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The Brooklyn Paper / Bess Adler
Brooklyn Angle: Fans of the Manhattan Bridge — and they are legion, make no mistake — will finally get a chance to celebrate as the Brooklyn Bridge’s much-maligned younger brother celebrates its 100th birthday this weekend.
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Brooklyn Angle: Say it ain’t so! It
is so: Our editor is a three-time loser.
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The Brooklyn Paper / Gersh Kuntzman
Brooklyn Angle: The city cut the ribbon on a new — and
protected! — bike lane on Sands Street. Finally, Brooklyn has what civilized cities have had for decades.
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Brooklyn Angle: Credibility has finally been restored to the celebrated — but controversial — “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” contest.
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Brooklyn Angle: Mayor Ger Mik shows us around our ancestral home.
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The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Brooklyn Angle: Our readers have spoken: They want Sharon Mesmer to be the next poet laureate of Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Angle: In what may have been humanity’s most humbling day since scientists taught a monkey to communicate by sign language, a trio of elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus defeated three legendary human athletes in a hot dog bun-eating contest in Coney Island this afternoon.
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Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist predicts that Takeru Kobayashi will triumph at Saturday’s hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island.
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Brooklyn Angle: Brooklyn begins the search for a successor to late great poet laureate Ken Siegelman.
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Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist got to test drive a 100-percent electricity-powered car. It was cool.
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Brooklyn Angle: The sex toy shop marks a successful first year.
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Brooklyn Angle: Hey, you! Take a piece of advice from Brooklyn’s most-philathropic columnist: Buy a ticket to the Prospect Park “Party for Playgrounds” NOW!
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The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Brooklyn Angle: He came. He saw. He kicked my butt.
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Brooklyn Angle: Here’s a story about a great bakery, a great lard bread and a great tradition.
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Brooklyn Angle: Someone up there must like Gersh, because over the weekend, an anonymous Brooklyn Paper fan donated our famous bike-riding editor a new bike.
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Brooklyn Angle: This newspaper’s famously bike-riding editor has had yet another bike stolen — the second time in eight months that his wheels have been swiped.
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Brooklyn Angle: A Clinton Hill brewer’s blood drive idea is snubbed by its would-be benefactors.
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Brooklyn Angle: Lost in the confusion and pain over the death of Brooklyn’s premiere blogger Robert Guskind on Wednesday at age 50 is something important to this old-media scrooge: He was a great journalist.
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Brooklyn Angle: Does seeing the face of our columnist make you want to make a contribution to Brooklyn playgrounds? The Prospect Park Alliance clearly thinks so.
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Brooklyn Angle: The Park Slope Food Co-op had its meeting on Tuesday night — and as our columnist said, there was no discussion of a ban on Israeli products, despite international headlines reporting otherwise. Man, it’s stressful being right all the time!
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Brooklyn Angle: For the record: The Park Slope Food Co-op is not considering a ban on Israeli-made or -grown products.
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Brooklyn Angle: The long-awaited trial of a man accused of drinking beer on his own stoop will have to wait a few more days, thanks to the stunning recusal of a judge who took himself off the case on Monday because — his words, not ours — my coverage of the trial of the century has been “too good.”
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Brooklyn Angle: Miss New York speaks to her greatest champion, The Brooklyn Paper, about her stunning defeat in Las Vegas this Saturday.
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The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist doffs his duds, does the full monty, drops his drawers, bares all, and twists the wick for a bunch of art students. A very special Brooklyn Angle column — and accompanying podcast.
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Brooklyn Angle: Well, folks, the inevitable has happened: Miss New York — the former Miss Brooklyn, Leigh-Taylor Smith — was cheated out of the Miss America title on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
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The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig