Turning a Corner

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Published Aug. 24, 2010 at 12:23 p.m.

A gritty Clinton Hill corner once known for an open-air drug market and shootings has been reborn as a hot spot for trendy nightlife ...

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Dangerous Clinton Hill corner transformed into trendy hot spot

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Published Aug. 23, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.

A gritty Clinton Hill corner once known for an open-air drug market and shootings has been reborn as a hot spot for trendy nightlife ...

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AWESOME: Here it is, folks — this week’s celebrity shot

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Published June 13, 2010 at 12:59 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... TV actor Tim DeKay — best known for his guest appearances on popular shows such as “Seinfeld,” “Friends,” “Scrubs” and “CSI” — was kickin’ it in Cobble Hill on Friday, shooting a scene for his star role in the FBI-thriller “White Collar” on Warren Street between Court and Clinton streets ... The guy loves the borough so much that he told us he’s looking for an apartment in Park Slope

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Building of the Day: 70 Eighth Avenue

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Published June 14, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.

The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy ... Address: 70 Eighth Avenue, corner of Union St ... Name: Mrs. M.V. Phillips House ... Neighborhood: Park Slope (Park Slope Historic District) ... Year Built: 1887 ... Architectural Style: Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival ... Architect: ... L.V. Holden ... Landmarked: Yes ...

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Food Co-op May Lease Space on Putnam

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Published June 14, 2010 at 10:01 a.m.
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This would have pretty major implications for a longtime troubled corner of Clinton Hill: The Clinton Hill Blog is reporting that the Greene Hill Food Co-op, a nascent food co-operative that has been in the works for a couple of years now, is considering renting a row of small storefronts at 10-16 Putnam Avenue for its permanent headquarters; this stretch includes the mysterious and infamous Putnam Candy Store, profiled last year on The Times' Local Blog ... Combined with the new bar that's

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CLINTON HILL: ‘Hill’ street blues on Vanderbilt as city agency ponders move

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Published June 13, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... A daily influx of more than 3,000 workers, food stamp recipients, domestic violence victims and child support enforcement officers will overwhelm Clinton Hill if the city goes ahead with a controversial plan to relocate the Human Resources Administration headquarters from a Downtown office complex to a residential area, members of Community Board 2 said last week ... The June 9 rejection of the agency’s planned

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CLINTON HILL: PO’d! Pratt post office will be closed for a year!

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Published May 9, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Stephen Witt ... Community Newspaper Group ... The Pratt post office on Myrtle Avenue — which was shuttered on March 1 for eight weeks of emergency repairs — will actually be closed for up to a year, the United States Postal Service admitted on Friday ... The current facility, between Grand and Steuben streets, was closed for emergency structural repairs after workers found the floor buckling. But further review discovered far more damage, causing

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Road Repairs in Fort Hill

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Published May 12, 2010 at 10:31 a.m.
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Traffic in Fort Greene: Major sections of both Vanderbilt (top) and Lafayette (bottom) Avenues have been under construction, causing back-ups on alternate and overlapping routes. Today the action expands further on Lafayette into Clinton Hill. Times like these a mountain bike comes in handy ...

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Co-op of the Day: 277 Washington Avenue, #6E

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Published May 6, 2010 at 12:38 p.m.
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Here's an attractive prewar one-bedroom at 277 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill. The kitchen build-out definitely encroaches on the spaciousness of the living room, but the overall space, complete with entry foyer, works pretty well. The monthly maintenance is $611, perfectly reasonable for a 700-square-foot apartment. Asking price is $385,000. What think ye? ... 277 Washington Avenue, #6E [Corcoran] GMAP ... P*Shark ...

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Inside Third & Bond: Week 129

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Published May 6, 2010 at 11:32 a.m.
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Open houses are a tremendous source of data, both numerical and anecdotal. None of the data would pass an intro to statistics student’s muster but it provides useful information to us nonetheless. We don’t need high falutin’ standard deviations or t-tests to get at the headlines. If we were selling thousands of homes across the country like a suburban developer, maybe it would pay to run more precise studies but for our purposes it isn’t worth the time or money ... The things we most

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