Barneys Opens, Brooklyn Rabi Spurns Paladino, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Controversial Korean religious leader Pastor Ock Soo Park is holding a Bible Crusade this week in Brooklyn Heights. BHB

- The new Barneys Co-op on Atlantic Avenue opens today. Brooklyn Eagle 

- The building where the facade fell off and the tenants were evacuated? Commenters say building was a dump.  Brownstoner

- The Brooklyn rabbi who wrote Carl Paladino's anti-homosexual remarks now has dumped the Republican candidate for governor, claiming Mr. Paladino “folded like a cheap camera.”  NY Times

- Not only has Paladino enraged both gays and Jews -- now he's in hot water with pornographers.  Salon

- Brooklynites go to Comic Con, get weird.  Brooklyn Eagle

- How to block unwanted callers to your cell phone.  Gizmodo

- Walmart mini-stores coming?  Reuters

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