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

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Published Aug. 23, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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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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.

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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Summer Fun In the City

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

From Governors IslandTo ‘Key to the City’ ... By Mayor Michael Bloomberg ... New York is always a wonderful town in the summer. Just recently we cut the ribbon on the newest section of Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 6. The week before, we ...

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Everything’s Coming Up Roses For Mr. Junkersfeld

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Published June 8, 2010 at 4:42 p.m.

Our man Karl visits Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and is delighted to meet Rosa rugosa ...

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2010 World Cup LIVE Viewings in Dumbo

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Published June 7, 2010 at 6:25 p.m.

From the Dumbo Improvement District:On Saturday, June 12th, the Dumbo Improvement District brings a little bit of the action from the 2010 World Cup South Africa to the borough of Brooklyn!Start your weekends off with fellow soccer enthusiasts in The Archway, under the Manhattan Bridge, for Saturday matches, as well as the tournament final ... [ ... ] ...

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DOWNTOWN: En garde! Fending World Cup opens in Brooklyn on Friday

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Forget soccer. This month, Brooklyn is the international home of swordplay as the Fencing World Cup comes to the Marriott from June 18-20 ... Some of the best fencers in the world will be competing throughout the weekend, among them Flatlands native Nzingha Prescod ... Only 17 years old, Prescod is formidable with a foil, one of the more popular fencing forms, probably because the goal is to nail your opponent

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Living in a World of Fools: How Deep is your Ride

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Published June 8, 2010 at 7:41 a.m.

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After my eventful leave of absence I have been working hard to catch up on the many items that are languishing and festering on my "To Do" list ... For example, my refrigerator is long overdue for a cleaning, and it turns out that if you leave cheese alone for long enough it will actually reproduce via mitosis ... (This is a rare case of extreme apathy yielding a groundbreaking scientific discovery.) Also, the cat has not eaten in fourteen months ... Most distressingly, I apparently missed some

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MEAN STREETS: Greenpoint Bridge gives this cyclist 40 stitches!

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Published June 8, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Aaron Short ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The city is about to resurface the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, but for Queens cyclist, Rafael Aviles, it is too little too late ... On May 22, Aviles flew over his handlebars and skidded on the asphalt after his front wheel wedged into a two-inch crack in the middle of the cratered surface of the forelorn bridge ... “I was riding normally,” said Aviles. “My front wheel went into a crack. It got stuck in little

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BAY RIDGE: Pharmacy robbed by mullet- and gun-wielding thief

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

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Meet a one man prescription for trouble ... A mullet-sporting gunman is being sought for raiding a Bay Ridge pharmacy at gunpoint on June 8 — and then apologizing for his actions ... Police said the rail-thin renegade entered the A and V Pharmacy on Fourth Avenue between 84th and 85th streets at 7 pm with a bandanna over his nose and mouth. He flashed a pistol and gave the local alchemist a note ordering him to

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MEAN STREETS: Fix the BQE? Here are three ways

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

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... The Brooklyn Paper ... A plan to make long-overdue repairs to the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway by tearing down historic homes in Brooklyn Heights is just one of several options that state officials are considering. Here are all the alternatives so far: ... • Work with what we’ve got: Improve the existing highway from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street, a lower impact remedy that would spare the taking of property, but would not fully meet state design

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