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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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Thursday Links
A Treat for Pratt Students: Leggy Models With Fine Manes [NY Times]
Public Money Goes to School Toilets, Brooklyn Voters Decide [NY Times]
Seeking Answers to Murder-Suicide in Memories and Notes [NY Times]
On Location in Clinton Hill: I’ll Be Your Mirror [NY Times]
Fire in Brooklyn Technical High School Bathroom [NY Times]
Coney Hospital Big Took Doc Gifts [NY Post]
Longtime Residents Battle With Newcomers in East Williamsburg [NY Daily News]
Bed-Stuy Group Battles Harassment of Women With Chalk Messages [NY Daily News]
Group of Service Workers Plans Building Work Action [WSJ]
Bike Share Registration Hits 5,000 [WSJ]
Bomb Scare on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights [Daily Eagle]
East Meets West in Century-Old House South of Prospect Park [Curbed]
04/18/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
Bedford-Stuyvesant Historic District Triples in Size [NY Times]
Transactions: Storage Facility Sold for $1.9M in East Flatbush [NY Times]
Woman Pummels Husband Unconscious With Remote Control in Park Slope [NY Post]
City Extends Coney Island Lease Agreement [NY Post]
After Boston Marathon Bombings, Brooklyn Nets Beef up Security [NY Daily News]
Three Brooklyn College Faculty Members Win Guggenheim [NY Daily News]
Picture Archive: 1980s Brooklyn [National Geographic]
Stalled Brooklyn Biotech Hub Takes Step Forward [Crain's]
Harvest Market Opens in Brooklyn [Supermarket News]
Longtime Commercial Tenants Feel Squeezed on Nostrand Avenue [DNAinfo]
04/17/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Off-Duty Officer Killed Boyfriend, Year-Old Son and Herself [NY Times]
Man Sought in 3 Brooklyn Rapes in 2 Weeks [NY Times]
Teen Lured Brooklyn Man to His Death, Had Sex With Killers [NY Post]
Brooklyn Public Library Inks Innovative Pact for E-Books [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Grandmothers Plan March Vs. Assault Weapons [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn’s Bedford Avenue [Food and Wine]
Park Sloper’s Novel Channels 19th Century Female Astronomer [Brooklyn Eagle]
Williamsburg, Dumbo to Connect Via Navy Yard Bus Route [DNAinfo]
Lights with PCBs to Be Replaced This Summer at Carroll Gardens School [DNAinfo]
Boys and Girls Principal Hopes to Prove “Failure Is Not An Option“ [DNAinfo]
Three Injured in Bedford-Stuyvesant Fire [DNAinfo]
Brooklyn Environmental News Service Snags Pulitzer Prize [DNAinfo]
04/16/2013 8:30 AM
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Monday Links
Pizza Cravings Satisfied, Finally (at Totonno’s) [NY Times]
Restroom on Boardwalk Threatens Luxury Views in Brighton Beach [NY Times]
A Purveyor of Brie, Prosciutto and Anthems [NY Times]
Boos Over Kids’ Boathouse Boot [NY Post]
Brooklyn Grange Setting up Mini-Farms All Over City [NY Daily News]
Suitors Deny Reports LICH Refused to Open Books [NY Daily News]
Flood-Weary Verizon Moving 1,100 Jobs to Downtown Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Heights Association Optimistic About Bike Share Program [Brooklyn Eagle]
DEP on Domino [Curbed]
Forest City Ratner VP MaryAnne Gilmartin Nets $3.85 M Slope ‘Stone [NY Observer]
Vroom! Bikers Boom in Brooklyn [Crain's]
Paramedic, Son Tied up and Robbed at Gunpoint in Williamsburg [DNAinfo]
Police Search for Suspect in Three Rapes Over 10 Days [DNAinfo]
04/15/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
Hasidic Sect Hopes to Buy Huge Armory in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Labor Board Complaining Over Cablevision’s Tactics in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Hate-Crime Charges in Brooklyn Fires [NY Times]
In Deal, 2 Men Will Be Jailed 30 Days for Beating Cat to Death in Flatbush [NY Times]
Photos of a Young Brooklyn High School Teacher [NY Times]
Luxe Marty-Party Funder$torm [NY Post]
Stroller Moms, Tots Mobilize to Protest Hospital Closing [NY Daily News]
More Signs of “Gowanus A-Go-Go” [WSJ]
Industry City Forces Artists to Move out of Sunset Park Studios [Art F City]
At Markowitz’s Final Address, Epic Weirdness and a Victory Lap [AYR]
NYU Opens “Urban Informatics” School in Downtown Brooklyn [DNAinfo]
Bushwick Gallerist Fled “Saturated” Scene, Adds Music and Kids’ Program [DNAinfo]
Bed-Stuy Garden to Receive a $4,000 Facelift [DNAinfo]
Columbia Street Garden Gets Thumbs Up, Despite Concern of Rats [DNAinfo]
04/12/2013 8:30 AM
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Thursday Links
An Exhibition for Students Who Lost Art in a Studio Fire [NY Times]
Man Accused of Burning Jewish Symbols Is in Police Custody [NY Times]
Census Takes a Look at New Yorkers’ Migration Patterns [NY Times]
From Greenpoint: A Backsplash That Can Move With You [NY Times]
SUNY Blocks Hosp Books [NY Post]
Domino Developer Selects Controversial Asbestos Removal Firm [NY Daily News
Brooklyn Exec Charged With Selling Fake Day Care Safety Certs [NY Daily News]
Markowitz: A Look Behind the Persona [AYR]
“Kosher” Yoga Finds Hundreds of Devotees in Hasidic Crown Heights [DNAinfo]
Fire Rips Through Bed-Stuy Buildings, Displacing Several Families [DNAinfo]
Photo by Joseph Meloy
04/11/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
Gropez Pal Gets Wrist Slap [NY Post]
Drive to Landmark Jackie Robinson’s Old Home in East Flatbush [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Historical Society Collecting Sandy Survivors’ Stories [NY Daily News]
A Bird’s Eye View From Brooklyn [WSJ]
The First Citibike Stations Have Arrived in Brooklyn [NY Mag]
Push for Earlier Closing Hours Scares Off Potential Bar Owners in Brooklyn [DNAinfo]
Mezuzah Burning Suspect Identified by NYPD [DNAinfo]
Second Mezuzah Vandalized in Williamsburg [DNAinfo]
04/10/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Desecration on Doorways in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Lineup Announced for Northside Festival in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Wake in Red Hook: For Some, No Tears Lost for Thatcher’s Death [NY Times]
Coney Island Businesses Seeking Sandy Relief Through Crowd Funding [NY Post]
Midwood School Wins Chess Championship [NY Daily News]
City Selects Ferry Company for Additional Brooklyn, City Sites [WSJ]
Condopedia Launches as Open-Source Wiki for New York City Buildings [Curbed]
Golden Clashes With Ridge Parents Over Speed Cameras [Brooklyn Paper]
Sex, Love, and Brooklyn: Lacy’s Guide to Brooklyn’s Underground Sex Parties [L Mag]
New Dock in Newtown Creek, Greenpoint Getting Expanded Park [Queens NYC]
Roberta’s Pizza Advertises for Unpaid Intern, Upsets Neighborhood [DNAinfo]
Locals Want Clean and Safe Space at New Boerum Hill Playground [DNAinfo]
LICH Supporters Rally Together in March to Save the Hospital [DNAinfo]
Sandy-Damaged Beaches Prepare to Open [DNAinfo]
Kitchen-Ready Farm Shares Begin in Central Brooklyn [DNAinfo]
04/09/2013 8:30 AM
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Monday Links
At a Library in Brooklyn, Rare Books and Coffee [NY Times]
Storm Debris Transformed by a Treehouse Architect, or a Big Bird [NY Times]
Bay Ridge: Where Urban Meets Suburban [NY Times]
Three Decades of Baba Ghanouj [NY Times]
The First Signs of Spring in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Ebbets, His Team and His Ballpark [NY Times]
City Bills Cyclist $1,200 for Damage to Police Car That Struck Him [NY Post]
Man Dies After Falling on Broken Bottles During Fight in Brooklyn [NY Post]
Cops Stop Armed Teen Cyclist in Brownsville [NY Post]
Bath Beach Priest Erupts on Twitter After FDNY Hits Church With Violations [NY Post]
Outgoing Borough President Marty Markowitz Considers Move to TV [NY Daily News]
Crown Heights Gains as a Price Alternative [WSJ]
Smorgasburg’s Exclusive Secret to Success [WSJ]
Williamsburg Social Reveals Un-Dorm-Like Interiors [Curbed]
373 Wythe Ave to Start Leasing in May [Curbed]
NYPD Stats Show That Brooklyn Is Still Bloodiest Borough [NYO]
Target Apologizes for Dress Label Brooklyn Shoppers Found Insulting [Wash Post]
United Realty Trust Pays $22.9M for Brooklyn Homeless Shelter [TRD]
Ed Dept.: Asphalt Lot Is Fine Substitute for Bulldozed Garden [DNAinfo]
Successful Bed Stuy School Is “Work in Progress” [DNAinfo]
Bed-Stuy Organizers Kick off Anti-Street Harassment Week [DNAinfo]
04/08/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
Glamour’s Editor in Chief, at Home in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Question Lingers as Man Is Sentenced in Fatal Fire [NY Times]
Hungry City: Xixa in South Williamsburg [NY Times]
Butcher Guilty – & Poor Juror Needs a Shrink [NY Post]
Trendy Brooklyn Reigns as the City’s Bloodiest Borough [NY Post]
Brooklyn “Rape-Torture” Hell [NY Post]
Coney Island Tenants Plan to Sue Landlord Over Busted Elevator [NY Daily News]
Circumcision Ritual Leaves Two Brooklyn Infants With Herpes [NY Daily News]
Horrific Crash on Brooklyn Street Injures 11 [NY Daily News]
Coney Lights Brighten Commutes [Brooklyn Paper]
Four Hurt After Fire Traps Them in BedStuy Basement [DNAinfo]
04/05/2013 8:30 AM
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Thursday Links
Breeding Pigeons on Rooftops, and Crossing Racial Lines in Brooklyn [NY Times]
“All Boathouses” Challenged to Race Gowanus’s Fetid Course [NY Times]
Some Assembly Required — on Location in Williamsburg [NY Times]
Brooklyn Carpenter Confesses to Dicing up Roommate, Not Murder [NY Post]
Biggie Smalls’ Old Home Sits in Changed Hood [NY Daily News]
Construction at Brighton Beach Keeping Locals up All Night [NY Daily News]
Greenhouse to Be Built on Roof of Whole Foods Market in Gowanus [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Artisanal Jerky — Yes, Jerky — Earns Grant [WSJ]
Red Hook Nonprofit to Close Hurricane Sandy Distribution Center [DNAinfo]
Rude Staff, “Horrible” Service Plague Bed-Stuy Post Office, Locals Claim [DNAinfo]
Occupy Summer Camp Teams With Occupy Sandy to Gain Strength [DNAinfo]
Man Hit and Killed by Tractor Trailer Near Barclays Center [DNAinfo]
04/04/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
Video Captures Mugging in Subway Station [NY Times]
Once Hobbled, Chief of Lightstone Group Aims for Comeback [NY Times]
“Gangsta Code” Williamsburg School Suit [NY Post]
Carroll Gardens Parents Make Video of Bathrooms to Get City Funds [NY Daily News]
Former Gadfly Cop Nears Coronation as Brooklyn Borough President [BK Bureau]
Graffiti-Filled Gowanus Batcave Still “Open” for Exploration [Curbed]
Pile Drilling at AY Railyard to Begin Next Monday [AYR]
New Bed-Stuy, Ocean Hill Schools to Co-locate With Existing Schools [DNAinfo]
04/03/2013 8:30 AM
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Tuesday Links
Councilman Levin Poses With Reputed Sex-Assault Victim Photographer [NY Post]
Livery Driver Shot and Killed in Bushwick [NY Post]
City Point Developers Trade Accusations With Unions [NY Daily News]
Bed-Stuy Workers Fired for Reporting Unsafe Conditions, Lawsuit Says [DNAinfo]
Hipster Bars Battle Old-School Bushwick Residents [NY Daily News]
BAM Hosts First GIF Exhibit in New York City [NY Daily News]
Hip Markets Are Builders’ New Lure [WSJ]
The 15 Prettiest Churches in Brooklyn [L Magazine]
City: Boro Hall Bluestone Should Be Taken for Granite [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Boat Club Kicks Off Season With Kayaks [DNAinfo]
20-Year-Old Man Shot in Bed-Stuy, Officials Say [DNAinfo]
Wine Bar With Turkish Twist Expands to Park Slope [DNAinfo]
Wreck Room Bar Closed Because of Rodent Problem [DNAinfo]
04/02/2013 8:30 AM
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Monday Links
Lessons Found in the Mud of Prospect Park [NY Times]
Mother and Baby Critically Injured in Crash at Brooklyn Bus Stop [NY Times]
Brooklyn Heights Waterfront Real Estate Market Heating Up [NY Daily News]
Bed-Stuy Center for Disabled Kids Won’t Close [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Murder Suspect Released After Third False Arrest [NY Daily News]
Clarity on Landmarking Will Not Come Soon [Crain's]
Self-Taught Architect Behind Brooklyn’s Broken Angel Faces Eviction [NPR]
Candidate Liu on AY: Wants “Real Jobs, Not Selling Popcorn” [AYR]
City Point Developers, Construction Union End Talks [TRD]
Pension fund provides $90M loan to Sandy-damaged Brighton Beach co-ops [TRD]
Brooklyn Tenant Sued for Pretending to Be Dead Aunt to Keep Low Rent [DNAinfo]
P.S. 58 Shows “Noxious and Unhealthy” Bathrooms in New Video [DNAinfo]
Former “All My Children” Star Preps for Role as Carroll Gardens Waitress [DNAinfo]
04/01/2013 8:30 AM
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Friday Links
The Pratt Family’s Architect in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Larry Racioppo’s Photos of Good Friday Processions in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Assemblyman Explains Opposition to Plan to Privatize Brooklyn Hospitals [NY Times]
Manslaughter Charges for Brooklyn Liposuction Doctor [NY Times]
NYU to Open Video-Game Institute in Brooklyn [NY Post]
Lopez to Consider City Council Run or Early Retirement [NY Post]
Another Ex-Con Escapes Brooklyn Court [NY Daily News]
Lopez Faces New Health Crisis [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Doctor Charged In Woman’s Liposuction Death [CBS]
NYU to open center for studying games in Brooklyn [SF Gate]
Middle-Aged Woman Stabs Young Man to Death in Crown Heights [DNAinfo]
LICH Advocates Dig in as Quinn Expresses Doubt About Hospital’s Survival [DNAinfo]
Good Samaritans Rescue Woman From Tracks at Hewes Station [DNAinfo]
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03/29/2013 8:30 AM
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Wednesday Links
3 Brooklyn Officers, Prolific at Stops, Will Get Their Say at Trial [NY Times]
Plan to Allow Investment in 2 Hospitals, One in Brooklyn, Is Dropped [NY Times]
The GoogaMooga Festival Will Return in May [NY Times]
A Music Collective Reopens Its Doors in Downtown Brooklyn [NY Times]
Support Booms for Local Pop-Up Galleries in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Infant Mortality In Fort Greene Shows Progress But Hides Disparities [NY Times]
Two Hurt in Crown Heights Fire [NY Post]
MTV Awards Move Means Profits for Downtown Brooklyn Businesses [NY Daily News]
In Brooklyn, a Punk Church Tries to Redefine Religious Faith [Atlantic Cities]
14 Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Area From the ’70s [Gothamist]
Williamsburg Dog Run Proposed as Public Votes on How to Spend $1M [DNAinfo]
Boar’s Head Plant to Host Street Sculpture Party for Bushwick Arts Festival [DNAinfo]
New Tom Hardy Film Shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant Park [DNAinfo]
03/27/2013 8:30 AM
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