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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Simon McCormack for The Brooklyn Paper The owner of a new Coney Island-based clothing company is about to get some knockout exposure from prizefighter Paulie Malignaggi — though viewers may not even know it.
When the junior ...
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Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Louise Crawford for The Brooklyn Paper The delivery of the new couch was scheduled for Saturday afternoon. In the morning, Hepcat moved the 18-year-old green leather couch against the window to make room for the new arrival. He was adamant ...
Sports
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Aaron Short The Brooklyn Paper At long last, the Hanukkah dreidel is getting the respect it deserves.
The four-sided, Hebrew-letter-covered spinning top typically plays a minor role in the annual Festival of Light, but Williamsburg bar ...
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Williamsburg
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Stephen Brown The Brooklyn Paper Cyclists and pedestrians — and horseback riders — are already hailing the still-unfinished transformation of the perilous traffic circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park, but some drivers ...
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Brooklyn
Prospect Park
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Yardena Schwartz for The Brooklyn Paper A form of transportation once seen as vital to commuters from Williamsburg and Greenpoint may soon die.
New York Water Taxi has warned its passengers that without a major cash infusion from the ...
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Williamsburg
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Will Yakowicz The Brooklyn Paper Grand entryway or condo driveway — you decide.
State development officials have released a rendering of what they call a “strong” design element for ...
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Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Sylvan Migdal The Brooklyn Paper Our cartoonist, Roofus, was actually going to do a cartoon about the paid sick day bill in the City Council — but then he got too sick to actually draw the cartoon (seriously). That left our Webmaster ...
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Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . The Brooklyn Paper A majority of Brooklyn City Councilmembers are backing a bill that would require large employers to provide nine paid sick days for their employees, and small businesses to provide five such days.
While this idea is noble, ...
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Bill Clinton
Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . The Brooklyn Paper Even if Jonathan Safran Foer has ruined your enjoyment of turkey , you still gotta love Thanksgiving. We certainly do, which is why we won’t be updating our award-winning Web site until Monday — unless all hell ...
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Prospect Park
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Will Yakowicz The Brooklyn Paper A developer’s bid for a glitzy, 800-unit mixed-use apartment complex along the Williamsburg waterfront tripped at the first hurdle on Tuesday night when a community board committee rejected it ...
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Williamsburg
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper Jonathan Lethem is apparently not going to go down in his battle with his new novel without a fight.
The Bard of Boerum Hill — who made the front page of The ...
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Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Thomas Tracy Community Newspaper Group Badge bums
Cops are looking for a crew of masked thugs who entered a 71st Street home by flashing badges and passing themselves off as police officers on Nov. 18.
A 19-year-old was in his home near ...
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Bay Ridge
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Will Yakowicz The Brooklyn Paper Don’t know the name Jean Balukas? Then you don’t know jack about pool. Balukas, a Brooklyn native (how about a proclamation, Marty?), is simply the greatest female pool player ever, having won the ...
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J.B. Cox
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Will Yakowicz The Brooklyn Paper Not everyone plays pool simply to play pool. If you like to drink or hang out with friends while playing stripes and solids, here are the five best places in the borough to do so:
1. The Dram Shop
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Will Yakowicz The Brooklyn Paper Whether you’re a pool shark, a mark, or a stakehorse, Brooklyn’s pool halls are the best place to play a couple rounds. The stereotypes of the past — think Minnesota Fats playing in haze of ...
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Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Simon McCormack for The Brooklyn Paper Phone heist
A posse of robbers mugged a man on Leonard Street for his cellphone on Nov. 21.
The victim told cops that he was between Bayard Street and Manhattan Avenue at around 5 pm when four perps ...
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Greenpoint
Manhattan
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Stephen Brown The Brooklyn Paper Home improvement
A renegade handyman took matters into his own hands at the Lowe’s Hardware Store, getting behind the wheel of a forklift and passing pallets onto a shady customer in two separate ...
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Park Slope
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Will Yakowicz The Brooklyn Paper Subway muggings
The subway system itself was an accessory to at least two crimes last week.
• A man pickpocketed a woman while she was going down the stairs at the Jay Street-Borough Hall station on ...
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Brooklyn Heights
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . The Brooklyn Paper Want to see the hot new revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire”? You’re too late.
The entire 24-day run of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Liv Ullmann–directed production of the Tennessee Williams ...
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Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper “The majority is much too deferential to the self-serving determination by [the] Empire State Development Corporation that petitioners live in a ‘blighted’ area, and are accordingly subject ...
