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BY KATE BRIQUELET Truman Capote has another best seller. The Brooklyn Heights man- BURGER sion where the legend- ary author wrote “Breakfast at Tif- fany’s” sold for $12 million — mak- ing it the most ex- pensive house to change hands in the borough’s history. BOOM A buyer snatched up the stately yellow manse on Willow Street nearly two years after Sotheby’s put it on the market — and two It’s a ground beef groundswell moving trucks from Yonkers were spotted in front of the home on HAMBURGER BY ELI ROSENBERG win over thousands of hungry fans Monday night. It’s not just properties that are expected to hit the neighborhood in Despite the abode’s writerly fl ipping near the soon-to-open Bar- search of game-time grub. trappings, the new buyers say clays Center — it’s patties. No less than fi ve new burger spots they aren’t the kinds of literary Burger joints are bouncing up have opened in the last year within luminaries and art-world scenes- BEEFING UP: 67 Burger’s Ed Tretter shows off a blue cheese and bacon around the nearly completed home of a half mile of the arena — and while ters who frequented Capote’s lav- burger in front of his new arena-friendly location on Flatbush Avenue. the Nets like loose balls as national the Nets won’t tip off there until this Continued on Page 25 Photo by Bryan Bruchman chains vie with local businesses to Continued on Page 24
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Whitehall Township have toyet take the feds on its offer, up an FBI spokeswoman confi week. last apartment in Kensington on the the on Kensington in apartment night of Oct. 31 — the before day the fi cafe, Whisk,Newkirk Avenue was due. grisly murderbin’s spans across two states police and ju- multiple risdictions, a small but 36-mem- ber police force in Pennsylvania is handling the case largely on its own — and has criti- snubbed cal FBI assistance that could help them capture the cafe beloved owner’s killer. men, who appear to be in their the credit cards the at Woodbury their Commons Outlet mall in in Central be 1 — more than on Nov. NY, Valley, to 100 miles from Rubin’s where appear body was discovered. who The two men, at 20s, cap- early were or teens late purchases tured multiple on surveillance cameras as made they several stores in the mall, inves- claim. tigators two men who theytwo used say men who slain Ditmas Park cafe owner Josh credit cardsRubin’s less than 12 hours after the 30-year-old busi- nessman was found dead in Penn- sylvania cops — a duo hope will case cold this crack them help open. wide nds Ru- le a missingle per- BY ELI ROSENBERG BY The Rubin • March Lehigh The 1: • Dec. DNA testing 21: • Nov. 1, afternoon: 1, Nov. • • Nov. 1, morning: 1, Nov. • • Oct. evening: 31, • The investigation into investigation investigation — a look back rst payment rent is due. Rubin in April, 2011. File photo By Dan MacLeod bury Commons. bin’s credit cardsbin’s Wood- at they shopped say with Ru- era footage of the men who era footage releases surveillance cam- surveillance releases County district attorney attorney district County murder. an investigation into his his into investigation an Lehigh County cops launch launch cops County Lehigh on Nov. 1 was Josh Rubin. on Nov. covered in Lehigh County County Lehigh in covered in upstate Orange County. dis- body the that proves bury Commons Outlet mall tiple stores in the Wood- the in stores tiple cards at mul- at cards bin’s credit men use Ru- evening, two 6 pm that Precinct. At At Precinct. with the 70th 70th the with Friends fi Friends report sons in an orchard. apple Rubin’s smoldering corpse corpse smoldering Rubin’s Lehigh County, Pa., fi Pa., County, Lehigh branches after a storm in — a road worker clearing— a road worker — nearly 100 miles away Around the same time fi for work — the work day hisfor to meet a friend. up doesn’t show Rubin ment aroundment 9 pm on foot cafe and leaves his apart- his leaves and cafe day’s bagel order for his for bagel orderday’s bin phones in the next bin a rundown: the last months. few Here’s some surprising some turns over ance and murder has taken taken has murder and ance Josh Rubin’s disappear- 4 DT COURIER LIFE, MAR. 9-15, 2012 ner Lee Silverman, who owns who owns Silverman, ner Lee crowded,” run- less said and safe the treadmill. invention the of since idea best it the calling who are set, sporting borough’s Asics- the from cheers dust. orbark dirt turf, track on the joints than asphalt, like determined material that’s softer yet-to-be apermanent, route with replacing the thin, muddy jogging rently runners, by some trod trail cur- path amakeshift formalize spring. this lanes equal-sized but getseparate, to expected are motorists and walkers cyclists, where loop, historic the of terior adding a jogging path on the in- groundbreaking design calls for is considering. city the anew plan roadway under — hard-on-the-knees —and busy Park’s Prospect beside “lane” COOL RUNNING!COOL Prospect Park joggers could get their own ‘lane’ “It creates a space that’s more more that’s aspace creates “It prompted has proposal The would artery new running The The literally and fi and literally The own gettheir would Runners BY NATALIE O’NEILL guratively travelers travelers street. onthe foot and bikers between crashes follows It also near-fatal several cyclists. and walkers to space the traffi ofcar alane giving c and ing for remov- calls —that force task safety by aroad month last veiled redesign roadway Park un- — for posal Prospect a revolutionary it.” destroy horses the —and rocks park. of the side Terrace Windsor way onthe road- the along which runs path, horse onthe onarock tripping ter af- himself who hurt Ring, chael Prospect trail. bridle the Park on ankle-twists pesky and road Trackcollisions with cyclists on the Club’s help would prevent ger’s paradise Mi- for running.” surface softer “I’d love a plan. ceived see to the panel of park advocates that con- JackRabbit Sports and sits on a The plan comes amidst apro- amidst comes plan The “[The bridle trail] is full the said great,” be “It would of jog- the said park-goers Other for the people.”for the Manbeck. it,” said Brooklyn historian John Vaux? Calvert and mstead Ol- Law Frederick designers Park Prospect genius about what but Lebow, Fred like legends running of have backing won the might dramatically. not too but extent, some to character and the plan will affect the park’s look obstacles. a few natural of loop because complete 3.35-mile the notrun it might — although landscape” is potentially feasible week that “a jogging lane on park Prospect Park the heads who Lloyd, also Emily Alliance, said lasthammered out yet. have notbeen trail for the details that who noted Nelson, Paul man spokes- park phase,” said “second design’s ofthe part as sidered “They intended the parks to be gofor would say would they “I It’s the kind of proposalPreservationists acknowledge that Prospect Park Administrator The jogging path is being con- new jogging route in Prospect Park. 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