By Lara Gross
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Transit: Just in case you weren’t frustrated enough with last year’s F train service, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is scheduling another round of weekend service cuts for 2010.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Dining: This time, it’s all about the soft serve.
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By Kristen V. Brown
Nightlife: One penny. One pint. Seems like a good deal to us.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Downtown: MTA workers missed their deadline for some repairs at the long-decrepit Jay Street-Borough Hall station, so they did what anyone might do: they changed their deadline.
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By Stephen Brown
Park Slope: Fourth Avenue will go from a concrete wasteland straight out of “Frogger” to a thoroughfare with a green oasis in the middle — if Borough President Markowitz gets his way.
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By Stephen Brown
Crown Heights: Park Slope has its own state-of-the-art recreation facility in a city-refurbished armory — but now residents of Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights may see their nearby armories become neighborhood resources, too.
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By Kristen V. Brown
Dining: Everybody’s favorite Middle Eastern eatery just got better, and by better, we mean bigger.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Cyclones: Give the Brooklyn Cyclones credit where credit is due — their Coney Island stadium is now named for the city’s largest credit union.
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By Andy Campbell
Bridge ‘Park’: The long-awaited first permanent section of Brooklyn Bridge Park has been delayed — again! — and will now open “in the spring,” Borough President Markowitz revealed in his “State of the Borough” address on Wednesday night.
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By Andy Campbell
DUMBO: Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome — im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret at the posh River Café!
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Editorial: Now Joe Sitt says he’ll build a mini-college town on the Red Hook waterfront? There he goes again.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: It all started when the city changed the way it pays for its Meals on Wheels providers. Now, seniors in Brighton Beach are going crazy — and forcing our columnist to eat really bad meatloaf.
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By Cristian Fleming
Cartoon: Here’s the only murderous imperative that matters.
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By Stephen Brown
The Brooklyn Paper / Stephen Brown
Cobble Hill: Nurses at Long Island College Hospital took to the street in front of the Cobble Hill medical center on Wednesday, alleging that the financially flatlining institution is tinkering with their contracts as it braces for new ownership.
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By Kristen V. Brown
Dining: A top Greenpoint eatery brings in someone new behind the stove — and the food is better than ever.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Carroll Gardens: A 26-year-old Red Hook resident was shot and killed in his apartment on Monday — the first murder of the year in the confines of the 76th Precinct.
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Park Slope: Yet another iPhone is stolen by the bike-riding bandit who is terrorizing Park Slope!
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By Stephen Brown
Park Slope: An irate tenant in an apartment complex adjacent to a Park Slope dog run has been hurling eggs out his or her window in an apparent attempt to scramble the canines’s brains and silence their allegedly incessant barking.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom and Hepcat bond as a family while watching the small-screen version.
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By Aaron Short
Music: The 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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By Claire Glass
Shopping: Shag in Williamsburg not only offers the usual vibrators, but also a way to replicate your penis.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Books: The Cobble Hill poet tortures himself over torture in the scintillating book, “The Ticking is the Bomb.”
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By Stephen Brown
Books: Author Josh Ferris is back with a new book about a guy with a disease that makes him walk and walk and walk. It’s a metaphor, silly.
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By Andy Campbell
Fitness: At Green Studio, your legs power the machines.
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