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Park Slope Courier > News 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.
Things are getting down and dirty between candidates David Greenfield and Joe Lazar in the imminent 44th District City Council race.
It may not have been “American Idol” or “America’s Got Talent,” but it was pretty close. ADVERTISEMENT 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. Jonathan Judge may have been tossed off the ballot in the upcoming 44th District City Council special election, but he’s not going down without a fight.
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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.
Riding a bicycle in Downtown Brooklyn can be hazardous — to your bank account. Some of the best city workers are right here in Brooklyn.
Kensington Stables rides again!
That really was a heck of a storm!
Internationally renowned architect Enrique Norten’s Carroll Street proposal was dealt a death blow on Friday when an obscure city board rejected his argument that he needed to expand the size of the Park Slope project to make it financially viable. It’s looking less likely that Boerum Hill’s hottest prostitution corner will become the site of a new charter school.
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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.
Previous Park Slope Courier HeadlinesMarch 17th, 2010 A 'Ten' shun! City rejects Enrique Norten's Park Slope projectInternationally renowned architect Enrique Norten’s Carroll Street proposal was dealt a death blow on Friday when an obscure city board rejected his argument that he needed to expand the size of the Park Slope project to make it financially viable.March 16th, 2010 Another big Boerum Hill prostitution bustFor 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.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 Bridging the divide between Park Slope and GhanaCharitable St. Francis Xavier School fifth and sixth graders have embraced and corresponded with the Ayeltige Primary School in Ghana so that they can enjoy a cultural exchange as well asdonate money and supplies to the West African Catholic institution.March 6th, 2010 Squadron says no to Senesh planAllowing a Carroll Gardens private school to expand into its courtyard would set a dangerous precedent and should be thwarted, a local lawmaker implored this week.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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