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Downtown archive

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

Cops: The pizza deliveryboy did it!

Brooklyn Heights: The boneheaded pizza deliveryman caught on security cameras scratching his cheesy tag into a Brooklyn Heights elevator has confessed to the vandalism, a police source told The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.

Walentas ready to ‘Dock’ with 18-story tower

DUMBO: Views of the beloved Brooklyn Bridge would be ruined forever — or DUMBO will get a much-needed middle school, depending on which side you believe in the heated debate over an 18-story residential building that will have its first public hearing next week. Comments (2).

Lousy weather allows judges’ auto occupation to continue

Brooklyn Heights: If it would only get — and stay — warm for two days, city workers will get the judges’ cars out of Columbus Park. Comment.

Yes to Dock St project

Editorial: Our editorial board supports David Walentas’s new 18-story building in DUMBO. Comments (4).

Tower wants free money

Downtown plan: A developer seeking to construct the borough’s tallest building will create more luxury housing in an over-saturated market if he is given millions in public subsidies, opponents charged this week. Comment.

Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008

More anti-Jewish missives

Brooklyn Heights: A second anti-Semitic incident in as many weeks rocks Brooklyn Heights. Plus all the crime news from the Heights, Boerum Hill, Downtown and DUMBO’s 84th Precinct. Comments (1).

Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008

Warm weather could finally end judges’ auto occupation

Brooklyn Heights: Two warm days could be enough to finally get the judges’ cars out of Columbus Park. Comment.

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