Bay Ridge: Last week’s arrest of four terror suspects who supposedly plotted to blow up jet fuel supplies at John F. Kennedy Airport reignited fears in Bay Ridge about the neighborhood’s own terror target: the very pipeline that carries jet fuel to the airport. Comment.

Ridge inventor milks it

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge inventor is ready to go national with her innovative breast-feeding blouse — and she’s bringing her four children with her. Comment.

Eulogy for the Green Church

By Matthew Lysiak

Yellow Hooker: The Green Church will not be saved — you can take that to the bank and cash it. Yet despite the writing on the check, some members of the community continue to fight the inevitable. Call it denial (or call it optimism). Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights–Downtown

Number 16’s ‘Court’-ing bids

By Melissa Saks

Downtown: The owners of one of Brooklyn’s tallest buildings — the 38-story office tower at 16 Court St. — are accepting offers to sell the historic icon, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.

Through Google’s looking glass

By Homer Fink

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist tries out Google’s new “Street Views” — and finds Brooklyn Heights frozen in time. Comment.

Downtown strip goes green

By Melissa Saks

Downtown: The median along Boerum Place won’t be the ugly stepsister to Adams Street’s beautifully leafy traffic divider for much longer — thanks to a $3.6-million makeover of Boerum Place from Fulton Street to Atlantic Avenue. Comment.

Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Cement magnate: city crushed me

By Ariella Cohen

The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg

Carroll Gardens: A Carroll Gardens concrete manufacturer says the city pushed him to the bricks to make way for classier condo development. Comment.

This band could get arrested

By Ariella Cohen

Brooklyn South: A teen rocker gets in trouble. Finally! Comment.

Drummer gets collared for graffiti

By Ariella Cohen

Carroll Gardens: Web Exclusive: A teen rocker from upstate earned his faux-hawk the old-fashioned way last weekend when cops in Red Hook decided to teach him a lesson about being a punk in the city. Comment.

A little green pocket

By Ariella Cohen

Carroll Gardens: The Columbia Street Waterfront District is getting a lush, wildflower-dotted meadow. Comment.

Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Brewing up for a coffee war

By Dana Rubinstein

Greene Acres: Our columnist gets embedded in the coffee war. Comment.

Statue of limitations

By Dana Rubinstein

The Brooklyn Paper / Robin Lester

Fort Greene: A Myrtle Avenue shopkeeper wants the city to relocate the Gen. Fowler statue from its position at the center of a busy intersection to Fort Greene Park, just one block away, even though the statue has been sitting at its present spot for 31 years. Comment.

Pratt Institute goes green

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: Pratt Institute has become the first Brooklyn-based university to pledge to reduce its ozone-depleting, asthma-inducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in the next 10 years. Comment.

Park Slope

Nica and Hitch go with ‘God’

By Nica Lalli

PS … I Love You: Our columnist — an author! — is on a panel with literary bad boy Christopher Hitchens. Comment.

Not such a Stoop-id idea

By Dana Rubinstein

Park Slope: Park Slopers will celebrate the longest day of the year by sitting on their stoops and blowing kazoos — part of the first annual STOOPendous party to celebrate Brownstone Brooklyn’s trademark feature. Comment.

Washout! Heights apts flooded

By Harry Cheadle

Park Slope: Residents of a Prospect Heights tenement are dripping mad after this week’s severe storm flooded their apartments — including one rented by a couple celebrating its first wedding anniversary. Comment.

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