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Feb. 12, 2024 Kirstyn Brendlen & Arthur de Gaeta
The biggest Sunday in football started as it has for the past seven years in southern Brooklyn — with the annual Chili Cookoff at Lock Yard gastropub in Bay Ridge, where nearly two-dozen chefs arrived on Feb. 11 ready to compete.