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Big boutique heist
November 30, 2010 | 3:29pm84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownBoutique heistThugs busted into a Livingston Street clothing boutique and made off with a whopping $35,000 worth of merchandise overnight on Nov. 18.The owner of the shop,...
FBI to Brooklyn: Watch your neighbors for us
November 23, 2010 | 3:47amThe FBI wants you — to report on your neighbors.The federal law enforcement agency is ramping up its “InfraGard” program, which recruits residents for an elite organization of terrorist watchdogs.Over...
Duck feeding is an age-old pasttime
November 23, 2010 | 3:35amThe ban on feeding the waterfowl in Prospect Park will bring an end to a childhood rite that goes back to the beginnings of organized civilization.Park officials say that the...
Jay-Z brings it all back home
November 19, 2010 | 9:34pmBrooklyn’s finest returned to the borough where it all began on Thursday night, reminiscing about being a crack king in the Marcy projects before becoming hip-hop royalty in the 1990s.In...
Love geese? Then stop feeding them!
November 19, 2010 | 5:02amThe geese of Prospect Park will be safe from future federal massacres under a plan that calls for destroying their eggs, bringing in bird-chasing dogs, designing new landscapes to be...
Cheery Gehry not weary of theory
November 17, 2010 | 7:17pmGehry came to the university to address students from the School of Architecture, though it seemed the entire student body was begging ushers for a seat inside the auditorium.And like...
Look out for the pumpkin bomb!
November 16, 2010 | 5:35pm84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownPumpkin bombTwo young girls clobbered a woman with a pumpkin in the back of the head on Nov. 9.The victim told cops that she was walking to...
Trading 'spaces'! Parking lanes may get sidewalk cafes this summer
November 16, 2010 | 3:18amThe only bad thing about our borough’s roads is that there’s no place to sit and have a meal.Of course, that could change this summer when the city widens a...
Comic book opens the vault
November 15, 2010 | 8:42pmOne of the country’s biggest collections of comic books will be opened to the public for the first time ever this weekend. Joe Koch, one of the owners of Forbidden...
The inside story on how Achilles was saved
November 15, 2010 | 3:42amA swan with an illegal barbed fishhook through its foot was saved from a painful fate by two wildlife enthusiasts on Friday, in the latest clash between waterfowl and Prospect...
Almontaser speaks — and she decries anti-Islamic 'propaganda'
November 8, 2010 | 5:26pmOpponents of the mosque in Sheepshead Bay are playing the same game as right-wing fear-mongerers who have targeted the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, according to an alleged victim of Islamophobia.Debbie...
Sign of the times! Trader Joe's admits its crime problem
November 5, 2010 | 4:03amManagers of the Trader Joe’s on Court Street have confessed — albeit in its own cheeky way — that the store is a magnet for criminals.A new sign at the...
Gehry returns to the borough of his greatest failure
November 3, 2010 | 6:18pmStarchitect Frank Gehry will return to the borough where he proposed his most ambitious design — and which became his greatest failure — next week.In one of his first public...
Junior's marks 60 cheesy years
November 2, 2010 | 11:28pmIt’s been over 40 years since a slice of Junior’s signature dessert — a deliciously rich and creamy cheesecake — cost only 60 cents.But that was the bargain offered on...
Teen terrors
November 2, 2010 | 5:30pm84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownTeenage kicksA trio of teenage goons went on a violent crime spree on Oct. 28, though two of them ended up in the big house.Various witnesses told...
Today is Junior's birthday — but you get the cake!
November 2, 2010 | 2:01amIt’s been over 40 years since a slice of Junior’s signature dessert — a deliciously rich and creamy cheesecake — cost only 60 cents.But that’s the bargain being offered today...
Debbie Almontaser to speak on Friday
November 1, 2010 | 2:14amMany people have been stunned by the furor over the so-called Ground Zero mosque, but anyone living in Brooklyn saw it coming three years ago.That’s when the saga of the...
Debbie Almontaser to speak on Friday
November 1, 2010 | 2:04amThat’s when the saga of the Khalil Gibran Academy — an Arabic language school — played out, first in Park Slope and then in Boerum Hill.A new documentary about Debbie...
This Washington crossing needs Gen. Jeff!
October 29, 2010 | 5:11pmJeff Sherman has been hit by a car at the intersection of Washington and Atlantic avenues for the last time!The Prospect Heights resident is so angry about the death trap...
City: Cement will make a better Boardwalk
October 29, 2010 | 4:01amThe test results are in — and a concrete Boardwalk is inevitable!Parks Department officials announced on Wednesday night that concrete fared far better than wood or artificial material as a...