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The Stoop

Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Our local board is a hot ticket!

Yellow Hooker: Don’t think of community board meetings as boring. Think of them as free entertainment! Comment.

Getting something to hum about

Bay Ridge: It’s mating season for the ugly oyster toadfish of Bay Ridge. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

The 1.25-million-dollar insult?

Heights Lowdown: Is a French baker in DUMBO a racist or just rude? Let’s go to the court papers! Comment.

Building not for sale — yet!

Downtown: The owners of the two-story building at Clinton and Remsen streets say they are not ready, just yet, to sell. Their comment only slightly calmed the concern of Brooklyn Heights residents. Comment.

No ‘Pace’ to dorm life

Downtown: Pace University has pulled its 500 students out of a Clark Street dormitory, but the 800-bed facility will likely be busy again when the fall semester starts, experts said. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Brooklyn’s own boat people

Carroll Gardens: The new urban homesteaders are floating away - on the Gowanus Canal. Comments (1).

A rat’s life on Pacific Street

Brooklyn South: Our columnist braves the most rat-infested block in Boerum Hill. Comment.

Canal species not endangered

Carroll Gardens: ”Coney Island whitefish” are back in the Gowanus Canal. Comment.

’Light’ is on in Hook

Carroll Gardens: Red Hook has its second traffic light. Maybe those arugula-chasing drivers will finally slow down. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Less ‘alternate-side’

Fort Greene: Like adolescents to a compulsively neat parent, two elected officials are trying to reason with the city’s Sanitation Department, arguing that Fort Greene and Clinton Hill do not need twice-a-week street cleaning. Comment.

Too much green in Ft. Greene

Greene Acres: Luxury units in the Forte condos - Fort Greene’s first new residential skyscraper - officially went on the market last week, putting the punctuation mark on the neighborhood’s complete transformation into Brooklyn’s own Upper West Side. Comment.

Funkytown

Fort Greene: Pratt Institute unveils a spiffy new design center. Comment.

Clinton Hill to city: Save us!

Fort Greene: Will the city step in and block an 18-story tower on Washington Avenue? Comment.

Park Slope

‘Greening’ of Park Slope

Park Slope: The influx of condos is forcing developers to come up with new ways to move their units. The latest marketing tool? Go green. Comment.

Bagless writer, tree-filled block

PS … I Love You: Our columnist searches her soul, and decides to quit using plastic shopping bags. Comment.

Cash for badly slashed man

Park Slope: A Park Slope lawyer whose throat was slit during a 2004 carjacking in his building’s parking lot has won a multi-million-dollar settlement against the big-time construction company that failed to secure his safety. Comments (1).
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