- The Department of Correction promises that things will be better and different at the Brooklyn House of Detention this time around. Brooklyn Eagle
- Is Columbia Street about to become the new Smith Street? Brooklyn Paper
- Every hotel in the city will be getting a panic button for the next time Dominique Strauss-Kahn comes to town. NY Times
- Wall Street execs discover tiny, expensive part of Brooklyn. Atlantic Wire
- A New York City teacher's aide has been arrested and accused of making pornographic images of students in a Crown Heights school. Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklynian
- Is the Brooklyn D.A. hiding documents that might implicate him? Failed Messiah
- A Caribbean group plans to break ground on the major restoration of the deteriorating original Erasmus Academy in June. Brooklyn Eagle
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- Sharks eat their own: Disgruntled law grads sue Brooklyn Law School. Brooklyn Eagle
- Sadie's Kitchen — a new 1930s-style restaurant at 243 Degraw Street -- serves up a taste of South Carolina. Carroll Gardens Patch
-Woman found stabbed to death on St. Marks in Crown Heights; her adult son fled the scene. Brooklynian and NY Daily News
- The city filed suit against City Smokes in Brooklyn, arguing that they evade taxes by selling paper tubes and loose tobacco. NY Daily News
- On the Sunset Park waterfront, a big new park is taking shape on the Bush Terminal pier -- and it's going to rival Brooklyn Bridge Park. L Magazine
- Looks like the Republicans are slashing $1.7 billion from New York States mass transit funding. Brooklyn Eagle
- 9,000 formerly-homeless households in New York City may become homeless again. TRD
- Kennedy's sounding kinda creepy right now. Gothamist
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Some Brooklyn Catholics are mobilizing to fight a directive in the federal health care law that would require religious institutions to provide insurance coverage for women's reproductive health procedures.
According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Catholics who attended masses at Brooklyn churches on Sunday heard their priests read aloud a letter from Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio urging them to contact their elected officials and push for a reversal of the mandate.
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- Brooklyn "Devil Spawn" teacher may get her job back. NY Daily News
- Woman seriously injured after smashing her car into scaffolding at State and Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn Sunday. NY Post
- Four people were injured at a rave at the Slave Theater on Fulton Street when the deck floor collapsed. NY Post
- The city is paying no attention to its own school “report card” and is moving ahead with plans to close an A-rated high school in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Eagle
- 90-year-old Brooklyn doctor back to work after new type of heart valve replacement. NY Daily News
- No jail time for cop who planted drugs on Coney Island couple. Brooklyn Eagle
- Transgender woman arrested for minor violation chained to fence, mocked for 28 hours. Jezebel
- American Red Cross fined nearly $10 million for blood safety violations -- just the latest of more than a dozen fines. Propublica
- Obscene salaries at Komen for the Cure, and only 21 percent of donations go towards finding "the cure." Alternet
- U.S. issues travel warning to Americans about extreme Orthodox Jewish violence in Israel. Failed Messiah
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By now local carnivores have discovered that Morton's Steakhouse in Downtown Brooklyn has abruptly closed, but not to worry, landlord Muss Development told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday.
A spokesperson for Muss told the Eagle late Thursday that in the previous 24 hours, Muss had received a dozen calls from interested restaurants.
“I’m not surprised at this. It shouldn’t be hard to fill. There is so much intense interest in that whole strip,” the spokesperson said, noting the recent announcements that Sugar and Plumm and American BBQ and Beer have signed leases at 345 Adams, St., joining Panera Bread, which is expected to open in the next couple of months.
President Marty Markowitz’s 2012 State of the Borough address on Feb. 1 had a number of interesting initiatives, the Brooklyn Eagle reports.
One of them was a $1 million allocation for transforming the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights into a community center. Markowitz also pledged $1 million to transform Erasmus Hall Academy into a trade and cultural center for the Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce.
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