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January 10, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Pay-As-You-Want: A Social Experiment Over Souvlaki
Paula Douralas anticipated some problems when she decided to let her customers pay what they felt like paying at her Greek restaurant. She worried that some would pay too little and that others would pay nothing at all. What she didn’t anticipate was how the more subtle human behaviors could get in the way of her plan.
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December 27, 2011September 30, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
Goodbye to Aunt Suzie’s: a Pioneer Calls it Quits
No one will go hungry when Aunt Suzie’s restaurant closes on January 1st. French, Thai, Indian, Japanese and Mexican joints dot the blocks of 5th Avenue in Park Slope where Aunt Suzie’s sits. The area wasn’t always a culinary scene, though.
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November 7, 2011November 11, 2011Brooklyn Life
Does the Kimchi Taco Truck Have the Right Recipe for a Restaurant?
The Kimchi Taco Truck will be opening a permanent location later this month.
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October 31, 2011November 1, 2011Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
A Love Letter Returned?
A new mural in Downtown Brooklyn leaves some scratching their heads.
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October 24, 2011October 24, 2011Live Wire
Brooklyn Home Sales Up
You know all that construction you’ve seen around the borough? Well, those new apartments are selling. Sales have jumped 18% in Brooklyn, according to Business Week. New condos across the East River from Manhattan are luring international buyers and renters who see the properties as relative bargains, according to Jonathan Miller, president and chief executive...
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October 24, 2011October 24, 2011Live Wire
Weekend Photo Opts
Adorable puppies and their owners paraded across the Brooklyn Bridge for an event for sponsored by the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals and Petfinder. See all the puppy shots at Metromix. USA Today has a profile on Jane’s Carousel, which opened last month at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Take a virtual spin with their slideshow of...
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October 24, 2011October 24, 2011Live Wire
Bushwick Gets Occupied
BushwickBK has a great piece on creative Brooklynites heading out to Occupy Wall Street. There are musicians, photographers, silkscreeners and photographers among the mix. Paul Cox wites: While local origins may be of secondary importance, there’s been steady involvement from Bushwick residents in the past weeks, and something of the neighborhood is here. The self-sufficiency...
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October 24, 2011October 24, 2011Live Wire
Good Monday morning, Brooklyn.
It was a violent weekend in the borough. Late Friday afternoon a gunman opened fire outside of an elementary school in Brownsville. One parent was killed and one child and another parent were also injured, according to WNYC. The parent who was killed, Zurana Horton, was previously reported to have been pregnant, but the medical report now shows that she was not. Horton did have 13 children, and was seen protecting several children from gunfire before being shot, according to Gothamist.
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October 21, 2011October 24, 2011Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life
In Bushwick, a Darkroom Develops
In the basement of a modern apartment building set among Bushwick’s industrial buildings and new restaurants, there’s a row of nondescript storage units. Lucia Rollow, a recent college graduate, recently purchased one, but she’s not storing winter clothes or old yearbooks in there. Inside her unit she’s set up the Bushwick Community Darkroom.