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Category: News

Free batteries to save your life, courtesy of the FDNY, this week only

  Daylight savings time is coming! What are you going to do with your extra hour of daylight? Just spend…

Monday lunchtime linkage

Trouble at home? Just kidnap yourself! [Gakwer] We're gonna have a TV party tonight [NY Post] Not everyone likes the…

Science: Skip med school debt, buy a Wii instead

Thinking of giving your debt load a little workout by taking out a few med school loans? You could also…

Sweet: New Domino development doesn’t look horrible

We've spent plenty of time here bitching about the evils of real estate developers, not that we have anything to…

The Week in Broketown, 2/25 – 3/1

Like us in website form? Then you'll love us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest -We waited until next year -Did we eat Mr. Ed? We…

Fairway’s return is ‘not just the reopening of a store, but the reopening of a neighborhood’

What was life like after Sandy knocked Fairway out of commission? "I felt like a wandering Jew," said Brooklyn Borough…

Friday lunchtime linkage

Bloomberg isn't panicking about the sequester. But then, he's rich [NYO] The NCAA's bonkers new college basketball uniforms [The Classical]…

Rhapsody in bloom: lot to become community garden/jazz club

Brooklyn has a plethora of empty lots. It's uh, not something that's gonna be mentioned in official Brooklyn tourism information,…

Closing the box: Pandora to limit free mobile service

The world of music streaming is an odd one. The sites that provide it, from the spit-shined and professional to…

Bummer summer: Fort Tilden to be closed all season

A couple days ago, fresh from walking through the cold rain of late February, a couple of us started making…