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Cablevision Workers Unionize In Brooklyn
It has been a long time since there was a clear victory for unionized workers in New York. It seems that over the last few decades politicians have vilified labor unions more and more, making workers less and less likely to vote for unionization even as their wages have done a poor job of covering [...]
Brooklyn Business, Brooklyn Living, Brooklyn Neighborhoods
Making Something Old Something New: A Brooklyn Tale
Brooklyn will forever survive. That is just the nature of the beast. A loss is never truly a loss because it will be reinvented not long after. That is definitely the case with a soon-to-be tap room. This bar, called Shady’s Tap Room, is opening its doors this Spring in an old condemned building. Yup, [...]
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Toasted Bagels Is Nefarious
With a wealth of non-native New Yorkers forever influxing to the five boroughs and especially Brooklyn etiquette that should have long ago been established as consistent and never wavering sometimes gets mucked up. Staying to the right on the sidewalk for example to allow the faster and crazier New Yorkers to jut around you is a pretty [...]
Brooklyn Events, Brooklyn Living, Entertainment
Events To See in Brooklyn During Wikipedia Blackout
To protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Wikipedia, Reddit, and a host of other sites will conduct a blackout of their sites today. Bored you won’t be able to find funny articles on Reddit? Worried you won’t have anything interesting to read or edit on Wikipedia. Fear not! There are lots to do in [...]
Brooklyn Business, Brooklyn Living
Brooklyn Misses Out On Apple Store
It’s Brooklyn! Home of the artists, home of the greatest slice of pizza, home of the newest App… or maybe not… Sorry, yo, it looks like the next Apple “Staw” is hitting Queens, not Brooklyn. As it stands there are five Apple Stores in Manhattan– on 5th Ave, 14th St, Grand Central Station, The Upper [...]
Brooklyn Events, History
USS Monitor is Celebrated in Greenpoint
Posted on 25 January 2012
While Brooklyn’s shipyards have been closed for years, that doesn’t mean that the history has been forgotten. In March of 1862, the USS Monitor was pitted against the CSS Virginia (which was formerly named the USS Merrimack) in the very first battle against two ironclad ships in the history of the United States. History geeks [...] Continue Reading
Brooklyn News, Crime
Chaotic Robbery Leaves 1 Dead
Posted on 18 January 2012
Last Friday, Duane Browne was fatally shot by NYPD Officer Kevin Murtha. It was during an incredibly chaotic and jumbled series of events. As far as anyone can tell, the sequence of events was that Browne’s half brother, Dale Ogarro, was being robbed by two armed thugs outside of their Brooklyn, NY brownstone apartment. After [...] Continue Reading
Brooklyn News, sports
Lovers’ Lane, Bowling Lane That Is
Posted on 16 January 2012
The best place to find love these days isn’t at a bar. Apparently it’s not even online on websites like Match.com or OKCupid. It’s at Brooklyn Bowl on Wednesday nights. Brooklynites who are tired of the bar scene might want to try their hand at a singles bowling league. Jake Reuben, founder of Singles Social [...] Continue Reading
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Martin Luther King Jr Day Festivities In Brooklyn This Weekend
Posted on 12 January 2012
Monday the 16th is Martin Luther King Jr Day and Brooklyn will have a ton going on to celebrate this historical figure this weekend. On Saturday the 14th, Habitat for Humanity is celebrating at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church with a reciting of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A commemorative poem will also be performed by [...] Continue Reading
Brooklyn News, Entertainment
New York City Opera Runs Into Trouble
Posted on 11 January 2012
The New York City Opera announced last year that it was entering a “new era” of bringing opera to the masses. It was a time of excitement and opportunity. Or at least that’s what they said out loud. With problems with the Lincoln Center location and with the company being unable to come up with [...] Continue Reading
Brooklyn News
Synchronized Swimming Comes to Brooklyn
Posted on 09 January 2012
I thought synchronized swimming died years ago along with the rotary phone and most people’s dignity. But I have been proven wrong today by this Brooklyn news . Two women in their 30s just couldn’t let this dead art go and decided to resuscitate the aquatic “sport” in Brooklyn, of all places. With so many [...] Continue Reading
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