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Comedian Mike Birbiglia says Brooklyn is the Boise of NYC
“I graduated from Georgetown in 2000 and started off sleeping on my sister Gina’s couch in Carroll Gardens,” says comedian Mike Birbiglia. “And 18 years later, I live in Carroll...
Joan Baez lends support to save historic Carroll Gardens church
When the winds of change shift in Brooklyn, Joan Baez wants this house to stay forever. The legendary folk singer and activist has joined the fight to save the historic...
Brooklyn eatery with mob ties mysteriously shot up
Waiter, there’s a bullet in my bolognese. A mob-linked Brooklyn restaurant may need to check its macaroni and gravy for shell casings after someone shot up the eatery’s facade early...
‘Girls’ star Jemima Kirke wants to cash in on Brooklyn manse
Life doesn’t always imitate art — especially for Jemima Kirke. The actress is best known for her role as Jessa in HBO’s “Girls” — a free-spirited character who doesn’t have...
Carroll Gardens is about to go condo
Brooklyn’s quaint Carroll Gardens may be best known for its nice stock of historic rowhouses and brownstones. Now, however, area house hunters on the prowl for a condo — as...
Man found dead at bottom of stairway with severe head, neck trauma
A 36-year-old man was found dead Tuesday at the bottom of a stairway outside of a home in Brooklyn, police said. The dead man, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, was...
The mystery behind the only murder during the 1977 NYC blackout
When a flash of lightning zapped the city on July 13, 1977, panic hit New York. Already gripped by economic collapse and the Son of Sam terror, the city was...
Brooklyn brothel appears to be closed for business
It looks like the Brownstone Brooklyn brothel exposed by The Post last weekend has shut down. “It’s not opening now!” one of two young women spotted darting in and out...
Brooklyn brothel is still open — but now has one fewer employee
The NYPD has yet to shut down the Brownstone Brooklyn brothel exposed by The Post over the weekend, but at least one city correction officer took action Monday — by...
Neighbors want to know why cops haven't closed brothel yet
It was business as usual at a brothel in the middle of the stroller-mom, upscale Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens on Sunday morning, with male customers being escorted into the...
City bans volunteer from vacant lot he’s been keeping clean
Proving no good deed goes unpunished, city bureaucrats have barred a Brooklyn volunteer from a vacant lot he’s been keeping clean for years. “The more good you do for the...
Would-be bank robber leads police on chase through Brooklyn
A would-be bank robber was busted after leading cops on a chase through Carroll Gardens Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Freddie Youmans, 29, allegedly passed a note demanding cash to a...
The meteoric price rise of the Brooklyn penthouse
It’s the era of the Brooklyn penthouse. When a top-floor pad at One John Street in Brooklyn entered contract for $8.8 million last month, the deal set a new milestone:...
Publishers Weekly exec lists $1.5 million apartment
Literary lions, take note. Jonathan Segura, the executive editor of Publishers Weekly, just listed his two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Carroll Gardens for $1.5 million. The condo, in a new-development building...
Designer Fawn Galli brings wit and whimsy to Brooklyn pad
Ten years ago, then-pregnant interior designer Fawn Galli decided to bid adieu to her out-all-night Manhattan lifestyle — as well as her West Village rental — and move with her...
Massive bee's nest removed from schoolyard
A massive bee’s nest was removed from a tree near a Brooklyn schoolyard Friday night, police said. Authorities say the nest was spotted on the grounds of PS 29 in...
Cat fight ensues over fate of $50K felines
A literal cat fight has broken out over the will of a Brooklyn woman who left $50,000 to her five felines, with demands for a “cat psychologist” and even a...
Buyers flocking to Brooklyn's brownstones
Brownstone Brooklyn has become so posh that the number of homebuyers who individually earn $300,000-a-year or more spiked an eye-popping 316 percent in the first quarter of 2014, compared with...
De Blasio’s neighborhood among city's top property tax savers
Small-home owners in Carroll Gardens and Park Slope are saving an average of $10,760 per year on their property-tax bills — the biggest benefit outside Manhattan — thanks to byzantine...