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Assault in Vinegar Hill and More Brooklyn Briefs

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

- Fire devastates row of businesses on Flatbush Ave. early Sunday morning. NY Daily News ... - New data suggest the summer of 2010 is the hottest on record. Huff Post ... - That's low: A guy broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Sunset Park and broke her turtle tank. Brooklyn Eagle ... - Stabbed cabbie worries about feeding his family. NY Magazine ... - A Brooklyn woman was caught on surveillance video sneaking under a light pole after it fell down - then claiming it

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MEDIA: COBBLE HILL: MEDIA: That’s my money! Millman backtracks from pension pledge

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Published Aug. 28, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

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

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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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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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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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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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City goes after IOU buildings

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Published June 15, 2010 at 4:10 a.m.

The free ride's over for low-income buildings that ducked $100 million in property taxes and water charges for decades ... A city crackdown is under way -- including one at a 10-building, 302-unit complex run by the Bronx Heights Neighborhood Community Corp. It owes $3.7 million and faces foreclosure ...

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'No English' fraud defense

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Published June 15, 2010 at 3:46 a.m.

The attorney for a Brooklyn man accused of ripping off more than $33,000 in Medicaid benefits says his client is innocent -- because he cannot read English ... "How can you scheme the welfare system if you can't read or write the papers you're signing?" Joe Mure asked ...

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Bites of Heights

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Published June 15, 2010 at 3:34 a.m.

It’s highway robbery!Some 30 to 50 buildings along the pricey Brooklyn waterfront -- including multimillion-dollar historic brownstones in Brooklyn Heights -- could be demolished by the state to modernize and revamp the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, officials confirmed yesterday.The state Department of Transportation is reviewing many ways to ...

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'Brew' crew revives Miles Davis's classic LP at Celebrate Brooklyn

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Published June 14, 2010 at 11:55 p.m.

Forty years ago, one of the most seminal jazz albums — Miles Davis’s “Bitches Brew” — was released, a record that changed the course of music history.This month, the classic jazz-rock fusion album gets revisited, as a multi-generational array of contemporary and experimental jazz artists explore its legacy as part ...

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