Breaking news and Brooklyn perspectives http://www.brooklynpaper.com en-us Copyright 2008 The Brooklyn Paper Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:27:04 EDT  Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:56:25 EDT By Mike McLaughlin Only six of the 13 Latino food vendors in Red Hook Park returned this weekend and were greeted by adoring fans and long lines — a long-awaited comeback that was delayed for months amid tightened city control over the 34-year-old, previously unregulated mercado. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_rh_vendors.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_rh_vendors.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:45 EDT By Ben Muessig It took animal rescuers, neighbors and a concerned pet owner 15 days — and one trip to the psych ward — to save a 7-year-old kitty that was trapped in a narrow shaft in a Carroll Gardens apartment building. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_cat.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_cat.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:07:57 EDT By Sarah Portlock One of the owners of Busy Chef, the popular Brooklyn Heights upscale take-out joint, was arraigned today for stealing nearly $25,000 from unwitting customers in a massive identity theft and credit card forgery case — and will remain in jail at least until Wednesday because the court would not accept a bail payment from an accused forger. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_busy_chef.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_busy_chef.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:50 EDT By Sarah Portlock Busy Chef Dan Kaufman has spent the week out of view after being charged with stealing nearly $25,000 — and attempting to steal $46,000 more — from unwitting customers in a massive identity theft and credit card forgery case. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_busy_chef_final.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_busy_chef_final.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:33:49 EDT By Mike McLaughlin An embattled condo project on Myrtle Avenue will come back to haunt its billionaire developer if he goes ahead and runs for mayor, his critics say. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_furee_ralley.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_furee_ralley.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:05:13 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Of course, it’s no surprise to readers (and lookers!) of The Brooklyn Paper, but Miss Brooklyn Leigh-Tayor Smith is now Miss New York! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_pageant.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_pageant.html Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:49:47 EDT By Sarah Portlock Busy Chef Dan Kaufman was sprung from jail late Friday by his girlfriend — even as more victims of his alleged credit card scam are coming forward, law enforcement authorities said. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_busy_sunday.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_busy_sunday.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:06:41 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Of course, it’s no surprise to readers (and lookers) of The Brooklyn Paper, but Miss Brooklyn Leigh-Tayor Smith is now Miss New York! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_miss_brooklyn.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_miss_brooklyn.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:26:22 EDT By Sarah Portlock Could this pork be smoked? http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_pork_store.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_pork_store.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:07:51 EDT By Mike McLaughlin and Gersh Kuntzman The Cyclones evened the three-game series against their hated, cross-Narrows rivals with a lead-from-the-start-but-almost-collapse win that sets up a climactic rubber game tonight in Staten Island. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_monday_sum.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_monday_sum.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:48 EDT By Mike McLaughlin A surprise shakeup in the executive offices of Long Island College Hospital has renewed fears that the 150-year-old hospital may be doomed. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_lich.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_lich.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:49 EDT By Mike McLaughlin No location is too unlikely for a new hotel in Brooklyn, not the manufacturing district around the Gowanus Canal and, now, not even a lot next to the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn House of Detention. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_nu_hotel.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_nu_hotel.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:45:24 EDT By Michael Lipkin Monday mornings have become a stinking mess at Prospect Park this summer, where overflowing piles of trash, rotting food, and more litter than you can shake a half-eaten chicken leg at have become a weekly ritual. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_garbage_park.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_garbage_park.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:09:40 EDT By Mike McLaughlin and Jessica Firger The runaway popularity of a flea market on Lafayette Avenue bothers some neighbors who complain it’s made parking scarce and garbage plentiful on their brownstone blocks. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_flea_market.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_flea_market.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:34 EDT By Sarah Portlock State officials shut down Grimaldi’s on Wednesday, saying the internationally renowned DUMBO pizzeria owed $150,000 in taxes — but the cash-only joint reopened to cheers a few hours later as its owner downplayed the whole thing as just an “accounting error.” http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_grimaldis_shut.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_grimaldis_shut.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:51 EDT By Sarah Portlock The organizer of an old-fashioned Soapbox Derby has zoomed right past the disapproving elders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who last year blocked the gravity-fueled go-cart race along Brooklyn Heights’ legendary “Suicide Hill” because of liability issues. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_soapbox.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_soapbox.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:07:58 EDT By Sarah Portlock Could it be that political gadfly John O’Hara has clawed himself back to respectability? http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_ohara.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_ohara.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:54:33 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman OK, so maybe the one-man sword fight in “Macbeth” left too much to the imagination. And maybe the 16-comedy ferry ride felt a little rushed. And, yeah, that 25-second “Julius Caesar” lost some of the angst of Brutus’s existential struggle, but you try doing 31 Shakespeare plays in three hours. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_shakespeare.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_shakespeare.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:25:05 EDT By Ed Shakespeare Our columnist bemoans Walter O’Malley’s induction into the Hall of Fame on Sunday. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_es_shakespeare.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_es_shakespeare.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:24 EDT Our editorial board think the city could have done better in dealing with the Red Hook vendors. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_editorial.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_editorial.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:31:50 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Our columnist went to the official “Welcome Back” ceremony for the Red Hook vendors — but found himself getting nauseus from all the politicians taking credit for “saving” the vendors from the very bureaucracy they set up to ensnare them! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_angle.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_angle.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:50 EDT By Sarah Portlock It’s become a bus-aster at Borough Hall. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_ikea_shuttle.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_ikea_shuttle.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:29:27 EDT By Mike McLaughlin and Allison Bosworth A repeat burglar — or a team of crooks — has tormented DeKalb Avenue restaurants, seemingly striking at will and with precision over the last two months. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_restaurant_burgs.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_restaurant_burgs.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:18:36 EDT Here’s a great way to spend next Saturday! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_coney_cap.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_coney_cap.html Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:31:35 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman The struggling Cyclones crossed the Narrows on a listing ship — and promptly ran into a tidal wave by the name of Melky Mesa. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_fri-sat_sum.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_fri-sat_sum.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:29:26 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman The Cyclones are on a roll, thanks to taking two of three from the first-place Yanks. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_tuesday_game_sum.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_tuesday_game_sum.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:13 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman To grow up Jewish in the 1970s was to be in the thrall of Elliott Gould. Sure, the suburban teenage Semite had his Woody Allen for comic relief and his Paul Newman for confirmation that he was, indeed, a member of a Chosen People, but the sight of the mangy, Jew-fro-covered head of Gould on the big screen during that long-forgotten decade got more than a few movie geeks through adolescence. Here, Gould talks with GO Brooklyn about those films, which will be screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in August. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_striking_gould.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_striking_gould.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:47:58 EDT By Michael Lipkin The news that Starbucks would abandon one of its four Bay Ridge locations was greeted like the classic David vs. Goliath story in the neighborhood this week — and we all know who the David is. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_br_starbucks.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_br_starbucks.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:29:39 EDT By Sarah Portlock The city is moving toward protecting a wide swatch of Prospect Heights — but the proposed “historic district” would not hinder a project that some neighbors think is the biggest destroyer of the area’s history: Atlantic Yards. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_pheights_hd.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_pheights_hd.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:15 EDT By The Politicrasher Our columnist follows around congressional hopeful Kevin Powell as he courts that most-elusive of political prizes: the youth vote. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_politicrasher.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_politicrasher.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:47 EDT By Michael Lipkin Oy vey! In the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished category, a Bensonhurst synagogue that was simply trying to make its facility more accessible to the disabled was the victim of an unholy theft when someone made off with its $15,000 exterior fence. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_stolen_fence.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_stolen_fence.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT By Adam Rathe Gas is topping $4 per gallon. Parking, even in a cheap lot, can cost more then some people make in a day. And keeping a car in the city is enough to make anyone long for the subway. But there are a growing number of Brooklynites who don’t have to worry about such things anymore, as scooters — especially the Mod-throwback Vespa bikes — are taking the borough by storm. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_viva_la_ivespai.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_viva_la_ivespai.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:48 EDT By Mike McLaughlin The state of Coney Island is not strong, one of its most vocal boosters said this week. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_dick_zigun.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_dick_zigun.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT Jovana Rizzo What do a dancing CEO, patriotic terrorist and neurotic Jewish man (who drugs his wife in order to keep her from cheating) have in common? They will soon be under the direction of Ian Hill at Williamsburg’s Brick Theater. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_over_the_hill.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_over_the_hill.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:47:06 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Steve Harrison, the spurned man in the race to succeed Rep. Vito Fossella, says Sen. Charles Schumer’s endorsement of Councilman Mike McMahon this week just goes to show that the Staten Island councilman is not a true progressive Democrat. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_harrison_speaks.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_harrison_speaks.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:17 EDT By Ed Shakespeare George “Shotgun” Shuba, a member of the Dodgers’ 1955 World Championship team, was back in Brooklyn on Sunday — and, of course, the conversation centered around Jackie Robinson. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_es_shuba_up_down.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_es_shuba_up_down.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:20 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman One day after the Cyclones won an emotional victory over the first-place Staten Island Yankees, the letdown began. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_wed_cyc_update.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_wed_cyc_update.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:21 EDT By Jessica Firger MTV isn’t talking about where it will film the 21st season of its “Real World” reality show, but in Red Hook, everyone knows the real deal. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_jf_real_world.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_jf_real_world.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:46 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman The Cyclones beat the Lake Monsters — but they’re still in dead last. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_wed_game_sum.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_wed_game_sum.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT By Kate Ray We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_tasty_restaurant_gossip.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_tasty_restaurant_gossip.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:06:26 EDT By Ed Shakespeare Cyclone injuries are taking their toll. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_es_up_down_injuries.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_es_up_down_injuries.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:18 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman If it’s Wednesday, it must be Crime Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week’s ghastly coverage begins close to home — with the theft of our editor’s beloved bicycle! Click below for your neighborhood or read all the crime news from Park Slope. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_78_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_78_blot.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT By Adam Rathe Until now, tourists roaming through Brooklyn Heights were immediately recognizable thanks to their bulging fanny packs and unwieldy maps. But not anymore! Thanks to “CityListen Audio Tour,” a self-guided trek that downloads to any MP3 player, tourists can roam the borough with ear buds — just like us! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_heights_itour.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_heights_itour.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:16 EDT By Emily Lavin A old woman is mugged on the street — plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights’ 68th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_el_68_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_el_68_blot.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:22 EDT By Mike McLaughlin A bizarre incident involving two scuffling teens and a third man with a gun — plus all the other crime news from Red Hook, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill’s 76th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_76_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_76_blot.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT By Kate Ray There’s no room for trepidation at the Genesis Dance Company’s “Be Fearless! Experience Genesis Dance!” performances this weekend in Downtown Brooklyn. Meet the artists at the opening night gala. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_courageous_choreography.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_courageous_choreography.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:21 EDT By Michael Lipkin A crook changes his mind when his would-be victim refuses to comply — plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_62_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_ml_62_blot.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:20 EDT A woman and boyfriend argue, and she loses her cellphone — plus all the crime news from Prospect Heights’ 77th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_jf_77_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_jf_77_blot.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:57:34 EDT By Ben Muessig A masked gunman shot a 28-year-old man as he walked with his friend on South Second Street. Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_90th_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_90th_blot.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:22 EDT By Mike McLaughlin Two women take advantage of a woman who was only looking for the police station — plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_88_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_mm_88_blot.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:23 EDT By Sarah Portlock A vicious bat attack in Boerum Hill — plus all the other crime news from Downtown, DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights’ 84th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_84_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sp_84_blot.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:15:12 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman A four-run Oneonta fifth inning plucked victory away from the underachieving Cyclones — who remain in last place in the McNamara Division. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_thursday_game_sum.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_thursday_game_sum.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:13 EDT By Ben Muessig A crook grabbed a woman from behind — plus all the other crime news from Greenpoint and WIlliamsburg’s 94th Precinct. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_94_blot.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_94_blot.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:46 EDT By Jessica Firger Bay Ridge residents received a wake-up call — literally — on Sunday that would cause most people to get up on the wrong side of their bed: Con Ed was begging people to use less power in the midst of the summer’s second prolonged heat wave. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_jf_con_ed.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_jf_con_ed.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT By Adam Rathe Prices might be low, but drama will be high at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s summer art exhibition — dubbed “Hot!” — that opens on Saturday. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_hot_prospect.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_hot_prospect.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:26 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Now that’s a switch! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_cyclone_main.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_cyclone_main.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:20 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Cops nabbed a man stealing suddenly valuable copper piping from a Con Ed under-pavement vault on Tuesday — collaring a thief they believe was responsible for at least two other similar crimes in as many weeks. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_copper_arrest.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_copper_arrest.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:29:14 EDT By Kate Ray Prospect Park will be the stage for Human Landscape Dance’s “Rituals of the First Year” — an innovative dance performance that explores new parenthood — on Sunday. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_only_human.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_only_human.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:29:29 EDT By Louise Crawford This summer, the Oh So Feisty One is at camp and Smartmom is on her retreat to Block Island. What will Hepcat do? http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sm_smartmom.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_sm_smartmom.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:01:07 EDT By Thurston Dooley III Our columnist reviews Randy Kaplan’s concert in Carroll Park on Wednesday. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_td_kaplan_review.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_td_kaplan_review.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:44 EDT By Ben Muessig Ridgites are furious about a lengthy construction project on 86th Street that has torn up the vital commercial strip and turned a block between Third and Fourth avenues into a dumping ground. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_86th_st.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_bm_86th_st.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:20 EDT By Gersh Kuntzman Adams Street now has a green spine. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_adams_medians.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_adams_medians.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:27 EDT Our mailbag is filled once again with letters about Borough President Markowitz’s run for mayor, the ticket blitz in Park Slope, a woman who got a stern warning for taking pictures of her daughter in a Brooklyn park, the greatness of Montreal and a federal plan to permanently close off Washington Street in Downtown. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_letters.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_letters.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:43 EDT All the gossip, news, bric-a-brac and potpourri from your neighborhood. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_all_sinks.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_all_sinks.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:27 EDT By Susan Rosenthal Jay All the fun you could be having with your kids. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_kids_cal.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_kids_cal.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:04:26 EDT All the community meetings you should be going to! http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_civic_cal.html http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/29/31_29_gk_civic_cal.html