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This week in 24/Seven

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:30:00 +0000

Each week we'll preview what you can expect in our 24/Seven print edition, out Thursday for you southern Brooklynites and Friday for the downtown neighborhoods. Highlights include: Theater : With its New York Clown Theater Festival, the Brick Theater has become the destination for clown theater ...

mdeliso posted 5 days ago from 24sevenbrooklyn.blogspot.com

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Slopers in guilt trap as restaurants shortchange deliverymen

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000

First, Park Slope residents had to feel bad about eating non-organic food and having a high carbon footprint. Now, they even have to confront their liberal guilt when ordering in. Last week, the state Labor Department claimed that 25 Slope restaurants underpaid their mostly immigrant workers as ...

Eater NY found this 5 days ago on brooklynpaper.com

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Prospect Ave

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:09:00 +0000

Google Maps of Prospect Ave

agardner58 posted 9 days ago from aonghais-macinnes.com

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Park Slope eateries underpay workers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:49:10 +0000

They ought to be ashamed. Nearly two dozen Park Slope restaurants stiffed their own employees nearly $1 million - in some cases paying workers as little as $2.75 an hour.

City Room found this 9 days ago on nydailynews.com

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Bed Bug Scare At Park Slope Movie Theater

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Try not to think about bed bugs next time you watch a movie. There's a classic he said/she said playing out at a Park Slope cinema, where moviegoers and theater management are arguing over allegations that the multiplex is infested with bed bugs. Commenters on the messageboard ...

Brownstoner found this 5 days ago on gothamist.com

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If It's Raining, and Your Real Estate Broker Cancels, Be Suspicious!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:52:03 +0000

The Corcoran Group is being sued by a Brooklyn couple who claim the company's real estate agents canceled appointments with prospective buyers on rainy days to hide a little water leak problem at a Park Slope apartment. Harold Einstein (a distant relative of genius Albert) and Jennifer Boyd ...

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn found this 11 days ago on gothamist.com

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Walkabout: Part 3, MM - Park Slope and Big Business

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:24:12 +0000

This is the third installment of Montrose Morris' story, the first subject in an ongoing series featuring the best of Brooklyn's late 19th century architects. The first two chapters are available here . Montrose Morris was riding high at the turn of the century, commissions were rolling in, ...

City Room found this 12 days ago on brownstoner.com

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The New York Justice

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:07:14 +0000

Main Content The New York Justice - Ben Smith: The New York Justice blog comments Reader Comments (12) what did she have to eat ? please please tell me- I need to know so bad.... please let us know.... she eats? what a shocker! Aint just being a brookline based type...U gotta be an overpaid ...

Gothamist found this 9 days ago on politico.com

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Decorating

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:27:19 +0000

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E-mail shows couple's suit vs. Corcoran Group holds water, judge says

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:41:07 +0000

THE "E" IN E-MAIL stands for evidence.

Curbed NY found this 12 days ago on nydailynews.com

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Script Tease

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:20:00 +0000

Here's more pre-Thanksgiving fun for you. Tonight, the Union Hall Drama Club (love that name) presents Script Tease, a new play reading series held in the downstairs of the Park Slope venue. The evening will feature readings of thematically related newworks, performed by professional actors, ...

mdeliso posted 6 days ago from 24sevenbrooklyn.blogspot.com

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Footage from 357 4th Street Condo Lawsuit

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:55:00 +0000

Holy crap! We were just sent the link to a video the plaintiffs in the Corcoran lawsuit made a couple of years ago to document the flooding problems in their newly purchased condo at 357 4th Street. Corcoran Found Negligent in Park Slope Condo Sale [Brownstoner] State Supreme Court ...

Gothamist found this 12 days ago on brownstoner.com

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Monday Night

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:52:05 +0000

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Brooklyn Speaks to File Its First AY Lawsuit

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:07:21 +0000

After pursuing a non-adversarial stance for the entire history of the Atlantic Yards saga, Brooklyn Speaks, the coalition of neighborhood and civic groups, is set to announce a lawsuit challenging the ESDC’s approval of the Atlantic Yards Modified General Project Plan. From yesterday's press ...

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Text marks parking spot in Park Slope

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:38 +0000

A group of Brooklynites is aiming to put the park back in Park Slope with a new service that could be described as Twitter for frustrated drivers. Roadify is a social network that uses text messaging to let motorists know when a spot is opening up in their neighborhood.

Brownstoner found this 10 days ago on nydailynews.com

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Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City: E Pluribis Oona

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:15:00 +0000

“What Richard Abneg had carried forward , always, anyhow, was a certain sense of his own crucial place in the island’s life. He’d never copped out. And the beard, that too was uncompromised, continuous. He grew it when was fifteen and reading Howard Zinn and Charles Bukowski ...

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York found this 13 days ago on whowalkinbrooklyn.com

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Plywod: South Slope's Lucali II To be Called Giuseppina's

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:00:43 +0000

New signage at the South Slope space connected to Carroll Gardens pizza favorite Lucali reveals that it will be called Giuseppina's . This second pizzeria is owned by pizzaman Mark Iacono's brother Chris, and for awhile it was unclear whether or not he would use the Lucali name. Another ...

Brownstoner found this 6 days ago on ny.eater.com

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The truth behind the F-ing lie: MTA ‘screwed’ up

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:45:04 +0000

Shuttle busses replaced regular F train service again this weekend — and a “screw-up” by the Metropolitan Transit Agency left Brooklyn straphangers frustrated and confused. As The Brooklyn Paper reported last month , riders between Church Avenue and Jay Street had been told that such shuttle ...

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn found this 11 days ago on brooklynpaper.com

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Another AY Suit Tomorrow

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:51:16 +0000

Another suit challenging the state's September approval in September of the modified plan for Atlantic Yards is due to land Thursday.

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Shop Brooklyn and get dozens of local deals for the holidays

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:48:16 +0000

Bespoke bicycles, by Robin Lester. This holiday season, you can snag 10 percent off a Raleigh bicycle at Bespoke bicycles in Fort Greene, 20 percent off anything at the Hom Store (cozy nesting gear) in Bay Ridge, or 20 percent off all hardcovers at Bergen Street comics in Park Slope. Those are ...

City Room found this 5 days ago on brokelyn.com

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