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Downtown archive

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Can’t miss these signs in the Heights

Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides. Comment.

Show of Force: B’Heights a cash cow for traffic agents, city

Downtown: Here’s one record that Brooklyn Heights residents can’t be proud of: the neighborhood leads all others in parking tickets. Through May 27, the 84th Precinct was credited with a whopping 20,210 summonses — a 6.2-percent increase from the same time last year. Comment.

Beat down

Downtown: A Willoughby Street resident was brutally beaten and robbed on her way home early on May 26, police said — plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

Heights bank robber busted

Downtown: Another bank robber has been nabbed in the Heights — plus all the other crime news from Downtown, DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

So long, Billy

Art: Galapagos ditches the ‘burg for shiny deal in DUMBO Comment.