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
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
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
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Sen. Daniel Squadron ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... There are a lot of reasons why New Yorkers are so frustrated with our government. The gubernatorial scandals and last year’s senate stalemate are certainly high among them. A tight job market and unsure economy add to the unhappiness ... And, on top it all, there is a perfect storm battering state budget negotiations in the form of the worst fiscal crisis in two generations ... And this all comes
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Doug Biviano ... for The Brooklyn Paper ... Despite warnings over the last decade of the dangers of a dysfunctional and corrupt Albany, New Yorkers re-elected almost every incumbent running for office. Now we must live with not only a broken government, but, worse, the busted state economy caused by it. In this coming year, our children will sit in more overcrowded classrooms. Seventy-five senior centers will be cut, firehouses closed, and doctors cut
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Andy Campbell ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Another meat-labeling foul at a Brooklyn Heights Key Food has left managers scrambling to win back their customers’ trust, just days after the same Atlantic Avenue store’s legendary “Poultrygate” scandal ... Last month, the news was that state agriculture officials had investigated the supermarket for allegedly relabeling poultry so that it would sell well after its “sell-by” date ... But this week,
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Meredith Deliso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... Sherri Eisenberg has traveled the world as a travel writer, and has found that nothing compares to Brooklyn’s culinary scene ... “Brooklyn has such an exciting food scene,” said Eisenberg. “It’s hard to think of other places that have as diverse the offerings as Brooklyn does.” ... Eisenberg would know — she just published a handbook to the borough’s food scene, titled “Food Lovers’ Guide to
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Stephen Brown ... The Brooklyn Paper ... A pair of Brooklyn filmmakers has taken two of the fundamental aspects of the borough — hipsters and West Indian culture — and thrown them together in a road trip-flick that is earning awards on the festival circuit ... “Wah Do Dem” — which means “what’s wrong with them” in Jamaican patois — tells the story of Max (played by Sean Bones), whose trip to Jamaica gets off to a rocky start before he
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com ... By Gary Buiso ... The Brooklyn Paper ... It’s sink-or-swim time for fans of the Douglass-Degraw pool, who are hoping that their newly created Facebook group will generate a tidal wave of letters to convince the big fish in city government to rescue their beloved watering hole ... The Parks Department said last week that Gowanus’s beloved “Double D” pool would be among four such facilities citywide that will be closed for the summer in order to save
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