Warm weather torpedoes Prospect Park snowfest
Outings

Warm weather torpedoes Prospect Park snowfest

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Bad news for all of us who count on Prospect Park for our free outdoor winter sports fix: the New York City Parks & Recreation Department has been forced to cancel its annual Winter Jam, scheduled for February 4th, because “it is simply too warm to make snow.”

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BK Hardware price smackdown, Lowe’s vs. Home Depot
Boerum Hill/ Gowanus

BK Hardware price smackdown, Lowe’s vs. Home Depot

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Brokelyn puts the two hardware behemoths to the test, matching pricetags on a hypothetical shopping list of 16 home-repair items.

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Occupation bash (possibly literally) in Williamsburg tomorrow
Outings

Occupation bash (possibly literally) in Williamsburg tomorrow

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When we last heard from the crazy kids serious activists in Occupy Wall Street, they were holding their first General Assembly at […]

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Skint weekend: ‘cool dance’ fest, zeppelin-a-gogo, homebrew contest
Outings

Skint weekend: ‘cool dance’ fest, zeppelin-a-gogo, homebrew contest

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FRIDAY 6-10pm: opening reception for group exhibit 120db, showcasing the work of thirteen female concert photographers. fort useless (bushwick), free. 7, 9pm […]

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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
Food & Drink

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
News

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
News

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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Price check: Brooklyn art supplies
Shopping

Price check: Brooklyn art supplies

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Pearl Paint is widely held as the artist’s go-to retailer for supplies at decent prices, but that store is in Manhattan, and […]

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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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