Development: Park Slope community leaders unanimously rejected a city proposal to turn Sixth and Seventh avenues into one-way streets at a packed meeting Thursday night. Comment.
Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner did not steal Patti Hagan’s dog — but the longtime Atlantic Yards opponent is happy to report that her precious pooch has been found. Comment.
Park Slope: Park Slope parents are outraged by a Department of Education plan that would squeeze an Arabic-language middle school into the elementary-level PS 282 building on Sixth Avenue. Comment.
Development: There is now conclusive proof that cars have turned Park Slope’s one-way Eighth Avenue into a mini-speedway, lending credibility to residents’ fears about a proposal to turn Sixth and Seventh avenues into one-way streets. Comment.
Development: Brooklyn’s luxury condo boom is petering out — at least according to one of the borough’s biggest developers, Shaya Boymelgreen. He talks about unions, Fourth Avenue as the new Park Avenue, and his support of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards. Comment.
Development: Is Brooklyn’s real-estate bubble finally bursting? At the very least, it’s sprung a leak, according to a new report released last week. Comment.
Development: They’ve tried inflatable rats. They’ve tried lawsuits. But now opponents of developer Shaya Boymelgreen are using a rolling ad truck to get their message out. Comment.
Bridge ‘Park’: State development officials fired the chief planner of its Brooklyn Bridge Park project last week — and were forced to admit that the controversial housing and open-space development will cost twice as much as anticipated. Comments (1).
Park Slope: Developer Shaya Boymelgreen says he’s going to stop building luxury condos in Brooklyn. But in the present tense, his high-end units are selling like hotdogs at a ballgame. Comment.
Bay Ridge: Residents of 73rd Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues returned home from work last Monday to discover litter summonses greeting them at the door — the latest example, some say, of an ongoing ticket blitz in Bay Ridge. Comment.
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.
Bay Ridge: Everyone in Bay Ridge believes the Green Church should be saved — everyone except the parishioners at this 100-year-old house of worship, that is. Comment.
Heights Lowdown: Our columnist follows some anti-war marchers through Brooklyn Heights and discovers a new approach to ending the fighting in Iraq. Comment.
Downtown plan: A new city report has again cast doubt on claims by residents of Duffield Street that their Downtown Brooklyn houses were part of the Underground Railroad. Comments (1).
Downtown: The St. Charles Borromeo school saga continued this week as some parents remain convinced that the school will reopen while the Diocese of Brooklyn insists that it is not going to happen. Comment.