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Prospect Park officials cut bait on 63-year-old fishing contest over budget cuts

Prospect Park officials cut bait on 63-year-old fishing contest over budget cuts

It's a reel shame for Brooklyn fishing fans. After 63 years, Prospect Park officials have called off the annual Macy's Fishing Contest as a Brooklyn summer tradition, citing a scaled-back budget.

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A monastery grows in BrooklynA monastery grows in Brooklyn

Three orange-robed Burmese Buddhist monks have made their home in Bedford-Stuyvesant for nearly a year, and are gradually adapting to life in Brooklyn.

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Hamill: Atlas needs you in his corner

Hamill: Atlas needs you in his corner

Teddy Atlas' amazing charity needs corporate sponsors in his corner. Now. That's why Atlas is hosting a special cocktail party in his o...

10th-floor fall kills Brooklyn woman

An 86-year-old woman plunged to her death Tuesday when she tumbled out of the 10th-floor window of her Brooklyn home, police and witnes...

60-year love story still going strong

60-year love story still going strong

The wedding picture they took on the steps of a Brooklyn church was so perfect Eddie and Stella Heedles decided to take it again - 60 y...

Latino dismay breeds upstart Tequila Party

Latino dismay breeds upstart Tequila Party

The Tequila Party - yes, that's its name - is holding its kickoff event Saturday in Tucson. Loosely inspired by the rapidly deflating T...

Eatery's C health grade has owner stewing

Eatery's C health grade has owner stewing

A Carroll Gardens diner is fighting to keep customers from fleeing after a stinging Health Department inspection. City rules dictate th...

Vow LICH will grow after state's takeover

Vow LICH will grow after state's takeover

Officials vowed Tuesday that no services would be cut as embattled Long Island College Hospital was taken over by the state....

Immigration: Green card's possible despite financial woes

My wife can't support me financially. Can I still get a green card? My wife is a U.S.-born citizen. I came here in 2000 on a B1/B2 visi...

Axing services would cripple city

One thing that recent city, state and federal budget proposals have in common is that they cut crucial services to the most vulnerable ...

Survey finds B'klyn nabe grappling with guns

Guns. Gangs. Drug use. Drug selling. Assaults. A whopping 80% of Brownsville residents say these are the biggest problems plaguing thei...

'ProCro' is Heights of foolishness: pol

There's a border war raging between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights - and a local Assemblyman is taking sides. Purists put the borde...

Brooklyn man found shot in the head

A 37-year-old Brooklyn man died Monday morning after being shot in the head a block from his home, cops said....

Street named after beloved principal

East 17th St. in front of Edward R. Murrow High School has been renamed "Saul Bruckner Way" in honor of the beloved former principal wh...

Haitian color, culture on show in Brooklyn

While most had their minds on song and celebration, attendees were also holding out hope that the recent presidential election win of s...

Honor man who fought for Italy in WWII?

A battle is brewing over a proposal to rename a street in Borough Park for an Italian-American community activist who fought for Italy ...

Baker's sweet success despite blindness

Amy Berg can smell the aroma of her beautifully hand-decorated cookies, feel the texture of the sugar crystals dusted across their top...

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