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Our 10 Best Places to Take Mom

If you really love your mom, you might want to consider skipping the Mother's Day specials this year. They tend to be such gloomy experiences as restaurants transform into brunch factories for the day and serve mediocre set menus. Instead, I suggest you take your mother out in the evening, like a re ... More >>

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View the cherry blossoms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Esplanade Lawn Finally Grows Back -- Just In Time To Get Trampled Again By Big Ass Tent (PHOTOS)

One of the Great Mysteries of Brooklyn which has long perplexed us is what happens every year to the Cherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn. The Cherry Esplanade is a treasure, especially in April. The grove comprises one of the most beautiful collection of blossoming cherry trees in the state, if not al ... More >>

FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE

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PETAL PUSHERS

Delight in this flowery Brooklyn festival

Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President, Joins Twitter

​Following in the footsteps of local politicians like Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Rep. Anthony Weiner, who have both shown exceptional online acumen, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has started an official Twitter account, joining every other functional politician nationwide with a ... More >>

Tourists Love New York City, and Especially Brooklyn

​​​Oh, goody. The New York Times' City Room reports that tourism in New York City hit a new high last year, raking in a record 48.7 million slow-walking, skyscraper-gazing, sidewalk-congesting, Century 21-shopping visitors.

Presenting: the Greenest Block in Brooklyn

The winner. (via Brooklyn Botanic Garden)​Congratulations, Vanderveer Place between Flatbush Avenue and East 23rd Street in Flatbush: you've been crowned the Greenest Block in Brooklyn by the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, regaining the title after not winning since 1997.

NATURE VS. FUN

Tea ceremonies, anime, DJs, and—oh, yeah—some trees

Things to Do This Weekend for (Mostly) Free

Brooklyn Botanic Garden​Spring officially starts today, so go see it at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden ($8 adults, $4 seniors and kids over 12), where it's been quietly happening for weeks (slideshow). The National Weather Service says it's going into the seventies today and the sixties tomorrow. ... More >>

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden​Spring officially starts today, so go see it at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden ($8 adults, $4 seniors and kids over 12), where it's been quietly happening for weeks (slideshow). The National Weather Service says it's going into the seventies today and the sixties tomorrow. ... More >>

Lady Journalists Have Sex in New Book

"I was interested to learn that New York Times Cost of Living columnist M. P. Dunleavy enjoyed 'occasional anal sex' during her last long-term relationship." Us too, and if literary dames turn you on, you may be intrigued by Paula Derrow's review of Meredith Bryan's Behind The Bedroom Door: Getting ... More >>

Coney Island of the Mind: Big Thinkers Consider Coney, Offer Depressing Ideas

"I was interested to learn that New York Times Cost of Living columnist M. P. Dunleavy enjoyed 'occasional anal sex' during her last long-term relationship." Us too, and if literary dames turn you on, you may be intrigued by Paula Derrow's review of Meredith Bryan's Behind The Bedroom Door: Getting ... More >>

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"I was interested to learn that New York Times Cost of Living columnist M. P. Dunleavy enjoyed 'occasional anal sex' during her last long-term relationship." Us too, and if literary dames turn you on, you may be intrigued by Paula Derrow's review of Meredith Bryan's Behind The Bedroom Door: Getting ... More >>

CHERRY POPPING

The garden gets rocked

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Education Listings, Winter 2007/2008

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Grading the Speaker

Miller's Council Gets 'A' for Courage, Mixed Results on Budget and Bills

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Miller's Council Gets 'A' for Courage, Mixed Results on Budget and Bills

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Miller's Council Gets 'A' for Courage, Mixed Results on Budget and Bills

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Miller's Council Gets 'A' for Courage, Mixed Results on Budget and Bills

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Miller's Council Gets 'A' for Courage, Mixed Results on Budget and Bills

Uprooted

The City Yanks More Gardens Out of Harlem