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| Looking south along Adams Street service road. MK Metz |
- Mixed reviews for GoogaMooga. Carroll Gardens Patch and About.com and here.
- Those bike-sharing docks may be bigger than DOT describes, and some Brooklyn Heights residents are getting riled up. Brooklyn Eagle
- City plans to close dozens of after-school programs across Brooklyn. NY Daily News
- More than a third of 2011 NYC murders took place in Brooklyn. Gothamist
- Japanese artist hangs 'I Love NY' bag in tree in Williamsburg as part of art project, gets arrested for terrorism. NY Magazine
- Runners take to Brooklyn's streets for half marathon. NY1
- This Brooklyn assemblyman is being called "The Next Barack Obama." Business Insider
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- There are reports that the Nets would love to steal Lin from the Knicks and transplant Linsanity to Brooklyn. Gothamist
- Latest development in Packer's SAT test debacle: Packer lawyers up. Brooklyn Eagle
- After some controversy, it looks like the Brooklyn Heights Cinema building at 70 Henry Street will be replaced by a new five-story rental building. Brownstoner
- High court: Judge Gustin Reichbach of Brooklyn admits he smokes marijuana to ease suffering from cancer. NY Daily News
- An ultra-Orthodox convention against the Internet will censor reporters. The organizers have also limited the number of tickets available for sale in non-Hasidic areas of Brooklyn and will bar women. Failed Messiah
- Brooklyn Community Board 7 passed a motion last night in favor of re-engineering dangerous Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park for greater safety. Streetsblog
- Eating $550 worth of Brooklyn food in one weekend. Brokelyn
- Mysterious beach rocks in California spontaneously explode in woman's pocket, sending her to hospital and filling house with smoke. Gawker
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- Cops stopped and questioned nearly one-third of Brownsville’s residents last year. NY Daily News
- Nearly 200 students who took the SAT at Packer in Brooklyn Heights had their scores invalidated, apparently because some students were seated too closely together. New York Times
- Two Hasidim were arrested outside a fundraiser for accused pedophile Rabbi Nechemya Weberman in Williamsburg. Failed Messiah
- Porno was to blame for the stabbing at the normally sedate Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Eagle
- Carroll Garden's P.S. 58 is on bed bug alert. Carroll Gardens Patch
- A SUNY Downstate official is the latest exec to defy a state panel that recommended mergers and closings at cash-strapped Brooklyn hospitals. NY Daily News
- The Defense Department is considering removing an elite anti-terrorism unit from the Fort Hamilton Army Base. Brooklyn Eagle
- Williamsburg residents fear liver-destroying nightclub. NY Magazine
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The NY Post calls developer David Bistricer a "slumlord" and reports that he’s bought the landmark Hotel Bossert on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights from Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses). Bistricer says that he plans to have it running as a hotel again by 2014, pending city approvals.
As owner of the 59-building Flatbush Gardens complex, Bistricer had more than 8,100 open violations in 2010 and ranked among the city’s biggest slumlords that year, the Post reports. Read more.
UPDATE: According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Bistricer plans a 302-room hotel "with a decent size restaurant on the first floor where one of the meeting rooms could be used to handle the restaurant’s overflow."
His spokesperson also defended his ownership at Flatbush Gardens, saying that when Bistricer bought the property it was "distressed."
- Watchtower Denies Brooklyn Heights' Bossert Sold, But Levine Pays a Little Visit
- Brooklyn's Bossert Hotel Reported Sold (2008)
- Watchtower's Hotel Bossert -- Brooklyn's 'Waldorf Astoria' -- Up For Sale
- Watchtower Continues to Sell Its Heights Property
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- A man was stabbed in the neck -- at the Brooklyn Heights Library, of all places. Brooklyn Heights Blog
- Traffic agents are lying in wait, slapping tickets on cars before seniors can hustle back from putting money into muni-meters. Brooklyn Eagle
- Brooklyn rabbi cranks up the pressure on a molested child's parents, who plan lawsuit against school. Jewish Week via Failed Messiah
- Goldman Sachs' Daniel Shefter’s Brooklyn townhouse has finally found a buyer -- for $5 million. TRD
- Brooklyn Bridge Park at odds with Brooklyn Heights over bike stations. Brooklyn Eagle.
- The Great GoogaMooga Festival in Brooklyn this weekend "has all of the earmarks of a great shark-jumping moment, when twee Brooklyn identity politics-based foodieism finally went too far." Gawker
- All that delicious high fructose corn syrup you eat might be making you dumb. Gawker
- 71 percent of survey respondents had a favorable opinion of Google, compared to 51 percent for Facebook. Only 13 percent said they trust Facebook “completely” or “a lot” when it comes to keeping their personal information private. Washington Post
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