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CARROLL GARDENS: Engagement party on Court St. gets ugly — and the father of the bride is in the middle of it!

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Published June 7, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Wedding bells were drowned out by the wail of police sirens at Marco Polo Ristorante on Court Street early on Saturday night as an engagement celebration ended in a frenzied free-for-all — and the father of the bride was nabbed! ... Police were called to the famed Carroll Gardens eatery at the corner of Union Street at 12:30 am after several guests attending the party began fighting with each other ... As the

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The full list of street festivals

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Published June 3, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... No time is better than the summer time for a party in the street. Here’s a look at the upcoming festivals this summer (by date): ... FORT GREENE: Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 29, Ashland Place between Hanson Place and Fulton Street ... BAY RIDGE: Eighth Avenue Festival, May 30, Eighth Avenue between 39th and 49th streets ... FLATBUSH: Our Lady of Refuge Pig Roast and Street Fair, May 31, Foster Avenue at Ocean Avenue ...

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BAY RIDGE: Would-be Ridge leader says he’ll only back candidates who back him!

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Published May 11, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Helen Klein ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Kevin Peter Carroll has a few choice words for elected officials who endorse his opponent, Ralph Perfetto, for state committeeman: carry your own petitions! ... In the latest salvo in the battle for male District Leader in Bay Ridge, the 23-year-old Carroll says he won’t help candidates get re-elected if they don’t support his push to oust 18-year incumbent Ralph Perfetto from the coveted, unpaid seat ... This

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Russians Get Special Attention From Census Organizers

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Published May 5, 2010 at 10:27 a.m.

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The Russian community of Southern Brooklyn is getting extra attention to make sure its residents fill out their 2010 census forms.Approximately 90 Census Questionnaire Assistance Centers have opened in the area, including at the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst. The centers are staffed with a census employee three days a week to help people fill [ ... ] ...

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Hero mom, four others killed in Bensonhurst fire memorialized before Guatemalan burial

Published Feb. 19, 2010 at 10:25 p.m.

Victims of last month's terrible Bensonhurst blaze were memorialized Friday as family members prepared to send the bodies home to Guatemala for burial ...

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Forgotten NY goes to New Utrecht

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Published Feb. 12, 2010 at 10:01 a.m.

Intrepid wanderer, and master of Forgotten New York, Kevin Walsh, has journeyed into New Utrecht and Bensonhurst for his latest blog entries. Many people don’t know that Kings County was made up of 6 original towns – Brooklyn, Flatbush, Bushwick, New Utrecht, Flatlands, and Gravesend. New Utrecht once encompassed all of Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Borough Park. Bensonhurst was actually named for the Benson family, one member of which, Egbert Benson, was the first attorney general of New York

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Former Coney Island developer now setting sights on Red Hook project

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 9:51 a.m.

Now that he’s made peace with the city on Coney Island, developer Joe Sitt is getting some traction from the Bloomberg administration in moving forward with plans to bring big box retail to the Red Hook and Bensonhurst waterfronts in Brooklyn, sources told The Post. "They were definitely holding ...

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FDNY hands out 200 smoke detectors to residents in wake of deadly Bensonhurst fire that killed five

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Published Feb. 1, 2010 at 12:42 a.m.

Scared neighbors in Brooklyn snapped up free smoke detectors Sunday from the Fire Department, which handed out 200 alarms in just over an hour ...

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BAY RIDGE: ‘Golden’ boy! Upstart grad student to take on Sen. Marty

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Published Jan. 27, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The young guns are coming in to try and devour the “bad apples” rotting in Albany, and for one man, Bay Ridge’s longtime Republican state Sen. Marty Golden is the sourest of them all ... Democrat Mike DiSanto, 29, announced that he’ll challenge Golden this year — a race that would make him the youngest senator in a legislature not noted for turnover ... DiSanto is not only battling his own youth, but a

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In Case You Missed BP Marty Markowitz' State of the Borough Speech

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 10:46 p.m.

Here's the two-minute summary of yesterday's State of the Borough, as sent to us by the office of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz: ... On February 3, BP Markowitz was joined by Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, New York City Comptroller John Liu, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and more than a thousand guests and honorees for the 2010 State of the Borough Address at the Park Slope Armory.

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