The Busy Chef E-mail File and What We Told The Brooklyn Paper a Year Ago That They Didn’t Print A little over a year ago, BHB began receiving information from people claiming to have ties with accused fraudster Dan “Busted Chef” Kaufman. They spun tales of someone who was capable of lying to your face […]
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Busted Chef Removed from Brooklyn Paper’s Media Kit
As noted by BHB last week, accused fraudster Dan “Busted Chef” Kaufman was featured in the Brooklyn Paper’s media kit. The presentation, used by the newspaper to attract advertisers, prominently positioned an accolade from the alleged identity thief along with other B’Paper clients Dr. Tony Fahra and Malcolm Smart (Brooklyn Doghouse).
Busted Chef Chronicles Part 1: You Can Fool Some of the People…
Accused fraudster Dan “Busted Chef” Kaufman may have duped some area notables in addition to the 24 alleged victims authorities claim were robbed of a combined $25,000 by his “double dipping” their credit cards. The Brooklyn Paper was first duped by the Busted Chef in April 2007 when it identified Kaufman by what could be […]
Car Thief on Middagh Picks Wrong Guy
From this week’s Brooklyn Paper Police Blotter comes a story of an Off duty corrections officer who found a skell trying to steal his car, parked at the corner of Hicks and Middagh. jailarity ensues:
Second Week in the Piazza, Will it be Better?
Last Sunday’s launch of a car-free summer piazza on Montague Street was under-whelming for many. In this week’s Brooklyn Paper, the BHA’s Judy Stanton blames the city for not supplying enough chairs, while Montage BID’s Chelsea Mauldin says everything went according to plan. The paper also mentions that Heights Books doubled its usual Sunday business […]
Part of Brooklyn Bridge Park Will Be Completed Next Year
The Brooklyn Paper reports that “part” of Brooklyn Bridge Park will be completed by the end of next year: Brooklyn Paper: Part of Park…: [Regina Myer, the BBPDC president] said the two portions of the park that will be completed by the end of 2009 are part of Pier 6, at the foot of Atlantic […]
Cops Nab Cranberry Thugs
The Brooklyn Paper’s Police Blotter brings us this tidbit about an attempted mugging at the corner of Cranberry and Hicks:
BBP: Marty – We’ll Find the Money
Looks like the cost of Brooklyn Bridge Park has more than doubled since the original estimates in 2002. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the bill for BBP will now be somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 million. No worries friends, State Senator Marty Connor apparently has some magic beans:
Yesterday’s News is Tomorrow’s Fish and Chip Paper or Kuntzman Greets Fleet at Floyd
We kid the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman, because we love the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman. There we said it. He may think we bloggers are a bunch of nudnicks but such is life. But seriously, you think anyone at Courier-Life or the Brooklyn Eagle is this much fun? (Hmmm… that Krogius guy might be a […]
Kuntzman: From Special Friend to Scat?
The “geniuses” at Cobble Hill Blog are in a tizzy over the Brooklyn Paper’s Gersh Kuntzman and his recent “podcast” involving being a “special friend” to the kids at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (as “seen on Gawker“). Actually, they’re more in a snit over Kuntzman’s creative direction – one of his latest videos involves […]
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