the 2009 mayoral race.
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By Michèle De Meglio
All the hype about MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Red Hook may not be so real.
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Staff members, family, and friends gathered together to recognize the accomplishments of this year’s eight graduates of New York Methodist Hospital’s School of Medical Technology. The graduates earned this well-deserved praise by completing a rigorous fulltime program that encompasses both the theory and practice of medical technology.
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By Gary Buiso
The city recently rejected plans for the contentious conversion of a Bay Ridge church into condominiums and a scaled-down house of worship.
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Waste Management, North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management services, launched ThinkGreenFromHome.com (www.thinkgreenfromhome.com), a streamlined online service for the recycling of universal household waste including compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), batteries, and eventually other household electronics.
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By Gary Buiso
Food stamp use at city Greenmarkets has skyrocketed, an encouraging development that could help bridge the nutrition gap, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said last week.
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The Brooklyn College Student Center has partnered with the New York Presbyterian Community Health Plan to hold a Family Wellness Day for the Flatbush community, August 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Center building, Campus Road and East 27th Street.
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“The difference between the noncommissioned officers of the People’s Liberation Army and those of the U.S. military is the difference between technicians and leaders,” said Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. James A. Roy, senior enlisted leader of U.S. Pacific Command upon returning from a recent trip to China.
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Jeffrey Dahl, 9, of New Jersey and Margaret Rollins, 13, of Virginia, both military children, teed up with golf pro Fred Couples to hit the ceremonial “shot from around the world” concluding the opening ceremonies and officially start the week’s tournament-related events at the AT & T National at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda Md.
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Then — Patton’s tanks rolled across North African desert sands and letters of encouragement, love and support from family back home connected 1st Armored Division soldiers to loved ones left behind.
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Snip, Snip Hooray! Pictured from left, Air Force Col. Anthony Rizzo, National Center for Medical Intelligence director; Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, Defense Intelligence Agency director; James R. Clapper, undersecretary of defense for intelligence; and Charles E. Allen, undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, Department of Homeland Security.
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This fall, Brooklyn Women’s Services will begin an ongoing Parenting Support Group for Mothers, which will offer support and teach skills needed to parent effectively while looking at how our own experience as children impacts our parenting styles.
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By Joe Filippazzo
You wouldn’t think anything was wrong with little Jewel Sulker when you first meet her, but her mother and a state senator have been desperately scrambling to save her life.
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By Gary Buiso
Food stamp use at city Greenmarkets has skyrocketed, an encouraging development that could help bridge the nutrition gap, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said last week.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Bay News: You wouldn’t think anything was wrong with little Jewel Sulker when you first meet her, but her mother and a state senator have been desperately scrambling to save her life.
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BIG SCREECHER
By Carmine Santa Maria
Bay News: The worse part of this column is that everything in it is true. I’m sure that all of you have credit cards, and will agree with me that the worst ones to deal with are the ones from of our biggest banks. Chase, NA and Bank of America I find are the most ruthless to their customers. Forget the illegal usurers. They are nothing compared to the unbelievable legal antics of these giant banks — the very same banks spending fortunes on advertising to get you to open an account.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: The borough’s hometown brewery squeaked and now it appears the city is applying some grease.
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Bay News: Here’s a listing of what’s on tap at Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s favorite greenspace, this month.
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By Gary Buiso
Bay News: A documentary starring Brooklyn tunnel maven Bob Diamond is already attracting robust attention from top cable channels, the film’s co-producer told this paper this week.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: Reflecting a troubled economy, the sales of residential properties borough-wide dropped nearly 44 percent this quarter compared to the prior year’s quarter, according to a recently released study.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: City Council member Bill de Blasio may yet wind up succeeding term-limited Marty Markowitz as borough president, but the race won’t be a Sunday walk in Prospect Park.
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By Gary Buiso
Bay News: Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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Bay News: Bring a blanket, pack a picnic dinner, and have some fun during the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum’s free Thursday evening events, now to August 28 from 5-7 p.m. There will be lots of hot colonial cooking and games, so relax while gardening and re-discover the oldest structure in New York City.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Bay News: All the hype about MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Red Hook may not be so real.
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Bay News: City conservators undertook the tall task of preserving a pair of heralded sculptures at Cadman Plaza Park with painstaking detail as part of a restoration program to reclaim the handsome limestone statues from the ravages of time.
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By Joe Maniscalco
One of the keys to turning Coney Island into a world-class amusement park, according to Coney Island USA’s Dick Zigun, is keeping automobiles out.
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By Gary Buiso
It pays to live in Park Slope.
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Waste Management, North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management services, launched ThinkGreenFromHome.com (www.thinkgreenfromhome.com), a streamlined online service for the recycling of universal household waste including compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), batteries, and eventually other household electronics.
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By Thomas Tracy
Dozens of new — but experienced – officers are flooding the streets of Brooklyn South.
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By Gary Buiso
Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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By Thomas Tracy
It wasn’t a trip back to the borough that Roberta Cambria was looking forward to.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Bay News: Brooklyn College is nurturing some of the brightest minds in the borough.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Bay News: Brooklyn public schools are thousands of dollars richer.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: City employees called to serve in Afghanistan or Iraq will now receive a little more financial security thanks to a recently signed state law.
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In the story “Martial arts masters” in the July 17 edition of “The Bay Ridge Courier,” the address for Hoteikan Dojo was listed incorrectly. The correct address is 7017 Fort Hamilton Parkway. We regret the error.
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By Joe Filippazzo
You wouldn’t think anything was wrong with little Jewel Sulker when you first meet her, but her mother and a state senator have been desperately scrambling to save her life.
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Bay News: Sheepshead Bay firefighters were dispatched to Bragg Street near Avenue V recently after a red SUV got really red, and smoky. Witnesses said that the car was rolling down the street Monday when a small blaze – possibly sparked by an electrical short – erupted behind the dashboard. Alerted by the smoke, the driver pulled the car over. Both he and his passenger pulled the car over as they called for FDNY support. No injuries were reported.
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By Tom Tracy
Bay News: Thanks to a carefully placed surveillance camera, cops have perfect pictures of three fresh-faced hooligans wanted for breaking into a Sheepshead Bay law firm last week.
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Bay News: Hiroshima Day, August 6, observed in many parts of the world with special vigils and peace marches, is held to commemorate the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
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By Gary Buiso
Bay News: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Bay News: You wouldn’t think anything was wrong with little Jewel Sulker when you first meet her, but her mother and a state senator have been desperately scrambling to save her life.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Bay News: The bus stop at Ocean Avenue and Oriental Boulevard in Manhattan Beach has been gone for almost three years now, but questions are lingering this week about who exactly requested the removal.
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Bay News: City conservators undertook the tall task of preserving a pair of heralded sculptures at Cadman Plaza Park with painstaking detail as part of a restoration program to reclaim the handsome limestone statues from the ravages of time.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: An insurgent candidate for the 46th Assembly District’s female leader slot is finding out just how hard it is to buck the Democratic machine in southern Brooklyn.
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Bay News: Heart of Brooklyn (HOB), a partnership of six leading cultural institutions in central Brooklyn, welcomes Carol Enseki as its newest board president. Enseki is a founding Heart of Brooklyn board member, and the long-standing president of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue at St. Mark’s Avenue.
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Bay News: This fall, Brooklyn Women’s Services will begin an ongoing Parenting Support Group for Mothers, which will offer support and teach skills needed to parent effectively while looking at how our own experience as children impacts our parenting styles.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Bay News: Parents have a chance to determine the future of their children’s schools.
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Bay News: Intermediate School 285-Meyer Levin’s Dream Team will hold a car wash/fundraising event in support of Meyer Levin’s “Educational Tour,” the school’s study abroad program.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Bay News: A simple case of bullying.
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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By Tom Tracy
Bay News: Members of the 61st Precinct Community Council embraced the summer season last week with a special barbecue at the Bainbridge Center.
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By Tom Tracy
Bay News: The National Night Out Against Crime celebration in Coney Island is guaranteed to be the freakiest one on record.
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Bay News: A pampered pachyderm has a ton of fun getting the bath-time brush-off from a devoted handler as the gentle Goliath is primped for his close-up at the Cole Bros. Circus at Aviator Sports and Recreation, through August 3. For information, visit www.gotothecircus.com, or call 1 (800) 796-5672 (weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: The borough’s hometown brewery squeaked and now it appears the city is applying some grease.
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Bay News: FIDO in Prospect Park invites pet owners and pet lovers to the 10th anniversary of off-leash in Prospect Park from 7-9 a.m., August 2 in the Long Meadow below the Picnic House.
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Bay News: Eugene R. McCormick has been selected as the new president and CEO of The Cabrini Mission Foundation (CMF).
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By Stephen Witt
Bay News: Reflecting a troubled economy, the sales of residential properties borough-wide dropped nearly 44 percent this quarter compared to the prior year’s quarter, according to a recently released study.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Bay News: Now the kids are getting into the act.
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Bay News: Community Education Council 20 will hold a public hearing open to anyone interested in learning about the proposed charter school application for Brooklyn Dreams Charter School, August 6 from 7-9 p.m. at 415 89th Street, Fourth Floor Conference Room.
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By Stephen Witt
Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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By Stephen Witt
The borough’s hometown brewery squeaked and now it appears the city is applying some grease.
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By Stephen Witt
Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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Medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences are getting a healthy dose of the challenges in providing battlefield medicine during two concurrent field exercises under way in Fort Indiantown GAP, Pa.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn public schools are thousands of dollars richer.
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Community Education Council 20 will hold a public hearing open to anyone interested in learning about the proposed charter school application for Brooklyn Dreams Charter School, August 6 from 7-9 p.m. at 415 89th Street, Fourth Floor Conference Room.
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By Gary Buiso
The city’s method for billing private hospitals for water use is headed for the ER unless steps are taken to resuscitate it soon, an audit released this week concluded.
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By Gary Buiso
Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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By Helen Klein
His spacious offices at 350 Jay Street notwithstanding, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has spread his net wide, opening an increasing number of satellite offices in various corners of the borough.
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Baseball fans are welcomed to the Isle of Coney (that’s Coney Island) in the Kingdom of the Brooklyn Cyclones for Medieval Times Night, August 4 at 7 p.m.
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By Thomas Tracy
Good neighbors share, even the big corporate ones.
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By Tom Tracy
Crime: Three shot in Sheepshead Bay
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Bay News: Coney Island residents — now’s your chance to make your voices heard.
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Bay News: New York Methodist Hospital offers a free support group for mothers and their newborns (from birth to three months old), the Breast Feeding Support Group. A certified lactation consultant leads the group.
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Bay News: After receiving several complaints from South Canarsie residents concerning the condition of the median along Seaview Avenue, Assemblyman Alan Maisel contacted Brooklyn Parks officials to ask for a cleanup.
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By Gary Buiso
Bay News: Eat your heart out, Eric Ripert.
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By Michèle De Meglio and Thomas Tracy
Bay News: Last weekend’s tragic drowning in Coney Island has raised concerns about the number of lifeguards supervising local beaches.
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Bay News: The Brooklyn College Student Center has partnered with the New York Presbyterian Community Health Plan to hold a Family Wellness Day for the Flatbush community, August 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Center building, Campus Road and East 27th Street.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Bay News: Clarity and unity might be two things in short supply in Coney Island this week as yet anther grassroots organization has emerged to take on the city’s redevelopment plans.
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Bay News: As part of its 150th celebration, LICH is profiling some of the individuals who make the hospital a great community resource.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Bay News: All the hype about MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Red Hook may not be so real.
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Bay News: -New York City College of Technology (City Tech) hospitality management student Theresa Gwizdaloski, left, was awarded the 2008 Les Dames d’Escoffier/International Culinary Center’s “Make
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Bay News: Baseball fans are welcomed to the Isle of Coney (that’s Coney Island) in the Kingdom of the Brooklyn Cyclones for Medieval Times Night, August 4 at 7 p.m.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: Brooklyn parents are forming a citywide coalition to examine mayoral control.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Courier: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Canarsie: All the hype about MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Red Hook may not be so real.
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Canarsie: Just call it Aviator Sports & Recreation-shire!
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By Thomas Tracy
Brooklyn Courier: State Senate hopeful Daniel Squadron is smiling all the way to the bank.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Brooklyn Courier: How does sautéed tilapia with a side of grilled zucchini served on a bed of fresh Bibb lettuce and arugula sound? Imagine then that it was all grown organically and purchased locally right here in Brooklyn. Sounds tasty, right? So tasty, you wouldn’t even know the secret ingredient is fish poop.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Courier: Fruits, vegetables—and food stamps—should be part of a nutritionally balanced is urging.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Courier: The New York City public school system could undergo a drastic makeover next year — and now’s the time for parents to play a part in the redesign process.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Courier: Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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Canarsie: This year, all of Bishop Kearney’s Latin students participated in the National Latin Exam in the spring, and 40 students received awards for their outstanding performance. Freshman Deirdre Hynes achieved a perfect score. Seven students received gold summa cum laude certificates and medals; nine received silver maxima cum laude certificates; 10 received magna cum laude certificates and 14 received cum laude certificates. Kearney’s Latin Scholars are pictured with Sister Thomasine Stagnitta CSJ, principal, language department chairperson Christine Wisniewski and Latin teacher William Biondolino.
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Canarsie: Waste Management, North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management services, launched ThinkGreenFromHome.com (www.thinkgreenfromhome.com), a streamlined online service for the recycling of universal household waste including compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), batteries, and eventually other household electronics.
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By Thomas Tracy
Canarsie: Two people were injured Saturday when a shooting at a party led to a mass panic that ended with cops reportedly firing upon escaping suspects, officials said.
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By Gary Buiso
Canarsie: Eat your heart out, Eric Ripert.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Canarsie: Brooklyn College is nurturing some of the brightest minds in the borough.
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Canarsie: This fall, Brooklyn Women’s Services will begin an ongoing Parenting Support Group for Mothers, which will offer support and teach skills needed to parent effectively while looking at how our own experience as children impacts our parenting styles.
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Canarsie: The Ursula C. Schwerin Library exhibit at New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary) in Downtown Brooklyn celebrates the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883. The exhibit features a detailed scale model of the bridge, multimedia displays on its history, and facsimiles of photographs from the collection of Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger. The exhibit is free and open to the public Mondays through Fridays through the end of August when the college is in session.
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Canarsie: The summer may be coming to an end but the excitement has only just begun at Brooklyn Public Library. There are tons of activities, programs and events that the whole family can enjoy. All programs are free and open to the public.
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Canarsie: A Brooklyn woman, who lost her job and apartment days before meeting her death in the waiting room of Kings County Hospital, was mourned by a crowd of angry protestors, who assembled outside the medical facility for a vigil in memory of Esmin Elizabeth Green.
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Canarsie: Democratic Council Member Simcha Felder was honored by Larry Jayson, executive director of Brooklyn Housing and Family Services — the largest local tenants association in the State of New York, protecting the rights of tenants and assisting tenants in accessing services — during their annual dinner.
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Canarsie: The Brooklyn College Student Center has partnered with the New York Presbyterian Community Health Plan to hold a Family Wellness Day for the Flatbush community, August 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Center building, Campus Road and East 27th Street.
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Brooklyn Courier: A New York City Councilman, who was gunned down in a peculiar instance of skewed political rivalry inside City Hall, was recalled for his charisma and anti-violence measures at a prayer vigil in Fort Greene on the fifth anniversary of his assassination.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: City Councilmember Lew Fidler has proven to be a productive lawmaker and an even better son.
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Flatbush: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Transportation Alternatives to unveil Brooklyn Borough Hall’s new environmentally-friendly bicycle program.
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By Stephen Witt
Flatbush: The upcoming 21st Senate District Democratic primary on September 9 is turning ugly.
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—Michèle De Meglio
Flatbush: Parents: you can tell the city Department of Education (DOE) how to spend $63 million.
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By Thomas Tracy
Flatbush: Cops from the 67th Precinct have started a new dance with East Flatbush club owners.
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By Stephen Witt
Flatbush: City Council member Bill de Blasio may yet wind up succeeding term-limited Marty Markowitz as borough president, but the race won’t be a Sunday walk in Prospect Park.
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Flatbush: At a touching and solemn ceremony, class valedictorian and summa cum laude Sarah Roth, 30, led the largest class to graduate from the Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing. The Borough Park resident and mother of three young children, completed an intense two-year Associate’s degree program at the top of her class and was the recipient of The Seymour J. Phillips Award for Highest Scholastic Achievement.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Flatbush: There are vacancies on several Community Education Councils (CEC) but parents seem unwilling to fill the spots.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Flatbush: All the hype about MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Red Hook may not be so real.
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By Thomas Tracy
Flatbush: It doesn’t appear that this year’s big political shake-up in Albany is going to trickle down to its representatives in Kings County.
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Flatbush: Those walking past the corner of Flatbush and Church avenues found themselves gazing up in the sky this weekend as they feasted their eyes on the area’s newest resident – an NYPD “SkyWatch” tower.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Flatbush: Brooklyn public schools are thousands of dollars richer.
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By Stephen Witt
Flatbush: Reflecting a troubled economy, the sales of residential properties borough-wide dropped nearly 44 percent this quarter compared to the prior year’s quarter, according to a recently released study.
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Flatbush: This July, Debbie Zlotowitz, head of the Mary McDowell Center for Learning, will travel to South Korea as a participant in the Korean Studies Workshop for American Educators.
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By Joe Maniscalco
Brooklyn Courier: Developers in Carroll Gardens are faced with a new reality this week.
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By Greg Hanlon
Brooklyn Courier: Anybody who walks through the doors of Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch from now until the end of August is in for an unexpected treat.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Courier: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Flatbush: How does sautéed tilapia with a side of grilled zucchini served on a bed of fresh Bibb lettuce and arugula sound? Imagine then that it was all grown organically and purchased locally right here in Brooklyn. Sounds tasty, right? So tasty, you wouldn’t even know the secret ingredient is fish poop.
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By Thomas Tracy
Flatbush: If they want to see more of the green that comes from happy, secure customers, Avenue D merchants feel they should see more NYPD blue first.
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By Stephen Witt
Flatbush: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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Flatbush: The spirit of summer had neighbors jumping with joy as they bonded over block party festivities along Beverly Road.
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By Stephen Witt
Flatbush: The borough’s hometown brewery squeaked and now it appears the city is applying some grease.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Canarsie: School is out of session but parents are still advocating for their children’s schools.
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Canarsie: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (BCBC) was selected as Brooklyn’s Best Place for Family Bonding as part of Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect’s First Annual Parents’ Picks Awards.
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By Greg Hanlon
Brooklyn Heights: The intersection of McDonald Avenue and Windsor Place is an accident waiting to happen, according to neighborhood residents who are pressing the Department of Transportation (DOT) to install a traffic light.
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By Joe Filippazzo
Brooklyn Heights: How does sautéed tilapia with a side of grilled zucchini served on a bed of fresh Bibb lettuce and arugula sound? Imagine then that it was all grown organically and purchased locally right here in Brooklyn. Sounds tasty, right? So tasty, you wouldn’t even know the secret ingredient is fish poop.
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By Thomas Tracy
Brooklyn Heights: State Senate hopeful Daniel Squadron is smiling all the way to the bank.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Heights: Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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By Greg Hanlon
Brooklyn Heights: Anybody who walks through the doors of Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch from now until the end of August is in for an unexpected treat.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Heights: City Councilmember Lew Fidler has proven to be a productive lawmaker and an even better son.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Heights: Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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Brooklyn Heights: New York City College of Technology (City Tech) hospitality management student Theresa Gwizdaloski, left, was awarded the 2008 Les Dames d’Escoffier/International Culinary Center’s “Make a Difference Scholarship” valued at $40,000.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Heights: The New York City public school system could undergo a drastic makeover next year — and now’s the time for parents to play a part in the redesign process.
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By Stephen Witt
Brooklyn Heights: Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to borough hall documents.
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By Tom Tracy
Brooklyn Heights: A 24-year-old woman was robbed and then sexually abused near the corner of Schermerhorn and Bond street this weekend, police said.
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Brooklyn Heights: Brooklyn Children’s Museum On-The-Go takes a walk on the wild side in August.
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Bay News: Bay Ridge bopped as block party fever seized homeowners along 81st Street.
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By Thomas Tracy
Bay News: It doesn’t appear that this year’s big political shake-up in Albany is going to trickle down to its representatives in Kings County.
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By Gary Buiso
Bay News: A home for women with “personal troubles” will open inside a vacant convent across the street from a Gravesend church, this paper has learned.
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By Thomas Tracy
Residents from across the borough are about to mark the longest-running war in the nation’s history.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Bay News: Parents: you can tell the city Department of Education (DOE) how to spend $63 million.
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Bay News: The spirit of summer had neighbors jumping with joy as they bonded over block party festivities in Bay Ridge.
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By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Heights: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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By Carmine Santa Maria
Bay News: My sister Jennie pressured me to visit the Health Fare at Saints Joachim and Anne in Coney Island; and I’m glad she did. As health fairs go, it wasn’t the largest that I’ve been to, but by far it was the friendliest. It was a wonderful experience and it introduced me to the Saints Joachim and Anne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center located between the Boardwalk and Surf Avenue. With such a glorious view of the beach and ocean, I was sort of hesitant going indoors on this beautiful sunny afternoon on June 6th. The Health Fair was from 11 AM to 2 PM held in the lobby of this facility, which is an affiliate of Catholic Charities.
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Bay News: This year, all of Bishop Kearney’s Latin students participated in the National Latin Exam in the spring, and 40 students received awards for their outstanding performance. Freshman Deirdre Hynes achieved a perfect score. Seven students received gold summa cum laude certificates and medals; nine received silver maxima cum laude certificates; 10 received magna cum laude certificates and 14 received cum laude certificates. Kearney’s Latin Scholars are pictured with Sister Thomasine Stagnitta CSJ, principal, language department chairperson Christine Wisniewski and Latin teacher William Biondolino.
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By Michèle De Meglio
Brooklyn Heights: Brooklyn parents are forming a citywide coalition to examine mayoral control.
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Canarsie: Captain Doctor Ugo d’Atri, president of The Istituto Nazionale per La Guardia D’Onore all Reale Tambe del Pantheon (The National Institute for the Royal Guards at the Royal Tombs of the Pantheon) in Rome, Italy has announced the appointment of Gravesend, Brooklyn resident Comm. Prof. Eric J. Ierardi a resident of Brooklyn, New York and Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, PA as the United States Delegate for the Royal Guards.
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Canarsie: Genesis Lodge #64 of the Knights of Pythias, an international, non-sectarian fraternal order, has elected new officers and Eric Platt of Gravesend has been elected Chancellor Commander of the local lodge.
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Canarsie: Controversial soul reggae group Judah Tribe invades the Brooklyn Museum for Target 1st Saturdays, August 2. Judah Tribe is already stimulating a debate over its soon to be released single, “Judgment.” Written in tribute to Sean Bell, killed by NYPD officers, “Judgment” features guitarist and father-in-law of Sean Bell, Les Paultre. The show will take place as part of the Reggae Retro/Revival Reggae Sundays outdoor dance party featuring Judah Tribe, DJs Silence, Jase and Styff.
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Canarsie: Intermediate School 285-Meyer Levin’s Dream Team will hold a car wash/fundraising event in support of Meyer Levin’s “Educational Tour,” the school’s study abroad program.
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Canarsie: Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes honored 80 graduates of his Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison (DTAP) program in the ceremonial courtroom of Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn. Denise E. O’Donnell, commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services, gave the keynote address. This year’s Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award was presented to Alfred A. Isaacs.
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By Gary Buiso
Canarsie: It pays to live in Park Slope.
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Canarsie: New York Methodist Hospital offers a free support group for mothers and their newborns (from birth to three months old), the Breast Feeding Support Group. A certified lactation consultant leads the group.
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Canarsie: New Utrecht High School’s Class of 1958 will be celebrating its 50th anniversary reunion this year with a buffet dinner and open bar at Sirico’s Caterers, 8015 13th Avenue, October 19 from 12-5 p.m.
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Canarsie: Iffath Hoskins, MD, Lutheran Medical Center’s chair of OBGYN, was elected to serve as vice president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). ACOG, a national medical organization representing more than 52,000 members who provide health care for women, announced the selection at their 56th Annual Clinical Meeting in New Orleans.
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Canarsie: The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust has awarded a $50,000 two-year grant to Dancewave. The fund provides support for talented, economically disadvantaged young people who are seriously dedicated to a career in the arts. The grant will provide full fellowships for five of Dancewave’s Kids Company and Kids Company II members over the next two years.
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Canarsie: For the past several months, the Board of Trustees and senior staff from Continuum and Long Island College Hospital have been discussing approaches and options to secure a bright and prosperous future for LICH. The issues that must be addressed are complex, and the ultimate plan of action will require particular expertise and experience.
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Canarsie: In celebration of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s (AAADT’s) 50th anniversary and its mission of making dance accessible to everyone, Ailey will present a special series of free performances and dance classes in Brooklyn, August 7.
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By Gary Buiso
Canarsie: Food stamp use at city Greenmarkets has skyrocketed, an encouraging development that could help bridge the nutrition gap, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said last week.
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Canarsie: Baseball fans are welcomed to the Isle of Coney (that’s Coney Island) in the Kingdom of the Brooklyn Cyclones for Medieval Times Night, August 4 at 7 p.m.
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Canarsie: During a ceremony at the Pacificana Restaurant, 813 55th Street, Assemblyman Bill Colton, together with Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and state Senator Martin Golden, congratulated neighborhood groups for raising
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Canarsie: SUNY Downstate’s HIV Center for Women and Children has received a grant for $160,000 from the American International Health Alliance to establish a “twinning partnership” with the Centre for Health Systems Research & Development at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The grant is supported by the US Department of Health and Human Services as part of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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By Stephen Witt
Canarsie: The borough’s hometown brewery squeaked and now it appears the city is applying some grease.
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Canarsie: Community Education Council 20 will hold a public hearing open to anyone interested in learning about the proposed charter school application for Brooklyn Dreams Charter School, August 6 from 7-9 p.m. at 415 89th Street, Fourth Floor Conference Room.
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By Stephen Witt
Canarsie: Shirley Fineman, executive director for the Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Organizations, doesn’t need to look far to know that Brooklyn residents’ bottom line is getting thinner.
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Canarsie: Mom, dad and the kids bonded with neighbors over simple pleasures as Flatbush sizzled with block party fever.
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By Gary Buiso
Canarsie: The city’s method for billing private hospitals for water use is headed for the ER unless steps are taken to resuscitate it soon, an audit released this week concluded.
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Canarsie: FIDO in Prospect Park invites pet owners and pet lovers to the 10th anniversary of off-leash in Prospect Park from 7-9 a.m., August 2 in the Long Meadow below the Picnic House.
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By Gary Buiso
Flatbush: Lack of city oversight has rendered some senior centers not only shamefully filthy, but also dangerous, an audit revealed last week.
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