Yellow Hooker: All our local pols want to save Victory Memorial Hospital, but how come no one is stepping in to save Gourmet Grill, a health food restaurant that could save even more lives? Comment.

Bay Ridge: Bring them your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free (of asthma) — Victory Memorial Hospital is not dead yet. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge mom returning from a trip into Manhattan with her new baby got hit with a summons for innocently using the wrong turnstile on Wednesday — but was also threatened with having her child taken from her custody by a Herald Square cop. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: The Democratic Party — which failed to do even basic behind-the-scenes work for its candidate in 2006 — now says it will go after Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) with a vengeance in 2008. Comment.