The Paper follows up on my Tea Lounge scoop about the cop who told a manager at the Tea Lounge to be on the lookout for weird Internet usage at the Tea Lounge.
1. Brooklyn Public Library�"censors" an Atlantic Yards-themed art show:
2. Little Galapagos makes good: Local W’Burg art space goes global:
3. Breaking Chews: Mario Batali’s Po�crosses the river to Brooklyn
4. Victor Mooney � some call him "Looney Mooney" � says this time, with Barclays help, he’ll last more than three hours on his trans-Atlantic row:
5. Can I get a latte with that suicide bomb? Are�terrorists using the Tea Lounge’s Wi-Fi?
6. Fairway in foie gras flap. We have one words for fans of the lush liver: Duck!
7. Congresswoman has sit-down with Ratner and Co. Says she needs a deal or she’ll hold congressional hearings. (Cue the horror-movie music!):
8. Finally, a member of the "Democrat Party" takes on the�"Republic Party" in a war of words.
9. Spitzer goes on the offensive against "rubberstamping" pols. Our local pols�explain why they "rubberstamped" DiNapoli for comptroller:
10. Revenge of Dominick Diomede! Local non-profit�defends its supportive-housing plan amid neighborhood outcry in Slope:
LOCAL STORIES
Bensonhurst: Volunteer ambulance corps�sells building in last-ditch survival ploy:�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07volunteerambulance.html
Bay Ridge: Environmentalist gets trash ticket:�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07litterbug.html
Prospect Heights: Atlantic Yards-area bar opens the taps:�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07allyoucandrink.html
Red Hook: Trees in Red Hook? You gotta be kidding?
Park Slope: Aaron’s�closes — apartments next?�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07aaron.html
Park Slope: Valentine’s Day was great for sex shop business:�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07naughtygifts.html
Bay Ridge: Local pol pays to help you rid of your�raccoon problem (humanely!):�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07raccoons.html
Brooklyn Heights:�Mystery of the week is solved!�http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07orb.html
OUR LOCAL COLUMNISTS:
Bay Ridge: What happened to Little Italy?
Park Slope: Defending Barnes and Noble
Red Hook: History sinking in the Hook
Fort Greene: Local park has money to burn.
Brooklyn Heights: Defending a "hideous" new barbershop
Nice selection of links to the Brooklyn Paper. One thought — Re: The Comptroller selection: why are our current reformers (Spitzer, Bloomberg, Klein) so into the high-test(osterone) bully style of politics? What is with all of the Governor’s publicly violent and vindictive speech (just like Rudy G)? Makes you wish for the days when there was more of a “Back Room” for all of this hypermasculine posing. Is the Bully-style a function of those who inherit (Spitzer), make (Bloomy, Rudy now) or travel in the realm of (Klein, Rudy then) Big Bucks and Power? Is it trying to emulate the Teddy Roosevelt “Carry a Big Stick” style of politics? A Dem reaction/fallout from the Bush/GOP/Rove take-no-prisoners-political playbook? Sure, sometimes tough decisions are required, but shouldn’t politics also be about cooperation, horse trading, mediation and compromise? I voted for and support Gov Spitzer but I don’t fault any NYS legislator who voted for Tom DiNapoli..the Governor needs to learn to share and play fair before he runs with scissors..