The Brooklyn Paper: SNA Newspaper of the Year, 2007

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Men are domestic-violence victims, too

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Wal-Mart, Ikea, school rezonings, divorce and the Metropolitan Opera show in Prospect Park. Comment.

June 21, 2008

Once again, our Wal-Mart editorial provokes ire, praise

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Wal-Mart, the Prospect Park bridle path, and the ongoing hot-dog contest controversy. Comments (1).

June 14, 2008

Want to build Brooklyn Bridge Park? Scale it back!

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Brooklyn Bridge Park, Bob Dylan’s upcoming concert, horse injuries in Prospect Park and Wal-Mart coming to New York. Comments (2).

June 7, 2008

Democrats should united behind Steve Harrison

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Bay Ridge politics, Ikea, Park Slope’s alleged Communist leanings, truck traffic in Kensington, judges who park in a city park and The Brooklyn Paper’s fine podcasts! Comment.

May 31, 2008

Yards foes extend hand to critic of Ratner and DDDB

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, alternate-side-of-the-street parking, the Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th birthday and, of course, more commentary on The Brooklyn Paper’s florid use of language. Comments (5).

May 24, 2008

More fallout from recent Atlantic Yards letters

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about Atlantic Yards, closing supermarkets, Rep. Vito Fossella’s ongoing travails, ferry service and The Brooklyn Paper’s unique use of language. Comment.

May 17, 2008

This guy faults Bruce Ratner and Atlantic Yards foes

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about Atlantic Yards, bars in residential neighborhoods, banks in our retail corridors and allegedly bad writing in The Brooklyn Paper (no way!). Comments (2).

May 10, 2008

Yards foes: Let’s set the records straight

Letters: Here are this week’s letters, with missives about Atlantic Yards (what else?!), the Green Church in Bay Ridge, Rep. Vito Fossella’s drunk-driving arrest and our recent story about the Microsoft store. Comment.

May 3, 2008

City: We’ll get Coney land without eminent domain

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about the city’s Coney Island plan, “old” Brooklyn, generic development around town, Atlantic Yards and Rep. Vito Fossella’s flirtation with Dick Cheney. Comment.

April 26, 2008

Schumer endorsement makes Squadron a loser

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Sen. Charles Schumer’s endorsement of state Senate candidate Daniel Squadron, judges who park in a park, the anti-Ratner protesters at the Brooklyn Museum and Frank Gehry’s forgotten “Urban Room.” Comment.

April 19, 2008

Ratner and the Brooklyn Museum: Perfect together

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, Khalil Gibran International Academy, congestion pricing, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and Frank Gehry’s supposedly naughty design for “Miss Brooklyn.” Comment.

April 12, 2008

Readers: What are kids doing in bars, anyway?

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about our ongoing kids-in-bars coverage; our recent story about pet adoptions; our humorous “field test” of new biodegradable lunch trays; a Prospect Lefferts Gardens development; the death of Bertha, the sand tiger shark; and the failure of a plan to but a power plant on the Williamsburg waterfront. Comment.

April 5, 2008

Readers respond to Bruce Ratner’s Yards failure

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters on Bruce Ratner’s no-longer-mega mega-project; The Paper’s bias in favor of Styrofoam trays and against Williamsburg 311 users; film crews; and even a letter from Broken Angel creator Arthur Wood. Comment.

March 29, 2008

Permits not the solution to parking problem

Letters: The mailbag is filled — as always. Comment.

March 22, 2008

Readers go batty over our dog adoption story

Letters: The mailbag is filled — as always. Comment.

March 15, 2008

Paper’s bottled water story is drink for thought

Letters: The mailbag is full as usual. Comments (1).

March 8, 2008

Voters to Rep. Clarke: Listen to us and back Barack

Letters: The mailbag is filled — as always. Comment.

March 1, 2008

Jed Walentas answers his critics

Letters: DUMBO’s major developer fires back. Plus letters on Gersh’s doctor and the Toll Brothers Gowanus Canal project. Comments (1).

February 23, 2008

An artist takes a borough president to task

Letters: Letters this week on Borough President Markowitz’s plan to re-light the Parachute Jump; Rep. Ed Towns’s reputed lameness; Gersh Kuntzman’s broken ankle; new parking meters on Seventh Avenue; and the Toll Brothers’ plan for condos on the Gowanus Canal. Comment.

February 16, 2008

City’s pay-to-park proposal fills The Paper’s mailbag

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with letters about the city’s residential parking permit plan, subsidies being doled out to Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner, and plans to demolish a historic Bay Ridge church. Comment.

February 9, 2008

Ankling for recovery

Letters: After a reader was seriously injured in a hit-and-run, he went to Gersh’s new ankle man — and all was right with the world. Comment.

February 2, 2008

Builder of rejected ‘mews’ plan now seeks ‘Amity’

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with letters about a failed development plan on Amity Street; a proposed tower in DUMBO; bus routes through the Battery, Brooklyn Bridge “Park”; Patrick Stewart, the actor; and PrattStore’s new framing business. Comment.

January 26, 2008

Sympathy for Gersh’s ankle, congrats on Paper award

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with sympathy for our hobbled editor in chief, plus letters about immigrants, the aborted plan to put a middle school in the House of Detention, and the Navy Yard’s supermarket plan. Comments (2).

January 19, 2008

School in a jail plan sparks mail — from city

Letters: Letters are pouring in about the city’s middle-school-in-a-jail idea, David Walentas’s Dock Street tower, Flatbush traffic, Old Brooklyn, illegal parking, District Attorney Hynes, and our Editor of the Year, Gersh Kuntzman. Comment.

January 12, 2008

Our Brooklyn (Iowa) coverage earns accolades

Letters: Our mailbag is filled — even during the holiday week! — with letters about our coverage of the Iowa caucuses, Atlantic Yards, Rep. Yvette Clarke’s “anti-Christmas” vote, poor bus service, rats in Brooklyn Heights, the declining quality of Peter Luger steak house, and plans to create a Fort Greene Food Co-op. Comment.
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