The Brooklyn Paper: SNA Newspaper of the Year, 2007

The current issue
By Neighborhood
Not Just Nets
GO Brooklyn
Perspective
Parenting
Brooklyn Cyclones
The Brooklyn Bride
Brooklyn Boom
Classifieds
About The Paper
RSS Feeds

The Stoop Archive

The Stoop

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Caffeine crash on Third Ave — Starbucks to close

Bay Ridge: The news that Starbucks would abandon one of its four Bay Ridge locations was greeted like the classic David vs. Goliath story in the neighborhood this week — and we all know who the David is. Comments (6).

Power down! Ridgites get a wake-up call from Con Ed

Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge residents received a wake-up call — literally — on Sunday that would cause most people to get up on the wrong side of their bed: Con Ed was begging people to use less power in the midst of the summer’s second prolonged heat wave. Comments (1).

A dumping ground on 86th St

Bay Ridge: Ridgites are furious about a lengthy construction project on 86th Street that has torn up the vital commercial strip and turned a block between Third and Fourth avenues into a dumping ground. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Green begets green

Downtown: Adams Street now has a green spine. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Burglary Row in Fort Greene

Fort Greene: A repeat burglar — or a team of crooks — has tormented DeKalb Avenue restaurants, seemingly striking at will and with precision over the last two months. Comment.

Park Slope

This pork is fishy

Park Slope: Could this pork be smoked? Comments (1).

Copper thief caught gold-handed

Park Slope: Cops nabbed a man stealing suddenly valuable copper piping from a Con Ed under-pavement vault on Tuesday — collaring a thief they believe was responsible for at least two other similar crimes in as many weeks. Comment.
Frame It in Brooklyn
The Melting Pot
La Bagel Delight