MEDIA: COBBLE HILL: MEDIA: Debate week round two! Millman vs. Biviano!

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Published Aug. 23, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Assembly candidate Doug Biviano blasted away at incumbent Joan Millman in a debate last week, hammering her for taking her pension even as she works as a lawmaker, lambasting her for backing transit cuts, and for flip-flopping on housing inside Brooklyn Bridge Park — but the harshest word he had for Millman was that she’s “nice.” ... By our count, Biviano taunted his

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MEDIA: COBBLE HILL: MEDIA: That’s my money! Millman backtracks from pension pledge

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Published Aug. 28, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Assemblywoman Joan Millman has backed off a pledge to stop taking her public school teacher’s pension — and instead slammed her challenger for linking her to so-called “double-dipping” lawmakers who draw their state legislative pensions even as they work at the state house ... The 13-year lawmaker had said in an Aug. 20 debate that she would defer her pension if she

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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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Assault in Vinegar Hill and More Brooklyn Briefs

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

- Fire devastates row of businesses on Flatbush Ave. early Sunday morning.  NY Daily News ... - New data suggest the summer of 2010 is the hottest on record.  Huff Post  ... - That's low: A guy broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Sunset Park and broke her turtle tank.  Brooklyn Eagle  ... - Stabbed cabbie worries about feeding his family.  NY Magazine ... - A Brooklyn woman was caught on surveillance video sneaking under a light pole after it fell down - then claiming it

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BAY RIDGE: Help find Irwin, the stolen raccoon lawn ornament!

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Published June 10, 2010 at 9:04 a.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... It’s a crime of the most rabid proportions — someone stole Irwin the raccoon, a lawn ornament that’s served as one Bay Ridge resident’s own talisman for three years! ... Now Alicia Boros and her boyfriend are on a coon hunt near their 88th Street home that hasn’t turned up any results since Irwin went missing in April ... “It’s not common for people to touch the garden area [by my doorstep],”

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RED HOOK: Idle theat! Hook bus lot violates state law

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Published June 10, 2010 at 12:06 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The state is investigating a Red Hook bus lot, which has repeatedly violated idling laws and spewed toxins near a popular park and the waterfront area behind the new Ikea ... The Department of Environmental Conservation has identified multiple violations against Jofaz Transportation for bus idling at its lots near Van Dyke and Beard streets — and more could be on the way ... “The investigation is ongoing,”

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DOWNTOWN: MTA’s Jay Street paint chip disaster

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Published June 6, 2010 at 11:45 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is spending $110 million to rehabilitate the bustling Jay Street subway station, but it is content to treat the hub’s entryway as an ugly stepchild ... The transit agency said this week it will not repaint the peeling ceilings on either exit on the west side of Jay Street between Willoughby Street and Myrtle Avenue, leaving a moonscape of potentially toxic paint chips

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PARK SLOPE: A feud so bitter that a brother claims he doesn’t know his sister

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Ben Kochman ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... It’s a feud so overcaffeinated that a brother now claims that he’s never even met his sister! ... The sour sibling spat that split the ownership team of Cafe Regular in Park Slope has boiled over once again, now that Martin O’Connell has opened Cafe Martin — a new joint on Fifth Avenue that’s only six blocks away from the original coffee bar that his sister,

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MEAN STREETS: City still trying to get Park Circle right

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Helen Klein ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Even the city admits that it hasn’t fixed all the traffic problems at Park Circle ... The Department of Transportation made a series of changes at the circle beginning last fall, but the timing of traffic lights is still a problem, said Keith Bray, an assistant commissioner with the agency’s Brooklyn office, during an on-site meeting with neighborhood activists last week ... “The flow through is not optimal,

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WILLIAMSBURG WATERFRONT: Domino by the numbers

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Published June 6, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Aaron Short ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Now that the Domino Refinery redevelopment plan has been approved by the City Planning Commission, let’s take a look at its latest iteration before it gets debated by City Council later this month: ... • Area of the waterfront rezoning: 11.2 acres ... • Number of units: 2,200 to 2,400 ... • Number of below-market rate units: 660 ... • Tallest buildings: 40 stories ... • New public open space created: 4

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