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Playwright in pajamas at Bay Ridge Starbucks (NY Daily News)

Special Education students wait and wonder (NY Daily News)

Windsor Terrace storefront for rent (Brooklynometry)

Brooklyn briefs (McBrooklyn)

A short discourse on the history of malt liquor (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Japan comes to Brooklyn (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

H&M coming to Fulton Mall (Brooklyn Paper)

Another hotel set for Gowanus (Brooklyn Paper)

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RIP: Joey (Brooklynometry)

Beamed up (Andy Bachman's blog)

Sizzling (A Year in the Park)

Water, baby (A Brooklyn Bachelor)

Long Island College Hospital in big trouble (McBrooklyn)

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Man acquitted of assault charge for manhandling of gym grunter (NY Times)

Starrett City will stay a rental (NY Times)

Building washer falls to his death on St. Marks Place (NY Times)

Trees they love (NY Times)

RIP: Bo Diddly (Found in Brooklyn)

One of the greatest gifts (Luna Park Gazette)

Win one for the zipper (Luna Park Gazette)

Alice in wine blog land (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Rising food costs and the global food crisis (So Good)

In the land of crazy (Phatush Diaries)

What not to wear to the deli (Phatush Diaries)

Missing link (Midnight Cowgirls)

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Pre-K and irises (Brooklynometry)

Subway conductors closing the doors on white people (Blog Nigger)

Nice woman seeks small apartment (Pardon Me for Asking)

Third Street limestone designed by IM Pei (NY Magazine)

Brooklyn Bridge waterfall (NY Times)

Atlantic Yards aerial photos (Brit in Brooklyn)

 

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Hoyt Street residents say no to Oyster Bar (Pardon Me for Asking)

Hero or homo? (Blognigger)

Battle Hill on Memorial Day (Brooklynometry)

Rise in shootings and murders (Daily News)

Murder Book 2008 mentioned in Times' feature about crime writers (Murder Book 2008)

Murder She Once Wrote (NY Times)

Coney Island Daze (Midnight Cowgirls)

From my window this afternoon (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Looking through the Telectroscope (McBrooklyn)

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I wish I could eat your cancer when (Blognigger)

Pot Mitzvah (Brooklyn Mabel)

Spinning Plates at the Russian Circus in Queens (Brooklynometry)

Siblings fall from Kensington window (NY1)

Babies switched at birth at LICH (NY1)

RIP: Film Director Sydney Pollack (Daily News)

Brooklyn Bridge on the big screen (Daily News)

Someone on Smith Street has been to Ikea (Pardon Me for Asking)

60th Annual Albany Tulip Festival (Deep in the Heart)

Turning schools from death traps to havens (NY Times)

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A living-room crusade via blogging (NY Times)

Mourning in China (NY Times)

Cracks, falling cranes and new building inspectors (NY Times)

More on the hating Park Slope story (Brooklynometry)

Clarett's "Contempo Collectiono ala Quarte" (Pardon Me For Asking)

Flatbush Food Coop just got bigger (Green Brooklyn)

Where to go dancing in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Based)

Crown Heights oversaturated with homeless services (AM Metro)

7th wedding anniversary (Midnight Cowgirls)

The beauty of the Blogfest (Midnight Cowgirls)

Tom Motley, Cartooniologist (Mont)

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Biggest Brooklyn Designs Ever (McBrooklyn)

Brighton Beach urban patchwork slideshow (City Section)

A Sanctuary by the Sea (City Section)

Police group and State Senator Adams Charge NYPD with institutionalized racism (NY1)

A Brooklyn Saint (Brooklynometry)

A tribute to my mother (Pardon Me For Asking)

Brooklyn Blogfest (Sticky Map)

A word for today (Luna Park Gazette)

RIP: Cicely Nichols: 1938-2008 (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

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Call for better handling of police brutality (NY 1)

Brooklyn’s Best Burger Can Be Found at The Dram Shop Bar (Weird Long Beard Press)

Downtown Brooklyn Purgatory (Brooklynometry)

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The accidental rebel: Paul Auster at Columbia in 1968 (New York Times)

Fifth Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair (Brooklynometry)

Record stores: let's go back in time (Found in Brooklyn)

Meet Gowanus Sponge Park in detail (Gowanus Lounge)

NYC commish is gone, now what? (Gowanus Lounge)

Meet your neighbors (Bed-Stuy Blog)

Sunset park being destroyed bit by bit (Brownstoner)

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Second highest (Brooklynometry)

Some more beach bumming (Pardon Me For Asking)

Outside the Text: Non-Textual Sources of Meaning in Rabbinic Civilization (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Pilobolus in Cadman Plaza Park (McBrooklyn)

Gowanus transformations (Found in Brooklyn)

Group unveils plans to green up Gowanus Canal (NY 1)

Traffic safety rally (NY 1)

There will be less of the Post (City Room)

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Go-cart Derby, 2008 (Brooklynometry)

The gentle fight against 360 Smith (Pardon Me For Asking)

The wooded edge of the Lullwater (A Year in the Park)

For affordable housing: Queens is it! (Reclaimed Home)

Tacky thrift shop paintings at the Brooklyn Flea (Reclaimed Home)

Side street rising (Brooklyn Junction)

Small Fresh Direct trucks in DUMBO (McBrooklyn)

Ashley (Bad Girl Blog)

You snooze you lose, buddy (Found in Brooklyn)

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De Blasio calls for Atlantic Yards demolition (Gowanus Lounge)

Stoned on Fifth (Brooklynometry)

Air America in shambles (Brooklyn Optimist)

Carroll Gardens improves re-zoning proposal (Pardon Me for Asking)

Good bye lonesome picker (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

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Pretzel timeline (Brooklynometry)

Ouch (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Weekend at the movies; belated (Brooklyn Skeptic)

This is Gowanus light (Gowanus Lounge)

Atlantic Yards documentary, Brooklyn Matters, at Cobble Hill Cinema (Gowanus Lounge)

Brooklyn Flea: Scavengers on the urban Savannah (The City)

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Brooklyn storefronts metaphor for changing borough (City Room)

Deconstructing 340 Court Street (Pardon Me for Asking)

Spirea bush witnesses (Brooklynometry)

Urban gravestones (Bed-Stuy Banana)

4th Avenue's Argyle 60% Sold (Brownstoner)

Overseas measles outbreak prompts warning (Gothamist)

Assemblywoman Diane Gordon goes down (Brooklyn Optimist)

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$8 traffic fee gets nowhere (NY Times)

Block Association calls for moratorium on AY demolitions (Atlantic Yards Report)

The conversion of subsidies into philanthropy (Atlantic Yards Report)

2008 Pulitzer Prizes announced (NY Times)

Guggenheim Fellowships Announced (Guggenheim Fellowships PR)

Lessons of the little red hen (Brooklynometry)

How's this idea for congestion parking (Pardon Me for Asking)

Back when the Green-Wood gravediggers were mordant and rude (Pardon Me for Asking)

Getting thrown out of Frankie's on Court Street (Pardon Me for Asking)

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Toxins in NYC school buildings (NY Daily News)

Letter from the Health Commissioner about toxins (NY Daily News)

Home economics from four US regions (Times Op-Ed)

Bee on the apricot blossoms (Brooklynometry)

Subway super facial (Brooklynometry)

The great Brooklyn burger hunt (Brooklyn Skeptic)

Epic murals in Bed-Stuy (Bed-Stuy Banana)

All that glitters is silver (Creative Times)

Carbon/Silicon, high school, and the Toll Brothers (Found in Brooklyn)

Charlie Sahadi and the spices of his life (The City Section)

Bathing suit shopping: a close call at the mall (The Love We Make)

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Is there a Park Slope in Charlotte, NC? (Gowanus Lounge)

City Council vote on congestion pricing today (NY1)

Out among the Brooklyn bloggers (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Earth Hour 2008 (Pardon Me For Asking)

Flatbush Americana (Found in Brooklyn)

Pastor emergency van (Bed Stuy Banana)

The day 85,000 NYC 8th graders find out where they're going for high school (My Sidewalk Chalk)

What spirituality means to me (Old First Blog)

Crowing roosters (Brooklynometry)

Dogs park for free in South Slope (Brooklynometry)

Universoul circus in Prospect Park (A Year in the Park)

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Congestion pricing countdown (Sustainable Flatbush)

Hibernaculum (A Year in the Park)

Toll Brothers team talks up Gowanus Plan (Gowanus Lounge)

Glamour at Rush (Brooklynometry)

Ira Glass, My Ass (Midnight Cowgirls)

Make an impact about Toll Brothers Gowanus project (Found in Brooklyn)

On Bear Mountain (Shelleytown)

Bed-Stuy real estate picks (Bed-Stuy Blog)

Join Earth Hour 2008 (McBrooklyn)

Breaking Chews: local restaurant gossip (Brooklyn Paper)

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Classes To Resume Friday At Brooklyn School After Gun Scare (NY 1)

Ansoniana (Brooklynometry)

Trader Joe's work begins! (McBrooklyn)

Coney Island carousel goes to Ohio for, like, four years (McBrooklyn)

Sweet Melissa's in Cobble Hill Expanding (A Brooklyn Life)

Francis Morrone to document every building in Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Historian to take stock of Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn Paper)

Atlantic Yards is dead (Brooklyn Paper)

Take back the rail yards! (Brooklyn Paper)

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries deeply troubled by AY changes (Atlantic Yard Report)

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More to read on stalled Atlantic Yards Project (Gowanus Lounge)

More rides at Coney Island this summer (Gowanus Lounge)

Key Food wall redone (Brooklynometry)

Worst neighborhood acronyms ever (Brooklyn Junction)

Additional Passover trash collection in CB14 (Brooklyn Junction)

Weekender: Catskill, New York (Reclaimed Home)

Coney Island sideshow opens on Sunday (Found in Brooklyn)

Easter weekend super sale at RePop (Clinton Hill Blog)

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Protesters hold vigil in Grand Army Plaza (NY1)

Building boom on Fourth Avenue (NY Sun)

The smallest American dream in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Junction)

Old Flatbush photos of Basil Paterson (Brooklyn Junction)

Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park landmarked (Flatbush Gardener)

Sol Yurick and the Anticipation of the Night (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

Brooklyn in brief (McBrooklyn)

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Looking back on 5 years of war (New York Times)

Nixzmary's stepfather guilty of manslaughter (NY Times)

Barack Obama: What a speech! (NY Times)

RIP: Arthur Clarke and Anthony Minghella

Mr. Pickle Truck (Brooklynometry)

A hippie bus from Vermont (Found in Brooklyn)

Vegan cupcakes with fluffy icing (Midnight Cowgirl)

Bigger than a breadbox (Callalillie)

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Feds act to rescue financial markets (NY Times)

The Manhattan crane collapse horror (Gowanus Lounge)

National Organization of Women honors Brooklyn Paper (Brooklyn Paper)

Arcade fun (Brooklynometry)

The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight (Found in Brooklyn)

Peaked roofs, crossed fingers (The City/NY Times)

Gowanus is West Park Slope? (NY Times)

Coney Island Opening Day (Gowanus Lounge)

Coney Island re-opens (Brit in Brooklyn)

Next time you have $4,300 to burn (Brooklyn Junction)

Loews King in Flatbush may be rehabilitated (Brooklyn Eagle)

Bob Says: News from Gowanus Lounge

I'm not in Brooklyn and I didn't read any blogs on Friday. But I'm up now (5:38 a.m.) and catching up. So here's what I read on Bob with some notes from me.

Tempo Presto is going pink. I hate to have missed this story. I know that there's a Mexican restaurant is going in there—that's all the construction guys would say. Guess they started painting. Hope No Words Daily Pix can grab a PIX. Please.

Park Slope's Two Mystery Buildings. Here's a story I've covered quite a bit. In fact, According to Jerry, who knows EVERYTHING, something is going on in the building on Third Street. Bob also mentions my post about the 2nd Street house that Whimsy built. Hah.

There seems to be no end to the fascination with the mystery building on Third Street. So often I walk by and people are staring and murmuring, "What's with this building? Wonder who owns it? Why has it been vacant for all these years?"

Sixteen years and counting...

Finally, the big story of the Park Slope day, Purity Reopens. Guess it was just a clean up, a little redecorating or a family emergency. Who knows. They didn't write, they didn't call, they didn't bother to tape a note to the door.

The nerve.

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What would Ferrarro say about David Patterson? (Brooklyn Junction)

Walt Whitman on 17th Street (Brooklynometry)

Poking my head out (Brooklyn Cowgirl)

What was Spitzer thinking? (Bad Girl Blog)

Maggie Moo's will be Dashing Diva (Gowanus Lounge)

A walk around my big fat ass (Reclaimed Home)

How to stop junk mail (I'm Seeing Green)

Brooklyn St. Patrick's pubs, parades, parties and more (About Brooklyn)

Frank Gehry no longer born in Brooklyn (Curbed)

I want a sober mind (Old First Blog)

Who Needs Anti-Depressants: Just Drink the Water

Big story today from the Associated Press. It's on Brian Lehrer, too and in NY Metro.

A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.

But the presence of so many prescription drugs -- and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen -- in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.

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A taste of the blogade at the Old Brick (Brooklynometry)

And nothing like the truth (Luna Park Gazette)

Astor Place soothed my soul (Found in Brooklyn)

An open letter to the women calling herself "Mrs. Rita Kabila" from Democratic Republic of Congo (Bad Girl Blog)

Getting people to recyclce electronics (NY Times)

Thriller in Times Square (NY Times)

Storm causes excitement in South Slope (Gowanus Lounge)

Roller skating this summer at Child's in Coney Island (Gowanus Lounge)

The foggy dew in Prospect Park (A Year in the Park)

Fighting school budget cuts: a meeting on Thursday (Gowanus Lounge)

The new and improved St. Clair Restaurant (A Brooklyn Life)

Battle tested vs. medium cool (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

In praise of lazy parenting (Full Permission Living)

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Has Hil chilled Bill? (NY Daily News)

Fifth Avenue honor system (Brooklynometry)

Best foreplay is husband who cleans house (NY Daily News)

New St. Clair Restaurant on Atlantic (McBrooklyn)

What reality TV can teach Hillary (NY Daily News)

A Walk Around the Blog (Brooklyn Optimist)

Daily News on the Brooklyn College dorms (Brooklyn Junction)

A Walk Around the Blog: LEED Platinum mixed use building (Reclaimed Home)

Marty Markowitz gets to fork in the road (City Room)

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Lockdown at Packer Collegiate(McBrooklyn)

Boerum Hill photographer loves the Mighty Handful (Richard Gin)

Park Slope poet's fleeting memories (Ugly Duckling Presse)

State of the MTA address (Gothamist)

The great Bed Stuy chicken rescue (Reclaimed Home)

Park Slope declares love for Babeland (Gothamist)

Reform Jews regularly praying (Andy Bachman's blog)

Court orders husband to give wife 124,000 roses (Brooklyn Optimist)

Delicatessen Delicatessen interior (Brooklynometry)

Walking to Red Hook (Shelleytown)

Fear itself and the Vale of Cashmere (A Year in the Park)

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Subway fare and bridge, tunnel toll increases take effect (NY 1)

Crossword enthusiasts at the Brooklyn Marriott (NY 1)

Soup is good food (Eat, Drink, Memory)

Subway asbestos removal leaves Carroll Gardens residents breathless (Gowanus Lounge)

The bride in the thrift shop window (McBrooklyn)

Gersh reads his hate mail (McBrooklyn)

Lovely photograph illustrating Metropolitan Diary (NY Times)

HBO puts "In Treatment" online at no charge (NY Times)

Review of John Zorn at St. Ann's Warehouse (NY Times)

Olympic sprinter among five dead in city car crashes (NY Daily News)
 

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The dirty window view from jury duty (Callalillie)

Bay Ridge's Gregory Hotel claims 2nd stab victim (Bay Ridge Rover)

Body found in bathtub of Bay Ridge hotel (NY Times)

Anthony Weiner: Making NYC the middle class capital of the world (City Room)

Countdown to Spring (Right in Bay Ridge)

Happy Birthday Johnny Cash (Bay Ridge Blog)

Lacrosse for kids (Clinton Hill Blog)

The media training begins (WNYC's Andrea Bernstein in Bhutan)

Stroller Wars (Mrs. Cleavage's Diary)

Ecstatic birth from midwife Ina May Gaskin (MNBC)

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Ralph Nader announces he's running, again (NY Times)

Issue Project Room: A Week of Voice (Issue Project Room)

George Polk award for Talking Points blogger (NY Times)

Bowling at Maple Lanes (Brooklynometry)

The lobster neon sign dies on March 16th (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Greening Flatbush event: Loads of pictures (Flatbush Gardener)

Fave vintage photos (Reclaimed home)

Cocktail Club on February 27th (Brooklyn Based)

Cool Brooklyn neighborhoods poster from Ork (Brooklyn Based)

Teacher ads to attack standardized testing (NY Daily News)

Love in Hard Times: Music of Paul Simon (BAM)

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One dead, two injured at Sunset Park Taqueria (NY 1)

Brooklyn under $500K (Reclaimed Home)

RIP: Alain Robbe Grillet (New York Times)

Save the lobster in Heights (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Feeding empty bellies in Greenpoint (The City)

The view from my window this morning (Self-Absorbed Boomer)

Is it legal for kids to sit at the bar? (The City)

Another liquor store done gone (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)

A ruin seeks a second act: Admiral's Row (The City)

Get a Book Nerd t-shirt (Written Nerd)

Missing soap at public restrooms (City Room)

Agate Court in Bed-Stuy (NY Times)

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A anthology of photos of Friday's snow in Brooklyn (Gowanus Lounge)

Brooklyn to host mortgage workshops (NY 1)

Eyesore: McDonald's on 9th Street (Brownstoner)

Date of Mermaid Parade set (Gowanus Lounge)

Big downtown project hits the brakes (Brooklyn Paper)

Toxic pre-school to reopen (McBrooklyn)

Artist takes Borough President to task for Parachute Jump comments (Brooklyn Paper)

Slumber party at Harriet's Alter Ego (Brooklyn Paper)

Car chase ends on Smith Street (Gowanus Lounge)

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7 to compete for Miss Brooklyn title (NY Daily News)

Midlife suicide rate rises (NY Times)

New look for Vanderbilt Playground on the Windsor Terrace side of Prospect Park (Brownstoner)

The monolith of Fourth Avenue (Gowanus Lounge)

Kid's Sundays at Children's Corner in Prospect Park (Gowanus Lounge)

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Green-Wood Cemetery teeming with raccoons (Gothamist)

Amtrak beefs up security (NY Daily News)

$4 slice of pizza at Di Fara's (NY Post)

Homeless man saves father and two sons in Brooklyn fire (NY Post)

Reading The Power Broker (Callalillie)

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Gothamist is Five (Gothamist)

Mental Patient charged in brutal slaying (NY Daily News)

Trader Joe's gets nod from Landmarks (McBrooklyn and Brownstoner)

New York trumps San Francisco for Once (I'm Seeing Green)

London vs. Paris Cycling Wars (I'm Seeing Green)

What happens when we die? (Andy Bachman's Blog)

The woman at the well (Old First Blog)

In the spooky Whole Foods lot (Blue Jake)

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School chancellor asks Mark Twain Middle School to overturn desegregation laws (NY 1)

Quinn calls for task force to address housing crisis (Atlantic Yards Report)

Pintchik Family and the future of Flatbush Avenue (Atlantic Yards Report)

Shirts in bloom (A Test of Will)

Party for those married or in love for fifty years or more (Gowanus Lounge)

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How city democrats voted: a map (NY Times)

Bloggers, blog readers alike: Brooklyn Blogade Brunch Sunday at Faan Restaurant on Smith Street (Creative Times)

Park Slope Mugging Map (Gowanus Lounge)

Get Yourself a block grant (Streetsblog)

Awwwww: Cute pix from Sean Casey Animal Rescue (Gowanus Lounge)

Sanctimony about Peeing—or sometimes I miss the hippies (Brooklynometry)

Brooklyn Heights Parking Follies (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Most votes for Obama in all of NYC (Clinton Hill Blog)

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Overstuffed State of the Borough address (Atlantic Yards Report)

It's true: Ratner a big liar! (Brooklyn Paper)

Atlantic Yards Camera Club (Brit in Brooklyn)

YMCA may run Park Slope armory (Brooklyn Paper)

Park Slope pediatrician beaten in office (Brooklyn Paper)

Return of the Park Slope pissers (Gowanus Lounge)

Park Slope Tea Lounge suckage (Gowanus Lounge)

Markowitz: tourism growth a Brooklyn Story (NY Daily News)

Neighborhood Housing Services (Reclaimed Home)

Greenpoint artist paints construction sites (Brooklyn Based)

Moving makes me madder than mad (Mrs. Cleavage's Diary)

Toxic Brooklyn pre-school update (McBrooklyn)

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City sponsors contest to design emergency housing (WNYC)

Finding lunch in the food wasteland of midtown Manhattan (Midtown lunch)

Kids say the darnedest things (Brooklynometry)

Are cookies the new cupcakes? (Brooklyn Based)

Brooklyn students paid to perform (NY Daily News)

Park Slope/Prospect Heights Mugging Map (Brownstoner)

More buses for Red Hook (NY Daily News)

Ash Wednesday in Bay Ridge (Right in Bay Ridge)

What's the stink in Bay Ridge? (NY Daily News)

High school of advertising (NY Daily News)

A time of atonement (Self-absorbed Boomer)

Schedule of community board meetings (Gowanus Lounge)

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Super Super Tuesday coverage on WNYC starting at 7 p.m. (WNYC)

South Brooklyn police scandal (NY Times)

Preschoolers who witnessed 9/11 suffer stress (NY Daily News)

Prior trauma raised children's 9/11 risk (NY Times)

Michelle Williams: Please respect our need to grieve privately (NY Daily News)

Did you know that... (Dope on the Slope)

Take action against school cuts (Brooklynometry)

Park Slope kid having tantrum bends fence (Brooklynometry)

Never fully ten nor alone: Kaddish at Beth Elohim (Andy Bachmnan's Blog)

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David Tyree's catch (NY Daily News)

Nathan's: weiner wonderland? (NY Daily News)

Teachers see bias in school rankings (NY Daily News)

His city lost and found (NY Times)

More on wounded dog found on 6th Avenue (Gowanus Lounge)

Monday: New Voices on the Gowanus: Focus on the Public Place (Gowanus Lounge)

Trader Joe's update (McBrooklyn)

Sustainable Flatbush is in Brazil (Sustainable Flatbush)

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Local analysis of the Clinton/Obama debate on the Brian Lehrer radio show today (WNYC)

Panel approves congestion pricing for entry 60th Street and below (Daily News)

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo (Marketplace)

Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn Heights for sale (McBrooklyn)

Public school budgets slashed (New York Times)

Blogger Written Nerd wins library award (Brooklyn Optimist)

Brooklyn Paper editor's cast is for sale (ebay)

New chef at The Montauk Club (Go Brooklyn)

Brooklyn Brewery owner raises $40,000 for Transportation Alternatives (NY Daily News)

There Will Be Blood playing at BAM (BAM)

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Winter plant show at Botanic Gardens (NY 1)

Bay Ridge pharmacy owner linked to sterioids found dead (NY 1)

Lowen's pharmacy in Bay Ridge (Bay Ridge Blog)

Tragedy averted (McBrooklyn)

New York Matters Film Festival curated by Isabel Hill (Spoke the Hub)

Carroll Gardens zoning rally (Gowanus Lounge)

Interview with Major Owens on Barack Obama (Brooklyn Optimist)

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Bush's last State of the Union (NY Times)

Bloomberg to Spitzer: Thanks for Nothing (NY Daily News)

Hot selling market on Third Street between the Gowanus and Hoyt Street (Gowanus Lounge)

Recycling at construction sites proposed by Brooklyn Assemblyman (NY 1)

Idiotarad: the idiocy and the ecstasy (Brooklyn Optimist)

Brooklyn calendar girls curbed (Brooklynometry)

Joanna Newsom and the Brooklyn Philarmonic (NY Times)

Paul Simon to be celebrated at BAM, including concert staging of The Capeman (NY Times)

Swimming in the Sea of Death by David Rieff (NY Times)

Hot water from tap should never be used for cooking or drinking (NY Times)

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High mercury levels found in tuna sushi (NY Times)

Residents may be allowed to return 475 Kent Street (NY 1)

475 Kent has website and Flickr Pool (Gowanus Lounge)

Transparent Pulpit at Beth Elohim (Andy Bachman's blog)

Call for high school filmmakers (Bed Stuy Blog)

Blogternity Leave (Brooklyn Junction)

Interview with Heath Ledger (NY Daily News)

Atlantic Yards Destruction Update (Brit in Brooklyn)

Interview with Windsor Terrrace Hero: John Linnell of They Might Be Giants (Gothamist)

The Gowanus in Women's Wear Daily (Gowanus Lounge)

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Stocks plunge worldwide on fear of US recession (NY Times)

MLK: The fierce urgency of now (Brooklyn Junction)

Flock of fake owls in Red Hook (Callalillie)

Bring Wegman to the Navy Yard (Clinton Hill)

Measuring teachers by test scores (NY Times)

Live opera in HD at BAM: Hansel and Gretel (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Calorie counts at fast food restaurants (NY Post)

Do me a grilled cheese (Eat, Drink, Memory)

A tale of two Brooklyns (NY Daily News)

Letter grades for NYC public schools (Newsday)

The Future of Molecular Medicine (Secret Science Club at Union Hall)

Italian hero's at Carluccios in Bensonhurst (Clinton Hill Gastrome)

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Dispatches from mass eviction of Williamsburg loft building (Gowanus Lounge)

Explosives and weapons found in Brooklyn Heights apartment (McBrooklyn)

Babbo's Books (Brooklynometry)

Charlie on the MTA redux (Brooklyn Junction)

Faces behind the Brooklyn Blogade (Reclaimed Home) and Brooklyn Bloggers are the Best (Brooklyn Optimist)

Bobby Fisher and me (Brooklyn Optimist)

Bobby Fisher's Window (Full Permission Living)

Gut Feelings (Full Permission Living)

Cobble Hill pet psychic (NY Times)

New study: Coffee may increase risk of miscarriage (NY Times)