Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Posted: 6:15 PM, November 23, 2009 Ruth West, known as much for her delicious pineapple layer cake and barbecued ribs as for her love of Fort Greene and the exacting standards she upheld at her two "Ruthie's" restaurants, has died from...

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...expectations in check. G-Way Management opted not to renew the lease for Roberto's Shoe Repair, a long-time tenant on Myrtle Ave. in Fort Greene paying $1,200 a month. The store has been empty since September. "We're not shooting for the...

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...I realized that about myself that all of the success I have had in life started happening for me." Broomes was born and grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He attended Queen of All Saints elementary school and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High...

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...the ever-economical sluggers from the Brooklyn Cyclones. As such, the joint was packed on Tuesday evening with students - many from outside Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, police said - swarmed the mall. Most of the students did not actually...

In this article: Buffalo Wild Wings, 50-cent, Brooklyn Cyclones, Manhattan, Fulton Street, Flatbush Avenue, and Fort Greene

..."So You Think You Can Dance," this week, squeaking through in Los Angeles as a group of 40 family and friends watched on TV in a bar in Fort Greene. "It felt good knowing my people were watching me," said Hunte, 23, of East Flatbush. "I...

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...came of the "Majesty Snowbird" single on Mr. Stevens' last tour. We are like a pack of indie-rock starved wolves in the middle of Fort Greene, and times are getting desperate. The lights dim, the stage is set and our Brooklyn hero enters...

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...writer, whose work really should be on every aspiring writer's shelf (or floor pile). Plus 4. • The amateur boxing match is held in Fort Greene's Masonic Temple, which originally seemed like a strange choice of location until we looked...

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...Jill Bouratoglou, 41, an architect in Cobble Hill. Car owners in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene didn't have to move their vehicles while the city Department of Transportation installed hundreds...

In this article: Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Dumbo, and Fort Greene

...spot for a new branch of Cafe Habana -- a New York-based mini-chain of hip Cuban cafes located in Manhattan's Nolita and Brooklyn's Fort Greene. But the way partner and bar impresario Rande Gerber (Whiskey Blue, Stone Rose) sees it, he...

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