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Fri, SEPT. 10Theater, “Captain Aesop and the Starship Fable”: Aesop’s fables adapted for the future. $10. 10 pm. Brooklyn Lyceum [227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) 857-4816], www.brooklynlyceum.com. Brooklyn Book Festival: Talks by authors, as well as music and film at venues all...

Mon, Sep. 13Town Square. Monthly meeting. 7 pm. [102 Oak St. between Franklin and Guernsey streets in Greenpoint, (718) 609-1090], www.townsquareinc.com. Community Board 10 Health and Welfare Committee. Monthly meeting. 7 pm. Community Board 10 office [8119 Fifth Ave. between 81st and 82nd streets in Bay Ridge, (718...

The trio, which ended up wowing the crowd with a nimble-toed dance, was among a group from the Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn hoping to lure aspiring swans to enroll in their famed institution during a Back to School Expo at Kings Plaza Shopping Center where educators and school-oriented organizations...

Dastardly dareA 20-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old girl at a Utica Avenue party during a terribly salacious twist on the “Truth or Dare” game, police learned this week.The girl said she was victimized when she partied with a group of friends at a home between Avenues N and...

No tow away zoneA judge allowed owners of a Stillwell Avenue tow truck company with alleged ties to organized crime get one step closer to obtaining a coveted permit to pick up disabled vehicles on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.Ridge Transport Systems took the city to court when the special permit...

Brownstone Brooklyn lawmakers are jumping all over a plan to add bite to the city’s toothless stance on raccoons.Prompted by increasing reports of the critters wreaking havoc everywhere but Manhattan, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D–Queens) introduced a bill that would shift the burden of removing — and safely relocating...

A videotape shows the alleged mastermind of a plot to attack New York synagogues and shoot down military planes practicing with a shoulder missile launcher and praying two weeks before the planned attack. The tape played for a jury Tuesday at the federal trial of James Cromitie and three other...

Worse, water leaking through the roof of the structure has seeped into the basement and caused damage to the Gourases’ foundation — but they said that the Departments of Buildings and Sanitation merely write citations and nothing ever changes.The debacle began in the mid-1990s, when the building’s owner, Frank...

Brooklyn rocked to the Caribbean beat and Eastern Parkway exploded in color as luminaries and lay folk danced to calypso music, pressed flesh with glittering dancers and feasted on Jamaican jerk chicken during one of the Big Apple’s biggest cultural festivals, the West Indian American Day Carnival and Parade...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the Internet giant plans to launch its Google TV platform globally next year, in the company's latest move to expand its reach outside its core U.S. market, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Google used Schmidt's closing keynote speech at the IFA...

So what if it harkens to an environmental catastrophe in American history — if Bay Ridge wants its Dust Bowl, it will get it, according to organizers of a contest to rename a once-gritty section of a popular area park.“If our neighborhood chooses to [make official] a long-standing nickname, we...

Residents of the Marlboro Houses in Gravesend have 5,000 reasons to turn in the trigger-happy gunman who popped off shots from the roof of an Avenue X building, killing a beloved bread delivery man in what police are calling a “random shooting.”Police are offering a $5,000 for...

Why was he even on the street?That’s the question friends of slain Midwood man Yusef Robinson are asking after learning that the man arrested for the murder was not only an ex-con who was on parole — but also had a warrant out for his arrest since June.Eion...

But you’re probably like us: tiny TV, no cable, no backyard (which means no BBQ pork shoulder), and, well, no friends either. Getting all of these game-day amenities takes some real deep digging into Brooklyn’s best sports bars.“The season’s always a good time,” said Maria Bova...

Blame the cook!The blaze that tore through a row of Flatbush Avenue stores between Flatlands Avenue and Kings Highway on Aug. 29 — including a uniform store that’s been open for 84 years — was sparked after workers at a Chinese restaurant accidentally left their oven on overnight, FDNY officials...

The world’s tiniest man took a small bite out of the Big Apple today, along with nibbles of a Times Square hot dog and deli sandwich, "Everything was very good. It’s a very beautiful city," 22-inch-tall Khagendra Thapa Magar said during a whirlwind tour of the city organized...

Prosecutors dropped all but one charge today against raunchy rapper Foxy Brown -- guaranteeing she will get no jail time -- who then shot her mouth off afterwards when she said she's had so much legal trouble recently as a result of people being "jealousy" of her. Brown, whose...

90th PrecinctSouthside–BushwickHold-up hold upTwo thieves stole 354 scaffolding beams from a Morgan Avenue yard on Sept. 5, after handcuffing a guard and his girlfriend.The thieves broke into the Scaffolding One yard near Stagg Street at 2 am and put a gun to the night watchman’s head. They...

88th PrecinctFort Greene–Clinton HillBlade boysThree thugs held a 32-year-old at knifepoint near the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Navy Street on Sept. 4, taking $1 and some electronics.The thieves surrounded their victim at around 2:50 am, with one of the thugs menacingly pulling out the blade before...

68th PrecinctBay Ridge–Dyker HeightsWithout a TraceA bar-hopping thief swiped a woman’s Dooney and Burke bag from a table at Trace, a Third Avenue Mexican restaurant and lounge, on Aug. 13. The stylish victim told cops that her purse, which she left unattended at around 3:30 am at...

Don’t stalk me, mom,” says the joy of my life. “Don’t post it on Facebook, and I won’t stalk you,” says I. With posting, texting and Twittering in 46 characters or less, you would think that parents today have a better hold on their kids and their...

Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, a stunning decision that apparently ends a political dynasty that dominated the city for more than a half century and paves the way for Rahm Emanuel to chase his dream job. Emanuel, the White House chief of...

Disgraced writer Gerald Posner was slapped with a copyright suit today for allegedly stealing "significant portions" of his latest book. Author Frank Owen alleges that Posner -- who gained fame for his 1993 investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy -- engaged in "numerous examples of word-for-word copying" to produce...

84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownIt’s a stealTalk about bad customer service! Cops arrested a Macy’s employee for using a customer’s card number on Sept. 4.The victim told cops that he forgot his card at the Fulton Street department store, which is between Gallatin Place...

Hewlett-Packard sued former CEO Mark Hurd Tuesday, one day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. The contents of the suit were not clear, but a person familiar with it said it centered around a confidentiality provision in Hurd's exit...

Two alleged homegrown terrorists turned a surveillance mission into a wildlife safari while casing an upstate military base last year, according to a secretly recorded video played in court this morning. Defendant David Williams spotted a wild turkey while being driven around Stewart Air National Guard Base by a government...

Two American soldiers were killed and nine others wounded when an Iraqi soldier opened fire after an argument over a sports match they had been playing, the U.S. Army said Tuesday. The attack occurred within an Iraqi army compound near the city of Tuz Khurmatu in the northern Salaheddin...

A brazen blonde bandit got a sweet deal today for filching tens of thousands of dollars worth of cash, fancy furs, jewelry and designer purses from open-house showings at luxury Manhattan apartments. Prosecutors agreed to the dismissal of felony larceny charges against Jessica Joyner, 41, explaining that she's doing...

A fire department official says oxygen levels were dangerously low in a manhole where a sewer worker and a firefighter died. No cause of death has been established in Monday’s deaths of sewer worker Anthony Ruggiero and Tarrytown firefighter John Kelly. Kelly had tried to save Ruggiero. Assistant Fire...

CLEVELAND — Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has helped the Cleveland Clinic create a more stylish hospital gown without the peek-a-boo back. The gown features elements associated with von Furstenberg designs — a wrap dress with a bold, graphic print. The clinic’s logo is printed on the fabric. The gown has...