NOT FOR NUTHIN’: Joanna can’t stand government waste
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyMedicare more than spent $170 million on penis pumps between 2006 and 20011. Really. I can’t get my insurance company to pick up a...
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DITMAS PARK: Freed from prison, former lawyer has big plans — but first she...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Megan RieszBrooklyn DailyThis former Park Slope lawyer beat the system and now she is confident she can beat cancer. Lynne Stewart, 74, has breast cancer and was...
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BOROBEAT: Long live King! Ridge vigil honors slain civil rights giant
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyIt’s King’s day in Kings County! Members of anti-war group Peace Action Bay Ridge Interfaith...
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MIDWOOD: Missing in Midwood
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThe police are asking Brooklyn residents to help them keep an eye out for a missing 15-year-old girl, Goldy Monges, who was last seen on...
View ArticleJOE KNOWS: Leadership role fits Grand Street’s Cora
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyThe last time Arelis Cora played a high school basketball game at Nazareth, she was an impressionable sophomore trying to find her...
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DYKER HEIGHTS: Pump up the jam: Build a game from scratch in just two days
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matthew PerlmanBrooklyn DailyGame on! On Jan. 24, hundreds of coders, designers, and gaming enthusiasts will gather at New York University Polytechnic’s Game...
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STANDING O: Standing O is at it again!
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn Heights Doff your hats and welcome Mitzi Flexer, the new director of retail leasing at...
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EVENT: Horsing around: Celebrate the lunar New Year in Brooklyn
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Ruth BrownBrooklyn DailyHappy New Year — again! Jan. 31 marks the beginning of the lunar New Year, the first day of the Chinese calendar, and Brooklyn will be...
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PARK SLOPE: Nintendo nerds battle for glory at the ‘Mariolympics’
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyIt was in the fall last year, when Park Sloper Rob Blatt was struck by a vision of grand spectacle — a monthly tournament of...
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STANDING O: A blessing for Catholic Charities of Brooklyn Queens
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyEast New York Snip, snip, hooray Catholic Charities’ year-old Homebase Homelessness Prevention Center has a new name in honor of an...
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STANDING O: Six Brooklynites complete disaster-preparedness course
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBrighton Beach Three cheers to Inna Stavitsky, Marcella Leff-Wong, Jeannette Negron, Christopher Brodacki, Erionexy Aviles, and...
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Brrr-ooklyn slammed by another winter storm
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThe season’s latest winter storm was a royal pain for the Borough of Kings this week, dumping more...
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CONEY ISLAND: Coney Island walrus goes to Texas
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Matthew PerlmanBrooklyn DailyOne of Brooklyn’s favorite mustached marine mammals is taking a trip to Texas. Mitik the walrus, who came to the New York Aquarium...
View ArticleA BRITISHER’S VIEW: Human rights a game-changer at this year’s Olympics
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyNext month’s winter Olympics in repressive Russia are shaping up to be like a party everybody knows they should show up at, but few...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE NIGHTS: A weekend double-header rocks Bay Ridge Nights!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyIt is cold outside — so warm yourself up with a hot night in Bay Ridge! We have got two marquee events for you this week at Bay Ridge...
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FORT GREENE: In sync: Fort Greene artists create opera about Milli Vanilli
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Meredith DelisoBrooklyn DailyThe story of Milli Vanilli is a drama ripe for operatic treatment — and this month, it will get one. “WOW,” a new opera being...
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Cool runnings: Where to go sledding this weekend
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThe ground is blanketed with snow and the mercury is well below 32 degrees. It may be a tough...
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WINDSOR TERRACE: Cooperating cooperatives: Park Slope Food Co-Op lends...
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Megan RieszBrooklyn DailyThe Park Slope Food Co-op knows it could lose business to a fledgling do-good food store in Windsor Terrace, and it does not care. The...
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BIG SCREECHER: Carmine reads a book about Mount Rushmore because it is there!
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI’m madder than Edward R. Murrow without a Camel between his fingers over the fact that all these big wigs at television news...
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY: Swan song: State targets elegant, invasive birds for eradication
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyWhat does an ugly duckling grow up to become in New York? A dead swan, that’s what — if the state...
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