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Faye Penn is the founder of Brokelyn and publisher of the Brooklyn and Queens Beer Books, the Brooklyn Cocktail Book and other stuff you ain't seen yet. She lives in Ditmas Park. Get at her at [email protected]

Married? In Brooklyn? Been together for a multiple of five years? Got a stamp? Win dinner at Frankie’s.
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Married? In Brooklyn? Been together for a multiple of five years? Got a stamp? Win dinner at Frankie’s.

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There’s a giveaway at Frankies Spuntino, but sadly, it isn’t a 7-course “Foodie’s Dream Threesome” with messieurs Castronovo and Falcinelli. The Carroll […]

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Wait, there are houses in the Catskills for under $100K?
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Wait, there are houses in the Catskills for under $100K?

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This we did not know until we were turned on to the addictive new real estate blog Upstater, which has a weekly […]

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10 modestly priced Valentine’s Day eateries
Food & Drink

10 modestly priced Valentine’s Day eateries

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Check out Serious Eats’ list of 10 modestly priced Valentine’s Day restaurants, which include three in Brooklyn (Olea, Cafe Moto and the “sensually” utensil-free Ghenet).

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Permanent e-waste dropoff site for Brooklyn
Boerum Hill/ Gowanus

Permanent e-waste dropoff site for Brooklyn

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Good news, keepers of geriatric laptops, fax machines and cell phones — there’s going to be a permanent e-waste dropoff spot in […]

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Win a $1,000 spending spree on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope
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Win a $1,000 spending spree on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope

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This is fun. If you buy something at a Fifth Avenue merchant through Feb. 14, you get a free raffle ticket to […]

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Report: Brooklyn is world’s 5th most expensive place for clothes
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Report: Brooklyn is world’s 5th most expensive place for clothes

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A web site ranked 950 cities/regions worldwide by cost of living, and there is one especially curious data point about Brooklyn.

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Thursday linkage
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Thursday linkage

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Southpaw to become a Tutoring Center [Brooklyn Paper] Meet Coffee the Ditmas Park Train Man [Brooklyn Paper] Stacy London’s next show about […]

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Meet the journo who PO’d Michelle Obama
Outings

Meet the journo who PO’d Michelle Obama

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RSVP now to get into a free lecture by Jonathan Safran Foer and Jodi Kantor in Park Slope next week.

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Portland blogger wants to kill us
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Portland blogger wants to kill us

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Brooklynites, please be on the lookout for this Portland blogger, who wants to kill “everyone and everything” associated with Brokelandia.

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MTV loves them some Brokesters too
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MTV loves them some Brokesters too

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Brokesters are the new Jersey mooks. Exhibit B: a trailer for I Just Want My Pants Back, a new MTV show about four hipster-derived, hookup-happy BKers who are “single and broke: living the dream.”

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