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Dance: It’s a new home and new show!
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By Allegra Hobbs
Art: Gentrification isn’t all bad!
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Books: Brooklyn booksellers give their top picks.
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By Tom Allon
Spin Cycle: Our political prognosticator says there’s a lot to like about Hillary — and a couple things about the The Donald.
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By Dennis Lynch
Bay Ridge Nights: Music in the air, and there is something for everyone!
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Editor’s Picks: This week we’ve killer robots, awesome bands, a fabulous female performance festival, and much more. It’s all happening in Brooklyn!
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It’s Irish whiskey — from Brooklyn!
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By Shavana Abruzzo
A Britisher’s View: The sordid practice of mangling vaginas to sate sadistic men is a non-issue for feminsts on International Women’s Day, writes our columnist.
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By Dennis Lynch
Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge animal lovers released a video this week of the man the believe responsible for poisoning neighborhood cats, dogs, and birds.
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Marine Park: She planted the seed of doubt.
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Music: This band wants you to get moving — but they are staying in place!
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Standing O: Brooklyn’s biggest booster is boosting bigger and better than ever.
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By Scott Sager
The Dad: This week, the Dad eyes the White House.
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Page 1: There is a hole lotta news in this week’s paper— some of it depressing, but all of it digging deep for the truth. So ditch whatever you’re doing, submerge yourself in the borough’s best broadsheet, and keep hustlin’ Brooklyn.
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By Joseph Staszewski
Joe Knows: Can’t they all just get along?
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By Julianne Cuba
Gravesend: Finally — a community board meeting you can watch over and over again!
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By Julianne Cuba
Flatbush: Call it a lesson in preservation.
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Brooklyn Heights: And all but one member of the Borough Board joined him.
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River of Tears: Yoga rooms and rooftop pools be damned — the next must-have amenity for luxury Williamsburg apartment buildings could be subway access.
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Sunset Park: Meet Sunset Park’s other giant sinkhole!
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By Dennis Lynch
Theater: It’s a new show from a 452-year-old writer.
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By Joanna DelBuono
Not for Nuthin’: This week, Jo doesn’t just have a problem with the weak Oscar crop — she has a problem with the whole darn system.
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High School Sports: Blake Martin’s poor shooting in the league playoffs didn’t carry over into the state tournament.
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By Stepeh Zitolo
Bishop Loughlin’s girls out-played a tired Christ the King squad the last time the teams met — but a rested Royals club was a different story.
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By Julianne Cuba
Sheepshead Bay: Is it money down the drain?
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By Julianne Cuba
Flatlands: This church’s doors are always open — just not for a new bus stop.
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By Dennis Lynch
Brighton Beach: She’s got this market cornered!
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Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: Forget Brooklyn’s Backyard — Prospect Park is now Brooklyn’s Beer Garden!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Podcast: Councilman Brad Lander joined Gersh and Vince to talk about the mayor’s controversial plan to bring a trolley to the Brooklyn waterfront, a plan to construct apartments on the site of Park Slope’s beloved Fifth Avenue Key Food, and, of course, LSD.
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Councilman Brad Lander joined our pals at Brooklyn Paper Radio to talk about the mayor’s controversial plan to bring a trolley to the Brooklyn waterfront, a plan to construct apartments on the site of Park Slope’s beloved Fifth Avenue Key Food, and, of course, LSD.
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The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The little-produced Shakespeare play “Pericles” is pretty much bonkers, and this new production leans right into it.
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Health: A whopping 77 percent of old folks in Brooklyn cannot afford the healthy food they need — and the famine is creating a crisis of chronic health conditions in the borough’s wizened residents.
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High School Sports: Curtis Smith got hot in warm–ups and never cooled down.
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Bridge ‘Park’: Brooklyn Bridge Park is flush with cash and doesn’t need to build any more luxury housing to finance its waterfront green space, according to a series of new reports released on Monday.
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Park Slope: Authorities are looking for a hit-and-run driver who fatally plowed down a pedestrian in Park Slope early Sunday morning.
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Class Action: This comes just months after its tone-deaf attempt to integrate the neighborhood’s elementary school made national headlines
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By Allegra Hobbs
Meadows of Shame: Forget Little League — the most competitive kids’ sport in Williamsburg and Greenpoint is turf warfare.
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Fuzzy Brooklyn: Don’t call her a quack — she only deals in meows and woofs.
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BoroBeat: Coney Island’s white sands are full of black history.
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BoroBeat: This chili will burn your a-- in more ways than one.
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Books: Brooklyn is literary awesome!
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By Stanley P. Gershbein
It’s Only My Opinion: In which our hawkish essayist subtly suggests the U.S. go to war with our southern neighbors.
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High School Sports: Jack Alesi’s mind couldn’t let the third quarter go.
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By Joseph Staszewski
High School Sports: Catholic high-school girls’ basketball coaches are demanding league officials pick a playoff plan and stick with it — rather than continually changing the league’s playoff structure.
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By Troy Mauriello
Bishop Loughlin turned to its budding freshman star to carry the team past Mary Louis in a win-or-go-home game in the diocesan semifinals.
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By Dennis Lynch
BoroBeat: These folks are really tuned in to Bay Ridge.
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Bay Ridge: Brooklyn sports columnist Tom Knight, who enjoyed a long and distinguished career illuminating fans about baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers, died at age 89.
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Bushwick: Police are searching for a handsy perv who groped a woman on a Bushwick-bound L train on Wednesday evening.
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BoroBeat: It was just what the doctor ordered!
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By Shavana Abruzzo
Bay Ridge: Brooklyn sports columnist Tom Knight, who enjoyed a long and distinguished career illuminating fans about baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers, died at age 89.
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High School Sports: The regulation buzzer washed away any uneasy feelings of déjà vu Bishop Loughlin was feeling and carried it to a win.
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River of Tears: They can’t dig their way out of this one.
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Brooklyn Heights: This is the height of neighborliness in Brooklyn Heights!
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By Lauren Gill
Prospect Heights: Now local pols are pushing state lawmakers to pass a long-stalled bill to legalize it so they can reap those big blood-sport bucks.
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By Allegra Hobbs
Crown Heights: A woman spent a decade behind bars after a disgraced Brooklyn cop secured a false murder confession from her, the borough’s top lawyer says.
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Letters: Catch up on what your neighbors are thinking on the best soapbox in town.
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