The City Council has just voted 29-22 to repeal term limits so that Mayor Bloomberg and others can run for another term.–CityRoom

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Bay Ridge may be the best neighborhood in Brooklyn, but it has it’s share of troubles. The neighborhood witnessed a rape earlier in the month as well as what appears to be a rise in home burglaries and drug trafficking. Police report that crime in the 68th precinct is down this year, but citizens feel […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Well, it’s not the best Barack mask we’ve ever seen, but it’s from Manhattan Avenue and shows that they’re in the Obama spirit in Greenpoint too.

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,/center> One word: whatever. This is from a couple of days ago in East River State Park in Williamsburg.

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The Farm on Adderly is not the only reason to go to Ditmas Park. (Attention: this is a joke. Do not be offended. If this had been a real insult, you would have been instructed to click away.) The Halloween decorations are pretty freakin’ good too. Here’s a whole slide show of them. Enjoy.–Flatbush Vegan

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And now, a selection of upcoming music events courtesy of our faithful contributor Dan Bennis: Thursday 10/23/08 Freddy’s Bar & Backroom: The Rich Get Richer (Indie) –Free!!, 10:00pm Southpaw: Daptone Family Fundraiser For Barak Obama. Featuring–The Budos Band & Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens + a variety of guests from the Daptone family sure […]

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There’s been a great deal of worrying in Park Slope over the sudden closing of Mailboxes of Park Slope on Flatbush. Without warning, the postal service closed it’s gates. Then a sign appeared from the United States Post Office, a “Notice of Abandonment“: Mailboxes Etc.: Located on 328 Flatbush Avenue has abandoned their private mail […]

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This post was flagged as a Best of CL and we agree. It’s a classic and it’s from East Williamsburg. (Props to Super Correspondent E.C. Stephens for hunting this down and bringing it to us.) All we can do is say, read this thing. You’ll be glad you did: To the girl who stole my […]

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It will be a busy Saturday (10/25) in Brooklyn. Here’s another fun event happening at the red-and-white tent better know as the Brooklyn Indie Market on Smith and Union – an all day thing (11am-7pm) of “vintage inspired merriment” with an array of Victorian and Vaudeville goods and entertainment called “The Grand Chono’nauts Tea.” Heh… […]

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What happens to mozzarella made in Bensonhurst when it’s imported to that far off land known as the Upper West Side? Uh, the price goes up. Waaaaaay up. We see that Whole Foods in Columbus Circle’s Time Warner Center is selling “Lioni’s in Brooklyn” beautiful homemade mozzarella balls…for $9.50 a ball. Is this the same […]

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This building project has been going on at the corner of Hope & Havemeyer Street in the Burg for a while. (For a long while, actually.) It’s formally known as 99 Havemeyer Street and it’s noteworthy for one reason in particular: it’s one of the dwindling number of Robert Scarano buildings under construction in Brooklyn. […]

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Our dear friends at Park Slope Parents provide us with more material to add to this weeks Brooklyn Scam Fest. This one, though, is a more old-fashioned one than the energy scam running wild. Per an email on the PSP list that came our way: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably […]

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Term Limits Vote Will Go Forward, Public Be Damned [CityRoom] Art Takes Over Myrtle Ave. Storefronts [Brownstoner] Court Street Then and Now [PMFA] Jury’s Out (For Some): Overdevelopment Ravaging NYC, or Not? [City Room] Despite Crappy Market, Burg Condos Are Selling [TRE] IDT Energy Scammers Working Gerritsen Beach Too? [Gerritsenbeach.net] Barack Jack ‘o Lantern Making […]

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Après moi, le déluge. Today, come Mayor Michael Bloomberg and, to a lesser extent, by Borough President Marty Markowitz saying the same thing. Without them and their superb leadership we will all be lost. And so, it is imperative that one of most grotesque subversions of democracy that any of us will ever witness short […]

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From our friends at Park Slope Parents comes word via an email that the energy scammers we’ve devoted more posts to than we ever thought we would are working the Slope too. Per an email: A man just knocked on my door and when I asked who it was he said IDT/Con-Ed. When I told […]

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It looks like Williamsburg’s many music venues are going to have to move over and let one more in, but something tells us this might not be the kind of competition they would ever be expecting. Opera Oggi New York s is opening the doors of MacCaddin Memorial Hall Theater at 288 Berry St. “Rehearsals, […]

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[Photo courtesy of galvarez51/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a really cool pic dropped into our GL Flickr Pool by galvarez51 that shows some of that good old entrepreneurial spirit in Sheepshead Bay.

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After the longest time of waiting, wondering, rolling our eyes and saying “yeah yeah yeah, sure,” it seems that work is finally going to get started next month on the Brooklyn Bridge Park. We’ll certainly be keeping an eye on this – and hope our GL Flickr Pool friends do the same.–Brownstoner

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Every time we’ve seen the ultimately beautiful sunset pic from Coney Island from Rubys Host, she blows us away with another one. Wow.

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We don’t know about you, but the last thing we really want to deal with when we get off the G Train in the middle of rush hour after a long annoying day at work is get smacked by an SUV while exiting the train station. Well, actually, the dude thought they had drive through […]

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[Photos courtesy of Katia Kelly/PMFA] If these people come to your door call 311. These are working for IDT Energy and are going door to door at this very moment in Carroll Gardens trying to get information from people so they can switch people from Con Ed to IDT without their consent or knowledge. The […]

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A GL Correspondent writes with news for our Carroll Gardens and Gowanus readers about the slimy scammers that have been all over Brooklyn working scams that end up switching people from one energy company to another without their consent: “Idt canvasser spotted on carroll!” Guess they’re not reading blogs and understanding that there’s a lot […]

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Photosynth the Brooklyn Museum from Brooklyn Museum on Vimeo. It’s definitely weird. We suggest playing with it. At the beginning it looks like you can pick a number of views to play with. You can also do this by clicking on the timeline at the bottom. It’s not unlike playing with Google Streetview, but it […]

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Best street furniture photo ever? If not, it’s damned close. Clearly, it has less to do with the furniture itself than with the blow-up Mr. Stud seated on it. Mr. Stud? For freaking real? The photo comes to us courtesy of the good people behind the IMBY blog, which has spent a long time chronicling […]

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You may only throw out your old electronic items once every few years, or maybe at most once every year if you’re accident prone with your cell phone (like some of us), but electronic waste contributes to more than 70% of the toxic waste we create in the US. Tech companies keep putting out snazzy […]

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