By Carmine Santa Maria
Sunday Screech: In this week’s Screech, Carmine goes on and on about stuff.
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Letters: It’s your page and you know it! Boardwalk fans rush to defend the famed walkway from getting a concrete makeover.
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By Carmine Santa Maria
Big Screecher: This week, Carmine says he’s had it up to here with people not following the pooper-scooper law.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Mean Streets: Opponents of a much-anticipated cycling route that connects the Prospect Park West bike lane with Park Slope and Prospect Heights want the city to push aside the new path — literally.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Park Slope: A doorman at a posh Prospect Park West building has cracked the code of secrecy about a parking spot-saving scheme, saying he’s forced to abandon the unwritten ethics of the street because parking in Park Slope is so competitive.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Weekend Watch: How sweet it is to be loved by the MTA, folks. You can look forward to some smooth cruising out there this weekend!
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By Will Bredderman
Red Hook: Talk about good vibrations.
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By Shavana Abruzzo
A Britisher’s View: The social netrowk titan jumped ship to Singapore to avoid paying capital gains taxes — ahead of his company going public. It’s a beastly bit of insider trading, sez our columnist.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Weekend Watch: How sweet it is to be loved by the MTA, folks. You can look forward to some smooth cruising out there this weekend!
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By Colin Mixson
Marine Park: Plus a host of other crimes from Marine Park’s 63rd Precinct.
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By Bill Roundy
Bar Scrawl: Our bartoonist finds a watering hole that reminds him of his past.
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By Aaron Short
Williamsburg: Williamsburg residents fear that where there’s smoke, there’s going to be, well, more smoke.
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By Colin Mixson
Flatlands: Cops say a Brooklyn Avenue teen was shot repeatedly minutes after he entered the Top Taco on Flatbush Avenue.
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By Will Bredderman
Bay Ridge: Dyker Beach is going to the dogs, but very few are from the neighborhood, dog-lovers say.
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Prospect Heights: The Barclays Center will debut an unconventional horseshoe-shaped seating configuration for a preseason hockey game this fall — raising questions about whether the undersized arena could truly accommodate an NHL franchise.
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Mill Basin: Floyd Bennett Field is now home to Spartan races — and all the sore muscles, fun, and feasting that go with them!
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By Joanna DelBuono
Standing O: Standing O is back, baby, it’s back!
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Williamsburg: Their geri curls may be wigs, but these rappers insist they’re the real deal.
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By Scott Seger
The Dad: This week, The Dad tries to figure out how to ensure his daughters come out on top when the stakes are high.
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BoroBeat: Lag BaOmer celebration lit up Midwood last week as marchers paraded down Ocean Avenue.
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By Colin Mixson
Bensonhurst: Get ready for your weekly run down of crimes from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct.
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Sheepshead Bay: When it rains in Sheepshead Bay, residents say they hold their noses.
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Bay Ridge: Bill de Blasio tossed himself into the fire raging between restaurants and sidewalk food carts.
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Midwood: Fans of recently deceased rapper Adam “MCA” Yauch showed their gratitude to the legendary Brooklyn-born Beastie Boy by painting a mural in his honor.
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By Joanna DelBuono
Not for Nuthin’: This week, our columnists tells you about the good and bad of Mother’s Day weekend.
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By Colin Mixson
BoroBeat: More than 400 tossed tractor tires and slogged through the muck during the Metro Dash at the Aviator Sports and Events Center. See all the pictures in our slideshow.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Prospect Heights: Now you can lend a hand — while standing on your hands.
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By Aaron Short
Greenpoint: A landlord wants to replace a Greenpoint dive bar with a Hungarian restaurant, but neighbors and nuns from a school on the block say Newell Street is not the place for nightlife.
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By Thomas Tracy
Gavel to Gavel: The verdict leads this week’s Gavel to Gavel.
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BoroBeat: New York Methodist Hospital’s surgeons, physicians, nurses, and guests rocked out with stars at the Brooklyn Museum for the medical center’s annual fundraiser on May 12.
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By Colin Mixson
Crime: Get ready for your weekly run-down of crimes from the 61st Precinct.
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By Daniel Bush
Borough President Markowitz’s Seaside Summer Concert Series will once again be held in a W. 21st Street lot a third the size of Asser Levy Park, critics say.
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Sheepshead Bay: David Storobin has retaken the lead in the race to replace prison-bound ex-pol Carl Kruger — and this time it might stick.
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The city will install 148 bike share stations in DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights, and Downtown — but Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Cobble Hill will be left out in the cold until next year.
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Link: David Storobin has retaken the lead in the race to replace prison-bound ex-pol Carl Kruger — and this time it might stick.
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By Colin Mixson
Bensonhurst: Police arrested a man they said swiped manhole covers for a living — until he was nabbed for the string of thefts on May 9.
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By Aaron Short
Greenpoint: Rookie squad Milk Believe has put together a strong start to the Brooklyn Kickball League season with a 4–0 record and victories over the John Cougar Mellencamps, the Mathletes, and People’s Court.
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BoroBeat: New recruits and their families got a sneak peak at their future in the Army with a day of competitions and exhibitions at the base.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Park Slope: A popular Park Slope playground reopened last week with a new name honoring a long-forgotten borough president — marking a minor victory for the barely remembered politico over the landmark-hogging forefather who snatched away his legacy.
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By Daniel Bush
Williamsburg: Spoiler alert: in this adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” the star-crossed paramours live to love another day.
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By Colin Mixson
Coney Island: Get ready for your weekly run-down of crimes from the 60th Precinct.
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By Aaron Short
Fort Greene: The late-night star is bringing his show to Brooklyn, so we decided to pester him about the borough where he was born.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Midwood: Avenue N residents say a proposed new synagogue that could be three times larger than anything else on the block will give them headaches.
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By Daniel Bush
Sheepshead Bay: We weigh in on who has the best hero on Sheepshead Bay Road.
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Bay Ridge: Halal cart workers say they’re being harassed because they’re Middle Eastern — and threatened to sue the city if they’re forced to leave Bay Ridge.
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By Eli Rosenberg
Midwood: Former Councilman Simcha Felder says he’s running as a Democrat for Midwood’s new state senate seat, but says he will work with whoever’s in charge so he can “bring home the pastrami.”
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Mean Streets: Painting the Prospect Park West bike lane isn’t the only part of the controversial project that took a lot of green.
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By Daniel Bush
Sheepshead Bay: The city is overhauling two failing Southern Brooklyn high schools — starting with their names!
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Williamsburg–Greenpoint Waterfront: Domino co-owner Isaac Katan sued developer Community Preservation Resources Corporation this week in its second legal motion seeking to stop a move to refinance over $100 million of debt.
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By Stanley P. Gershbein
It’s Only My Opinion: This week, our columnist examines some of the nation’s most intersting phone polls.
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By Natalie O’Neill
Williamsburg: It’s a fetish fest — but the only chains you’ll find are the ones attached to bicycles.
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By Colin Mixson
Marine Park: A grand jury failed to indict Monsignor Thomas Brady on sex abuse charges, stopping the criminal case against the Good Shepherd Church spiritual leader in its tracks.
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By Colin Mixson
Canarsie: Police say a man wearing an NYPD jacket and sporting a gold shield robbed a Canarsie Road family earlier this week.
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Changing Brooklyn: Discount chain Century 21 will become the first new department store on the Fulton Mall in nearly 90 years when it sets up shop in a massive space in the planned City Point development in 2015.
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