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From the editor: Our Barclays coverage
Editorial: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. Comment.
Readers all over Brooklyn are doin’ the pigeon
Letters: Our mailbag is filled with missives about Barclays, pigeons, two old sisters and restaurateur Nick Monte. Comment.
Verses & Reverses
Perspective: The poet laureate of Park Slope weighs in on online shopping. Comment.
We’re in a heap of trouble if Barron’s the Beep
Letters: Once again, The Paper has been inundated with correspondence from readers like you. Comment.
Verses & Reverses
Perspective: The poet laureate of Park Slope weighs in on the recent glut of articles about the neighborhood. Comment.
Foes of supportive housing in Slope fight back
Letters: Lots of anger over our coverage of a supportive housing facility in Park Slope, plus all our other letters. Comment.
Can teens find ‘Harmony’?
PS … I Love You: At 3 pm, teenagers take over the sidewalks — and civilization as we know it. Comment.
In Slope, the sidewalks have eyes
Smartmom: What happens in the idyllic brownstone neighborhood of Park Slope if you see a teenager smoking a cigarette on Seventh Avenue? Comment.
Luxury condos no ‘state’ secret
Greene Acres: Elected officials rail against a plan to sell a state-owned office building at 55 Hanson Place. Comment.
Sinking feeling in the Heights
Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Heights is full of holes — sinkholes and potholes, that is. Comment.
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
Roberta Davenport, take-charge principal
Checkin’ in with: In our back-to-school issue, The Paper sits down with a rising star principal Comments (1).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Readers speak in favor of tearing down Admirals Row
Letters: The mailbag is full with letters about the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island plan, the death of bicycle rider Sam Hindy, and Brooklyn Heights’ favorite son, Norman Mailer. Comment.
A bus driver enjoys his holiday in Fort Greene
Letters: A full mailbag of letters this week. Comment.
Is Gentile pulling a Ratner on us?
Yellow Hooker: What’s more important, individual rights or the good of the community? Comment.
Delay, thy name is Duffield
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist on the latest effort to save some historic — and possibly slave-linked — houses on Duffield Street. Comment.
Mark Lahm of Henry’s End
Checkin’ in with: Let’s face it — no one has time to cook these days. And by the time January rolls around, the usual array of take-out places and restaurants can get yawn- (or nausea-) inducing. But at least one restaurant — Henry’s End in Brooklyn Heights — is taking a stand, thanks to the latest installment of its annual Wild Game Festival. Comments (5).
Wanted: bike lane
Letters: We received a remarkably high volume of mail regarding the controversy of a city plan to eliminate one lane of traffic in each direction on Ninth Street and replace them with left-turn bays and install bike lanes on each side of the street. Virtually every letter was in favor of the city plan. Comment.
Supportive housing supporter has say
Letters: Another voice in favor of a Fifth Avenue Committee project — plus all your letters. Comment.
A toast to the good guys
PS … I Love You: Our columnist explains the enduring appeal of Slope Cellars. Comment.
Wal-Mart needs a better map
Heights Lowdown: Maybe the behemouth should study Brooklyn before putting a store here. Comment.
America speaks: Graffiti Girl proves NY stinks
Letters: The Brooklyn Paper received more e-mails and comments regarding its front page story on 6-year-old “graffiti” vandal Natalie Shea than on any story in its 30-year history (“New face of vandalism,” Oct. 13). True, the ease of Internet communication and the nature of modern blogging played a role, but there’s no question that Shea’s story touched people in ways in which they are not usually touched. Here’s a sampling from our mailbag. Comments (6).
Defiant tot: I’ll tag again
Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s 6-year-old graffiti “vandal” is still fighting a city warning letter demanding that she remove her sidewalk chalk drawing from her front stoop. Comments (21).
Eating veg is good — but where?
Heights Lowdown: Brooklyn Vegetarian Week is all well and good, but the Heights doesn’t have any vegetarian restaurants! Comments (2).
The Hamptons ain’t for kids
Smartmom: Smartmom noticed it first: there was a note on the menu blackboard and in the menu as well that said: It is a condition of service at the Clam Bar that all children must stay in their seats. Comment.
She longs to shop on 7th
PS … I Love You: Our columnist looks inward to get her holiday shopping done. Comment.
GAPco leader demands: Take me to your editor!
Letters: Our mailbag groans under the weight of letters about Grand Army Plaza, pay-to-play politics in the City Council, The Paper’s Atlantic Yards editorial and New York University’s proposed merger with Polytechnic University. Comment.
Defiant tot: I’ll tag again
Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s 6-year-old graffiti “vandal” is still fighting a city warning letter demanding that she remove her sidewalk chalk drawing from her front stoop. Comments (21).
‘Model’ landlord is tenant-tough
Greene Acres: Our columnist finds that the Pratt Area Community Council doesn’t always practice what it preaches. Comments (2).
Checkin’ in with … Rudy Gaskins, the urban ad man
Checkin’ in with: Our reporter checks in with the man who is going to market Lexuses to rich black women. Comment.
Trolley operators fire back at our cover story
Letters: Letters: This week’s mailbag features two letters attacking our recent criticism of the Heart of Brooklyn “trolley,” plus letters on our F-train coverage and the Khalil Gibran International Academy (what else is new?). Comment.
Beaten by girls then offended by Paper
Letters: Lots of mail about our coverage of Prospect Heights’ “tween bandits,” ugly buildings on Fourth Avenue, the resignation of a Community Board 6 member, Rudy Giuliani and, of course, the Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest. Comments (1).
Wet, hot Park Slope summer!
PS … I Love You: It’s summer in the Slope — and our columnist loves it. Comment.
Spring cleaning expert speaks
Checkin’ in with: Spring cleaning — is it a myth? We found out more about this ancient rite. Comment.
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
DUMBO asks, ‘Can we talk’?
Heights Lowdown: The third part in our trilogy about the battle between a DUMBO baker and a man scorned. Comment.
A culture of death in Bay Ridge?
Yellow Hooker: Has a darkness settled over Bay Ridge? Comments (1).
Dogs parade — no, really
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist dresses up her dog and joins the party on the Promenade. Comment.
Doing the Fulton shuffle
Greene Acres: Our columnist looks at why so many Fulton Street stores are closing. Comment.
Sen. Golden not pleased with Alpine coverage
Letters: A Bay Ridge lawmaker takes exception to a recent story — plus letters on Marty Markowitz, Memorial Day, Bruce Ratner and one man’s astounding nipple hair! Comment.
Want to end war? End recruiting
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist follows some anti-war marchers through Brooklyn Heights and discovers a new approach to ending the fighting in Iraq. Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Graffiti man as preservationist
Brooklyn South: A graffiti artist wants to create a football-field-sized gallery in Red Hook. Comments (3).
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
The fungus is among us
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist stalks the less-than-elusive source of the raw meat stench in the Hillside Dog Park on Columbia Heights. Comment.
Fire makes school building hotter
Heights Lowdown: The fire is out at St. Charles Borromeo School in Brooklyn Heights, but the building is hotter than ever — thanks to a decision by the Brooklyn Diocese to close the school and sell or lease the property. Comment.
She disliked our coverage — but loved the photo of her children!
Letters: Our mailbag is filled with letters about the changes on Columbia Street, a former brothel on Lincoln Place, a Downtown development project, Paul LoDuca’s rehab starts with the Cyclones, our troops in Iraq, and what a great job reporter Matthew Lysiak is doing Comment.
Six degrees of renovation
Greene Acres: It’s taken six years for the city to build a community center in the Ingersoll Houses. Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
Permits a plague on Pierrepont
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist goes undercover to solve the parking mess on Pierrepont Street. Comments (3).
Smartmom’s Xmas
Smartmom: Smartmom’s tree is a symbol — not of the birth of Jesus, silly, but of her acceptance of her family’s new holiday traditions. Comment.
Teen lit queen, Libba Bray
Checkin’ in with: Our interview with teen writing phenom Libba Bray. Comments (4).
Come on Xmas light my fire
PS … I Love You: Our columnist offers a timeless tale of Christmas heroism. Comment.
Hey, Brooklyn Paper: Stop picking on the Italians
Letters: Letters pour in regarding a Hanukkah snub; the loss of the Brooklyn Dodgers; an allegation of an anti-Italian bias in The Brooklyn Paper; how to keep our streets safe; Bruce Ratner’s new tower at City Tech; security at Atlantic Yards; poor bus service in Brooklyn; Smartmom’s column; and the limits of Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman’s intelligence. Comment.
Latkes and life are best improvised
Smartmom: Hepcat makes latkes the old-fashioned way: He improvises. And therein lies a great life lesson! Comment.
Performance artist Aaron Cedolia
Checkin’ in with: The man behind that weird line of “customers” at Trader Joe’s is unmasked! Comments (2).
How about a ‘thank you’ for Smartmom?
Smartmom: Smartmom learns first-hand that no good deed goes unpunished online. Comment.
Heights cars hurt bicyclists
Heights Lowdown: The Heights is no place for a bicyclist, our columnist finds. Comment.
Fulton Mall unclassy? A reader begs to differ
Letters: The mailbag is full with comments about our recent coverage of Fulton Mall, an alleged “cat-napping” case, the possible sale of the Slave Theater, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, and a plan for a seven-story apartment building in Carroll Gardens. Comment.
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
Reader’s rip The Paper’s F express editorial, calling fix cheap & easy
Letters: Our mailbag is full with responses to our F-train express editorial, plus notes about Coney Island, Duffield Street, the express bus from Bay Ridge, the fake trolley in Prospect Park, the ongoing raccoon invasion, and our recent awards from the Independent Free Papers of America. Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
Food delights in the Heights
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist delights in the tastes of fall. Comment.
Smartmom’s still worrying
Smartmom: The start of the school year has been an emotional roller coaster for Smartmom. So what else is new? Comment.
Gersh’s push for green angers some Slopers
Letters: Somehow, our columnist’s anti-litter call angered some former Park Slopers — plus letters on Brooklyn hospitality, the late John Gallahue, plans for a rodeo in Prospect Park, President Bush’s slow response to the Bay Ridge tornado, a former brothel in Park Slope, and the fine work being done by our Bay Ridge reporter, Matthew Lysiak. Comment.
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Keep asking the locals
Editorial: The mayor’s new tourism campaign — “Just ask the locals” — falls flat in Brooklyn, where tourists have been forced to beg for directions for years. Comment.
This regular ‘Joe’ wants a Wal-Mart in Brooklyn
Letters: Our mailbag runneth over with missives about the new Trader Joe’s, traffic, our Cyclones coverage, a stolen tricycle, a cellphone tower on 81st Street, and, of course, Atlantic Yards. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Rats! Nica is hot and bothered
PS … I Love You: Our columnist smells a rat. And it’s freaking her out. Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
‘Sopranos’ fan waits for Tony
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist imagines Tony Soprano doing business in Brooklyn Heights. Comment.
Eulogy for the Green Church
Yellow Hooker: The Green Church will not be saved — you can take that to the bank and cash it. Yet despite the writing on the check, some members of the community continue to fight the inevitable. Call it denial (or call it optimism). Comments (1).
Hey, Marty Markowitz! Our readers say ‘Yer out!’
Letters: Readers respond negatively to Borough President Markowitz’s purge of anti–Atlantic Yards community board members — plus lots of other letters. Comment.
Tripping the park — unfantastic
Greene Acres: The sidewalk on one edge of Fort Greene Park is sinking — and our columnist goes deep to figure it out. Comment.
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
Smartmom & OSFO apart for the 1st time
Smartmom: For the first time in 10 years, Smartmom and the Oh So Feisty One are going their separate ways — and both are looking forward to it. Comment.
A column that’s lovely as a tree
Heights Lowdown: A woman wants to save a historic tree in Brooklyn Heights — yet is meeting resistence. Comment.
Slope goes down wrong-way street
PS … I Love You: In what seems like a monthly endeavor, our columnist attended yet another forum on where Park Slope is headed — and left cynical as ever. Comment.
Dog days
PS … I Love You: Our columnist learns to stop worrying and love the dog people of Park Slope. Comment.
Class struggles in Fort Greene
Greene Acres: Our columnist looks at the real-estate listings and finds trouble on the way. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
New York can’t find Brooklyn
Heights Lowdown: Has New York Magazine no sense of decency at all? Comment.
Everybody in the pool (not)
Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to figure out why Long Island University hasn’t opened its nice new gym to the pool-starved public — as promised. Comment.
Smartmom trots with the turkeys
Smartmom: Smartmom runs in the Turkey Trot — but why didn’t she tell the hubby and kids? Comment.
In Clinton Hill, skin is in
Greene Acres: A plastic surgery clinic’s naked pictures raise more than just eyebrows. Comment.
Big deal. Astroland has been saved. Now what?
Letters: Our mailbag is full as usual! Comment.
Wal-Mart is not dead yet
Heights Lowdown: Someone is making calls to convince Downtown residents that a big box store would be good for the Fulton Mall. Comment.
World Wide Wackiness in Heights
Heights Lowdown: One of the three restaurants involved in a co-branding Web site called “the Corner of Cranberry” is already out of business. That’s a tough corner. Comment.
Myrtle Avenue finally rises
Greene Acres: Our columnist sees hope rising from the ashes. Comments (2).
The kids are, in fact, alright
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hangs with the dorm kids of Brooklyn Heights. Comment.
Verses & Reverses
Perspective: Our poet laureate weighs in on a new study about senior sex. Comment.
City throws ice on vendors
Brooklyn South: Our columnist can’t understand what the city has against her beloved Red Hook taco vendors. Comment.
I should run for ‘higher’ office
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist ponders a career in public service. Comments (1).
Hitless wonder learns a hard lesson at the plate
Brooklyn Angle: This week, our columnist did something that no grown man should do: he paid a man $45 to teach him how to hit a baseball. Comment.
Putting Walt in a time vault
Greene Acres: Our columnist finds Walt Whitman’s former home. Why is it not protected? Comment.
Happy ending at ‘Bleach House’
Brooklyn South: Our columnist tries to save a popular Laundromat but ends up only saving the sign above the entrance. Comment.
Making a splash
Checkin’ in with: Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe talks about keeping cool this summer. Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
Blogs ain’t got reality
Brooklyn South: Our columnist solves the mystery of Brooklyn Inn — and it’s staying in business! Comment.
Inside the beast of the belly
Greene Acres: In the midst of a Health Department crackdown, our column dives into a restaurant that was once called one of the city’s dirtiest. Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Beautiful Smile tells all: Secret of life: ‘Kids, love and God’
Smartmom: Smartmom has an exclusive sit-down with her nanny, Beautiful Smile. Dumb Editor accuses her of double-dipping. Comments (1).
Spark-filled memories
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist recalls those hazy, crazy, fireworks-filled days of summers past. Comment.
Bring back dog days on Bond Street?
Brooklyn South: Some want the wild dogs to return to Brooklyn — if only to keep home prices down. Our columnist has a different take. Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Save the Green Church. Why?
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist takes a contrary view about saving a Bay Ridge church that is slated to be torn down for condos. Comments (1).
Babyless writer in giftless jam
Brooklyn South: Our baby-mocking columnist finds herself in the belly of the beast after her sister gives birth. Comment.
Winter weather forecast? Check Water Street
Heights Lowdown: Some people read the thermometer to judge the temperature. In DUMBO, we just check to see which end of Water Street is busy. Comments (3).
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Delving into Ridge stench
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist gets to the bottom of the stench at Owls Head. Comment.
Tales from the Fort Greene crypt
Greene Acres: Our columnist tells a great Memorial Day story about America’s real hero soldiers. Comment.
Blue Monday in a dirty park
PS … I Love You: It’s “chicken bone season” again in Prospect Park. Comment.
The soothsayers of Bay Ridge
Yellow Hooker: For some reason, mystics outnumber book stores in Bay Ridge. Our columnist ponders the eternal question. Comments (1).
What’s with The Paper’s pro-Thor Coney coverage?
Letters: Letters on Coney Island, the Navy Yard’s Admirals Row, security at Atlantic Yards and a report from one of our “Big Turkey” contest winners! Comment.
Our man walks the walk Downtown
Downtown plan: Our columnist explores the wonder of Downtown — and worries about how long it will all last. Comment.
The syringe don’t fit
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist thinks Lowen’s and Dolphin Fitness are being railroaded in the steroid probe. Comments (1).
Bicycle rider reads riot act
Greene Acres: Our columnist — a biker — gets angry about the bike-lane controversy in Fort Greene. Comments (1).
Smartmom and OSFO love ‘Gossip Girl’
Perspective: Smartmom and her daughter are addicted to the new show, “Gossip Girl.” It’s like “The O.C.,” only better (it’s in Brooklyn!). Comments (1).
Defiant tot: I’ll tag again
Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s 6-year-old graffiti “vandal” is still fighting a city warning letter demanding that she remove her sidewalk chalk drawing from her front stoop. Comments (21).
Victorian era ends in Ridge?
Yellow Hooker: Local activists are asking if the destruction of three beloved Bay Ridge Victorian homes is the beginning of a broader trend. Well, this columnist has an answer — let’s hope so! Comments (1).
They all want me dead now
PS … I Love You: Why do all the drivers — and some bikers — want to destroy our bike-commuting editor? Comment.
Freebird books to soar again
Brooklyn South: Our columnist gets the scoop on the man who saved a beloved bookstore. Comments (1).
Walrus dad still a self-lover
Brooklyn Angle: Ayveq may finally be mating, but he’s still the same old self-lovable walrus! Comments (3).
Met life is the only life for him
PS … I Love You: The Mets stink — but our columnist is addicted to the stench. Comments (2).
You forgot your pencil
Smartmom: Smartmom follows the supposedly independent Oh So Feisty One to school. And all heck breaks out! Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
This grass has cyber-roots
Yellow Hooker: A movement against a local crackhouse began with a mouse click. Comments (3).
Clone star’s mom loves Paper’s Triple-Threat
Letters: Letters about Ed Shakespeare’s coverage of the Cyclones; the Arabic language and culture school, Khalil Gibran International Academy; racism at the McCarren Park pool; the redevelopment of Duffield Street; the state of repair — or disrepair — of the Coney Island Boardwalk; a plea to retain an artist’s Borough Hall project; redevelopment of Coney Island; and one woman’s particular love for “Alex.” Comment.
It’s the last first day for Smartmom
Smartmom: Smartmom and her fellow mom-friends mark the opening day of school. Comments (1).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
New doll makes her feel historic
Smartmom: American Girl releases a 1970s doll as part of its “historical” collection. Man, does that make Smartmom is feel old, or what? Comments (2).
Tornado brings out the best
Yellow Hooker: Our libertarian columnist had to admit something after last Wednesday’s tornado: Sometimes government can work. Comment.
Wrong way on Carlton Avenue
Greene Acres: Our columnist discovers that the city’s best-laid plans sometimes don’t get finished. Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
Making book on the water
Brooklyn South: A used-book store on Columbia Streets needs a new partner. Only book lovers need apply! Comment.
Teen Spirit gets kitty-cornered
Smartmom: Smartmom finally says “no” to Teen Spirit. Call Mr. Guinness! Comment.
An artist who makes a living
PS … I Love You: Our columnist visits with a legendary Park Slope artist. Comment.
Respect your neighbors
Letters: Letters from our Stoop readers. Comment.
Whose park is it anyway?
Greene Acres: What could be bad about an all-day festival in Fort Greene Park? Just ask the community board! Comment.
This ‘Angel’ is still broken
Greene Acres: The Broken Angel may finally have met its demise, thanks to a recent court ruling. Comment.
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
A meaty tale of local success
PS … I Love You: Our columnist tries to figure out the secret of one butcher shop’s success. Comment.
Bill Baird
Checkin’ in with: A legend in the fight for reproductive rights sits down with The Paper. Comment.
Is this my Pabst Blue weekend?
Brooklyn South: Will the weather — and the neighbors — finally allow our columnist to drink outdoors? Comment.
Out with the old, into the bathroom
Smartmom: Smartmom ruffles some feathers while cleaning up the clan’s apartment. Comment.
Do you want lies with that? Whole Food’s answers ain’t kosher
Letters: The latest sampling of our mailbag, including a movie recommendation from our councilman and a letter from a former Paper reporter! Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Whose Downtown is it anyway?
Downtown plan: Black Facts — a Downtown Brooklyn mainstay — was the canary in the coalmine. It closed last month and Downtown will never be the same — and that’s by design, unfortunately. Comments (1).
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
A trip through time at Two Boots
Smartmom: Smartmom goes to Two Boots and starts reeling in the years. Comment.
Letters: Marty was right: The Paper is biased!
Letters: A writer concurs with Borough President Markowitz in slamming The Paper’s Atlantic Yards coverage. Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Is O’Malley really evil?
Beside the Point: Our columnist punctures the revisionism about Walter O’Malley. Comments (2).
Sliwa to city: Elect me!
Yellow Hooker: Curtis Sliwa — Guardian Angel, radio host, self-promoter — came to Bay Ridge to talk about his future, which may someday be inexorably linked to yours. Comment.
This hawk is full of talk
Beside the Point: Our columnist gets an exclusive sit-down (or is that flyby?) with the new Red-tail hawk that’s taken up residence in McCarren Park. Comments (1).
Big plans for Canal’s future
Brooklyn South: Our columnist gets the scoop on a local plan for the future of the Gowanus Canal zone. Comments (1).
Gripping tale at robbed bar
Brooklyn South: Our columnist’s friend helped nab a wanted bar robber. Here’s the saga. Comment.
Defiant tot: I’ll tag again
Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s 6-year-old graffiti “vandal” is still fighting a city warning letter demanding that she remove her sidewalk chalk drawing from her front stoop. Comments (21).
Tish: Duffield St co-name could save historic homes
Letters: Our mailbag is filled with complaints from a City Councilwoman, a Polytechnic University alum, a member of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the head of the Chamber of Commerce and others. Comment.
Walrus dad still a self-lover
Brooklyn Angle: Ayveq may finally be mating, but he’s still the same old self-lovable walrus! Comments (3).
Readers respond to The Paper’s Arabic school coverage, editorial
Letters: Our Inbox was stuffed with letters about our coverage of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, our coverage of Councilman Simcha Felder (in a note from the Councilman himself!), the development of Coney Island, parrots in Park Slope, a neighborhood brothel, luxury development Downtown, and a strange omission on Borough President Markowitz’s Web site. Comment.
Will dry cleaning be green?
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist finds that the answer, probably, is no. Comment.
Can’t miss these signs in the Heights
Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides. Comment.
Without Arab contributions, we’d be in Dark Ages
Letters: Lots of letters about our Arabic language and culture school coverage — plus more mail on Atlantic Yards and litter. Comment.
History Thing of the past?
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist digs for history in Bay Ridge — and finds that no one else is bothering. Comment.
Take this area history quiz!
Beside the Point: Our columnist offers a pop quiz for people who think they know North Brooklyn. Comments (1).
Defiant tot: I’ll tag again
Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s 6-year-old graffiti “vandal” is still fighting a city warning letter demanding that she remove her sidewalk chalk drawing from her front stoop. Comments (21).
7th Av crash site is reborn
PS … I Love You: Our columnist revisits the site of a horrific 1960 plane crash and finds…condos! Comments (4).
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
The Euros are spending!
Heights Lowdown: No one in the Heights likes the Fulton Mall — but the tourists love it. Comment.
Walrus dad still a self-lover
Brooklyn Angle: Ayveq may finally be mating, but he’s still the same old self-lovable walrus! Comments (3).
Taking a bite out of dentists
Greene Acres: Our columnist hopes that the dentists will remain in their old haunts at the Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower. Comment.
Race, me and Mel Gibson
Beside the Point: Our columnist wants to know why he and his black friends are always being mistaken for cops. Comments (1).
Invasion of the film crew
Heights Lowdown: At least one woman — our columnist — is not so happy about the arrival of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
Let’s drink to this new beer
Beside the Point: America and Germany — the odd couple of international beer — are having a baby. Twins, actually. In Williamsburg. Comment.
Stop driving while dumb
Brooklyn South: A traffic light now burns on Van Brunt Street, yet so does the rubber. Comment.
School teaches art of the deal
Greene Acres: A Brooklyn school has taught some developers a lesson in real estate, beating out more than a dozen competitors for a prized piece of land in central Clinton Hill that could have supported at least six floors of luxury housing. Comment.
Coney Island’s future is in good hands: Bloomy’s
Letters: Our mailbag is bursting with letters about Coney Island, the invasion of the nuthatches, Sen. Charles Schumer’s “painful’ support for new Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a gay and lesbian political group’s rejection of Atlantic Yards, and a new rivalry on the muddy Gowanus Canal. Comment.
This biker ain’t no angel
Brooklyn South: Our columnist debunks a recent Observer article about biker babes. Comments (1).
Live from the top of Brooklyn
Greene Acres: Our columnist solves the mystery of the tall radio tower atop Brooklyn Tech HS. Comments (1).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Rubber band man fights on
Brooklyn Angle: The invasion of the rubber bands continues unabated in Park Slope — and our columnist is fighting back. Comment.
Hair’s to the season
Brooklyn Angle: Here’s the real reason why this is the most wonderful time of the year. Comment.
Evil O’Malley is in the Hall
Yellow Hooker: They’re putting the biggest bum of ’em all in the Hall — and our columnist objects. Comment.
Teen Spirit is her little mushroom
Smartmom: Teen Spirit is coming out of his shell — but did Smartmom have anything to do with it? Comments (1).
Crime ain’t new but it hits hard
Brooklyn South: Our columnist confronts crime — and her own white guilt. Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
A blog battle of Brooklyn
PS … I Love You: Our columnist weighs in on the blog war against Elementi, a new — and actually good — restaurant. Comments (2).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Wandering Jews still on the move
Brooklyn South: A medieval legend tells of a Jew cursed to wander until Judgment Day because of a bad run-in with Jesus. In Brooklyn, it’s a karmic — and financial— arrangement with real-estate developers that keeps one pair of so-called Wandering Jews on the move. Comment.
Why I’m staying on my local CB
PS … I Love You: Our columnist decides to stay on Community Board 6, despite the turmoil. Here’s why. Comment.
Ghost of Nixon is Eaton Craig
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist analyzes why an otherwise reasonable man would want to head the Brooklyn Republican Party. Comment.
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
Hepcat can’t wait for his 30th reunion
Smartmom: Hepcat gets the invitation — and it makes the younger — but more neurotic — Smartmom question what she’s accomplished in life. Comment.
Tearing up her ugly divorce
PS … I Love You: Our columnist — herself going through a bitter divorce — helps a divorced friend get through her anger by tearing up a newspaper (not ours!). Comments (1).
Celebrations change, holidays stay the same?
Smartmom: A chance encounter with Painter Mom jumpstarts Smartmom’s holiday dread. Comment.
Fancy coffee, at D’Amico’s?
Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that the venerable D’Amico’s coffee shop on Court Street is considering a jump into Starbucks’ territory: flavored coffee. Comment.
Sweet Melissa sours rivals
PS … I Love You: Our local baker does Brooklyn proud, winning a Food Network competition despite severe gastric distress (of course she was in distress, she was in North Carolina!). Comment.
It’s not easy being green
Greene Acres: Our columnist delves into the high-priced produce at Fresh Garden, a new organic bodega. Comments (2).
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Actresses and their ink
PS … I Love You: Our columnist —Â an actual writer — was so inspired by all the actresses putting out kids books that she now vows to crank out a story for the illiterate set. Comment.
Hepcat learns the secret to long life: fight!
Smartmom: Smartmom and Hepcat are fighting again — but this time, it’s for their health! Comment.
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
A tribute to an old friend
Smartmom: A tribute to Best and Oldest — Smartmom’s best and oldest. Comment.
Walrus dad still a self-lover
Brooklyn Angle: Ayveq may finally be mating, but he’s still the same old self-lovable walrus! Comments (3).
These 3 guys need space
Greene Acres: The three founders of a nearly finished Fort Greene music venue and art gallery that the city intends to raze to make way for a new home for a Manhattan dance group in the BAM Cultural District need to find a new home of their own — now. Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
Ricky’s opens! Where’s the porn?
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hits the back room at Ricky’s and finds that she doesn’t even blush. Comments (1).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Beware of these boy SCOUTs
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist is wary of the mayor’s new plan to send inspectors to every city street. Comment.
Lots of green to be made on green
Brooklyn South: Two gardening centers fight a war of the roses in Red Hook. Comment.
No room for this here hotel
Brooklyn South: Our columnist explains why a hotel plan on Atlantic Avenue died — and why it’s a good thing. Comments (1).
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
Arabic TV on 94th St?
Yellow Hooker: What happened when an Arab man started digging up the sidewalk for a “television station”? The neighbors — and the community board — was just a bit concerned. Comment.
Bagless writer, tree-filled block
PS … I Love You: Our columnist searches her soul, and decides to quit using plastic shopping bags. Comment.
Obamania hits Brooklyn
Brooklyn Angle: If Barack Obama is going to beat Hillary Clinton, the road to victory goes through Brooklyn. Comment.
How to build a neighborhood
Heights Lowdown: For a while now, DUMBO residents have been wondering why BoConcept and West Elm (both of them high-end furniture stores) ended up side by side on Front Street, while there isn’t a single pharmacy or several other vital stores in sight. Turns out, it was done on purpose. Comment.
OSFO gets a piano
Smartmom: The fingers are flying as the Oh So Feisty One finally gets a piano. Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
A man with the tricks & treats
Beside the Point: Our columnist picks his best (or is that worst?) Halloween haunted houses. Comments (7).
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Baseball was made in Brooklyn
Beside the Point: Our columnist reminds us all that Brooklyn was once the center of the baseball universe. Comments (2).
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
Dancespace fever in Fort Greene
Greene Acres: A local developer is back in the mix to help develop the BAM Cultural District — and that’s good news. Comment.
Defending the barber of the hill
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist defends a Brooklyn Heights barber under fire for his “hideous” neon sign. Comment.
What’s wrong with Seventh Ave?
PS … I Love You: Our columnist ponders the future of Seventh Avenue, with its high rent and blah offerings. Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Trust kills the evil superbug
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist discovers the secret to killing the superbug: communication. Comments (2).
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Walrus dad still a self-lover
Brooklyn Angle: Ayveq may finally be mating, but he’s still the same old self-lovable walrus! Comments (3).
Mickey D’s & Mickey Don’ts
Brooklyn South: Our columnist weighs in on the Court Street McDonald’s debate. Comments (1).
A sour mail-female relationship
Greene Acres: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill join the race to complain about the Postal Service. Comment.
Money just waiting to be spent
Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to figure out why Fort Greene Park declines, even though money is available to fix it. Comment.
My dad’s take on the new Brooklyn
Brooklyn South: Our columnist’s father goes in search of the Brooklyn he once knew, but finds he can’t even get an Italian ice anymore. Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Smartmom is no Blanche DuBois
Smartmom: Smartmom learns to rely on the kindness of her friends, not strangers. Comment.
Second helping on baker story
Heights Lowdown: Herve Poussot: Assaulted or assaulter? Let’s review some new evidence! Comment.
Espresso arms race in Gardens
Brooklyn South: Why does the new Starbucks have two espresso machines while the old Starbucks three blocks away have one? Comment.
History being sunk in the Hook
Brooklyn South: Our columnist finds that history has become a low priority in Red Hook. Comment.
Let’s get high on Smith–9th
Brooklyn South: Our columnist gets behind the call for a restaurant atop the Smith–Ninth Street subway station. Comment.
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Has Ridge hum been solved?
Yellow Hooker: Councilman Vince Gentile thinks he’s solved the mystery of Bay Ridge’s great hum-conundrum. But our columnist isn’t ready to award him a MacArthur grant. Comments (1).
The old pool story, part II
Beside the Point: Our columnist — a Greenpoint insider — concludes his two-park series on the McCarren Park pool. Comment.
Growing out of Gotti
Yellow Hooker: The Gottis were coming to Bay Ridge for a book reading, so our columnist went in search of historic Gottiland. Comments (1).
Helen Selsdon, anti-war mom
Checkin’ in with: We check in with Helen Selsdon, an anti-war mom who is organizing a protest march all by herself. Comment.
Protesting the lack of protests
PS … I Love You: Our columnist gets so appalled at the armchair liberals that she gets out — literally — and hits the streets to protest the war. Comment.
No fury like a stroller scorned
PS … I Love You: Our columnist defends Barnes and Noble in the recent “Strollergate” controversy Comment.
Hey, Bay Ridge: Fight for a real lifesaver!
Yellow Hooker: All our local pols want to save Victory Memorial Hospital, but how come no one is stepping in to save Gourmet Grill, a health food restaurant that could save even more lives? Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Expert: There is a way to fix Atlantic Yards traffic
Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, Walter O’Malley’s induction into the Hall of Fame, biking safely and bus service in Brooklyn. Comments (3).
The Puritans get a lap dance
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist explores the world of subway lap dances. Comments (2).
In sickness, health and opera
Smartmom: The Oh So Feisty One gets sick but Smartmom is the one who needs medication! Comments (1).
Legislation is for the birds
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist says the anti-pigeon bill is fowl. Comments (2).
Public fight on Public Place
Brooklyn South: The Public Place is moving forward — and the rivalries are only beginning. Comment.
Gingko stinks up Heights!
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist hates the smell — but loves the taste — of those damn gingko nuts. Comment.
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Once again, the world reacts to ‘Graffiti Girl’
Letters: Our letters column has lots of interesting missives about the 6-year-old graffiti girl, the greatness of Park Slope, the new “green” Galapagos art center, two new old-style clocks on Flatbush Avenue, our Big Turkey Thanksgiving Dinner contest, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, an adult toy shop on Fifth Avenue and our Bay Ridge columnist Matthew Lysiak. Comment.
Sister Souljah in Bay Ridge?
Yellow Hooker: Congressional candidate Steve Harrison, who is anti-war, stands up when a group of anti-war activists go too far. Comments (5).
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
Park’s slippery slope
Editorial: More evidence of why the state condo, commercial and open space project commonly referred to as Brooklyn Bridge Park is not, in fact, a park. Comment.
Walrus dad still a self-lover
Brooklyn Angle: Ayveq may finally be mating, but he’s still the same old self-lovable walrus! Comments (3).
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
She meets sis — 30 years later
PS … I Love You: Our guest columnist tells an amazing tale —Â soon to be a major book! — about meeting the twin sister she never knew she had. Comment.
Postal service stretching it
PS … I Love You: Our columnist’s third — yes, third — column about rubber-band-dropping postal workers. Comments (1).
Baby-buggy bandit in Ridge
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist uncovers a rash of stroller-jackings in Bay Ridge! Comments (1).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
Sweatin’ with the weirdies
Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that people say the craziest thing in the sauna. Comment.
Daily News loves Brooklyn, too
Yellow Hooker: The Daily News comes to Bay Ridge for a listening tour — but our columnist thinks there’s a better hometown paper (hint: it’s the one you’re reading right now). Comment.
Smartmom is going on a diet
Smartmom: Smartmom is battling the bulge — yet trying not to teach the Oh So Feisty the wrong lesson about body image. Comment.
Gabriel Cohen
Checkin’ in with: Ditmas Park author and reading series founder chats with GO Brooklyn. Comment.
Lessons of parenting in a tiny yellow bird
Smartmom: Smartmom sees a rare bird and learns about being a better mother. Comment.
Just say neigh at this stable
PS … I Love You: Manhattan lost its riding academy, but Brooklyn still has its stable. Comment.
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
Trying to avoid becoming Ms. Frump in middle age
Smartmom: Our columnist heads to the cosmetics counter for a midlife spruce-up. Comment.
A trip with Diaper Diva brings out sibling rivalry
Smartmom: So, Smartmom and her twin sister Diaper Diva went on vacation together — and the fur flies! Comment.
One-way debate continues
Letters: Our readers sound off some more on the plan to install one-way avenues in Park Slope. Comment.
Want to stop DOT? Make our streets safer
PS … I Love You: Our columnist offers five ways to block the city from instituting the bizarre one-way Seventh and Sixth avenue plan. Comment.
Sanitation versus Sonny
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist tries to solve the mystery of how a home without a driveway can get a ticket from the Sanitation Department for having a dirty driveway. Comment.
Searching for Tony Manero
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist goes in search of Brooklyn’s (Increasingly) Little Italy. Comment.
It’s that time of year again
Smartmom: Snow was in the forecast. Valentine’s Day was coming (it’s Hepcat’s least-favorite Hallmark holiday). And in the middle of everything, Smartmom found out that one of her paying projects has been substantially downsized. Comment.
The dough is rising all over
Heights Lowdown: Being a carbohydrate lover in Brooklyn Heights is costly — and I don’t mean having to sacrifice your size-6 jeans —Â thanks to new price hikes on wheat. Comments (1).
How to devour Polish food
Beside the Point: Love food? Love quantity? Hate high prices? Greenpoint is your neighborhood. Here’s a foodie’s-eye view. Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
Dinner with family, and The Sopranos
Perspective: Our columnist decodes the final episode of “The Sopranos.” Whaddyagonnado? Comment.
Brooklyn loves its Hook tacos
Brooklyn South: An army travels on its stomach — so, naturally, do the papusa partisans who support the Red Hook food vendors. Comment.
Educators must learn a lesson
Greene Acres: Our columnist wonders why Department of Education officials can’t learn the simplest lesson of schooling: talk to the parents! Comment.
The Ghosts of John Jay
PS … I Love You: A pizzeria across the street from John Jay HS puts up a “No Kids Allowed” sign? Oh, right, it’s John Jay. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
Our O’Malley tale concludes
Beside the Point: The stunning conclusion of our “Should Walter O’Malley be in the Hall of Fame” saga. Comment.
Sugar story’s grand finale
Beside the Point: The final of a three-part piece on the history of the sugar industry in Greenpoint. Comments (1).
Nica and Hitch go with ‘God’
PS … I Love You: Our columnist — an author! — is on a panel with literary bad boy Christopher Hitchens. Comment.
Whitman’s not falling just yet
Greene Acres: Our columnist check’s into the rumored sale by the city of the Ingersoll housing project. Comment.
Through Google’s looking glass
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist tries out Google’s new “Street Views” — and finds Brooklyn Heights frozen in time. Comment.
The floods of 2007
Beside the Point: Morgan Avenue residents are still angry at the city for not longstanding fixing sewer problems that exacerbated the floods in July and August. Comment.
Easiest way to keep cool is here
Brooklyn South: Just off our Stoop, there are two public pools to choose from. Our columnist tells you where to go. Comment.
Is it Bay Ridge Syndrome?
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist attempts to get to the bottom of the lack of information on two recent Ridge crimes, and learns something along the way. Comments (1).
Anti-car artist strikes again!
Brooklyn South: A Red Hook artist, who just wants a quiet neighborhood, once again installed his “Traffic Stopper” piece. Reviews from police were negative. Comment.
In defense of a technocrat
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends the Department of Transportation bureaucrat who wants to convert two avenues into one-way streets. It’s getting ugly, folks. Comment.
She bowled us over
Brooklyn Angle: Alexandra Stein was the future of bowling — and then she wasn’t. A cautionary tale. Comment.
Who is Park Slope?
PS … I Love You: Our columnist goes to the “I am Park Slope” discussion and discovers that “diversity” is like pornography: No one knows what it is, but they know it when they see it. Comment.
This ‘Admiral’ is demoted
Greene Acres: A widely unpublicized public hearing on Dec. 11 may be your last chance to save the historic houses of the Admirals Row at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Comments (1).
In defense of the Food Co-op
PS … I Love You: A British guy mocks the Food Co-op as Soviet. Our columnist mans the Kremlin walls! Comment.
Big step forward for Downtown
Editorial: A plan for retail stores in the ground floor of the Municipal Building is a major step in the right direction towards revitalizing the entire area — a common-sense move long resisted by Metrotech builder Bruce Ratner. Comments (1).
Brooklyn’s tourist trap
Editorial: Two new reports show that Brooklyn’s leaders need to do more to attract visitors and keep them here long enough to spend their money. Comment.
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
Sean Meenan
Checkin’ in with: The Cafe Habana Outpost mastermind chats with GO Brooklyn about his eco-friendly restaurant. Comments (1).
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
A mea culpa to stepmoms everywhere
Smartmom: Smartmom learns to stop worrying and love her stepmom. Comment.
Too much green in Ft. Greene
Greene Acres: Luxury units in the Forte condos - Fort Greene’s first new residential skyscraper - officially went on the market last week, putting the punctuation mark on the neighborhood’s complete transformation into Brooklyn’s own Upper West Side. Comment.
Larry Scott: Brooklyn’s joke man preps us for April Fools Day.
Checkin’ in with: It’s a wonder that Larry Scott never got his ass kicked — the guy’s been clowning people since the age of 13. Comment.
Liquors story is a boozy romp
Greene Acres: A sordid tale from the former owner of Liquors restaurant in Fort Greene. Comments (1).
Smartmom has Fly-On-The-Wall Syndrome
Smartmom: Teen Spirit’s band was playing a “no-adults-allowed” gig. Guess who crashed the party. Comment.
Hey, Red Hook: Wanna dance?
Brooklyn South: Our columnist — a dancing fool from way back — says Red Hook is the perfect place for a club scene. Comment.
The karma conundrum
PS … I Love You: Our columnist tries to be the karma arbiter of Park Slope. Good luck with that. Comment.
Reader credits government for Internet success
Letters: This week’s mailbag includes reaction to our interview with conservative columnist Amity Shlaes — plus letters on Marty Markowitz’s run for mayor, getting high, development Downtown, public and private schools and Coney Island Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
Ridge on a slippery ‘Slope’
Yellow Hooker: Is Bay Ridge becoming the new Park Slope? And what will it mean for Dyker? Comment.
City deaf to Railroad’s call
Heights Lowdown: Everyone is focusing on Bruce Ratner’s deal with a slavery-linked bank, but meanwhile, the city is about to tear down homes linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.
Doing the Fort Greene shuffle
Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to get across the intersection of Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene Place and Fulton Street. And, believe it or not, she makes it! Comment.
Reporter Tom Robbins
Checkin’ in with: Our reporter sits down with mob reporter Tom Robbins to talk about the Mafia, life as a reporter, and suddenly finding himself on the other side of a story last week. Comment.
Banksteria in Bay Ridge
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist scoffed at “banksteria” — until his favorite rib joint was closed to make room for a new branch. Comment.
Verses & Reverses
Perspective: The poet laureate of Park Slope, was so inspired by his neighborhood’s appearance on the list of best neighborhoods in the country that he created this week’s poetic offering, “A Hope for the Slope.” Comment.
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Offer adds up to mulch
Greene Acres: Win a free composter … and a free lesson on how to use it! Comment.
A sandwich smackdown
Brooklyn South: Our columnist mediates the Boerum Hill banh mi smackdown. Comment.
Alternadad is an idiot!
Smartmom: Smartmom goes to Neal Pollack’s reading at the Tea Lounge and finds the humor writer’s take on parenting not that funny at all. Catfight! Comment.
Death teaches Smartmom some life lessons
Smartmom: Smartmom’s uncle died last week — but should she take Teen Spirit and the Oh So Feisty One to the funeral? And therein lies another great Smartmom psychodrama! Comment.
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Why won’t OSFO write?
Smartmom: The Oh So Feisty One has been away at summer camp for more than a week and Smartmom hasn’t received a letter. Not one friggin’ letter. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Arrested pol Karim Camara finally speaks out
Letters: A letter from Assemblyman Karim Camara — and other hot missives! Comment.
Let’s hear it for good speaking
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets an earful of some bad speeches at a college lecture contest. Comments (1).
One driver for the bike lane
PS … I Love You: Our columnist, a renowned leadfoot, supports a city plan to add bike lanes to Ninth Street. Comment.
A Golden city on the hill?
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist imagines a city led by “Mayor Marty Golden.” Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Cheesy future for Myrtle Avenue
Greene Acres: Does Murder Avenue need a cheese shop? Our columnist tries to find out. Comment.
In Ft. Greene, the eye candy is wearable
Greene Acres: Our columnist ponders two eternal questions: Why are there so many very-high-end fashion stores in this neighborhood and does that $358 sweater come in mauve? Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Brooklyn’s rat killer fights on
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist sets out to examine the rat problem — and finds a man who shoots the vermin with an air rifle! Comments (4).
Editor’s mom wants her beloved son to ride safe
Letters: Our mailbag is filled with missives about our bike-riding editor (from his mom!), plans for the Gowanus Canal, our outrageous headlines, the Monitor Museum in Williamsburg, a Park Slope day-care center in a Kafka-esque nightmare, Smartmom’s new biggest fan (he’s a shrink, what a surprise!), and the need for more trains in Downtown Brooklyn. Comment.
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Who needs an F express?
Editorial: Local politicians’ call for an F express train ignores one reality: An F express would not improve F-train service through Brownstone Brooklyn. Comments (2).
Throw out this bill
Editorial: The Paper opposes a bill that would criminalize the distribution of leaflets and circulars. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Heights nannies are being watched anew
Heights Lowdown: A new art show on nannies gets our guest columnist thinking about their role in our neighborhood. Comment.
Tolls on bridges do job of ‘congestion pricing’
Letters: A letter about the mayor’s congestion pricing plan, plus missives about litter, Councilman Simcha Felder, IKEA’s plans for Red Hook, and step-moms. Comment.
A rat’s life on Pacific Street
Brooklyn South: Our columnist braves the most rat-infested block in Boerum Hill. Comment.
Why people are mad
Editorial: The city needs to stop dumping plans on Brooklyn neighborhoods with no consultation or discussion. Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Writer’s block? More like writer’s shock
PS … I Love You: Our columnist suffers from writer’s remorse now that she finally has her hands on her finished memoire. Comment.
Smackdown! Genius edition
Checkin’ in with: The Brooklyn Paper checks in with the borough’s three new MacArthur geniuses. Comment.
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
Marty would be great as a Bush appointee
Letters: Our full mailbag includes letters about Borough President Markowitz’s purge of Community Board 6 members, the annual hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island, Bay Ridge’s historic Green Church, a claim that The Brooklyn Paper is sexist (what else is new?!), and concern about God. Comment.
Tourists need our Markowitz
Brooklyn South: It’s too bad Borough President Markowitz can’t be on every voyage of the Queen Mary 2 — because cruise ship passengers want to know about Brooklyn. Comment.
The area of my expertise
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist reveals his true calling: working the checkout line at the Park Slope Food Co-op. Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
Snubbed! Miss New York loses again
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist bemoans the sorry state of the Miss America pageant, which hasn’t had a winner from New York, let alone the northeast!, since 1984. Comments (1).
Yea and nay for Marty, Atlantic Yards reports
Letters: Readers react to our interview with Marty Markowitz. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
The Garbage Lady, Leila Darabi
Checkin’ in with: She lets you know what happens to your trash! Comments (4).
Fixing rubber band problem a stretch
Letters: Once again, we’ve received a number of interesting letters from readers like you! Comment.
Hidden desire — for a garage
Brooklyn South: I guess we all wish we had a place to put our car — amound other things. Comment.
Bearing witness to the Witnesses
Letters: In a letter to The Paper, a former Jehovah’s Witness issues a warning. Comments (1).
Slope creeps as city sleeps
PS … I Love You: Our columnist finds that some people think Park Slope goes all the way to 24th Street! Comments (1).
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
These mailmen are armed for dog
Yellow Hooker: It may be National Dog Bite Prevention Week, but local mail carriers are on step ahead of their canine enemies: they’re armed with Mace! Comments (1).
Caffeine lover James Greenberg
Checkin’ in with: He just discovered a link between heart health and coffee consumption. It’s never been a better time to check in with Brooklyn College Professor James Greenberg! Comment.
A Valentine from the Mayor
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist seeks out Valentine’s Day advice from the Mayor of Bay Ridge and gets more than he bargained for. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
Verses & Reverses
Perspective: Our poet weighs in on the conversion of a former brothel into luxury condos. Comment.
Some old story ‘saving’ Ridge
Yellow Hooker: Another beloved building may be coming down for condos and - you guessed it — everyone is up in arms! Comment.
Crying in my tofu chicken
Greene Acres: Mobay, purveyor of the finest veggie-chicken roti from Fort Greene to Montego Bay, is dead. Our columnist mourns. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Slavery? Apartheid? Barclays deal is wrong for other reasons
Letters: Our mailbag is again filled with more missives about our “Blood Money” front page. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
Smartmom, Hepcat sweep aside memories
Smartmom: Smartmom and her hubby finally threw out their old trash. Now, can they preserve their memories? Comment.
I paid $11 for this strange fruit — and I’d do it again!
Brooklyn Angle: Mangosteens have finally landed in America — and our columnist has ’em! Comments (10).
Deeper look at Domino history
Beside the Point: The second of a three-part series on the history of sugar in the United States. Comment.
Nabe needs PO to be a nabe
Heights Lowdown: DUMBO is getting its own post office — sort of. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
City wrong on vendors
Editorial: The city should reward the long service of the Red Hook food vendors, not put their spaces for bid on the open market. Comment.
Cash and carry: Reader warns of deep pockets
Letters: One reader blames the victim for her mugging, while another longs for one last photo of Herbie the Hereford - plus the rest of our weekly mailbag. Comment.
Nathan’s grandson chides Paper for pro-Thor editorial
Letters: This week’s mailbag is full of letters about our coverage of Thor Equities’ Coney Island plan, Borough President Markowitz’s dream of a Brooklyn Nordstrom, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a bike lane on Ninth Street, an unstable stable near a construction site in Kensington, and, of course, our recent award as “Newspaper of the Year.” Comment.
Sixteen reasons why tower’s too big
Greene Acres: The city earned some brownie points in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this week, quashing a developer’s plans to build a 16-story tower on a four-story block. Comment.
Crying in their beer in Red Hook
Brooklyn South: When did hot Red Hook go cold? Our columnist examines. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
The real story of an old pool
Beside the Point: Our columnist — a Greenpoint insider — tells the real story of the McCarren Park pool. Comment.
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
All drawn out
Cartoon: Our cartoonist takes on the Khalil Gibran Academy debacle. Comment.
Arabic school missteps
Editorial: Our editorial take on the city’s ongoing inept handling of an Arabic language and culture school. Comment.
Iced Coffee Talk in Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn South: Our columnist crunches the numbers and figures out her favorite summertime pick-me-up is too expensive for everyday use. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Psychic never saw it coming
Brooklyn South: A psychic on Atlantic Avenue just went out of business. Our columnist examines why she couldn’t predict her own future. Comments (1).
Saved! Carroll Gardens codger finds a home
Brooklyn Angle: The 94-year-old Carroll Gardens man whose landlord kicked him out of his apartment has found a new apartment nearby. Dominick Diomede, whose story was first reported by The Brooklyn Paper, is poised to sign a lease on a subsidized unit on Warren Street run by the Fifth Avenue Committee. Comment.
Sad irony on Duffield
Editorial: Editorial: The city ceremonially co-named Duffield Street “Abolitionist Place” on Thursday. Forgive us if we didn’t celebrate. Comment.
So, did he sniff her panties?
Brooklyn South: A tale of a landlord who may or may not have sniffed his tenant’s panties. Comments (1).
Good ol’ days? Not so much
Greene Acres: Our columnist goes to a lecture by some old ladies and discovers that the so-called “good old days” weren’t so great. Comments (2).
The Witnesses next door
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist visits with her Brooklyn Heights neighbors Comments (3).
You can see for mile$
Beside the Point: Our columnist enjoys the $2-million view from atop Williamburg’s tallest tower. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Law would destroy my livelihood!
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist slams a Council bill that would ruin his livelihood. Comments (4).
A cut below: Gersh’s trim not $400
Brooklyn Angle: The Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes head-to-head with John Edwards. Comment.
Masha Hamilton
Checkin’ in with: Do you love your favorite book enough to, well, let it go? Masha Hamilton hopes so. Comment.
Two John Jay HS principals fire back at The Paper
Letters: Our weekly letters column gets hotter than ever, with attacks from two John Jay HS principals, an Atlantic Yards supporter and a fan of the Brooklyn Public Library’s supposed “censorship” of an anti–Atlantic Yards exhibition. Comment.
Library responds to ‘censorship’ charge
Letters: The Brooklyn Public Library fires back at charges that it censored an Atlantic Yards art show. Comment.
Linking Ratnerville and Miss Oklahoma win
Letters: The mailbag is again filled with letters about Miss America and Bruce Ratner’s Barclays deal. Comment.
Seattle on Seventh Avenue
PS … I Love You: Our columnist poses the eternal question: How many coffee joints can Seventh Avenue support? Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Suburban pals a memory
Smartmom: Smartmom misses her friends that have fled from Park Slope. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
Happy anniversary
Brooklyn Angle: Four years ago this week, Bruce Ratner unveiled the Atlantic Yards project. That anniversary gives us a chance to revisit whether the developer is living up to his original promises (thank goodness we saved the press kit!). Comment.
From the ashes? A Union Market
PS … I Love You: Start spreading the bleus: Union Market is coming to the South Slope. Comments (2).
‘Nothing’ but beliefs
Perspective: When you identify your religious affiliation as “Nothing,” it can be challenging to figure out what you do believe in. Comment.
Smartmom takes on Times weasel
Smartmom: Smartmom wants to know: Does New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks know anything about Park Slope? Comment.
Big win on Duffield St.
Editorial: The city’s decision to spare a house on Duffield Street is a good one — but now the Bloomberg Administration must go one step further and ensure that a museum to Brooklyn’s Abolitionist past gets built. Comment.
Hypocrisy in Coney
Editorial: Some elected officials have come out against the mayor’s plan for Coney Island. Where were they when the mayor was making the same mistake at Atlantic Yards? Comment.
Bad art from good drunks
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist gets loaded — and cranks out the best drunken art of his career. Comments (1).
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
“59.5*”: Chestnut’s ‘record’ is tainted by modern air conditioning
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist explains why Joey Chestnut’s “record” is full of cold air. Comment.
Downtown scores again
Editorial: Are there problems with all this development going on Downtown? Of course. But on the balance, Downtown’s rebirth is far better off in the hands of the market than in those of the bureaucrats. Comments (1).
Doctoroff’s disaster
Editorial: We always knew that the Atlantic Yards project would afford us many occasions over the next 30 years to say, “We told you so.” But we just didn’t expect to get one so soon. Comment.
The Heights’ stroller derby
Heights Lowdown: Why do baby strollers need to be the size of SUVs? Comment.
She can’t go home again
Greene Acres: Our columnist’s old Fort Greene digs — the $750 three-bedroom apartment that she called home a mere four years ago — was one of Brownstoner.com’s “condos of the day” last week. Naturally, she tried to go home again. Comment.
It’s an Ingmar Bergman time of life
Smartmom: Smartmom has been on a steady diet of Ingmar Bergman movies — and now she knows why. Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Beef battle begins: Peter Luger faces meaty competition
Brooklyn Angle: News that Morton’s of Chicago — an upscale chain steakhouse — had leased space at the Brooklyn Marriott finally gives borough beef lovers a distinct choice. Here’s how the newcomer fares against our legendary Porterhouse purveyor, Peter Luger in our first ever steakhouse smackdown. Comments (1).
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Dad feels like Trader (Joe’s)
Brooklyn South: Our columnist searches for meaning — and guilt-free snacks — at Trader Joe’s. Comment.
Is Kohen Ridge Ratner?
Yellow Hooker: If Andrew Kohen’s plan to build a Home Depot in Bay Ridge is defeated, you can thank — or blame — Bruce Ratner. Comment.
Good Bloomy, bad Bloomy
Editorial: The two faces of Mayor Bloomberg are again on display. One day, the mayor is one of the nation’s leading advocates of environmentally sound, community-sensitive, sensible development. The next day, he’s a backroom crony greasing the wheels for a developer who ignored the community. Comment.
The Ratner ripoff
Editorial: The Paper wants to know why the city is buying land for Bruce Ratner. Comment.
Wanna stay together? Have time apart
Smartmom: Look, Smartmom and Hepcat are NOT headed for Splitsville. They just like some time apart, OK? Comment.
The man in the old pickup
PS … I Love You: Our columnist tells the story of a homeless man, a pickup truck and a woman with a big heart. Comment.
Sarah Goodyear
Checkin’ in with: The “View from a Burning Bridge” author chats it up with GO Brooklyn. Comment.
Coffee guru espresses his disgust
Brooklyn South: Our columnist tours Carroll Gardens with a top-ranked barista [sic!] and learns that we’re drinking swill. Comments (1).
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
Babies storm Fort Greene
Greene Acres: In their insatiable desire to devour all of Brownstone Brooklyn, the Babies are infiltrating Fort Greene. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
A bagel with a smear on Clark
Heights Lowdown: As Mel Gibson can tell you, making anti-Semitic remarks is just not a good move. Comment.
Al Gore meets my babysitter
Yellow Hooker: Some 12-year-old girls are worried about 12-year-old boys. And some 12-year-old girls are worried about Al Gore. Comment.
Alternate side of street parking
Heights Lowdown: The mystery “illegal” parker of Pierrepont Street has broken his silence! To our columnist! Exclusively! Comment.
On board with bikes
Editorial: Two powerful editorials: one in favor of more bike lanes and another urging District Attorney Charles Hynes to arrest someone already! Comment.
The bitter story of a sugar plant
Brooklyn South: To be inside a factory on the verge of demolition is like visiting a place of worship emptied by earthquake. The ceilings are high. Unfiltered sunlight washes over everything: chairs that once held people, stray leather shoes, a suit jacket, ink-stained ledgers, bashed-up books. A sapling grows in the arch of a broken, scroll-shaped window. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
Another backroom deal
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper would love to be the loudest cheerleaders for Ratner’s City Tech tower, reportedly slated to be the tallest residential building in the city. But until public officials answer reasonable questions about this backroom deal, we will remain skeptical. Comments (1).
Say no to Noach
Editorial: Voters must reject Noach Dear for Civil Court and choose his worthy opponent, the Republican James McCall. A Republican for judge? In Brooklyn?! Here’s why. Comment.
Army Plaza must be really ‘grand’
PS … I Love You: Our columnist decodes the Grand Army Plaza plan. Comment.
City left with Yards mess
Editorial: Bruce Ratner has barely put a shovel in the ground at his Atlantic Yards mega-development and already the city’s Department of Transportation is putting Band-Aids on the machine gun wound that the project will cause in the heart of Brooklyn. But don’t blame DOT; blame the state planners who ignored traffic in the borough so Atlantic Yards would sail through the approval process. Comment.
Is G’point good for you?
Beside the Point: Our columnist actually read the recent EPA study — and it has some shocking (and healthy) news buried inside. Comments (7).
Markowitz for mayor? Our readers respond
Letters: Our mailbag is full with letters about Borough President Markowitz’s run for mayor, Barack Obama’s run for president, a state bill to ban the distribution of some flyers and the conclusion of the Arena Bagels saga. Comment.
Our local board is a hot ticket!
Yellow Hooker: Don’t think of community board meetings as boring. Think of them as free entertainment! Comment.
Why say no to Wal-Mart?
Editorial: The Paper supports a Wal-Mart — with some caveats, of course — on the Fulton Mall. Comment.
Smartmom finds that there’s no escape from this vacation
Smartmom: Smartmom went to Block Island — alone — and did not want to come back. Comment.
Taking a bite out of Smith St
Brooklyn South: Our columnist takes a bite out of the $11 toothbrush that’s now on sale on Smith Street. Comment.
Save the Duffield Seven!
Editorial: The Paper opposes a city plan to tear down seven houses linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.
Credit where due
Editorial: Former Borough President Howard Golden was honored for saving the borough on Monday night — but The Brooklyn Paper has a slightly different view of who deserves the credit. Comment.
Defiant tot: I’ll tag again
Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s 6-year-old graffiti “vandal” is still fighting a city warning letter demanding that she remove her sidewalk chalk drawing from her front stoop. Comments (21).
New face of vandalism?
Brooklyn Angle: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk. Comments (680).
Marty’s varying views
Editorial: A single extra story — 10 feet! — drew the ire of Borough President Markowitz last week when the Beep recommended that the city deny a developer, Two Trees Management, a variance to build a little higher. Comment.
Time to ‘band’ together in Slope
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist is sick of all the rubber bands that his letter carrier dumps on his block. Comments (2).
Pizza-gate: Closed by the Health Dept., DiFara’s is back
Brooklyn Angle: Dom DeMarco is back behind the ovens at DiFara — and the world is back in order. Comment.
More anger over city plans for one-way streets and an Arabic middle school
Letters: A full mailbag, as always. Comment.
Is the tide turning on Paper’s ‘Blood Money’ page one?
Letters: The Paper’s mailbag is once again filled with anger from Atlantic Yards supporters — plus some support. Comment.
Rev. Liz speaks: Garden must go
PS … I Love You: Rev. Liz Alexander, pastor of the Church of Gethsemane, is fighting back: “We are talking about trees versus people here,” she told me. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
Fourth Avenue rising right
Editorial: Grabbing a beer on the new Fourth Avenue provides an object lesson in the difference between good development and bad development. Comment.
Bruce’s Yards built on lies
Editorial: This week brought yet more evidence that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-project is built on a foundation of deception. Comment.
Pigeon war on Eighth Avenue — and our reporter is there!
Brooklyn Angle: Someone is killing pigeons on Eighth Avenue and — wouldn’t you know it! — our columnist is in the middle of it. Comments (6).
Longfellow deserves serenade, not dishonor
Letters: This week’s mailbag is full of letters commenting on other letter writers’ letters — plus missives about Grand Army Plaza, a school that wants to strip the Longfellow name off the front, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the new floating pool, a group of wacky artists on Eldert Street, the hope for an F express train and, of course, Atlantic Yards. Comment.
Amity Shlaes
Checkin’ in with: The Paper checks in with a renowned economics writer — and learns a valuable lesson about the Whig Party! Comments (2).
Public school is best because she’s broke
Smartmom: Smartmom has always been a strong believer in public schools — so no wonder she gets angry when friends leave PS 321 for the supposedly greener pastures of private school. Comments (1).
Now Boerum Hill parents angered by Arabic school
Letters: Parents react with anger at — and support for — a proposed Arabic language and culture school, now slated to be located in Boerum Hill. Comments (1).
Why they lie
Editorial: The truth is the first casualty of development in Brooklyn. Otherwise, how would today’s generation of Master Builders pick your pocket? Comment.
Bloomy to the rescue?
Editorial: The city’s plan to crush Joe Sitt’s plan for a Coney Island Xanadu raises a lot of questions. Comments (2).
Damn those London Planes!
PS … I Love You: Our columnist has a problem with a mean ass tree. Comments (1).
Why not Thor?
Editorial: What does the city have against Joe Sitt and his company, Thor Equities? Comments (1).
What’s Chinese for screw-up?
Yellow Hooker: The Department of Education may have been the one to fail the exam, but it turns out an innocent student will be the one paying the price. Comment.
Exclusive: Almontaser speaks! Gibran school principal stares down her critics
Perspective: The Gibran Academy principal breaks her silence. Comment.
Apprehended! Second chalker nabbed by cops
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist decides that the city’s crackdown on sidewalk chalk “vandals” has now officially gone too far. Comments (8).
A tree falls in Brooklyn
Heights Lowdown: A co-op board decides to cut down a tree to save some cash. Comment.
The Ratner Clause
Editorial: The latest Ratner sweetheart deal is the worst of them all. Comment.
With graduation, tears
Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
Lights! Camera! Inaction!
Heights Lowdown: DUMBO: Star-gazers hanging around DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights in hopes of seeing Will Smith destroy evil vampires were sorely disappointed on Tuesday when all they got was bright lights in their eyes and noisy helicopters in their ears. Comment.
Sugar’s sordid story in Williamsburg
Beside the Point: The Domino sugar refinery in Williamsburg may be an important relic of 19th-century industrial architecture, but a far better reason for preserving it is the part it has played in the history of Brooklyn and of America. A gripping historical tale. Comments (1).
Questions Ratner still hasn’t answered
Editorial: This week, Bruce Ratner finally responded to a question from The Brooklyn Paper — the first time in a year. So why does he ususually dodge? Because he doesn’t want you to know the truth. Comment.
Ratner doesn’t get it
Editorial: Bruce Ratner’s landscape architect told the truth this week — and his comments reveal a great deal about the developer’s lack of commitment to sane urban planning. Comment.
Ratner’s ‘Blood Money’ fills the mailbag
Letters: Readers respond to last week’s story about Bruce Ratner’s deal with Barclays Bank, an institution with links to slavery, the Holocaust and apartheid. Comment.
Councilman: Indeed, I do have a great bladder
Letters: I write to thank you for awarding me “Bladder of the Year” (“Here’s to the winners,” Year in review, Dec. 30). Indeed, my bladder deserves this award, as it boldly withstands a daily barrage of coffee that would destroy most other bladders. But even the boldest warriors must find relief at times, and my bladder does quite often, as it must in order to survive the hell that I put it through. Comment.
End Barclays deal now
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper once again calls on Bruce Ratner to sever his relationship with Barclays, which has now been found to be propping up the dictatorial regime of African strongman Robert Mugabe. Comments (1).
Goldwater’s out of Mike Long’s party
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist notices that the Conservative Party isn’t all that conservative anymore. Comment.
Marty’s blind spot
Editorial: Borough President Markowitz championed the MTA’s land giveaway to pal Bruce Ratner, yet now says MTA mismanagement is behind a proposed transit fare hike. Markowitz shares the blame Comment.
Yards mess continues
Editorial: Editorial: Now Con Ed wants a 17-percent rate hike. State officials are shocked — shocked! We’re not. Comment.
The value of local voices
Atlantic Yards: Our editorial on the politically motivated purge of community board members by Borough President Markowitz. The board members dared question the Atlantic Yards mega-development of Markowitz buddy Bruce Ratner. Comment.
Once again, America asks: What to tell the children?
Smartmom: Smartmom learns a lesson about how to break bad news to kids. Comment.
God to Ratner: Don’t build so big
Brooklyn Angle: If there are any atheist opponents of Atlantic Yards, they might want to start believing in God — because God, apparently, is opposed to Bruce Ratner’s mega-development. Comment.
Call it Harriet Tubman Park
Editorial: Brooklyn missed a great opportunity when Bruce Ratner sold the naming rights to his Nets arena to a foreign bank with no connection to the borough. He should have named it Jackie Robinson Arena. With that damage done, The Paper is now calling on state officials to not make the same mistake at the so-called Brooklyn Bridge Park. It must be named “Harriet Tubman Park.” Comments (3).
Calvin Washington
Checkin’ in with: The basic arc of a typical New Year’s Eve for the over-18 set is simple: imbibe thousands of fizzy, alcoholic calories, dance a little silly dance, notice a jiggling upper arm or lower abdomen, and resolve to go to the gym. But few of us make good on those resolutions. So this week, reporter Ariella Cohen (who, by the way, hasn’t been to her gym since the early days of 2006) checked in with Calvin Washington, a personal trainer at Crunch Fitness in Fort Greene about that perennial and typically short-lived post-Jan. 1 gym rush. Comment.
Battle for the $oul of Brooklyn: Obama and Clinton fighting ZIP by ZIP
Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.
Witness to history: I am the Frankster
Perspective: Our man inside the bun gives us his exclusive report from the Nathan’s hot dog–eating contest on July 4. Comment.
Let Joe Sitt build
Editorial: The Paper urges the city to get out of the way and let the market dictate what developer Joe Sitt can build in Coney Island. Comment.
The 1.25-million-dollar insult?
Heights Lowdown: Is a French baker in DUMBO a racist or just rude? Let’s go to the court papers! Comment.
Miss America: A nation speaks
Letters: Gersh Kuntzman’s recent Brooklyn Angle column about the Miss America pageant (“Snubbed! Miss New york loses big crown again”, Feb. 3) prompted an avalanche of letters condemning Kuntzman for his misplaced Brooklyn pride. Since Kuntzman has had his say, we felt obligated to allow our readers to have their say about whether Miss New York or Miss Oklahoma deserved the top tiara. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
Reason for Anger
Perspective: The Weekly World News, featuring our favorite voice of conservatism, Ed Anger, has stopped it’s presses forever. How would Mr. Anger react? Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
It’s still not a damn park!
Editorial: Opponent of the plan for the Brooklyn Heights waterfront played right into the state’s hands. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
Chestnut great, but Koby is the hero
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist finds a new American hero at the hot dog-eating contest. Hint: It ain’t the American. Comment.
Editor’s note: Our Barclays coverage
Editorial: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. We stand our ground. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
Teen Spirit’s New Year’s IM showed a real lack of IQ
Smartmom: Aside from the drunken woman who threw up (and just missed Smartmom) on the A train, Smartmom spent an exceedingly pleasant New Year’s Eve drinking champagne and sparkling cider with Hepcat, the Oh So Feisty One and a gaggle of college friends in the West Village. Comment.
Full Barclays letter to The Paper
Letters: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. We stand our ground. Comment.
Stop ‘iPod oblivion’
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends a state senator’s plan to ban iPod pedestrians. Comment.
‘Barclays’ has a bad ring
Editorial: Bruce Ratner has stabbed his black supporters in the back. Comment.
Tetherball: the city game is back!
Brooklyn Angle: New designs for Brooklyn Bridge Park show new tetherball — tetherball! — courts. Our columnist is excited. Comment.
Roger Green, at long last, have you no sense of decency?
Editorial: The disgraced former Assemblyman — who once had to resign after being convicted of stealing state funds — hit a new low just before leaving office last month with a vendetta-filled move to block funding for an independent review of the massive Atlantic Yards project. Comment.
94 years old & homeless: He’ll sleep in his Buick before he leaves Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Angle: Dominick Diomede is 94, has lived in Carroll Gardens for most of his life, and is about to be thrown out on the street. Comments (1).
At your local pizzeria, it’s hold the tables!
City goes after eateries over old toilet law
Brooklyn Angle: I went into my local pizzeria the other day and half of it was missing. Comment.
Tell us what you think!
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper has started inviting its readers to add their comments directly below the articles that appear on our Web site. Here are some ground rules. Comments (1).
Ebbets Field memories are being preserved …Â at local McDonalds.
Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).
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