By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Dining: Our meat-loving critic takes a bite out of Peter Luger’s much-vaunted porterhouse — and finds the new Morton’s superior in so many ways.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Boerum Hill: A state Supreme Court judge on Tuesday barred the city from implementing its plan to reopen and expand the Brooklyn House of Detention until she can rule on a lawsuit brought by opponents of the contentious prison project.
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By Sarah Portlock
Brooklyn Heights: The deep recession is not only casting a pall over the future — it’s ruining the past, too.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: A reclusive fast-food mogul who once dreamed of saving Coney Island with his own massive amusement park is close to selling his long-dormant land to the current self-styled savior of the “People’s Playground” and, in doing so, make it harder — and more expensive — for the city to assemble land to realize its own vision for revitalizing the area.
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By Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Fasten your seatbelts, Williamsburg — next week’s community board meeting is going to be a “showdown” over the stunning Christmas Eve dismissal of the chairwoman of the transportation committee, who was deposed, some say, because of her support for a pair of controversial Kent Avenue bike lanes.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Art: For all of you who have looked at a piece of modern art and muttered, “My kid could do that,” boy, do we have an art show for you.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom and clan try to get back to their old routines after a long holiday.
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By Moses Jefferson
Like Bono once said, it’s always quiet on New Year’s Day — until the first baby of the year comes screaming into the world.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Opponents of a pair of controversial bike lanes on Kent Avenue have been using school buses to block the street in an act of automotive disobedience — and now they’re publicizing their plans with a billboard blaming the resulting traffic jams on cyclists.
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By Ben Muessig
Event: Park Slope bar-goers: get ready to spill your guts.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Clinton Hill: A quest by Clinton Hill preservationists to save a historic convent building has become even more urgent now that the last remaining nuns are moving out and the religious complex may be put up for sale.
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By The Brooklyn Paper staff
The Brooklyn Paper / Joe Jordan
It’s time for our annual roundup of who and what will matter this year. At the top of the list? Tolls!
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
Smash or Trash: The Brooklyn Paper’s Smash or Trash team is back — this time “reviewing” Russia’s hottest rock band’s new single, “Queen of Rock.” It’s in Russian, but that doesn’t faze this team of rock monsters.
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By Sarah Portlock
Shopping: Why carbo-load on energy drinks when you can “bee” natural?
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By Mike McLaughlin
Jack Szwergold
Coney Island: The Lola Staar boutique on the Coney Island Boardwalk — part souvenir stand, part rallying place for critics of a real-estate developer’s plan for a Vegas-style Xanadu — has not been offered a new lease, a casualty of its owner’s outspokenness.
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By Sarah Portlock
Downtown: The federal courthouse in Downtown was named after Theodore Roosevelt this week. How did that happen? Here’s how: Former Gov. Hugh Carey — and current Rep. Ed Towns — got screwed by Sen. Charles Schumer.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: A historic, Cass Gilbert-designed building on the Williamsburg waterfront will be preserved in perpetuity — no thanks to the city.
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By Sarah Portlock
Dining: New life will soon come to the disgraced corner of Henry and Cranberry streets — and the two popular neighborhood restaurateurs say they have no connection to the arrested operator of the previous establishment at the site.
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By The Brooklyn Paper Smash or Trash team
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