By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Nine community board members were purged by Borough President Markowitz because they didn’t toe his Atlantic Yards line, raising questions about the future independence of the city’s most local governmental forum.
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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.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
No wonder you’re reading this online: BrooklynPaper.com just received an award from a national newspaper trade group.
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By Ariella Cohen
Politics: Borough President Markowitz is back from his free, six-day ride on the Queen Mary 2 — but don’t worry, it’s all legit, according to the city. Normal people pay up to $23,399 for the transatlantic crossing, but Markowitz got his for free because he talked about Brooklyn tourism while on board.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: Brooklyn pet owners must think their animal companions are just talentless slobs. How do we know? No one has entered his dog or cat or bird in the borough’s first-ever animal talent show!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Mayor Bloomberg was in Brooklyn twice this week, fueling speculation that he was running for president. Turns out, he’s not.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
During a press conference on Tuesday, The Brooklyn Paper asked Mayor Bloomberg why the city’s plan for redeveloping the state-owned Hudson Rail Yards is going through a distinctly different process than Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development in Prospect Heights.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Politics: A Brooklyn lawmaker has persuaded Mayor Bloomberg to make a three-point turn and require the city’s smoke-belching taxi fleet to be fully replaced with fuel-efficient hybrids by 2012.
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By Mat Probasco
Downtown: About four dozen Downtown residents, historians and preservationists roundly slammed a city plan to seize 22 lots by eminent domain to make room for a park and underground parking lot — and they focused their anger on an ironically named city official: Jack Hammer of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
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By Beethoven Bong
Bay Ridge: Mail scammers who tricked a Bay Ridge woman out of nearly $10,000 went after a bigger fish this week — the woman’s congressman, Rep. Vito Fossella.
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By Matthew Lysiak
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!
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By Homer Fink
Heights Lowdown: A new art show on nannies gets our guest columnist thinking about their role in our neighborhood.
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By Ariella Cohen
Brooklyn South: Two gardening centers fight a war of the roses in Red Hook.
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By Nica Lalli
PS … I Love You: Our columnist visits with a legendary Park Slope artist.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: Our columnist tells a great Memorial Day story about America’s real hero soldiers.
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By Harry Cheadle
Fort Greene: The rich guys at Goldman Sachs get dirty at Fort Green Park.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: The city is investigating whether to discipline a high-school football coach who allegedly kicked two youth soccer teams off a city-owned field two weekends in a row.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: They say the neon lights are bright on Smith Street — but looking at them just gives locals the blues. But not for long. American Apparel has agreed to turn off its lights at night.
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By Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: Bensonhurst residents had a simple reaction to a new report that the air in their neighborhood was filthy: Tell me something I don’t know. “You can feel the thickness,” said John Fruente, 15-year resident of 25th Avenue.
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By Ariella Cohen
Carroll Gardens: Local officials want the city to test the soil at a Boerum Hill playground that federal officials say rests atop toxic waste before moving forward with a proposed makeover.
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By Josh Saul
Park Slope: Here’s some news that will have Brooklyn readers cheering: The Brooklyn Public Library’s $16-million renovation is almost done.
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By Estlin Howard
Downtown: The grimy Pearl Street triangle is about to get a sprucing up by the city.
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By Josh Saul
Park Slope: Want a book? You could go to the library, or you could walk two steps further and see Skibo.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Will the Alpine Cinema — saved last year in a much-celebrated transaction — ever return to its former glory?
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By Josh Saul
Downtown: Curiosity almost killed a cat named Dolphin last week when the feisty feline went on the lam in DUMBO. But Dolphin is now back in her Jay Street home.
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By Louise Crawford
Smartmom: Smartmom sees a rare bird and learns about being a better mother.
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Letters: Lots of letters about our Arabic language and culture school coverage — plus more mail on Atlantic Yards and litter.
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Letters: Letters from our Stoop readers.
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By Harry Cheadle
Here’s a story about a man with a five-inch-long nipple hair. Don’t laugh — it’s about to be a Guinness-verified world record!
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By Adam El-Sheemy
Fitness: One of our ad salesmen — overweight, tired, burnt out — signs up for the “Boot Camp Challenge” in hopes of saving his life. Check out the “Before” pictures!
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By Dana Rubinstein and Harry Cheadle
Fort Greene: The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Rose Cinema, the only movie house in Fort Greene, is raising prices to $11, making admission among the most expensive in the city.
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By Beethoven Bong
Downtown: A three-quarters-empty Hampton Jitney made its maiden voyage from Brooklyn to Montauk last week — yet despite the low turnout, the busride was a resounding success for at least one reason: no one had to travel with “snooty Hamptonites,” one customer said.
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By Michael McLaughlin
Park Slope: The Park Slope Civic Council wants to reduce by half the number of free newspapers available on a busy street corner, claiming that newspaper boxes are unattractive and a nuisance.
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By Michael Giardina
Dining: Park Slope’s crusader for breast cancer awareness, Lenore Arons, has now cajoled 14 local restaurants into donating a portion of one night’s profits to the fight against the dread disease.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: It’s neighbor against neighbor on 87th Street, where one man is building a 60-foot wall.
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By Estlin Howard
Downtown: A dirt-filled truck overturned on Cadman Plaza West on Tuesday morning, stopping traffic, but not halting landscaping work at the apartment tower at 75 Henry St.
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By Harry Cheadle
Park Slope: A city proposal to put bike lanes on both sides of Ninth Street in Park Slope is looking unstoppable.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: An elite anti-terror response team focused on chemical, biological, and radiological attacks will soon be stationed at Fort Hamilton — as long as some final hurdles are cleared.
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By Susan Rosenthal Jay and Harry Cheadle
Parenting: A full weekend’s worth of fun for parents and kids.
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All the important meetings you should be going to.
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