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Where to find free & cheap high holiday services in Brooklyn
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Where to find free & cheap high holiday services in Brooklyn

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If you don’t have the dough to davin, here’s our annual list of places where you can pray freely for free, whether your pleasure is reform, orthodox or some kind of New Age hybrid. This year, heaven’s gates open the evening of September 28 for Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur begins sundown of October 8.

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One year later, cautious hope exists in Sheepshead Bay
Coney Island/ Brighton Beach/ Sheepshead Bay

One year later, cautious hope exists in Sheepshead Bay

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In the days after Sandy, we visited two businesses in Sheepshead Bay. Now, we revisit them to see how the year has treated […]

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Let’s not let Sheepshead Bay fall through the cracks
News

Let’s not let Sheepshead Bay fall through the cracks

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While everyone is out doing their best to help the neighborhoods ruined by Sandy, it’s almost inevitable that some fall through the […]

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At Occupy Brooklyn: accordions, strollers, and Marty
Community

At Occupy Brooklyn: accordions, strollers, and Marty

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Although many chants were the same, the scene at Occupy Brooklyn yesterday was quite different than the one in Zuccotti Park. There […]

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Hottie hunting at Occupy Wall Street protest
love & romance

Hottie hunting at Occupy Wall Street protest

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Beyond the facially tattooed and hygiene-challenged, plenty of lookers are protesting downtown too. Here are some of the Zucotti hotties we met on Sunday afternoon.

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Where the 99 percent tell their stories
News

Where the 99 percent tell their stories

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Since facing off with the NYPD on the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, the Occupy Wall Street-ers have been getting their chance for […]

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How do you survive the roommate from hell?
apartments

How do you survive the roommate from hell?

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Why is it so hard to find a good roommate? Brokespeare wrote, “Miserly living acquaints a man with strange apartment-fellows.” Yes, he’s […]

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Earn fest tix, from Bonnaroo to Gov’s Island
Events

Earn fest tix, from Bonnaroo to Gov’s Island

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I was psyched for Escape to New York, a three-day festival on Long Island, put on by Winkel and Balktick and the UK’s Secret Garden … […]

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Bar of the Week: Score big at Full Circle
Food & Drink

Bar of the Week: Score big at Full Circle

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Throw in free-games-and-hot-dog happy hours a beer menu of more than 60 cans, and cheap margaritas and this bar becomes a worthy escape from humdrum adulthood.

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Bar of the Week: Macri Park!
Food & Drink

Bar of the Week: Macri Park!

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This is the nineteenth in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we spotlight a Beer […]

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