Greenpoint: The city hired an artist to turn the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant from a bane to the nose into a beauty for the eyes. Comment.

Inside job

By Ben Muessig

Williamsburg: In a scene straight out of a movie, a gunman hid in the backseat of his victim’s Ford Expedition on May 30 — and pounced when the unsuspecting mark came out of the bank. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Gunpoint mug

By Ben Muessig

Greenpoint: A crook with a handgun held up a woman on the corner of North Henry Street and Engert Avenue on May 31. Plus all the crime news from Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s 94th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Ridge synagogue for sale

By Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge synagogue with a shrinking congregation decided on Wednesday to tear down its sanctuary and sell a portion of its Fourth Avenue property to a developer. Comments (2).

If Key Food closes, grocery to move in?

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig

Bay Ridge: In Bay Ridge, Walgreens might actually carry greens. The chain drug store that is slated to replace a popular Key Food supermarket will sell produce and fresh meat, state Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) announced at a rally in front of the Third Avenue grocery on May 31 — but Walgreens officials aren’t making any promises. Comments (1).

Flush with success!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Bay Ridge: Kings County will finally get its own throne. Six months after installing the city’s first automatic public toilet in Manhattan, the city announced last week that Bay Ridge’s 69th Street pier — a popular gathering place for all but those needing a restroom — would get one of the fancy, self-cleaning outhouses. Comment.

Con-damn!-ent

By Marie Cunningham

Bay Ridge: A woman was fooled by the old ketchup trick after she left an 86th Street bank on May 30, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct. Comment.

Coney Island strip mall?

By Ben Muessig

Bensonhurst: The man who brought the city’s only drive-through Starbucks to Cropsey Avenue is bringing more retail to the dreary Gateway to Coney Island — and he says it might kick-start the drag’s transition into a shopping destination. Comments (3).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

A hit and run on Court St.

By Sarah Portlock

Downtown: An 88-year-old man was hit by a silver sedan and left to bleed on Court Street on Monday afternoon as the driver sped off, cops said. Comment.

Poly alumni still object to merger

By Mike McLaughlin

Downtown: A new state Senate report blasts this year’s merger of New York University and Polytechnic University as flawed — and defiant Polytechnic alumni, who couldn’t prevent the Downtown engineering campus from being taken over by the Manhattan-based liberal arts school, are saying, “We told you so.” Comments (2).

Lines are drawn

By Sarah Portlock

DUMBO: The Department of Transportation says it will repaint lanes along Front Street in DUMBO by the end of the week after a routine street repaving left drivers confused (like this mini-van driver) about where to go. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Is it last call at LeNell’s?

By Mike McLaughlin

Red Hook: A popular Red Hook liquor store run by a feisty entrepreneur is scrambling to find a new home after an apparent deal to keep it in the neighborhood collapsed — along with the store’s ceiling — at the 11th hour. Comments (3).

GOTCHA! Man hires hooker — but she tricks him out of big money

By Gersh Kuntzman

Boerum Hill: A prostitute “tricked” an easy mark out of credit cards while performing a popular sex act on him on May 27 — but cops later collared her for not only the theft, but the sex, too. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

‘Hill’ street blues

By Mike McLaughlin

Fort Greene: Clinton Hill and Fort Greene residents are grappling with a surge in robberies this year, even as overall neighborhood crime has decreased. Comment.

1 toke 2 many

By Mike McLaughlin

Fort Greene: It’s the same old story: A couple invites a man over for a threesome — and wakes up to find their new friend, and hundreds of dollars in electronics, are gone. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comment.

BID-ing on Fulton Street

By Sarah Portlock

Fort Greene: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill will get a little brighter, a little cleaner, and a little safer this winter, say supporters of a Fulton Street business improvement district, which passed an early hurdle this week. Comment.

Park Slope

Park Slope school has run-in with thugs

By Marie Cunningham

Park Slope: Three young hooligans who had just mugged a man — on his birthday no less! — tried to evade police by hiding in Park Slope’s Berkeley Carroll School on June 3. Comment.

‘Signs’ of change in Slope

By Sarah Portlock

The Brooklyn Paper / Sebastian Kahnert

Park Slope: Two weeks after the Department of Sanitation suspended alternate-side parking in Park Slope, the streets are getting dirtier and some drivers are getting confused. Comment.

This babe goes to toyland

By Wendy Ponte

PS … I Love You: Our columnist tries out Babeland, Park Slope’s new sex-toy store. With video … Comment.

Gun arrest

By Gersh Kuntzman

Park Slope: A man pulled a gun on a woman in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue on May 29, but was arrested minutes later in a search of the area. Plus all the crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Bite this!

By Emily Lavin

Prospect Heights: Several kids beat up a teenage girl after an argument turned violent on Underhill Avenue on May 30. Plus all the crime news from Prospect Heights’ 77th Precinct. Comment.

A mail-strom in Kensington

By Ben Muessig

Kensington: The Postal Service has a simple solution for improving service at its notoriously bad Kensington branch — sending the customers elsewhere. Comment.

‘Hot’ damn!

By Sarah Portlock

Dining: Four months is a long time to go without decent General Tsao’s chicken, but South Slope’s patience will be rewarded when a new Chinese restaurant opens in the former Red Hot Szechuan spot on Seventh Avenue at 10th Street this summer. Comment.

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