Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Light manufacturing is dead. Long live light manufacturing!
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Williamsburg
Town Square will hold a Family Valentine’s Day Dance Party featuring dancing, refreshments, and arts & crafts, February 14 from 3-5 p.m. at the Williamsburg Movement & Arts Center, 347 Grand Street between HavemeyerStreet & Marcy Avenue.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Williamsburg residents are claiming victory and relief after the State Court of Appeals refused to hear TransGas Energy’s appeal to be allowed to build an underground power plant on the Williamsburg waterfront.
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Williamsburg
Satellite Lounge is looking for some Williamsburg artists who are interested in hanging their art on their walls at Satellite Lounge.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Michael Alan’s plaster-covered models writhed, twisted and fluttered in a series of poses on January 23 in a Williamsburg loft teeming with sundry antique objects scavenged over two decades by the loft’s tenant.
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Williamsburg
Town Square presents a bring some/take some “Freecycling Swap” at Lutheran Church of the Messiah, 29 Russell Street between Nassau & Driggs avenues, February 6 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Williamsburg
Join aptsandlofts.com and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s Real Estate & Development (RED) Committee for an evening of networking, drinks and hors d’œuvres in architect Robert Scarano’s latest development, 9inety North 5th, 90 North Fifth Street between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue in North Williamsburg, February 11 from 5:30-7 p.m.
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Brooklyn Courier
Barnes & Noble Park Slope invites the public to participate in its weekly events. Here’s what’s on tap this week.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Have you ever attended an East River summer concert, hung out at Union Pool or wandered into a community board meeting and thought, “Who’s that cute boy in the corner?”
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Brooklyn Courier
By Michèle De Meglio
The Summit Academy Charter School may have found a new home.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
The little storefront museum that celebrates Brooklyn’s underdog spirit with exacting curatorial detail and a passionate devotion to artifacts large and small may be in danger of closing.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
Hard-boiled cops are vowing to step up patrols in order to scramble Park Slope’s egg-tossing bandit.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Michèle De Meglio
The PAVE Academy Charter School is staying put in P.S. 15’s building.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Registration has been a discombobulated mess, no one knows the route, and it is expected to be 26 degrees with a 50 percent chance of snow on Saturday, but that has done little to diminish Brooklynites’ unbridled enthusiasm for the 2010 Idiotarod.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
A debate between the Hasidic community in South Williamsburg and cycling advocates over the removal of the Bedford Avenue bike lanes revealed that both sides have irreconcilable differences over improving transportation in Williamsburg.
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Williamsburg
By Aaron Short
Crime has been on the decline in North Brooklyn for the past year, but Deputy Inspector Dennis Fulton wants community members to take crime prevention into their own hands.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Gary Buiso
Local streets are safer thanks to the efforts of Police Officer John Bolden, named Cop of the Year by the 84th Precinct Community Council last week.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Thomas Tracy
A 53-foot tractor trailer was left resting on a concrete divider as its contents spilled out on the roadway following a collision at “the top of the world.”
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Brooklyn Courier
By Thomas Tracy
Wounded soldier asks for relief
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Brooklyn Courier
By Stephen Witt
A blast from the past could be throwing his hat in the ring in the 44th District City Council special election.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Stephen Witt
The upcoming special election to succeed Simcha Felder for the 44th District City Council seat is shaping up as a political version of David versus Goliath, according to Hassidic and Orthodox Jewish political pundits in Borough Park.
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Brooklyn Courier
Dine at Palo Santo Restaurant in Park Slope, January 31, and half of the money that you spend will go to the Rural Haiti Project, which is working to provide much needed relief to people affected by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Aaron Short
Swayed by the inspiring sounds of the New Life Tabernacle Choir, Brooklynites lifted their voices in song to celebrate the progress that has happened since Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death as well as catalyze the social change that needs to come.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Joe Maniscalco
The biggest things to hit Coney Island last summer were Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus elephants. This year it’ll be thrill rides from an Italian outfit called Zamperla.
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Brooklyn Courier
Courier Life Staffers
Nadler says Lander is best above rest
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Brooklyn Courier
All welcome to attend an evening with David Wildman, executive secretary of Human Rights & Racial Justice with the United Methodist Church General Board of Global Ministries and co-author of “Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer,” as he discusses “Afghanistan: A First Hand Report,” January 25, 7-9 p.m. at the South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street (just off Fulton Street).
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Brooklyn Courier
The District 15 Community Education Council invites all to join them for a PA/PTA Share Fair, January 23 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at PS 124 %u2013 The Silas B. Dutcher School, 515 Fourth Avenue between 13th and 14th streets.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Michèle De Meglio
A Brooklyn Heights father needs your help.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
The city is planning to enliven the area adjacent to Red Hook’s cruise terminal, an area critics charge has yet to live up to the promise city officials once touted, this paper has learned.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Michèle De Meglio
Red Hook parents and teachers took to the street to demand that the PAVE Academy Charter School vacate P.S. 15’s building.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Stephen Witt
It’s like trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East without Israel at the table.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Thomas Tracy
While no one was hurt when three manhole covers blew their stacks and popped out of their housings Monday, residents in Brooklyn Heights want to make sure they’re not subject to another bout of underground indigestion.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Aaron Short
For decades, bus riders waiting for the B67 bus had little idea how far away the next bus would be arriving beyond the MTA’s scheduled timesheet.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
Community Board 6 this week gave its blessing to the expansion plan posed by an elite Park Slope private school, determining that the controversial scheme would not spell doom for the neighborhood’s historic district.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
A plan to expand the Carroll Gardens historic district is prompting the neighborhood’s“silent majority” to have their voices finally heard.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Aaron Short
The Brad Lander era has officially begun.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Aaron Short
The arrest of a politically-connected Brooklyn reverend who held a demonstration questioning Brooklyn’s judicial selection process has revealed a growing fissure within the Kings County Democratic Party.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Gary Buiso
A preeminent Brooklyn Heights preservationist is blasting the expansion of a Park Slope private school, saying its plan has the potential to frustrate the fundamental values of the historic district.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Meredith Deliso
The horrors of the earthquake in Haiti have been broadcast to us here in New York over the past week.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Stephen Witt
Newly elected 33rd District City Councilmember Steve Levin is vowing to hit the ground running - or at least with his eyes open.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Joe Maniscalco
The biggest things to hit Coney Island last summer were Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus elephants. This year it’ll be thrill rides from an Italian outfit called Zamperla.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
The city is planning to enliven the area adjacent to Red Hook’s cruise terminal, an area critics charge has yet to live up to the promise city officials once touted, this paper has learned.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Michèle De Meglio
Red Hook parents and teachers took to the street to demand that the PAVE Academy Charter School vacate P.S. 15’s building.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Thomas Tracy
While no one was hurt when three manhole covers blew their stacks and popped out of their housings Monday, residents in Brooklyn Heights want to make sure they’re not subject to another bout of underground indigestion.
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Brooklyn Heights
By Stephen Witt
It’s like trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East without Israel at the table.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
A plan to expand the Carroll Gardens historic district is prompting the neighborhood’s“silent majority” to have their voices finally heard.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Aaron Short
For decades, bus riders waiting for the B67 bus had little idea how far away the next bus would be arriving beyond the MTA’s scheduled timesheet.
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Brooklyn Courier
By Gary Buiso
Community Board 6 this week gave its blessing to the expansion plan posed by an elite Park Slope private school, determining that the controversial scheme would not spell doom for the neighborhood’s historic district.
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