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 Developer Bruce Ratner speaks about the Barclays Center arena. Featuring star power and street cred, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Barclays Center Arena - for better or worse - opened up a new era in the borough’s development.
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Bruce Ratner and a deep bench of supporters of his Atlantic Yards mega-project broke ground on a basketball arena for his Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets on Thursday afternoon, drawing to a symbolic close to more than seven years of delays for the developer.
The Department of City Planning is embarking on a year-long, five-borough waterfront listening tour, an initiative aimed at crafting a long-term vision for over 500 miles of some of the city’s most coveted property.
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Councilwoman Letitia James is ramping the legal pressure up in her personal injury lawsuit against an itinerant laborer after she allegedly injured herself walking into his legally parked truck.
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Fresh on the heels of the new Flushing Avenue bike lane, the city unveiled plans for a bike-friendly facelift for Smith Street, turning the much-used approach to the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges much less harrowing.
At the end of this month, a new Miss Norway will be crowned in Brooklyn.
Hours before Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony for Bruce Ratner’s Barclays Center arena, a New York State Supreme Court judge ruled in the developer’s favor on what is the last of the major lawsuits against the mega-project. Cyclones ‘YOUniform’ tryouts
We had so much fun a few years ago with our first annual interfaith smackdown, that we invited Rev. Daniel Meeter of Old First Reformed Church and Rabbi Andy Bachman of Beth Elohim Synagogue in Park Slope to chew over the issues of the day facing the “faith-based” community. On the eve of their religions’ holiest periods, Meeter and Bachman checked in with our atheist editor, Gersh Kuntzman.
Impersonator Elliot Crown, wearing a three-foot long Marty Markowitz mask, stood in front of Freddy’s Bar and bellowed.
For the second time in as many months, cops collared a bevy of would-be Johns on the corner of Butler and Nevins streets in Boerum Hill on March 9. Sylvia Meyer has seen more than most...birthdays, that is. Some of the best city workers are right here in Brooklyn.
A “gritty” and very urban residential tower proposed by one of the nation’s largest suburban homebuilders breezed over the first hurdle of the public review process when a Community Board 2 committee approved Toll Brothers’ Water Street design on Wednesday night. Community Newspaper Group
Kensington Stables rides again!
That really was a heck of a storm! It’s looking less likely that Boerum Hill’s hottest prostitution corner will become the site of a new charter school. 84th Precinct
Sunday’s skating in Wollman Rink in Prospect Park was bittersweet — not just because it was the last day of the season, but because there won’t be any ice time at all for the next two years.
It turns out that the spirit of Brooklyn Heights is not all burned out!
Thursday’s symbolic groundbreaking of the Atlantic Yards project practically demands a look back at the long history of this ambitious and controversial project. Here’s a timeline. Paper or plastic? More and more, city’s schools are taking paper.
Previous Brooklyn Heights HeadlinesMarch 16th, 2010 Turns out, Monty blaze was not so spiritedIt turns out that the spirit of Brooklyn Heights is not all burned out!March 13th, 2010 City to take waterfront plan from shore to shoreThe Department of City Planning is embarking on a year-long, five-borough waterfront listening tour, an initiative aimed at crafting a long-term vision for over 500 miles of some of the city’s most coveted property.March 10th, 2010 March 6th, 2010 Kickboxing legend Neglia’s 28th Ring of CombatBrooklyn kickboxing promoter and former world champion kickboxer Louis Neglia presented a rousing evening of Mixed Martial Arts during his Ring of Combat(ROC) XXVIII in Atlantic City’s Tropicana Resort and Casino.Melee Erupts at MTA Brooklyn HearingA hearing on proposed Metropolitan Transportation Authority service cuts devolved into chaos after a woman — who tried to speak without first being called to the microphone — was arrested.Parents to DOE: give us a sayAnother day, another town hall, another plea for the city Department of Education (DOE) to better involve parents in the school system.Parents fight school budget cutsBrooklyn parents came out in force last week to protest the state’s proposed $1 billion cut in school funding.Day-long horticulture conference at Brooklyn Botanic GardenThis year’s Making Brooklyn Bloom, “Soil in the City: Growing Healthy Neighborhoods from the Ground Up,” focuses on revitalizing our soil. Dr. Nina Bassuk, director of the Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell University.WAH Center presents mixed-media works by ‘Creative Couples’The Williamsburg & Historical Center (WAH Center) presents “Creative Couples,” with works of six couples exemplifying the progress made since the beginnings of the women’s liberation movement.A taste of SXSW, in BrooklynSouth by Southwest, the annual marathon indie music festival, has hundreds of bands, and even more music fans, flocking to Austin next week.Inaugural DIY Music Festival Rocks BrooklynLet the music industry have South By Southwest and the CMJ festival. Brooklyn has its own DIY Music Festival for Brooklynites by Brooklynites. |
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