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Nostalgia For When Basketball Franchises Were Made Of Wax, Except It’s Not Nostalgia, And It’s Now!!

The really interesting thing will be when Brooklyn finally discovers irrelevance:

Posted: May 1st, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn

What If It Never Actually Becomes “State-Of-The-Art”?

Keep in mind that a capacity of 14,500 would be smaller than every other NHL arena:

Bruce Ratner, who will welcome the NBA’s Nets to Brooklyn next season, is hopeful of the arena’s potential NHL prospects as well, perhaps even the New York Islanders, who are looking for a new home. In fact, the building already has ice and locker rooms for both sports.

. . .

“It holds 14,500 for hockey,” Ratner said.

That’s fewer people than the minor league facility that the Winnipeg Jets play in . . .

Posted: April 30th, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, I Call Bullshit

You May Not Ever Participate In “Brunch,” You May Even Hate It, But Brooklyn Without Brunch Is An Existential Threat To Its Way Of Life

Brooklyn Community Board 1’s War on Brunch has moved away from bluster and toward imminent conflict:

Department of Consumer Affairs regulators issued a citation to the Lorimer Street bistro Lokal at 9:35 am for violating a little-known rule that bars eateries from operating sidewalk cafes before noon on Sundays.

. . .

The summons is a victory for CB1’s public safety general Tom Burrows, who vowed to shush noisy restaurants and move diners indoors by campaigning against restaurants that serve mimosas, bellinis, and french toast to sidewalk crowds on what some consider a day of rest.

Posted: April 24th, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Things That Make You Go "Oy", You're Kidding, Right?

If You’re Losing “Hundreds Of Dollars” On A Stupid Carnival Game Then You Deserve All The Lazer Tag You Can Possibly Tolerate

Interesting reframing of the charms of old Coney Island:

The city is finally cleaning up a longtime seedy strip near the Coney Island boardwalk that had been filled with rigged carnival games and ripped off beachgoers for years.

. . .

Upon receiving various complaints late last year, the city cleared out the old-school carnival games — including one booth called “Gangster Cigars” that was caught ripping customers off on a hidden camera by Arnold Diaz of Fox NY’s “Shame on You.”

Patrons would routinely lose hundreds of dollars trying to toss a rigged ping-pong ball through a hole to win a flat-screen TV.

Posted: April 20th, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Follow The Money

One Day Community Boards Will Finally Stupid Themselves Out Of A Job

If there’s one that that people in Brooklyn love, it’s brunch. And nothing shows how totally fucking out of touch a community board is like cracking down on brunch:

A Williamsburg neighborhood group is waging a war on brunch — pressuring restaurants in one of the city’s mimosa-strongholds to open later, hush their patrons, and keep their diners inside.

Community Board 1 members want the city to enforce a little-known rule prohibiting restaurants from serving diners at outdoor sidewalk cafes on Sunday mornings.

“This would keep the sidewalks open for Sunday morning walks to church,” said Community Board 1 public safety chairman Tom Burrows. “Lokal, Enid’s, and Five Leaves consistently open their sidewalk cafe hours before noon on Sundays.”

If you’re bothered by people on the sidewalk, then New York City is kind of the wrong place for you . . .

Posted: April 20th, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, You're Kidding, Right?
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