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Cobble Hill residents are up in arms at the news that a J.Crew clothing store is looking to take over the site operated by Pacific Green, a beloved local grocer and greenmarket at the corner of 151 Court Street at Pacific Streets since 1999. … Full Article

A Manhattan judge has ruled that the New York City Police Department failed to comply with a duly-filed Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request by wrongfully withholding information requested by a non-profit organization. He ordered the city to pay over $49,000 in legal fees. … Full Article

Deanna Rodriguez, the head of the Gang Bureau at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, has been fired for making racial and homophobic slurs. Rodriguez, who started working with the DA’s Office in 1985, reportedly called Counsel to D.A. Charles J. … Full Article

A retired NYPD detective is proposing a “Bikini Bar” in the shadow of Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn, Pix 11 reports. … Full Article

Both a book and a traveling exhibition of photographs, “Hard Art, DC 1979” (Trade Cloth, Pub. … Full Article

There's a lot of tasty talk about food in "A Place at the Table" (Touchstone), a novel whose main characters have an affinity for the kitchen, often a source of refuge when they hunger for lost family affections. … Full Article

Brooklyn Federal Judge Pamela K. … Full Article

Andrew Kimball, who was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2005 as president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, will be leaving his position at the end of this month to join the real-estate management a … Full Article

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With more than 20 published books under his belt, Neil Gaiman is a prolific writer – but it has been eight years since he’s released a novel for adults. … Full Article