Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
A dumping ground for radioactive waste will remain in Williamsburg — thanks to a veto from Gov. Paterson.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
The Pistons lost the game, but won the war.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Joe Anuta
A weirdo who waged a one-man war against trees in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights was declared unfit for trial on Friday — and will spend up to a year in the madhouse before he’ll be re-evaluated.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Insurgent candidate Lincoln Restler has won the Williamsburg state committee race over Warren Cohn, sending a mini-shockwave through borough political circles and handing an embarrassing defeat to county leader, Vito Lopez.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
City housing officials blasted back at a Greenpoint-based community group last week, saying its agency never promised to reverse its decision to award the $32-million Greenpoint Hospital redevelopment project to a Queens-based company.
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Williamsburg
By Joe Anuta
The heartbreak is literally over for a group of artists who have restored a beloved piece in a Greenpoint park after it was destroyed by vandals earlier this summer.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
As if things couldn’t get any worse for embattled Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D–Williamsburg), now his favorite restaurant has closed.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
For one political candidate, Yom Kippur was the “Day of Dethronement.”
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Brooklyn Courier
By Thomas Tracy
A wayward livery cab driver sparked a bloody car accident on Saturday that left three people hospitalized — one with a mangled leg — at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 11th Street.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Andy Campbell
Downtown is going to have to wait to get a dog run.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Andy Campbell
A hyped-up, high-end grocery store in one of Brooklyn’s best-heeled residential towers won’t be serving the community after all.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
A Bushwick-based nonprofit long linked to its founder Assemblyman Vito Lopez has agreed to a massive internal shakeup as a result of a widening government investigation that charged that workers were taking city funds for programs that never actually existed.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gersh Kuntzman
A crazy half-hour storm ripped through Brooklyn yesterday afternoon sending trees crashing onto cars, news reporters scurrying to find anyone with amateur video, editors scrambling to find the definition (and spelling) of “tornado,” and sending at least one man to the hospital.
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