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THESE DAYS, BROOKLYN isn’t just the “It” borough, it’s hegemonic. Envious restaurateurs in other cities around the world rip off its much-loved, much-mocked food scene. Its cultural institutions like BAM have international reach. The creative class, priced out of Manhattan, has converted factories, repurposed office space and transformed forsaken neighborhoods. These bright young things now work, eat, play, pursue the principles of hygge and sleep in the borough, much as Manhattan’s painfully hip once rarely left the area below…