By Stephen Brown
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Atlantic Yards: A whirlwind and symbolic day in the Atlantic Yards footprint.
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Atlantic Yards: Join The Brooklyn Paper team of Andy Campbell, Stephen Brown and Gersh Kuntzman as they take you inside — and outside — Bruce Ratner’s Barclays Center groundbreaking on Thursday.
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Link: We wish we could be humble, but, dammit, this week’s print edition of The Brooklyn Paper is a game-changer. Not only do we have a big exclusive about Atlantic Yards, we have insightful coverage about the “Nannygate” scandal in Park Slope, the mayor’s takeover of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the $1.2-billion Domino Sugar project. So why not click on the link above and download the full edition — a full day and a half before everyone else gets it on the street. Be the first on your block!
By Stephen Brown
Breaking Chews: Turns out, the Vue stunk — and now, in its place will be a classy rooftop Italian restaurant, the landlord of the Hotel Le Bleu revealed on Wednesday.
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Editorial: Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement that the city will take over the construction of the unbuilt portions of Brooklyn Bridge Park has changed very little for the Brooklynites who will use this supposedly public park.
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By Andy Campbell
Brooklyn Heights: The spirit of Brooklyn Heights has burned out!
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By Kristen V. Brown
Dining: It seems like there were years of fits and starts, but the Greenpoint Avenue pizzeria is cranking them out!
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By Kristen V. Brown
Dining: Blue Bottle Coffee comes to Williamsburg.
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By Kristen V. Brown
Dining: There’s a secret restaurant — serving high-end steak — behind the Loki Lounge on Fifth Avenue!
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Books: The literati of Park Slope turned out to toast author David Shenk on the publication of his latest groundbreaking work, “The Genius in All of Us — Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong.”
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By Andy Campbell
Williamsburg Waterfront: Community Board 1 rejected the $1.2-billion redevelopment of the old Domino Sugar factory on Tuesday night.
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Mean Streets: Join our biking editor as he makes his maiden two-wheeled commute of the season.
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By the GO Brooklyn Eating Team
The Best Thing We Ate This Week: Our staff did the eating, so you’ll know where to go. It’s a little service we provide. You’re welcome. Now, get eating.
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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.
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Dooley Noted: You gotta love “The Butt Book” by Artie Bennett.
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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 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 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 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
The Brooklyn Paper / Kate Emerson
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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