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The Five Best Summer Drinking Spots In And Around Fort Greene And Clinton Hill

You can imbibe outside at DSK. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus)What’s better than an ice cold beer on a hot summer’s day? Not much, though you might prefer a cocktail or perhaps a chilled glass of white wine. Warm weather and cool adult beverages just go together. We’

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If You’re Thinkin’ About Stoop Drinkin’, Will New Laws Keep Your Bottles Clinkin’?

Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopIt’s finally warm outside, and those summer nights are here. The sun won’t go down until 8:29pm [http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york] this lovely evening. You may be craving some time out in your weekend schedule for a bit

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If You’re Thinkin’ About Stoop Drinkin’, Will New Laws Keep Your Bottles Clinkin’?

Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopIt’s finally warm outside, and those summer nights are here. The sun won’t go down until 8:29pm [http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york] this lovely evening. You may be craving some time out in your weekend schedule for a bit

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There’s A(nother) New Food Hall Coming To Fort Greene

Everybody loves ramen. (Courtesy Instagram/Gotham West Market [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFwZFESxBAk/?taken-by=gwmarket].)Epicureans rejoice: there’s a new food hall coming to Fort Greene. Gotham Market at the Ashland, brought to you by the purveyors of Gotham Market West [http://gothamwestmarket.com/] in Hell’s Kitchen,

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Perpetually Underrated Alibi Named Second Best Dive Bar In New York City

(Courtesy Flickr/cisc1970 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/17482416106/in/photolist-sCRXem-Kr87X-Kr86Z] )Alibi was named merely the second best dive bar in New York City, further proving that the internet (thankfully, finally [http://www.poynter.org/2016/ap-style-change-alert-dont-capitalize-internet-and-web-any-more/404664/] spelled with a lower case i) is full of lies and

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Five Neighborhood Cocktails To Help You Savor The Summer

The Mexican Bramble from Bar Chord. Photo by Anni Irish/Ditmas Park CornerWhile people keep dropping words like September and fall, there’s still plenty of summer to hold onto — especially when it comes to deliciously cold cocktails in the neighborhood. Here are a few drinks from local watering holes

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Lakeside’s Bluestone Cafe Applying For Beer & Wine License

You might not have to bring wine to Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/] in a thermos this summer, says the NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/exclusive-prospect-park-serve-booze-74m-skating-mega-center-article-1.1726100] , because the Bluestone Cafe at Prospect Park’s Lakeside [/blog/kids/take-a-sneak-peek-at-lakeside-before-official-opening-friday] is hoping to soon secure a

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Meet The Nabe’s Summer Interns

A sun sets over the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines, as seen from a Vanderbilt Avenue apartment. (Photo by Francisco Daum [http://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/])Good afternoon, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Each summer The Nabe welcomes a new crop of interns, not to do menial work, but to

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Cymbrowitz Honored For Efforts To Aid New Yorkers Battling Addiction

The following is a press release we received from the Office of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz: > Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, Chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, was honored with the New York Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers’ (ASAP) 2011 Public Service Award, at their 13th

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Cymbrowitz: NY Needs Comprehensive Plan To Combat Underage Drinking!

Cymbrowitz during the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee’s hearing on underage drinking. (Source: Cymbrowitz's office)Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, as chair of the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee, recently held a hearing on underage drinking. Through testimony presented at the hearing, the assemblyman concluded that underage drinkers comprise 17 percent

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Dionysus? Denied! Golden and Cymbrowitz Unite

With the influx of Sheepshead’s latest liquor establishments, Sheepshead Bay’s thirst for a frosty brew need not be quenched. Senators Marty Golden [/tag/marty-golden/] (R) of Bay Ridge (aka the bar capital of Brooklyn) and Sheepshead’s Steven Cymbrowitz [/tag/steven-cymbrowitz/] (D) fearing the decline of the mom-and-pop