By Gersh Kuntzman
Dining: The demise of respected eatery Bussaco in the heart of Park Slope appears to have been greatly exaggerated after a dishy feud with a chef who didn’t even last at the joint for two months!
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By Claire Glass
Parenting: Moms and Dads in Park Slope are guilty of Nannygate.
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By Andy Campbell
Williamsburg Waterfront: The City Planning Commission voted on Monday to approve the controversial Rose Plaza on the River, a mixed-use, 800-unit apartment complex along the Williamsburg waterfront — a decision that bucks Borough President Markowitz’s rejection in January.
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Politicrasher: Our columnist yearns for the days when the governor did his job by day and slept with prostitutes by night.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom talks her twin sister through the toughest job she’ll have love: Being camp counselor to her 5-year-old this summer.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Park Slope: This guy was a criminal two times over. Plus the rest of the crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct.
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By Andy Campbell and Justin McNeil
Brooklyn Heights: Brooklyn Heights residents remain miffed about an entire weekend of partying, fighting and rabble-rousing, allegedly by students in the St. George dormitories on Henry Street.
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By Claire Glass
Fort Greene: The bike-riding iPhone thief has struck again! Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper’s most-loved column — the weekly Police Blotter — enters the modern age this week with a new feature that gives you maps of all the crimes in our coverage area, allowing you to search block-by-block, crime-by-crime or precinct-by-precinct.
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By Andy Campbell
Mean Streets: In all the talk about how to fix Fourth Avenue, a consensus is emerging around one single idea: slow those cars down!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
We’re not talking about overdue book fees — we’re talking about a serious fundraising drive!
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By Melissa Murphy
Dining: It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so make your own soda bread!
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By Kristen V. Brown
Foodie-in-Chief: A great Mexican joint expands to Brooklyn from Queens.
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By Kristen V. Brown
Foodie-in-Chief: The skinny on Brooklyn’s opening, closing and restaurant rumors.
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By Claire Glass
Dining: Thistle Hill Tavern is coming soon to take you back in time.
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By Stephen Brown
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Cleaning the Gowanus: The federal government has widened its search for the culprits responsible for making the Gowanus Canal one of the most polluted spots in the nation, giving it the dishonor of being named a Superfund site earlier this week.
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By Stephen Brown
Red Hook: The ink wasn’t even dry on the approval of a new Red Hook wine store’s liquor license when an opponent stormed in and got the ruling overturned! It’s exciting stuff!
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By Stephen Brown
Mean Streets: City officials have pledged — again — to improve conditions for pedestrians at the terrifying intersection of Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, but some locals are saying that they’ve heard it all before.
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By Stephen Brown
Atlantic Yards: The judge who approved the state’s seizure of properties in the Atlantic Yards footprint earlier this week received a letter containing a suspicious white powder on Thursday, causing an evacuation of the entire 24th floor of the Kings County Supreme Court on Jay Street in Downtown.
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By Stephen Brown
DUMBO: Brooklyn’s most-polarizing — and prolific — architect has been banned from filing construction plans for playing fast and loose with city regulations.
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By Andy Campbell
Transit: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has curtailed some of its Draconian transit cuts, including the Z train and a handful of bus lines, but now have their sights on curtailing nighttime service on Park Slope’s beloved B67, officials announced at Wednesday’s community meeting at the Brooklyn Museum.
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By Aaron Short
Nightlife: Some banks were too big to fail, but Radegast Hall was too small to succeed. So an expansion is on the way.
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By Andy Campbell
Greenpoint: These bottlenosed bastards should find some other place to play!
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Link: There is so much news in this week’s print edition of The Brooklyn Paper that we recommend that you stop reading this teaser paragraph and click on the link above. Yes, that’s right, you’re just a few mouse moves away from downloading our entire print edition — which doesn’t even hit the stands until Friday. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!
By Kristen V. Brown
Foodie-in-Chief: The chicken-fried drought is over! Pies ’n’ Thighs — Williamsburg’s beloved Southern food and barbecue joint — reopened on Monday.
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By Cristian Fleming
Gowanus: Our cartoonist has a different take on the EPA’s Gowanus Canal Superfund designation.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
McMahon on Line 1: Bay Ridge’s freshman congressman is named the “most centrist” lawmaker in Washington. But our analysis shows that Mike McMahon is plenty liberal and plenty conservative when he wants to be.
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By Andy Campbell
Brooklyn Heights: The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ planned pullout from Brooklyn is huge news for the faithful, but it’s even bigger news for the real-estate market.
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By Claire Glass
Brooklyn’s economic prognosis for 2010 is a good news/bad news thing.
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By Andy Campbell
Williamsburg Waterfront: The developers of the Domino Sugar factory make a bigger promise on affordable housing.
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Link: If it’s Wednesday, it’s Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list.
Letters: Another open fray in our letters column.
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By Claire Glass
Theater: Old Stone House hosts yet another remake of the Great American Story.
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By Andy Campbell
Awesome: The guy with the gun isn’t actually going for the kill — but his raps are certainly making a killing in Brooklyn.
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By Thomas Tracy
Bay Ridge: A poop-smeared pugilist went to town on a 77th Street family on Feb. 28 — smearing his excrement all over the place and battling with one of his neighbors.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Cleaning the Gowanus: The Old Gray Lady mixed up Brooklyn’s fetid bodies of water in its Superfund coverage today!
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Brooklyn Angle: Love him or hate him, but our columnist may save you $400 if you’re towed from the corner of 15th Street and Eighth Avenue!
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By Justin McNeil
Park Slope: A garbage truck jumped the curb on Seventh Avenue on Monday morning, killing one of the stately London plane trees and cracking a large section of the sidewalk.
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By Andy Campbell
Downtown plan: Could the demolition and new development of the Albee Square Mall in Downtown Brooklyn be a human rights violation on par with the blood diamonds of Zimbabwe, child soldiers around the world or Burma’s political oppression?
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: No, Smartmom hasn’t given up her title, but she is realizing that her twin sister is just as smart a mom (if not more so) than she is. Ouch!
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