Library Layoffs May Hit Brooklynology.

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Published June 9, 2010 at 9:15 a.m.

Many of you may know that New York City's three library systems are currently under threat of crippling budget cuts--so crippling, in fact, that about a third of the library's workforce received provisional pink slips last week, pending the finalization of budget negotiations.  Three of the Brooklyn Collection's staff are under the gun, and two of them -- Olivia and Ben--are Brooklynology bloggers. So here today are three of the actual faces of the budget cuts.  They represent 50% of the

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Brooklyn Today: Monday, June 14, 2010

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

This Morning’s News ... 24-Hour Read-In Protests Cuts to Libraries [New York Times] ... State Mulling Taking Heights Homes for BQE Repair [Brooklyn Paper] ... Habitat for Humanity Gets a Helping Hand From Absolut [Brooklyn the Borough] ... Brooklyn College, Residents Struggle Over Community Garden's ...

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SMARTMOM: Smartmom thinks she’s too young to have a college kid

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Published May 31, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Louise Crawford ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... When Smartmom and Hepcat found out they were pregnant with Teen Spirit in July, 1990, they were terrified ... “We can barely take care of ourselves,” Smartmom remembers saying. “How are we going to take care of a little baby?” ... Smartmom and Hepcat were sitting on the futon couch in the East Village co-op they shared. She started to cry, Hepcat looked very pale. Very ... But Smartmom knew she

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DINING: More fancy fast food comes to Williamsburg

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Published June 3, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Aaron Short ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Two of Manhattan’s highest-minded low-end food purveyors will soon be selling upscale tacos and hot dogs in Williamsburg ... By the end of the summer, Crif Dogs, known for its deep fried beef and pork hot dogs wrapped in bacon, will christen a storefront on Driggs Avenue near N. Seventh Street, while the owners of Soho-based Calexico are looking to open another second Brooklyn branch on Manhattan Avenue near

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College community garden gets a reprieve

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Published May 26, 2010 at 5:40 p.m.

Plans to uproot the Campus Road Community Garden - where the college wants to add parking - are on hold until the end of next month after a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge temporarily halted the construction ...

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Right Now: Native American Festival @ Floyd Bennett

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Published June 5, 2010 at 11:36 a.m.
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Redhawk Native American Arts Council presents the Native American Festival at Floyd Bennett Field:June 4-6, 2010 – Floyd Bennett FieldGateway National Recreation Area50 Aviation Rd., Brooklyn, NYBy Subway: Take 2 train to Brooklyn College Flatbush Ave. Take the Q35 Bus to Barron Island Marina.By Car: Take the Belt Parkway to Exit 11S Flatbush Ave.Follow signs [ ... ] ...

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Brooklyn Teen Drowns, Fossella Says 'No," and More Brooklyn Briefs

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Published May 27, 2010 at 12:07 a.m.

- Disgraced Vito Fossella says "no" to GOP nomination for old seat.  Brooklyn Eagle  ... - City officials will finally cover two stinky tanks at the Owls Head sewage treatment plant.  Brooklyn Paper ... - Quite the transformer explosion and fire on Water Street in DUMBO.  Dumbo NYC ... -  A judge ... has temporarily blocked Brooklyn College from paving over a community garden.  NY Times ... - A Brooklyn teen was wading in waist-high water on Long Beach when he was pulled out to

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CARROLL GARDENS: Vicious subway mug

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Published June 1, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gersh Kuntzman ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Smith snatch ... A thief knocked down a woman and stole her bag at the Carroll Street F train station on May 25 — but he didn’t get far before he was nabbed ... The victim told cops that she was waiting on the Manhattan-bound platform underneath President Street at around 2:25 am when a 22-year-old man approached, knocked her down and took her bag ... He ran away with the contents — a cellphone, an iPod, a

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MEADOWS OF SHAME: Death stalks Prospect Park again as a dead possum is found

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Published May 7, 2010 at 7:30 a.m.
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Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Thomas Tracy ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The Grim Reaper has plied his deadly trade by the lake in Prospect Park yet again this week, leaving in his wake a dead raccoon, a possum and several gosling — whose corpses all showed up on the same day that we reported that the federal government had given Prospect Park an environmental award! ... Since late March, park-goers have found severed chicken heads, animal guts

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CLEANING THE GOWANUS: Report: Gowanus will bloom with more housing, less stink

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Published May 11, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... The future of the toxic Gowanus Canal zone can be bright — if the waterway is cleaned and thousands of new residential apartments are built, a new report argued this week ... Of course, that conversation starter was expected, given that the report, “Reconsidering Gowanus,” was commissioned by a real-estate institute charged with plotting a course for a corpse of water that the federal government has designated

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