May 19, 2007: Vol. 30, No. 20
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
Saving DUMBO before it’s too late
Downtown: The beau monde of DUMBO gathered this week to schmooze, eat, drink … and save the neighborhood from overdevelopment. Comment.
This old house: Restored!
Downtown: From the Addams Family to a real family. This Brooklyn Heights house — long abandoned and then horribly damaged in a 2004 fire — is ready to make its return to civilization, thanks to a local developer and restorer who refused to see the grand dame rot away. Comment.
Wal-Mart is not dead yet
Heights Lowdown: Someone is making calls to convince Downtown residents that a big box store would be good for the Fulton Mall. Comment.
Teen surrenders cell in Heights
Downtown: Police arrested an older man after he beat a bus driver with his wooden cane during a pre-dawn trip down Atlantic Avenue — plus all the other crime news from Downtown and Brooklyn Heights. Comment.
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- Blogs
- Across the Park
- Atlantic Yards Report
- Bay Ridge Blog
- Bay Ridge Journal
- Bay Ridge Rover
- Beehive Hairdresser
- Brit in Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Ink
- Brooklyn Based
- Brooklyn Heights Blog
- Brooklyn Optimist
- Brooklyn Row House
- Brownstoner
- City Room
- Coney Island Forum
- Creative Times
- Curbed
- Daily Heights
- Daily Intel
- Daily Slope
- DUMBO NYC
- Gowanus Lounge
- Green Brooklyn
- Greenpointers
- Grub Street
- I’m Not Sayin, I’m Just Sayin
- Kensington Stories
- Lost City
- McBrooklyn
- No Land Grab
- Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
- White in Bay Ridge
- Williamsurg Is Dead
- Williamsburg Nerd
- Cyclones
- Newspapers
- TV and Radio
- Suggest a link