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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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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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EVENT: Hidden history

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

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... History buffs, take note ... One of Brooklyn’s prized historical sites — the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights — will be open to the public this month to learn about its role during in freeing slaves during the Abolition movement in the first annual “NYC Underground Railroad Festival.” ... Held fittingly on June 19 — aka Juneteenth, Emancipation Day — the day-long celebration

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BOOKS: Great lineup at the next Franklin Park reading on June 14

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

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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Get your week started with some booze and books ... On June 14, the Crown Heights bar Franklin Park kicks off its monthly summer reading series with an eclectic line-up of writers and performers ... There will be Zetta Elliott, author of “A Wish After Midnight,” a time-travel novel set in that most sci fi of neighborhoods, Crown Heights; Matt Gallagher, author of the Iraq war memoir ““Kaboom: Embracing

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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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Video Tour of Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6 Playground

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Published June 9, 2010 at 2:09 a.m.

Have you been to Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6 yet? If not, take a look at Karl Junkersfeld's excellent video tour of Brooklyn Heights' newest attraction. Karl is a frequent contributor to the Brooklyn Heights Blog ... Go to McBrooklyn's HOME PAGE ...

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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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Biviano, Squadron Write Twin Brooklyn Paper Op-Eds

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Published June 9, 2010 at 1:02 p.m.

Brooklyn Heights resident and NYS Assembly candidate Doug Biviano has written an Op-Ed piece for the Brooklyn Paper:Brooklyn Paper: Coupled with the state’s arcane election law, it is virtually impossible for challengers to win. Legally complicated by design, election law is used by the incumbents to throw hundreds of challengers off the ballot, resulting in 98 [ ... ] ...

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Sideways Smart Cars Cause Controversy on Henry Street

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Published June 9, 2010 at 9:16 p.m.

McBrooklyn reports on a Smart Car parking dust up Monday in front of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema. The lil “critters” were parked in front of the theater as part of a promotion around the Brooklyn Film Festival happening there this week. Mickey B picks it up from there:The idea was to show how the critters [ ... ] ...

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