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  Sour note for concert spot

  A $64 million amphitheater project for Coney Island could be dead in the water. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz yesterday said he's pulling his...  

• Freak out! Plan a party at Coney's 'Sideshow'

  Talk about getting your freak on! The century-old building that’s home to Coney Island’s freak show, burlesque performers and honky-tonk memorabilia museum,...  

• It's a jungle out there as DUMBO 'grows' a cool photography project

  If you already thought the city was an urban jungle, you ain’t seen nothing yet. In “The Treehouse,” a large-scale photography exhibition by Robert Holden, 25...  

• The rock jock! Bklyn professor discovers a whole new mineral

  Brooklyn’s latest rock star isn’t a musician with a microphone — he’s a scientist with a microscope! Kingsborough Community College professor Harold Connolly...  

• Vinegar Hill House to expand

  The dream team behind Vinegar Hill House will expand its operation with a cafe next door, bringing devotees of the bucolic dinner retreat even more to love —...  

• All's fair at Smorgasburg as new food fest opens with great stuff, high prices

  It was a feast for the eyes and ears — but not the wallet. Not content to just outfit us with tasteful loft décor, vintage gossamers and hip housewares, the...  

• Fowl play! New tenants complain about 80-year-old chicken slaughterhouse

  Why did the luxury condo tenant move across the road? It’s not a stupid kids joke, but a oderiferous situation on Greenpoint Avenue, where residents of a...  

• Our weekly events calendar!

  Fri, May 27 Dreamland Fire walking tour: Learn all about the blaze that reshaped Coney Island. $15. Coney Island History Project (3059 W. 12th St. near...  

• Commish lays down the law! Four teams demoted for not showing up

  Eighty percent of success is showing up — but Kickball’s best barely do that. Four veteran teams in the Brooklyn Kickball League received temporary demotions...  

• Goose down! One of the baby goslings is missing and believed dead

  And then there were three. One of Prospect Park’s miracle goslings has gone missing — and Mother Nature is a prime suspect. Heavy weekend rains, illness or a...  

• Lost in the flood!

  The offices of the Brighton Neighborhood Association was left in ruins following a massive May 17 flood — a disaster that the director of the 34-year-old...  

• Our guide to your great Memorial Day weekend

  It’s Memorial Day weekend, and you don’t have a beach house or lakeside cottage to run off to. Don’t feel left out – there’s plenty to keep you occupied this...  

• Who's your crawdaddy?

  If you’ve never had the singular pleasure of diving face first into a bucket of boiled crawfish, head to Sycamore Bar & Flower Shop in Ditmas Park on June 4...  

• Spend this Saturday with the one you love — your bike

  Pedaling paramours will demonstrate their devotion to two-wheeled transportation at Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg this Saturday. But rest assured, the...  

• Roll call! Coney Island getting its rickshaws back!

  And to think, I’ve been walking on the Boardwalk all these years like a sucker! Two Jersey Shore rickshaw operators are bringing the iconic beach-side rolling...