Fort Greene: Forget the Apple store — what about the city’s first Microsoft store? That’s what the new brokers at One Hanson Place say they may have on tap at the borough’s premier retail space, the landmark former Willliamsburgh Savings Bank in the renovated residential building’s ground floor. Comments (4).

Nets to stay in Jersey?

By Gersh Kuntzman

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner and his executives have met with New Jersey investors and officials about a plan that would keep the developer’s Brooklyn-bound Nets in the Garden State, the Newark Star-Ledger reported this week. Comment.

Bay Ridge Key Food to close

By Gersh Kuntzman

Bay Ridge: Shoppers in the southern part of Bay Ridge will be left with just one supermarket thanks to the imminent closure of the Key Food on Third Avenue — and locals were angry. With video … Comments (7).

No kidding in Slope and Heights apartments

By Ben Muessig

Discrimination against kids — in Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope? No way, say real-estate brokers, in the wake of last week’s lawsuit by a Manhattan couple who claimed that agents from Brown Harris Stevens twice refused to show them apartments because they had a baby. Comments (2).

Pols cut curb cuts

By Ben Muessig

The city has chosen planting over parking, passing new regulations that will make it harder for residents of parking-starved neighborhoods to turn their front lawns into private driveways. Comments (1).

‘Park’ pool floats to Bronx

By Gersh Kuntzman

Downtown: The Bronx is up in at least in one important category: the northernmost borough has successfully stolen away the Floating Pool from Brooklyn. Comment.

Vito was really really drunk!

By Mike McLaughlin and Gersh Kuntzman

Politics: Disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella had more than two times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream when he was arrested for drunk-driving on early Thursday morning in Virginia — and the six-term congressman is facing a mandatory sentence of five days in the slammer. With video … Comments (2).

Walking on water

By Adam Rathe

Art: Galapagos Art Space, the Williamsburg institution that is preparing to re-open in a newly renovated space at 16 Main St. in DUMBO, will feature a lake outfitted with walkways and tables, allowing club goers to lounge on top of the water. Comment.

Atlantic Yards Coverage

City lets Ratner off the hook

By Mike McLaughlin

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner downsized Atlantic Yards — and it turns out that the city gave him the green light to do so. Comments (1).

Tax dollars paid for this mess

By Mike McLaughlin

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner was called generous when he bought out tenants in the footprint of his proposed basketball arena in 2004 — but he could afford to be because he was paying with taxpayer money. Comments (3).

The Latest Development News

Port to stay put

By Mike McLaughlin

Columbia St Waterfront: The company operating the last active shipping docks in Brooklyn will remain on the Columbia Street Waterfront District for 10 more years — a victory over city officials who had long sought to evict them to make room for housing, a maritime attraction and a beer garden. Comment.

Other Voices

Grand Theft Auto comes to Bklyn

By Ben Muessig

Perspective: Our columnist drives a fictional car through a not-so-fictional Brooklyn in the hot new video game. Comment.

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.

A fight worth having

Editorial: A community board hearing about a supposedly menacing Park Slope bar offers a chance to debate the future of our neighborhoods. Comment.

All drawn out

By Cristian Fleming

Bridge ‘Park’: Our artist’s weekly take on the issues of the day. Comments (1).

Politics

Rep. Towns’s opponent from ‘Real World’

By Ben Muessig

Fort Greene: It’s the MTV kid versus the golden oldie for Congress. Comments (1).

Your family

Miley and Teen Spirit shed things

By Louise Crawford

Smartmom: Smartmom knows all about the Miley Cyrus debacle. After all, she has a 16-year-old with a self-induced crewcut. Comments (2).

Family calendar

By Susan Rosenthal Jay

Parenting: All the fun and games for you and your family. Comment.

Neighborhood Columnists

Psychic RV is right on target

By Wendy Ponte

PS … I Love You: Our columnist gets her palm read — from a woman in an RV! Comment.

More news & views

Vito admits it: He has a lovechild!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Politics: Embattled Rep. Vito Fossella admitted today to fathering a daughter with the woman who bailed him out of an Alexandria, Virginia jail after his arrest last Thursday for drunk driving. Comment.

Il barbiere di Sunset Park

By Simon Doolittle

Sunset Park: The wooden cash register in Tony’s Park Barbershop in Sunset Park perpetually reads $2. Long ago the prices exceeded the cash register’s ability to count. So when Tony Garofalo rings up a $10 haircut, he taps the metal $2 key five times, the register’s bell ringing with each tap. Comments (1).

Irony: ‘Union’ divides neighborhood

By Mike McLaughlin

Park Slope: Union Hall, the thriving bar and concert venue in Park Slope, is a victim of its own success — or rather its neighbors say they’re victims of the nightspot’s success. Comment.

Manhattan firm to Brooklyn

By Mike McLaughlin

Development: The Atlantic Yards project may be falling apart on Bruce Ratner, but the developer released some big news for his Metrotech office complex Downtown: the Manhattan law firm of Weil, Gotshal is moving part of its office to Brooklyn. With video … Comments (3).

The new ‘Miss Brooklyn’

By Gersh Kuntzman

Atlantic Yards: “Miss Brooklyn” is dead — but Bruce Ratner has released new renderings of the 511-foot tower that he hopes will take her place. Comments (2).

BrooklynPaper.com is best Web site finalist!

The Web site you’re now reading is one of the three best weekly paper sites in the country, two national magazines announced on Tuesday. With video … Comment.

Not again! Dean St. is PO’d at being peed on

By Mike McLaughlin

Boerum Hill: Three houses and one car on a Boerum Hill block were doused with large quantities of human waste again this week — the latest examples of a recurring form of moist vandalism on Dean Street. Comment.

A long rest for LI Restaurant

By Merritt Gurley

When the Long Island Restaurant, a decades-old fixture on Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, closed in August, a note on the door suggested the eatery was just shuttered for a short vacation. It’s now a nine-month respite. Comments (1).

Fasten your seatbelts! Two councilmen want a smoother ride

By Emily Lavin

Bumpy pavement is creating a rough ride for motorists — and two councilman say the city has to crack down on the people making the potholes. Comment.

Get your Gersh on

Our inimitable editor, Gersh Kuntzman, once again seized the moderator chair for the latest episode of Brooklyn Independent Television’s “Reporter Roundtable.” Comment.

The Kitchen Sink

The Stoop: What’s going on in your neighborhood? Here’s all the gossip! Comment.

Civic Calendar

All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment.

Free for all!

In the spirit of encouraging a free exchange of ideas, The Brooklyn Paper makes this space available to our readers. Comments (1).

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