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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.
City agencies and utility companies were still digging out late Monday afternoon from the nor’easter that pummeled the borough over the weekend.
It may not have been “American Idol” or “America’s Got Talent,” but it was pretty close. ADVERTISEMENT
New high-tech transmitters that the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) says will eliminate the need for meter readers to visit homes have begun appearing around Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach and the rest of the borough as well. Attention! Attention! Thousands of jobs are available right now.
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.
In 2006, the new Bay View Houses community center was 75 percent complete, and was expected to open in the early part of 2007.
The 69th Precinct is moving to put the muffler on loud parties before they start for the summer.
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.
Community Newspaper Group Gunning for police vans
At the end of this month, a new Miss Norway will be crowned in Brooklyn.
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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. Sylvia Meyer has seen more than most...birthdays, that is. Some of the best city workers are right here in Brooklyn.
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.
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.
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