Bushwick
By Aaron Short
Storefront Bushwick and Norte Maar, two Bushwick galleries, celebrate the new year with two new openings — plus snacks and mimosas!
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Park Slope
By Daniel Bush
The Old First Reformed Church hasn’t held a single fundraiser to repair its crumbling roof — but the money keeps pouring in.
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Gowanus
By Colin Mixson
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — but at the sixth annual 50 First Jokes comedy extravaganza event at the Bell House on January 4, the material is so new that chances are, you haven’t.
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Park Slope
By Natalie O’Neill
Prospect Park Residence was supposed to be Judge John Phillips’s salvation — but it ended up killing him, the jurist’s nephew claims.
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Windsor Terrace
By Kate Briquelet
You may not find that funny — but, trust us, it’s pretty hysterical.
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Park Slope
By Natalie O’Neill
A group of corporate big-shots want to open a “community based” middle school in the neighborhood - but some parents want to take a fly swatter to the idea.
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Boerum Hill
By Daniel Bush
Famed “flipper” Joe Sitt said the space would be reborn “as soon as possible.” As what? He won’t say.
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Park Slope
By Daniel Bush
Thanks to some ceiling damage, the Old First Reformed Church will be closed to Christmas services — but the show will go on, Pastor Daniel Meeter promises.
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BoroBeat
By Kate Briquelet
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
A few hundred super-fans of HBO’s mysteriously canceled Brownstone Brooklyn ode, “Bored To Death,” flocked to the Brooklyn Inn on Wednesday night after the show’s creator Jonathan Ames mentioned on Twitter that he and one of the stars, John Hodgman, would be drowning their sorrows.
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