BOERUM HILL: ‘Blue’ note! Ice cream parlor to close in rent dispute

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Published Aug. 24, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Joe Anuta ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... One of the engines of gentrification in Boerum Hill has decided to close its doors — because of, well, gentrification ... Blue Marble Ice Cream, which opened three years ago along then-hardscrabble Atlantic Avenue and helped usher in a new era of chi-chi coffee, shops, fashions, and cocktails, will close in October ... Dairy darlings Jennie Dundas and Alexis Miesen cited a rent hike by landlord Manuel Fernandez

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GOWANUS: Councilman Steve: Save the D&D Pool!

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:03 p.m.
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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... One week after the city announced that it would close the Douglass-Degraw pool this summer, the neighborhood’s councilman called the move disastrous and vowed to open the watering hole for his sweating constituents ... “A lot of families depend on this pool for free recreation,” said Councilman Steve Levin (D–Williamsburg), who convened a meeting on Monday night at an

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GOWANUS: To save D&D pool, it’s Facebook to the rescue!

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Published June 8, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... It’s sink-or-swim time for fans of the Douglass-Degraw pool, who are hoping that their newly created Facebook group will generate a tidal wave of letters to convince the big fish in city government to rescue their beloved watering hole ... The Parks Department said last week that Gowanus’s beloved “Double D” pool would be among four such facilities citywide that will be closed for the summer in order to save

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Police Community Council Meeting

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Published June 13, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

Tuesday night, the 84th Precinct Community Council, covering Downtown, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Boerum Hill, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Baptist Temple, 360 Schermerhorn St. Elections for new officers will be held ... * * * ... Questions? Comments? Sound ...

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Developer disappears after losing lawsuit

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Published June 9, 2010 at 11:45 p.m.

An embattled developer has pulled a disappearing act, a frustrated condo owner charges. A Boerum Hill couple successfully sued developer Shaya Boymelgreen over construction problems in their building, but he won't pay up - and not even the sheriff can track him down ...

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BOERUM HILL: Not so ‘Bueno’! Smith St. eatery to become a stationery store

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Published June 7, 2010 at 11:03 p.m.

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The Smith Street rumor mills can stop churning — a stationery store is taking over the now-defunct Bueno restaurant at the corner of Pacific Street ... Details are sketchy, but sources said that the boarded-up storefront near Atlantic Avenue will soon be pushing paper rather than skirt steak and potatoes ... The spot has changed hands so often in recent years — from Trout to Gravy to Fish Shack to Bueno,

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CARROLL GARDENS: Seven more horndogs captured in Boerum Hill sting

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Published June 7, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gersh Kuntzman ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Seven more men — including one who assaulted a police officer — were busted on June 5 at a shady Boerum Hill corner for trying to get a little action from a woman who turned out to be an undercover cop ... Police from the 76th Precinct have now nabbed 20 men in “Operation Losing Proposition,” their monthly sting at the slimy corner of Butler and Nevins streets — and in all cases, the horndogs allegedly

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GOWANUS: Double D-saster! City closes Gowanus public pool for the summer!

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Published June 5, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The Douglass-Degraw pool, a cool respite for thousands of inner-city kids in Gowanus, will not be open this summer, the city quietly announced this week, citing budget cuts ... The pool, along Nevins Street between Douglass and Degraw streets, is the lone Brooklyn watering hole out of four citywide that will be shuttered, a cost-cutting move the city says will save $1.4 million ... “It was a difficult decision but

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NIGHTLIFE: Beer war! Suds nerds in battle at brewing ‘Knights’ joust at Union Hall

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Published June 1, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Kristen V. Brown ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... Something is brewing at Union Hall — more accurately, homebrewing ... On June 15, the Park Slope bar and performance space will host Knights of Bruklyn Homebrewer’s Sentry, the first in a series of three homebrew competitions ... These knights are not out to save a damsel in distress — unless that damsel likes a strong, quirky brew with a typically eccentric

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ART: How green is our valley? Corn stalk pokes up at Smith St ‘farm’

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Published June 1, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... And on the sixth day — of a Boerum Hill art project — there was life! ... A lone, delicate plant has emerged from a rare corn seed planted last week at the corner of Smith and Bergen streets, part of an art installation called Maize Field ... This corn is certainly not as high as an elephant’s eye — but the first signs of life temporarily overwhelmed artist Christina Kelly, who has been dutifully nurturing

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