By Thomas Tracy
In the next few years, camping at Floyd Bennett Field may be brought to you by Bass Pro Shops and L.L. Bean.
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By Meredith Deliso
Theater: This year’s Game Play Festival, which features theatrical works that draw inspiration from the world of video gaming, offers as many different types of shows as there are consoles.
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Music: This band still has it after more than 30 years on the Chicano rock scene.
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Theater: It’s called “La Calista,” and it’s pretty hot.
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What freedom means to me
The Brooklyn Paper file / Tom Callan
What freedom means to me
Perspective: Look, we don’t need any excuses to be patriotic — but the July 4 holiday gave us a grand old reason to explore what we love about freedom. Click below for opinion pieces on the subject:
By Alex Rush
The Coast Guard is permanently barring boats from passing through a bomb-littered portion of Gravesend Bay, but the decision makes it less likely that the agency will remove the 1,500 unexploded anti-aircraft shells that experts say could explode.
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By Bill Roundy
Bar Scrawl: A rave for a Smith Street local from our Bar Scrawl columnist.
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By Meredith Deliso
Cinema: Yes, it’s a movie about that other island, but what else do you expect from Woody Allen (the Spike Lee of Manhattan)?
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Books: See what the ladies behind WORD, Greenlight and BookMark Shoppe are recommending.
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By Dan MacLeod
Weekend Watch: The 4 train takes a holiday and the N train creates a few headaches this holiday weekend. Read on for all the news that affects your plans. (Saturday, July 2 at 12:01 am to Monday, July 4 at 5 am unless otherwise noted).
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By Dan MacLeod
Capt. Richard DiBlasio is taking over command of Bay Ridge’s precinct after its former commanding officer left to handle the Flatbush beat.
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By Meredith Deliso
Don’t stay home without our July 4 roundup.
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By Dan MacLeod
Carroll Gardens: Residents of Carroll Gardens were incensed by District Attorney Charles Hynes’s decision last week to drop charges against two mob-tied rivals who settled a beef the old-fashioned way — with a brazen and bloody daylight knife fight in front of a public school.
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Now that gays can get married, the only color of the pride rainbow is green.
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Williamsburg: The East River service is popular in its first week of paid rides.
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Music: That quirky Ditmas Park-obsessed New Wave band is back at the Knitting Factory on July 6.
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By Alex Rush
Event: Williamsburg’s favorite feast is back, with the first “dance” on July 10.
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By Aaron Short
Cinema: Nitehawk Cinema opens in Williamsburg. The reviews are positive.
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By Kim Lightbody
Don’t just eat that kimchee hot dog — do some real grocery shopping.
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By Alex Rush
Theater: And the 17th-century playwright’s still got it (with some new 21st-century references).
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By Natalie O’Neill
Dining: Park Slope will soon get some “suggestion box”-inspired grub.
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By Aaron Short
Williamsburg: Calgon said, “Take me away!” And then the feds did!
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By Dan MacLeod
Cyclones: A pitcher’s duel keeps the Cyclones in first place.
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Matthew Weinstein
Fort Greene: A controversial Arabic-language middle school that is failing to draw students will be transformed into a high school next year — a decision that critics say destroys the purpose of a school.
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By Meredith Deliso
Event: Laura Silver leads the most important two-session food course since Julia Child taught us how to cook coq au vin.
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By The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: A king obsessed with Vishnu, of course.
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By Kate Briquelet
Atlantic Yards: Neighbors of the Atlantic Yards project say that freakish, cat-sized rats coming from the construction site are invading their homes, gnawing on their cars, eating through garbage cans, and climbing up their legs.
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Bloomy in the ’Hood: Just call Hizzoner “The Piano Man.”
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: An error in the final frame sinks the Cyclones after clawing back.
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By Alex Rush
A bill to allow livery cabs to pick up street hails is just a signature from Gov. Cuomo away.
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The kabuki dance ends with all eight firehouses saved.
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By Aaron Short
Greenpoint: At the mid–way point of the season, Brooklyn’s kickball powerhouses are hitting their stride.
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By Meredith Deliso
Williamsburg: It’s just the latest in a line of nightlife crackdowns in the hip neighborhood.
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By Joseph Staszewski
High School Sports: Eddie Owens has accomplished plenty of significant marks this year and throughout his career. But this weekend the Packer Collegiate star can claim a special and elusive honor.
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By Zach Braziller
High School Sports: Standing on the New York City sidelines in plain clothes for the 16th annual Empire Challenge, Jaiquawn Jarrett was more than just a friendly face. The former Fort Hamilton star, four-year Temple standout and Philadelphia Eagles soon-to-be rookie safety was a symbol of a world of possibilities, of what can happen when talent, fortune and relentless work ethic is mixed together.
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By Zach Braziller and Dylan Butler
High School Sports: Brooklyn is known as the basketball borough and for good reason with the PSAL boys champion calling BK home for the past six years.
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By Meredith Deliso
Suit up — the public pools are open.
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By Meredith Deliso
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies with a View outdoor film series returns next week — with a movie called “Manhattan.”
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By Meredith Deliso
Once upon a time, Los Lobos was just another band from East L.A.
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By Meredith Deliso
The knish is ready for its comeback.
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By Alex Rush
The more things change, the more the Feast of the Giglio stays the same.
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The BookMark Shoppe’s pick: “Fragile”
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By Joanna DelBuono
Perspective: The truth is the truth, no matter how you slice it. Last week, Ryan Dunn of Jackass fame, died in a fiery crash. The accident was attributed to Dunn’s intoxicated state (his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit), while he was driving his Porsche 911 GT3 at an excessive rate of speed (reportedly in excess of 110 miles an hour).
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Perspective: Their supreme sacrifices are immortalized in our hearts, and now also on a street sign in Red Hook. Engine 202 and Ladder 101 Firefighters Joseph Gullickson, Brian Cannizzaro, Salvatore Calabro, Thomas Kennedy, Patrick Byrne, Joseph Maffeo and Terence McShane rushed to answer the call on 9-11 with an obligation to duty that only super-humans who storm burning buildings without a thought to their own safety can fully understand.
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By Alex Rush
Bay News: Four longtime Coney Island furniture stores that are loathed by People’s Playground enthusiasts for taking up prime amusement district real estate are finally packing it in.
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By Alex Rush
Bay News: Residents who fear that a new bistro on the eastern edge of Manhattan Beach will bring rowdiness and drunk driving to the quiet enclave are rallying to make sure the new business doesn’t get a liquor license — even before its owner applies for one.
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By Joanna Del Buono
Perspective: Congress has been very, very good to Anthony Weiner. His sexting fiasco may have gotten him canned from a cushy seat, but his golden parachute is positively platinum.
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Perspective: It takes just one grouchy sympathizer to carry out a terrorist act in the name of Allah — and America’s prisons are spilling at the seams with Islamo-cozy anarchists.
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By Marc Raimondi and Joseph Staszewski
High School Sports: Brooklyn represented at the Wingate Awards last week at St. Francis College. Here’s a roundup of the winners in four differnet sports.
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By Joseph Staszewski
High School Sports: Rolyce Boston wasn’t exactly sure what to pack. The Sheepshead Bay senior felt he had nothing to wear to the outdoor state track and field championships in Caledonia, N.Y., until he came across a particular shirt.
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By Joseph Staszewski
High School Sports: It was a championship-winning blast that just a few months ago wouldn’t have been possible.
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By Meredith Deliso
For a show about the dead, “The Spoon River Project” is very much alive.
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By Meredith Deliso
Calling all pretty young things and smooth criminals.
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By Alex Rush
Here’s a good reason to go back to school this summer.
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By Alex Rush
A new play inspired by scorned political spouses who take revenge on their scandal-ridden husbands is coming to Coney Island --— and no, Anthony Weiner’s wife is not a character.
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By Meredith Deliso
This is one deal we can raise a glass to.
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By Meredith Deliso
The New York Philharmonic dropped the baton on its outdoor summer concert series, and Brooklyn’s symphony is itching to pick it up.
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By Alex Rush
Fort Greene: The latest incident in the crime-addled greenspace. Plus all the other crime reports from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct.
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By Moses Jefferson
The good news? Greenpoint Assemblyman Joe Lentol is prepared to shuck the whole effort.
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To settle a lawsuit accusing his gigs of violating city noise rules, the borough president has agreed to obey the rule, which prohibits the use of amplified sound within 500 feet of a house of worship.
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Their supreme sacrifices are immortalized in our hearts, and now also on a street sign in Red Hook. Engine 202 and Ladder 101 Firefighters Joseph Gullickson, Brian Cannizzaro, Salvatore Calabro, Thomas Kennedy, Patrick Byrne, Joseph Maffeo and Terence McShane rushed to answer the call on 9-11 with an obligation to duty that only super-humans who storm burning buildings without a thought to their own safety can fully understand.
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By Thomas Tracy
Bay Ridge: The only Brooklyn state senator to vote against gay marriage thinks that the people, not the people’s elected representatives who do everything else, should vote on the issue.
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Mean Streets: Cops have written more than 121,000 moving violations so far this year — more than any other borough.
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By Joanna DelBuono
The truth is the truth, no matter how you slice it. Last week, Ryan Dunn of Jackass fame, died in a fiery crash. The accident was attributed to Dunn’s intoxicated state (his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit), while he was driving his Porsche 911 GT3 at an excessive rate of speed (reportedly in excess of 110 miles an hour).
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: Lots of timely hits and great pitching this time.
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By Joe Raiola
Prime Time: Our chef gives you the perfect recipe for the soft-shell crustaceans.
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By Alex Rush
Brooklynites flocked to the Aviator Sports Complex at Floyd Bennett Field on Sunday for the annual Summer Fun Day, which featured nearly every outdoor activity under the sun.
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Clinton Hill: Cops say they have arrested the man who climbed fences and jumped into backyards to break into Clinton Hill homes, fueling hopes that a spate of daytime burglaries is over.
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By Dan MacLeod
Verizon broke the law — and the city let it do so — when it installed 20-foot-tall Fiberglass poles in historic districts in Greenpoint and Flatbush without getting permission to do so.
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Flatbush: The owner of a vacant lot in Kensington has allowed it to become a trash pile that’s home to vermin, marsupials, and cats — and neighbors say the city won’t do anything to clean up the mess.
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By Dan MacLeod
Flatbush: Deputy Inspector Ralph Monteforte exited the 70th Precinct on Lawrence Avenue for the last time Wednesday afternoon — escorted out by bagpipers, cops, community leaders and neighbors marking the beloved top cop’s retirement.
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By Thomas Tracy
An unhinged 30-year-old Stuart Street resident perched himself at his second-floor window and opened fire on a group of rowdy teenagers hanging out in front of his home on June 18, hitting two of them.
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By Alex Rush
Bay News: Super-safe Manhattan Beach may be getting a second neighborhood patrol because two feuding civic groups can’t agree on who should be keeping an eye on ne’er-do-wells in the tony seaside neighborhood — but neighbors say such a move could make it more difficult to patrol the area.
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By Alex Rush
Bay News: The Home Depot on Cropsey Avenue has been breaking a city-issued mandate to allow access to a waterfront esplanade next to the store, according to locals and city officials who say that the gate to the esplanade on the big-box store’s property is often locked up long after dawn and well before dusk — the times it is supposed to be open to the public.
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By Scott Sager
The Dad: Our columnist realizes that he’s missing stuff that he can’t even remember missing.
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By Carmine Santa Maria
Sunday Screech: This week, Carmine goes on the offensive over the mayor’s plan to close a firehouse, then rails about a sunburn he got while attending a parade!
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By Kate Briquelet
BAM District: The renowned Manahttan troupe breaks ground on a nifty new glass house near BAM.
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Gravesend: The borough president says he doesn’t mind Joe Sitt’s plan to bring a BJ’s Wholesale Club to Gravesend Bay, as long as he can eat there.
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By Jared Foretek
Fort Greene: A Fort Greene man whose wife was run down by a Treasury Department agent while she rode her Vespa last July intends to sue the department to hold it responsible for his wife’s death.
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By Kate Briquelet
Fort Greene: The promoter of this Saturday’s Fort Greene Festival cheated a retired schoolteacher out of thousands of dollars in proceeds from last year’s festival that was supposed to be set aside in honor of her dead son, the woman claims.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Park Slope: The upstart Park Slope school steals its principal from its elite rival (oooh!).
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: Weak hitting is a problem for a second night.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: The city’s mass extermination of geese in Prospect Park last year was so effective that it will not be repeated this summer, city officials revealed on Thursday.
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By Alex Rush
Brighton community demands post-9–11 type security in wake of June 9 shooting.
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Editor’s Picks: Er, we mean where to go to have fun this weekend, that is.
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By Dan MacLeod
The city returned two public trash cans to Fourth Avenue after state Sen. Marty Golden performed an end-around on the local civic group that demanded the baskets’ removal — and one member of that group says the Republican legislator is subverting the will of the people.
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By Dan MacLeod
Greg Ahl is pushes his “no-can” agenda into Dyker Heights.
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DUMBO: Brooklyn’s hottest new carrying case is one powerful piece of apparel.
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Cyclones: Nelfi Zapata’s Sunday night homer was a major deal for the minor-leaguer.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: Weak hitting and weak fielding is a bad combination.
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By Jared Foretek
Downtown: Lou Brock was under doctor’s orders to talk about diabetes — but the legendary St. Louis Cardinals outfielder couldn’t help talking about the great American pastime.
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By Meredith Deliso
Music: The New York Philharmonic dropped the baton, so, of course, Brooklyn is going to pick it up.
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Atlantic Yards: Brooklynites have slung a lot of mud at Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yards Project over the years. On Tuesday, the project returned the favor.
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Downtown: And this photo sequence by the immortal Tom Callan shows how it went down.
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Cleaning Our Waterways: Leave it up to Brooklyn’s party animals to celebrate the centennial of the Gowanus Canal’s “flushing tunnel,” a bit of infrastructure that has been about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cyclones: Great pitching and good hitting tend to win a lot of games. It did last night.
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Event: And that includes the Double D.
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