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Friday Links
Exercise Class, Obedience Not Required [NY Times]
Silver to Seek Lopez’s Expulsion From Assembly Over Harassment Claims [NY Times]
Lawyer Criticizes Brooklyn Prosecutor Over TV Show [NY Times]
Slay Kin Rip Into Suspect [NY Post]
Measles Hits Two Jewish Neighborhoods in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
From Brooklyn to California, Housing Bubble Threat Grows [Bloomberg]
Prospect Park in Brooklyn: Six Must-Sees [Newsday]
Massive $9M Compound With Garages Hits Market in Fort Greene [NY Daily News]
Morning Crowing in Greenpoint Reminds Transplants of Home [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Day Cares Have the Most Violations Citywide [News 12 Brooklyn]
Makers Prepare for Battle in McCarren Park [PC Mag]
Community Bookstore to Open New Store in Brooklyn [MediaBistro]
What Happened to the “B market” Along Arena’s Atlantic Avenue Facade? [AYR]
Papa John’s Delivery Man Sold “Coke” With Pizza, Police Say [DNAinfo]
Bushwick’s Surge of Liquor License Applications Prompts Extra Meetings [DNAinfo]
Gritty Gowanus Embraces Softer Side With First Bridal Boutique [DNAinfo]
05/17/2013 8:30 AM
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Thursday Links
Report Finds Brooklyn Lawmaker Was Shielded by Leaders [NY Times]
A Window Concert in Brooklyn Heights [NY Times]
Bushwick’s Bossa Nova Civic Club [NY Times]
Another Ratner, Another Brooklyn [NY Times]
Learner Driver Hits Three Kids on Sidewalk in Park Slope [NY Post]
Residents Call for Prospect Park Surveillance Cameras [NY Post]
Jay-Z-backed Wing Eatery to Open Third Spot Downtown [Crain's]
Mapping the BAM Cultural District Building Boom [Curbed]
Man Arrested in Gerritsen Beach Murder of 14-Year-Old, Cops Say [DNAinfo]
Brooklyn Half Marathon Kicks off With Three Days of Parties in Dumbo [DNAinfo]
05/16/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
Bike Sharing? Sure. The Racks? No Way [NY Times]
A Museum Plot for Green-Wood Cemetery [NY Times]
Brooklyn Race Grows; So Does Security [NY Times]
Gropez Won’t Face Charges [NY Post]
GoogaMooga Makes Mooga Improvements [NY Daily News]
How Chat Rooms and Brooklyn Ended America’s Obsession With Cars [Motherboard]
Sketches of Sunset Park, Brooklyn [HuffPo]
Vendy Awards Are Moving To Brooklyn This September [Gothamist]
Forty Trucks Coming to AY B2 Site on One Day [AYR]
Massive Dance Club for “Freaks” Set to Open on Williamsburg Waterfront [DNAinfo]
Co-Working in Brooklyn: Where, Why and How [DNAinfo]
Wanted: Female Lifeguard to Rescue Hasidic Swimming Sessions [DNAinfo]
Death of Former Editor in Cobble Hill Ruled Accidental, Officials Say [DNAinfo]
Exhibit Unearths History Behind Landmark Brooklyn Cemetery [NY1]
05/15/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Charge for Brooklyn Pol Is a State Favorite: Pilfering From a Nonprofit [NY Times]
Traffic Eased on Brooklyn Bridge Access Ramps [NY Times]
When Politicians Who Should Be Helping Are Only Out to Help Themselves [NY Times]
Brooklyn Public Library Rolling in Overdue Fines [NY Post]
Exploding Manholes Set Cars On Fire, Cut Power In Bushwick [CBS]
Measles Outbreak Hits Borough Park and Williamsburg, Officials Say [DNAinfo]
Assemblyman Boyland Faces New Bribery and Corruption Charges [DNAinfo]
Fatal Williamsburg Bridge Crash Snarls Monday Morning Traffic [DNAinfo]
Clinton Hill’s Caribbean Soul Restaurant Closed on Evidence of Mice [DNAinfo]
05/14/2013 8:30 AM
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Monday Links
Scrutiny on Prosecutors After Questions About Brooklyn Detective’s Work [NY Times]
What Racial Profiling? Police Testify Complaint Is Rarely Made [NY Times]
Review of 50 Brooklyn Murder Cases Ordered [NY Times]
Using a Trowel to Erase Time in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Riding a Citi Bike an Uphill Battle [NY Post]
Orthodox Brooklyn Yeshiva Bans “Hip” Thick-Framed Glasses [NY Post]
Williamsburg 101? Tedx Talk Tackles Brooklyn Neighborhood [WSJ]
Trendy Greenpoint Has Grown, But G Train Service Hasn’t [Crain's]
Williamsburg Rockabus Returning to Rockaways [Crain's]
Henry Miller, Brooklyn Hater [New Yorker]
Bike Rack Switcheroo: Remsen to Hicks [BHB]
05/13/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
At Brooklyn Library’s New Center, Books Are Secondary [NY Times]
Bike Share Program to Start May 27 [NY Times]
Ex-Brooklyn PTA Official Jailed After Failure to Repay Funds [NY Times]
At Scooter Bottega in Red Hook, the Man They Trust With Their Keys [NY Times]
The Day: LICH, Clinton Hill Library Closing and Celebrate Brooklyn [NY Times]
A Cheese Shop in a Slim Crown Heights Space [NY Times]
Black NYPD Officer Says Stop and Frisk OK in Bed Stuy [NY Daily news]
Critics Blast Plan to Ship Brooklyn Mail to Manhattan First [NY Daily News]
Williamsburg Brokers Learn to Cope Outside the Sales Office [TRD]
Pop-up Shop in Bed-Stuy Looks to Make a Lasting Impression [DNAinfo]
Realtor Makes “East Williamsburg” Stretch Into Queens [DNAinfo]
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05/10/2013 8:30 AM
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Thursday Links
Branding Brooklyn: The Rise of The Hybrid Fan [NY Times]
Operation Spot It Reduces Larceny by 47% in Cobble Hill [NY Post]
Cuomo Pleas for Federal Help on Brooklyn Hospital Closures [NY Daily News]
Mermaid Parade Raises $27,000 in First Day of Fundraiser [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Bridge Repair Creates Graffiti Canvass [WSJ]
Has The Barclays Center Put a Dent in Brooklyn Unemployment? [AY Report]
Mayoral Candidates Blast Forest City Ratner Over Inactivity at Atlantic Yards [TRD]
NYC’s Mayoral Race, Seen From Brownstone Brooklyn [Atlantic Cities]
Boutique Cobble Hill Rental at 11 Wyckoff Street on the Market [BuzzBuzzHome]
Brooklyn Web Designers’ Powerful Campaign For Gun Control [Business Insider]
DIY Space Booted From Williamsburg Waterfront Expands in Bushwick [DNAinfo]
Pratt Students Decorate Empty Lot With A Hidden Message of Transience [DNAinfo]
Park Slope Reading Celebrates “Edgy Moms” for Mothers Day [DNAinfo]
05/09/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
Brooklyn Club Owner’s Debt Agency Cheated Clients, U.S. Says [NY Times]
Crews Battle Smoky Bodega Fire in Williamsburg [NY Post]
Hazmat Team Swarms Brooklyn Federal Court for Suspicious Envelope [NY Post]
Parents of Boy Shot by Police Plan to File Wrongful-Death Lawsuit [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Starbucks Ex-Employee Sexually Harassed by Male Baristas [NY Daily News]
Inside Brooklyn’s Craft Beer Boom [Zagat]
Martin Amis Might Hate Brooklyn Hipsters, but Probably Not [Observer]
Barclays Center Fined $3,200 for Excessively Loud Concert [Observer]
Historic Carroll Street Bridge to Get $1 Million in FEMA Aid [Brooklyn Paper]
Plants Knocked Down in Hurricane Used for Tree House [Brooklyn Daily]
At Community Meeting, Officials Say Arena Operations Improve [AYR]
Thor Equities Pays $23M for Barclays-Adjacent Properties [TRD]
Web Series Examines Changing Bed-Stuy Demographics Via Comedy [DNAinfo]
Community Demands to Stay Involved in Future Plans for LICH [DNAinfo]
05/08/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Bicycling in the City and Living to Tell a Skittish Class [NY Times]
Intersection: Dumbo’s Style Mashup [NY Times]
Anthony Gets Fashion Assist From Brooklyn Stylist [NY Times]
Pratt’s Vigilante Copy Editor [NY Times]
Worker Trapped After Crane Collapse in Canarsie [NY Post]
If Martin Amis Is Tired of Brooklyn, He’s Probably Barely Seen It [Atlantic Cities]
Time Equities Pays $8M for Greenwood Heights Rental Buildings [TRD]
Start-Up Brooklyn: I Just Got Funding, Now What? [DNAinfo]
Wooden Homes Get Some Love in Brownstone Brooklyn [DNAinfo]
Police Investigate Anti-Muslim Graffiti on Brooklyn Sidewalk [NY1]
05/07/2013 8:30 AM
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Monday Links
Another Chance for Mone’t [NY Times]
A Bay Ridge British Pub’s Offense? Favoring the British [NY Times]
Trading Handshakes for Home Cooking in Brooklyn Heights [NY Times]
Corruption Charge Expected for Senator From Brooklyn [NY Times]
Wyckoff Hospital Big “Fires” Back [NY Post]
Postal Workers Too Scared to Deliver Mail in Crime-Ridden Brownsville [NY Post]
On-Edge Jumper Drama Atop Brooklyn Bridge [NY Post]
Red Hook Primed for Red Hot Fight Over City Council Seat [NY Daily News]
Navy Yard Worker Dies Trying to Crawl out of Stalled Elevator [NY Daily News]
In Brooklyn, a Park Named for a Beastie Boy [WSJ]
Why the “Rent Is Too Damn High” Guy Still Matters [Atlantic Cities]
P.S. 256 Principal Helped Turn Around Failing Bed-Stuy School [DNAinfo]
Rent $1600 Higher in North Williamsburg Over South [DNAinfo]
Smoking Light Fixture Sparks Fears at Special Ed School in Cobble Hill [DNAinfo]
05/06/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
Girl Found on Beach Was Killed, Autopsy Says [NY Times]
A Polish Electronics Shop Anglers Adore in Sunset Park [NY Times]
Hungry City: Prospect in Fort Greene [NY Times]
State Officials Call Meeting, Then Refuse to Discuss Hospital [NY Daily News]
Own a Piece of Brooklyn Storybook With 1917 Bay Ridge Charmer [NY Daily News]
Williamsburg Wine Store Stakes out a Brooklyn Claim [WSJ]
Attorney General Suing Gas Stations for Sandy Price Gouging [WSJ]
Walking Tours Lead Through Brooklyn’s Culture and History [DNAinfo]
“MCA Day” in Gowanus to Pay Tribute to Late Beastie Boy [DNAinfo]
Cameroon-Born Bushwick Librarian Finds Passion and Secrets in Stacks [DNAinfo]
05/03/2013 8:30 AM
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Thursday Links
Fiend Gets Five Years for Raping Boy [NY Post]
Mermaid Parade in Danger of Being Canceled After Sandy [NY Daily News]
Four Coney Island Comfort Stations on Hold [NY Daily News]
Historic Red Hook Bar Sunny’s Seeks Cash to Rebuild [NY Daily News]
An Artist’s Sweet Soiree at the Domino Sugar Factory [WSJ]
Park Slope Gets First “Mikvah” Bath House for Observant Jews [DNAinfo]
Rihanna’s Hairstylist Opens New Salon in Fort Greene [DNAinfo]
Spring Brings Farmers Markets Back to Park Slope [DNAinfo]
Brothers Bring Rust Belt to Bed-Stuy with New Bar Dynaco [DNAinfo]
05/02/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
Flooded Factory Is Brought Back by Its Workers [NY Times]
Ethics Panel, Upset by Delay, Vows to Release Report on Lopez [NY Times]
A NORC, up Close and Personal [NYTimes]
School-Bomb Scare in Midwood [NY Post]
Freed “Wrong Man,” Brooklyn Dad, in 22-Year Time Fog [NY Post]
Developmentally Disabled Displaced by Sandy Return to Red Hook [NY Daily News]
Watchmaker Rolex Sues Brooklyn’s Roll-x Deli Over Name [NY Daily News]
Barclays Center to Pay $3,200 Fine for Noise [AYR]
Brooklyn Flea Record Fair Blends Brisket, Beer and DJs on Waterfront [DNAinfo]
Where to Eat: Brooklyn Chinatown’s Best Asian Fare [DNAinfo]
Newtown Creek Came Within Inches of Sewage Deluge During Sandy [DNAinfo]
Parents at Cobble Hill Pre-K Demand Answers and Tuition [DNAinfo]
Graham Avenue Antique Store Owner’s Private Life Revealed in Film [DNAinfo]
05/01/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Fines for Agents Who Show Illegal Dwellings [NY Times]
“Whites Only” at Bay Ridge Building [NY Post]
Bullets Fly in Brooklyn Police Shootout [NY Post]
“Girls” Creator Lena Dunham Eyes Brooklyn’s Gretsch Building [NY Daily News]
Sit-down With State, Pols on Hospital’s Fate Set for Thursday [NY Daily News]
Heights’ Palmetto Playground to Be Renamed Adam Yauch Park Friday [BHB]
The 8 Brooklyn Beauty Products We Should All Be Using [L Mag]
Motorcycle Garage and Repair Shop Being Forced out of Gowanus Space [DNAinfo]
Six Months After Sandy: Red Hook Businesses Try to Recover [NY1]
04/30/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
New York Coastal Communities Worry Whether Tourists Will Come [NY Times]
State Suspends Enrollment in Brooklyn Adult Care [NY Times]
In Williamsburg, De Blasio Proposes Housing Plan Focused on Affordability [NY Times]
Max Fish, Celebrated Art Bar, Plans to Cross the River [NY Times]
Council Member James Says Citi Bike Is Here to Stay [NY Times]
Brooklyn Teacher Beds Boy, 15 [NY Post]
Health Fear at “Toxic” Cobble Hill School [NY Post]
Cherry Blossoms Galore Promised for Brooklyn Botanic Garden [NY Daily News]
Proposed Barclays-Area BID Boundaries Shrink [AYR]
Jehovah’s Witnesses Sell Dumbo Development Site for $31M [TRD]
Grand Street High School Evacuated Over Suspicious Package, Cops Say [DNAinfo]
Photographer Honored for Raising $128K for Bed-Stuy YMCA [DNAinfo]
Bushwick Headstone Shop Thrives Even as Giant Cemetery Fills Up [DNAinfo]
04/26/2013 8:30 AM
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Thursday Links
A Week to Celebrate Henry Miller’s Brooklyn Connections [NY Times]
House and Garden Tours, From Brooklyn to Seattle [NY Times]
On Location in Dumbo: The Art of Digging In [NY Times]
Man Shot Dead in Coney Island Housing Project [NY Post]
Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Brooklyn Law School [WSJ]
What’s Next for Horace Bullard’s Coney Island Properties? [Brooklyn Daily]
Carmelo Anthony’s Stylist Opens New Vintage Boutique in Bed-Stuy [DNAinfo]
Art Show Brings the Boombox Back to Bed-Stuy [DNAinfo]
Re-Opening of South Slope Playground Delayed Until Mid-Summer [DNAinfo]
Brooklyn Bridge to Close for Manhattan-Bound Traffic This Weekend [DNAinfo]
De Blasio Demands Investigation of Cobble Hill Charter School [DNAinfo]
Red Hook Nonprofit Wins White House Honors for Sandy Relief Work [DNAinfo]
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04/25/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
21 Years After Murder in Brooklyn, Alibi Witness Willing to Testify [NY Times]
Randazzo’s Clam Bar in Sheepshead Bay [NY Times]
Mom-of-12 Slayer Guilty [NY Post]
Lopez Protege Levin Slammed for Staying Mum on Investigation [NY Daily News]
Mill Basin Man Throws Hoax Bomb Down Sewer [NY Daily News]
Juice Mogul Buys $2.25M Pad at One Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Observer]
John Raskin Has a Plan to Make the G Train Less God-Awful [Voice]
Garfield Place Townhouse Debuts With Whopping $9M Ask [Curbed]
Townhouses of Cobble Hill to Hit Market Next Month [TRD]
Red Hook Gathering Marks Six Months Since Hurricane Sandy [DNAinfo]
Van Crashes Into Park Slope Deli, Injuring Two [DNAinfo]
Outdoor Dance Party Returns to Gowanus [DNAinfo]
Williamsburg Fitness Boom Includes Baby Friendly Training [DNAinfo]
04/24/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Graffiti Bust for Art Star in Bushwick [NY Post]
Female Skeleton Found in Suitcase in Bedford-Stuyvesant Building [NY Daily News]
Off-Duty Cop Busted on Drunk Driving Rap [NY Daily News]
Smith-Ninth Street Subway Station to Reopen Friday [NY Daily News]
How Bazaar?! Gowanus Night Market Nixed [Brooklyn Paper]
No “Can” Do! Slopers Worried About Container-Covered Roof [Brooklyn Paper]
Preservationists Blast Verizon’s Heights Storefront [Brooklyn Paper]
Garfield Place Townhouse Debuts With Whopping $9M Ask [Curbed]
Crown Heights Charter School Targets Rich, White Parents, Plan Shows [DNAinfo]
Crown Heights Afro-Caribbean Vegan Soul Food a Citywide Hit [DNAinfo]
04/23/2013 8:30 AM
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Monday Links
After Arrest in Rapes, Another Man Is Sought in 2nd Brooklyn Case [NY Times]
Fans Hope Barclays Center Will Revive Brooklyn Boxing [NY Times]
Lessons in Driving and Life at a Brooklyn Driving School [NY Times]
Subway Trains Soon to Stop Again at a Gowanus Station [NY Times]
New Liberal, Old Liberal Vie for Brooklyn City Council Seat [NY Times]
Clinton Hill Food Co-op ObamaCare Fight [NY Post]
Meet Brooklyn’s Biggest Cig Ban Violators [NY Daily News]
Slow Going MTA Project at Smith and 9th Street Slams Barber [NY Daily News]
Red Hook’s Revival Picks up After Sandy [TRD]
Cops Hunt Teens After Three Robberies in Fort Greene [DNAinfo]
Actress Debi Mazar Not Opening Park Slope Restaurant Due to Rising Rents [DNAinfo]
Serial Rapist Behind Multiple Brooklyn Attacks Arrested, Cops Say [DNAinfo]
Dumbo Food Trucks Rent Parking Lot After Tickets and Turf Wars [DNAinfo]
Bodega Bicycle Vehicle of Choice for Crown Heights Food Waste Crusaders [DNAinfo]
New Bikes Lanes Roll Into Park Slope [DNAinfo]
04/22/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
Brooklyn Zine Fest at Public Assembly in Williamsburg[NY Times]
Park Slope, “Cradle of Candidates” [NY Times]
Baby’s Latest: Going Diaperless in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Protestors Rally Against Sale of Brooklyn, Manhattan Libraries [NY Times]
At the Navy Yard: Bringing Whiskey Back [NY Times]
Orthodox Jewish Man Admits Raping 15-Year-Old Boy [NY Post]
Protesters Attend Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s Fundraiser [NY Daily News]
How the One Percent Rules: Development in Brooklyn [The Nation]
A Rally to Stop the Planned Sale of Libraries in Brooklyn and Manhattan [AYR]
Cobble Hill Preschool Hunts New Home After Lightning Strike [DNAinfo]
Teen Arrested in Sex Assault Near City Hall [DNAinfo]
Dog Poop Fouling Bushwick’s Beautification Efforts [DNAinfo]
First Popular Late-Night Bar Hit by Bushwick Sunday Midnight Curfew [DNAinfo]
04/19/2013 8:30 AM
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